Uu is for under!

This week we are listening for the sound of Uu and investigating under things!

Table activities include playing under blankets and tables, coloring under the table, stacking upside down cups and playing with dirt to find what's underground.

Small group activities are drawing on our backs under the table, kind of like Michelangelo drawing on the ceiling and exploring the parts of plants that we find underground.

KDIs of the week are-

Fine-motor skills: Children demonstrate dexterity and handeye coordination in using their small muscles.- Drawing up takes special movement and muscles.

Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world. - Looking underground into a place we don't usually see or think about.

Jesus Time- Now we move ahead until Jesus is twelve years old and attending Passover in Jerusalem with his parents for the first time. Jesus and his extended family travel from Nazareth to Jerusalem to spend a week worshiping at the temple and visiting with each other. When it is time to return to Nazareth, Jesus is not with Mary and Joseph, but they assume he is traveling with family or friends making their way back home. When night comes and Jesus still isn't around, they become worried and return to Jerusalem to find him. They searched the city for three days. When they finally find Jesus, he is sitting in the temple fielding questions from the scribes and elders, who are amazed at the knowledge of this young boy. Mary and Joseph ask him why he worried them by disappearing. He stated that he had to be about his Father's business. Jesus was reminding them who he was and why he came, not to be a carpenter in Nazareth, but to be the Savior of the world. He went home with them and the Bible tells us that he grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. Jesus does what he needs to do to accomplish our salvation, living a perfect life and dying an innocent death. He was both true man and true God.

Books of the week- "Diary of a Worm" by Doreen Cronin, "Vegetables in Underwear" by Jared Chapman and "Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt" by Kate Messner.

Tomorrow, January 16th, Leslie Science and Nature Center will be visiting preschool from 9:15-10:00 to talk about how animals get ready for winter. All are welcome! Please come around 9:10 so we are settled and ready to begin by 9:15. Thanks!

Next Tuesday, January 22nd, we have a school wide field trip from 9:45-12:15. For $5 your child can jump at Airtime on trampolines. Waivers and attendance slips were sent home today, please return them by Thursday if you are planning on going. We will not have school that day!

Have a terrific week!