Remember our Picture Day is this Thursday, October 26th!
This week we are using our noodles!
Looking at different shapes of pasta and the letter Nn.
Table activities this week are spaghetti play, poking angel hair pasta into colander holes, dry pasta sensory bin and making patterns with pasta.
Our small group activities are stringing pasta necklaces or snakes and making crazy pasta sculptures.
The KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Fine-motor skills: Children demonstrate dexterity and handeye coordination in using their small muscles.- Lots of practice with the pasta and colander and using pasta to string on yarn and pipe cleaners. Even using tongs to pick up cooked spaghetti noodles.
Alphabetic knowledge: Children identify letter names and their sounds.-This week the letter Nn and recognizing our names when we see them without the pictures.
Jesus Time- Many years have passed since we left Joseph and his family. The Pharoah who put Joseph in a high position has died and the following Egyptian generations don't know what those Israelites did for them. They just see them as a strange people living in the land of Goshen and as a possible threat if an enemy army ever attacks Egypt. Whose side would these strange people take? The Egyptians begin to make the Israelites their slaves. They treat them badly, but the Israelites stay strong and there are a lot of them! The Egyptian Pharoah tries to keep the Israelites down by instructing the Egyptian midwives to take any boy babies born to the Israelites and throwing them in the Nile River to be eaten by crocodiles. One mother, Jochabed, keeps her pregnancy a secret, she gives birth to a boy and hides him for three months. Then when he is getting too big to hide, she makes a basket boat, coats it with tar so it's waterproof and sets it afloat. The baby's sister, Miriam, watches closely as the basket floats down the river to where the Egyptian princess is bathing. When the princess hears whimpering coming from the basket, she tells one of her maids to fetch it. She discovers a little boy whom she names Moses, which means "drawn out of the water". Miriam offers to find someone to care for the baby for her and runs to get her mother. Moses' own mother takes care of him until he is 5 years old. He is then returned to the Egyptian princess to be raised as a prince of Egypt. God was getting Moses equipped to lead his people out of slavery. Moses had no idea that was his future. Sometimes we wonder why things happen to us, maybe God is getting us ready for something we will do years down the road!
Time to bring in those inside shoes as the weather gets messier and wetter everyday. Some have brought them already, thank you! Slippers or soft shoes with your child's name on them somewhere are great!
Zoo information-(sorry none of this was on the slip!!)
We will meet at the zoo at 10 am, when it opens. Parking is $7 per car. There is no formal program at the zoo, we will just go in together to get the group rate. You are free to stay as long as you like- the zoo is open until 4 pm.
Have a terrific week!
Mrs. Schneck
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