Morning Work

Charleigh making

letters with the 

BIG and Little 

Lines

Bria and Lincoln

using loose parts

to form letters

roman having fun with

the magnetics 

Cecilia and Hayden

using connect four

PLAY DOH!!!

Luke checking out the 

magnetic wand and 

magnetic chips

Hazel using the

magnetics

Roman was our

attendance helper

ZERO friends NOT at school

16 friends AT school

Happy Day when everyone

is at school!

Second Steps

Today we practiced

again how are bodies

shoud be when we are ready to listen

Eyes... are watching

Ears.... are Listening

Voices...quiet

Bodies.... calm

Then we talked about focusing

our attention on the 

person listening

We made attent-a scopes with

our hands

We can use an

ATTENT-A-SCOPE

to focus on just the person talking

Some friends made one on

Monday with toilet

paper rolls

others can make one later today

Then we ROLED PLAYED

We talked about what to do

when you want to play

with a friend

When you see a friend playing

with something you want to 

play with too

You can walk over to them and ask

CAN I PLAY TOO!

Colton and Hazel

role played this for us

Claire and Winston also role played

this for us

OUTSIDE

Roman and Ben like to

race

CHAPEL

Mrs Helmkamp

led chapel today

We learned about the story of Noah

Noah trusted and believed in

GOD

God put a rainbow in the sky

to remind us

that he always 

keeps HIS promises

Roman was our

offering helper

Winston was very excited to see her

sister at chapel

STORY TIME

The children love telling me

now if the story will be 

FICTION

or NON FICTION

Teaching children to look at the cover as well as the

pictures for clues are great

skills to reinforce and will help 

children when they begin reading

Fiction was the guess because dinosaurs

don't go to

school!!

GREAT JOB!!

A few of my friends used 

their ATTENT-A-SCOPES

to focus on the

story!

Mason was our librarian

Bria was weather helper

Rainbow kind of day

Claire...

Prayer leader

Colton was 

snack manager

Some of you may noticed that your child picks the

same job over and over

This is very typical for

preschoolers..

they love routine and consistency

and what is familiar

But it is also a good idea

to encourage trying new things

to get out of your comfort zone a little, especially

when we are in a familiar safe environment

LIKE SCHOOL!!

I talked to the children about trying 

NEW jobs tomorrow!!

I will continue to encourage and

support them when trying something new

SNACK

with 16 friends

we need to use

3 tables

Teacher assistant

Cecilia

we watched a few minutes of a 

sesame street podcast to help

give us ideas of

more Letter F words

Look at all those

F words

CENTER TIME

Roman, Colton and Claire

began building a "house"

Lots of friends 

playing in dramatic play

The first house is finished......

pretty sturdy and I loved the team work

BUT

they quickly realized

it was too small.....

So they took it apart and 

started over......

and a few more friends joined

in

Charleigh working in

the writing center

Lots of cooperative play,

problem solving, learning 

about cause and affect.....

made a doorway to crawl in.....

a much bigger

"house"

so much thinking going

on here!!!

LOVE IT!!

many are ready to build again tomorrow

Addie was 

our superintendent

Nora was our

YOGA instructor

TREE POSE

Charleigh was our

Exercise Leader

SQUATS

After about 2 squats

One little friends said,

My Legs hurt

😂😂😂😂

Oh yes, squats will do that

to you

PRAYER REQUESTS

Today we also talked about

telling "true" or "pretend"

prayers/stories...

This is also another typical thing preschoolers

do and some just want to tell me something

for prayer. I will still write it down and acknowledge

what they say, but also you may  want to encourage at home

true and pretend for me.

Also you may have noticed our  PRAYER REQUESTS 

sometimes seem like stories. This is typical for young children.

We are learning that prayer requests

are a time to ask Jesus for help or to say thank you

AGAIN... preschools are just learning about prayer

and I truly love to hear the children participate, no matter if they 

are just telling me a story or have a prayer.

This will be something you can watch as your child gets older and has

more practice with prayer.....

their prayers will develop!

This is one reason why prayer

requests is one of my favorite

parts of our day!!

Lincoln chose

See you soon, Raccoon!