Pumpkins everywhere!

Pumpkins and the letter Pp are our themes this week!

Morning activities include picking pumpkins and putting them in a pail, pumpkin playdough, pounding golf tees into pumpkins, making bead pumpkins, dot painting pumpkins and balancing pumpkins.

Small group activities include pumpkin exploration-describing the inside and outside, counting lines and counting seeds, decorating a little pumpkin and adding Pp to our journal.

Our KDI for the week is- Communicating ideas: Children communicate their ideas about the characteristics of things and how they work.- How does a pumpkin look, feel, smell and sound? Describing items for them to pinpoint where they are and what they are. 

Jesus Time- Today we heard the story of Hannah and Samuel. Hannah longed for a child, she and her husband had no children of their own. On their annual trip to the tabernacle, Hannah prayed, sobbing, in words and sounds that could not be understood. Eli, the priest, asked her what was going on. She told him the desire of her heart. He comforted her with the knowledge that she would have a child later that year. Hannah pledged that son, Samuel, to the Lord's service. When he was 5 years old, she brought him back to the tabernacle and gave him over to be a servant in the Lord's house. Each year she brought him a new coat and visited him, but he was the Lord's servant now. When he was older, God made it clear that he would be taking Eli's place and he was the last judge to bring God's Word to the people of Israel. God answered Hannah's prayer and she trusted him with that answer. We ask God to hear our prayers too and know with confidence, he does!

We are wearing costumes on Wednesday and Thursday of this week!

Books of the week- "Pumpkin Heads" by Wendell Minor, "The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King and "The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat" by Stan and Jan Berenstain.

Have a happy Halloween week!

I scream, You scream, we all scream for ice cream!

This week we are learning and listening for the letter Ii along with playing pretend with ice cream!

Morning activities include dramatic play ice cream shop, cotton ball ice cream, and ice cream playdough.

Small group activities are making ice cream and counting ice cream scoops.

Our KDI for the week is 
43. Pretend play: Children express and represent what they observe, think, imagine, and feel through pretend play. The children are enjoying taking orders are making "ice cream" as they run the shop. They are learning how to assume different roles as not everyone can make ice cream at once. Someone needs to be a customer, work the cash register, work in the kitchen, etc. 

Jesus Time- This week we skip ahead about 41 years. The Israelites who were led out of Egypt by Moses have had adventures in the wilderness as they head toward their ancestral home. Canaan is the land God gave to Jacob and Abraham and Isaac, the land He wanted for His people. They were ready to go in and take it back. Moses has died and Joshua is the new leader. They are planning on conquering the city of Jericho. It is heavily fortified with a huge wall surrounding it. The people of Jericho know something is going on because thousands of people are camping right outside their walls. God gives the instructions for taking the city.- The people of Israel are to walk around the city once each day for 6 days, then on the 7th day, they are to walk around the city 7 times, then blow their horns and shout and the walls will fall down. The Israelites did just that and the walls fell down! God gave Jericho into the Israelites' hands.

Books for the week- "Gorilla Likes Vanilla" by Chae Strathie, "Groovy Joe: Ice Cream and Dinosaurs" by Eric Litwin and "Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop" by Allan J. Shallek.

Cold and flu season are upon us!! And I know little ones are going to get sick. If they do, please just send me a quick text at 907-230-6715 or email me at dschneck@atpeacewithgod.org- Teachers worry too and we just want to make sure everyone's okay!

This Thursday evening and Friday morning are Parent-Teachers conferences- you may certainly make an appointment at https://ptcfast.com/schools/Peace_Lutheran. Because of the conferences, there is no school this Friday.

If you are not able to come during the available times, but would like to have a conference, just email or talk to me and we will set up a different time!

Saturday is Trunk or Treat from 10-11:30 in the Peace Parking Lot- We would love to have you there!! Lots of candy, hot cocoa and popcorn and fun!! Invite friends and family!

Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Schneck

Snakes and Turtles and Lizards, oh my!

This week at preschool we are learning all about reptiles and looking and listening for the letter Rr.

Table activities this week include snakes in slime, making a pipe cleaner pattern snake, alligators in a bubbling swamp, lots of reptiles pictures to look at and models to play with, reptiles and playdough and reptile coloring cards.

Small group activites include making a turtle with a mosaic shell, a paper plate snake and adding an Rr is for reptile page to our journal.

Our KDI for the week is-
Classifying: Children classify materials, actions, people, and events. Children are being introduced to the idea of what makes something fit into a particular group- What makes an animal a reptile? Is a kangaroo a reptile? Does it have scales, lay leathery eggs? Shed it's skin? We are using this a jumping board to classifying.

Jesus Time- This week we are learning about Moses and Pharaoh and God using the plagues to set his people free from slavery in Egypt. After Moses grew older, God called him into service to help lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Pharaoh did not want to let the Israelites leave. Moses warned him that God would send plagues to make Pharaoh glad to see them go. God did send 10 plagues- changing water to blood, frogs, gnats, flies, sickness in animals, sores on people, hail, locust, darkness and finally the death of the firstborn. Pharaoh finally let the Israelites go after his own son died. We were slaves too, to sin, death and the devil, but God set us free also. Not by taking our firstborn, but by giving His firstborn and only Son, Jesus, to save us from our sins!

Books of the week- "Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile" by Bernard Waber, "Verdi" by Janell Cannon and "The Crazy, Mixed-Up Chameleon" by Eric Carle.

Have a super week!

Getting a little nature!

This week we spent our one day of school looking at nature and tomorrow on the field trip to Maybury farms, we will be doing the program "Forest and Field" so we'll get to spend more time outside. Please remember to wear close toed shoes for our visit to this working farm!

Table activities this morning were building with and painting with nature.

Our small group activity was making a picture out of nature.

Our KDI for the week is-
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge

about the natural and physical world. - We are looking at nature around us!

Jesus Time- 
We skipped ahead several years and today we heard the story of baby Moses. A Pharaoh came into power who did not know the stories of Joseph and what he had done for Egypt. He just saw a foreign people grow more and more numerous and he began to be afraid that they were going to overpower the Egyptians. So he came up with a horrible plan. When the Egyptian midwives came to help the Israelite ladies give birth, if it was a boy, they would throw the baby into the Nile river to drown. One Israelite mother didn't want that to happen to her son, so she hid the baby until he was several months old. She then made a basket boat and sent her little one afloat with his older sister watching. An Egyptian princess was bathing in the river and saw the basket and heard the crying and asked one of her maids to fetch the basket for her. When she uncovered the baby, she wanted to keep it. The baby's older sister appeared and asked if she needed someone to nurse the baby and went and got the baby's own mother. That baby was Moses and he grew up to be the one who would lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.

Books of the week- "In a Small, Small Pond" and "Once There Was a Wood" both by Denise Fleming and "Swirl by Swirl:Spirals in Nature" by Joyce Sidmon.

Have a super week and enjoy the lovely weather!
Mrs. Schneck

Here is the information about tomorrow's field trip in case you need it!

On Tuesday, October 8th, Peace Lutheran Preschool will be going to Maybury Farms. While we are there, we will be have the Fields and Forests program along with a wagon ride. The cost is $9 per person, including chaperones, but not including little siblings. Our tour begins at 10am, but they ask that we be there at 9:45. 

Following the tour, the barns, paddocks, playground and picnic area will be open, if you’d like to bring a lunch.

Maybury Farms is located at 50165 8 Mile Rd. Northville, MI. The entrance is not inside the State Park, but close. I’ve heard it is tricky, so watch carefully for it! We will meet at the Welcome Center. It is a working farm, so no open-toed shoes. We will also be outside pretty much the whole time, so watch the weather and dress accordingly!