Ff is for fish!

This week we are listening for the letter Ff and having fun with fish!

Table activities include coloring fish made of foil, playing with fish in the water, making a playdoh rainbow fish and sorting goldfish.

Small group activities are making a rainbow fish by gluing on sequins and adding an Ff to our journal.

KDIs this week are-
Problem solving: Children solve problems encountered in play.- Two of our read alouds this week tell stories of characters who encountered problems and how they went about solving them. We are working on taking turns, waiting our turn and working things out together.

Classifying: Children classify materials, actions, people, and events.- We look at different things in the sea. Are they fish? We also classify by color. 

Jesus Time-
This week we hear the story of Hannah and Samuel. Hannah was an Israelite woman who had no children and very badly wanted one. She prayed when she and her husband went to temple for a child. The priest, Eli, heard her sobbing and wondered why she was so sad. When she told him, he assured her that God had heard her prayer and she would have a child. She did have a little boy and named him Samuel. She vowed that she would give him back into the service of the Lord. When Samuel was about 5 years old, she traveled with him to the temple where she talked again to Eli. She gave Samuel into his care. Samuel assisted Eli in the temple, cleaned, prepared the temple for worship and lived there. He worked for the Lord when he was about the age of the children in preschool! We don't have to send our children to live in the back of the church, but they can still do things out of thankfulness to God. Being kind, sharing their possessions, honoring their parents are all ways they can show their love for God!

Books of the week- "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister, "Trout, Trout, Trout ( A Fish Chant) by April Pulley Sayre, and "Swimmy" by Leo Lionni.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, our bird visitor comes at 9:30 if you'd like to join us! She will be presenting in the preschool. If you'd like to make a donation to Wild Wings Bird Rehab, you can also bring it tomorrow:) 

Have a fin-tastic week!

Mrs. Schneck