This week we are doing something a little different in each class. We have been observing what the children ask to play during their free play time or what they seem to really enjoy and have chosen a couple of those for our focus this week! The three day class that meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday, really seems to enjoy doing "experiments", so we are being scientists this week. The Tuesday/ Thursday class loves to play bubbles so that is our focus this week.
Morning activities for three day include oobleck, magnets, baking soda and vinegar, bottles with different liquids and movement, mixing oil and water and marble track demonstrating kinetic and potential energy!
Morning activities for two day include bubble foam, making our own bubble wand, blowing bubbles on the table and playing with bubble wrap.
Small group for our scientists include milk painting, lava lamps and shiny pennies- all experiments! We do talk about the scientific method in preschool terms- ask a question, come up with a guess (hypothesis) and see if you are right.
Small group for our bubble blowers include bubble prints and making tensile bubbles inside 3D shapes.
Our KDI for the week is-
Engagement: Children focus on activities that interest them- in using their interests to build a week's focus, we let them expand on the topics that engage them and they have fun with!
Jesus Time- This week we hear the rest of Joseph's story. Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt, wrongly accused of a crime, sent to jail and worked hard and looked to God for guidance through it all. God gave Joseph the ability to interpret dreams. While he was in prison, Joseph told two of Pharaoh's workers what their dreams meant and they came true. When Pharaoh had some strange dreams, the cup bearer remembered Joseph and he came and told Pharaoh the meaning of his dreams. Pharaoh had dreamed that there were 7 fat cows grazing on the side of the Nile, 7 skinny cows came out of the Nile and ate the 7 fat cows, but didn't get any fatter. He also dreamed of 7 skinny heads of wheat that came and ate 7 fat heads of wheat. Crazy dreams! Joseph told Pharaoh that 7 years of plenty were on their way. Lots of rain, lots of food! But these would be followed by 7 years of famine. Joseph gave Pharaoh the idea to store food during the years of plenty for the years of famine. Pharaoh loved the idea so much that he made Joseph second in command of all Egypt! Years later, other lands were experiencing the famine, including the land where Joseph's brothers lived. They came to buy food from Egypt, where it was plentiful because of a good ruler. Little did they know that they were making Joseph's teenage dream come true when they bowed down to him. Joseph recognized them, but they did not recognize him! Joseph wanted to see if his brothers had changed and how they treated his youngest brother, Benjamin, so he put them through a few tests. They really had changed! So, he moved them and his father to Egypt so he could take care of them! Joseph was able to forgive his brothers because of his faith in God. That is miraculous still!
Books of the week- "Ada Twist, Scientis" by Andrea Beatty, "Odd Boy Out, Young Albert Einstein" by Don Brown and "Curious George Gets a Medal" by H. A. Rey for our scientists and "Bubble, Bubble" by Mercer Mayer, "The Bubble Factory" by Tomie de Paola, and "Diary of a Worm" by Doreen Cronin for our bubble blowers.
Field Trip to Maybury Farms next week Tuesday! We will meet there at 9:45 for our Field and Forest program and our wagon ride! I look forward to seeing you there! It's never too late to decide!
Have an awesome week!
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