It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!! Lots of snow out there make for a messy commute, but any time you get here is great!! We love to have you, so take your time and be safe and arrive when you can! Until the weather warms up a bit we aren't allowed to go outside. The licensing rules keep us in at 30 degrees, we may stretch that down to 28. So until temps are in the 20's we'll be having inside recess.We are concentrating on Christmas this week!
Table activities are playing with jingle bells and magnet wands, Christmas clay mats, Christmas slime and a Christmas cutting bin.
Small group activities this week have us using our senses while we try the items Bear smells from "The Sweet Smell of Christmas" by Patricia M Scarry- today we looked at apple pie, pine tree bits, candy cane, hot cocoa, gingerbread men and an orange. Thursday we'll be using our small motor pinching to peel little stickers up and place them on lines to decorate Christmas trees.
The KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Observing: Children observe the materials and processes in their environment.- With all our senses.
Moral development: Children develop an internal sense of right and wrong. - We are having some trouble cleaning up and listening at clean up time, we are trying to help with self control and doing what's right.
Jesus Time- This week we enter the stories that tell us about Jesus. Jesus' mother was a young woman who lived in Nazareth. She was promised to be married to a man named Joseph.
One day when she was working in her home, an angel appeared to her and told her that she was going to have a baby. She wondered how this could be since she wasn't married to Joseph and hadn't been with a man. The angel told her that the Holy Spirit would make her pregnant with God's Son. He told her the child would be named Jesus because he would save his people from their sins. Mary accepted what the angel said. When she told Joseph, he didn't believe her at first. He was going to quietly cancel their wedding and try to cause as little embarrassment as possible for Mary. As Joseph was struggling with what decision to make and how to make it, he had a dream in which an angel also came to him and confirmed what Mary had said. Joseph did make Mary his wife and became Jesus father on earth.
Next Tuesday the Scrapmobile will be here from 10-11 am. Please fill out the attendance slip and put in your $7 if you would like to participate.
Preschool has school until Tuesday, December 19th. However, I will be leaving on vacation early. My oldest daughter graduates from college on Sunday, December 17th in Anchorage, Alaska, so I will be traveling up north for Christmas! I leave after school on Friday, December 15th.
May God richly bless you with a wonderful Christmas season and a terrific and healthy break!!
Mrs. Schneck
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