This week we are listening for the letter Ll and all the other letters too!! All our activities have to do with the sights and sounds of the ABCs!

Table activities this week include magnetic letters on baking trays, letter stamps, letter playdoh mats, foam sticker letters, bathtub letters, letter dot painting and waxy strips on letters.

In small group we are listening for letter sounds and matching letter sounds to letter shapes as we try to identify objects that start with a certain sound or which sound starts each object in our ABC boxes. We will also try writing the shapes of the ABCs.

Our KDI for the week is Alphabetic Knowledge- Children identify letter names and their sounds. We are working on both this week and every week!

Jesus Time this week brings us to the story of the first miracle. We talked about Jesus baptism today, but will finish the week with the story of Jesus turning water into wine. Jesus and his disciples had been invited to a wedding in Cana. In those days, wedding feasts lasted 7 days and the families provided food, clothing and shelter for all guests. And we think weddings are expensive today! As the week was drawing to an end, they ran out of wine. Jesus' mother was also at the wedding and she told Jesus, hoping he would do something. He would, but when it was the right time. He called a servant to him and told him to fill the huge empty wine jugs with water. Then he told him to take a cup of "water" to the master of the feast. When he tasted it, he asked why they saved the best wine for the end? Jesus told the servants not to say who brought or turned the water into wine. Jesus disciples saw what was happening and wondered at who they were following. There was something very special about Jesus!

Books of the week - "Animalia" by Graeme Base, "A was once an Apple Pie" by Edward Lear and "Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z" by Lois Ehlert.

Two field trips coming up- Tuesday, January 21st is an all school field trip to AirTime, a trampoline park on Warren Rd. and Tuesday, January 28th will be a preschool field trip to Gallup Park in Ann Arbor to a Winter Woods field trip presented by Leslie Science and Nature Center.

Slips for Airtime go home the beginning of the week and slips for Gallup Park will go home Thursday and Friday. Both are in the email today.

A reminder that there is No School on Monday, January 20th for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Have a great week!