Check out our Tuesday in preschool!
A few reminders...
Our Preschool Advent service...is this Sunday, December 15 at 10:30 am in the Zion Church sanctuary. We will worship together and celebrate the birth of Jesus through word and songs sang by our Preschool students. If your child will NOT be able to attend our Advent Service on 12/15, please let me know (via email) as soon as possible. Please plan to meet the class at 10:10 am in Zion’s church basement (There will be someone there to direct you to the correct room upon arrival to the church basement). Once you drop off your child with his/her teacher(s), you may then go find a seat in the sanctuary. **There will be an opportunity for class photos after the service. Once our class photo has been taken, each child will return to his/her parents.
12:00 Dismissal on Friday, December 20…School will dismiss at 12:00 on this day to begin Christmas Break. There is NO half day care option, please make arrangements to pick up your child at 12:00 this day. We will not be eating lunch at preschool, but we will have morning snack.
There is NO school Monday, December 23 - Friday, January 3…blessings on your Christmas Holiday! (school resumes on Monday, January 6, 2020).
As Christmas is drawing near, please consider joining us for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day worship services:
Zion Lutheran Church-St. Charles:
Christmas Eve Services: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, &11:00 pm Christmas Day: 9:00 am
And finally...on to our day...
Some friends enjoyed painting a picture reminding us what Christmas is all about...celebrating Jesus birthday!
Two more friends that needed a rest before starting their day! ;o)
Grayson enjoyed "reading" a book to begin his school day!
So much creativity and persistence as we created with Candy Construction!
We finished morning meeting with our friend the gingerbread man. One friend at a time came to the front as I read a page of our gingerbread book! Each page gave our gingerbread man a positional word or direction on where he was supposed to run! Each friend's job was to place the gingerbread man in the correct place in relation to the gingerbread house. Understanding spatial relationships and positional words are early math skills.
The weather outside was cold and windy! So we opted to get our bodies moving in the commons this morning!!! So much cooperation and use of core muscles while using scooters today...
Today we introduced the letter "J" and number "3"!
We remembered start your letter "at the top" then big line down, little curve at the bottom, then little line at the top (give it a hat) to write a "J" and little curve, little curve to write a "3"! Then we came up with words that start with "J" and found "3's" around the room!
Anytime one of our friends thinks of a word that starts with "J" we can add it to our big letter. Or, if at home, your child sees a small picture or item that starts with a "J", bring it in and he/she can tape it to our big letter!
Then we practiced writing "J" and "3" with crayons (nice and short to reinforce proper grip)!
Time for small groups (centers)!
With Mrs. Mudd we had some poor snowmen that had tumbled apart! The bottom had an uppercase letter, the middle a lowercase letter, and the top a picture! Each friend was given the bottom of the snowman. He/she then had to find the matching lowercase letter and the picture that started with that same letter. Not only were we recognizing upper/lowercase letters, we also had to recognize letter sounds and the beginning letter sounds of words. When each was found, he/she built a snowman! Success for some was building the snowman by his/herself. Success for others was working together to help each other build each snowman!
Uh oh! Santa had some beautiful Christmas trees, but they were missing their ornaments! Each friend was given "ornaments" with different colors and designs. His/her job was to sort the ornaments and decorate the tree with ornaments that were the same. He/she could choose to sort by color or design to decorate the tree. Then...repeat using a different color or design!
With Mrs. Cooper we "rolled a gingerbread"! Each friend took a turn rolling 2 dice. He/she stated or counted the number of dots. Then, every friend at the table found the gingerbread with that number on it and colored it in on his/her paper. Identifying/recognizing numbers and connecting them to their quantity is an early math skill!
We enjoyed "reading to self" all comfy on a pillow or bean bag chair!!!
And we built all 26 snowmen...
The sun came out and the wind calmed down a bit, so we enjoyed our second round of large motor time outside in the fresh, brisk air!
Cora enjoyed taking a few pictures before heading off to play with friends!
During Jesus Time we remembered how the shepherds must have felt afraid when an angel first appeared to them. But, God brought good news through that angel, and the shepherds didn't want to be afraid. Sometimes we feel afraid too. But, God has given us a Savior, Jesus, to turn all of our fear into joy!
Thank you for spending a bit of your day reading about ours!
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