Morning Work

Claire is 

BUILDING A SNOWMAN

Fun snowman beads and

pipe cleaners

Such a great activity for 

building fine motor 

skills

This one is sorting

winter mini erasers

using tweezer

Another GREAT 

activity for strengthening 

little fingers

Luke is using mini

wooden blocks and sticks..

the sticks fit into the

holes of the blocks

Colton is using the 

tweezers to sort

the erasers

Snowflake ROLL

and COVER

Snowman color sheets

Ben and Hazel are

sorting with the tweezers 

Cecilia is playing

Snowflake

Roll and Cover

Lincoln wanted to

color a star for his mom

Now Hazel is building a 

snowman

Morning Meeting

and

Class Pledge

Lincoln was our

attendance helper

Zero friends NOT at school 

13 friends AT school 

Cecilia was our

invocation leader

Read read the bible song

Then we reviewed about

last weeks story

Jesus gathers His disciples

This week we will hear 

LOTS about Jesus

spreading God's word

and many of the amazing

things Jesus did during

His time on Earth

Todays bible story talked

about how people would gather around

Jesus as He spread God's word.

God wants us to know that HE is always

with us and we don't need to worry!

Such an important message to start learning

now because even as adults it is hard not to worry!

Then we practiced saying a prayer for the times 

when we are worried about something.

2nd Steps

We spent time looking closely

at the below picture. Everyone had ideas of 

what they thought was happening. LOTS of

 great ideas and discussion .

Then I read a little story about

these 2 boys.

Adam and Miles were riding bikes together.

Adam wasn't paying attention to where

he was going and ran into Miles.

Miles' bike went off the path.

We talked about how we thought

 each boys was feeling by

looking at the boys faces

(sad, angry, scared were some of the ideas) 

We also talked about how we

sometimes might accidentally

run into someone, spill something,

bump into a friend, etc....

We then thought of what we should do

if we accidentally hurt or spill

something. We talked about saying

I am sorry I... bumped into you/ spilled my water/knocked you over

...etc...

BUT just saying sorry doesn't always make the other

 person feel better. We practiced saying

HOW CAN I MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER?

ANd talkeda bout ways to make others feel better

Valentine Party Name:

2 friends who hadn't voted yet

got to vote today

NOW we have a tie!!!!

The Joy Party

and 

The Unicorn Party both

have 4 votes

The Love Party has 3

So I told the children

we would

need to vote again(during centers) but only using

the top 3 choices.......

COMMONS

STORY TIME

Winston was 

weather helper

Hazel was prayer leader

Colton was snack manager

Snack

Luke was 

teacher assistant

CENTER TIME

We went right to centers

so we could have time for 

our "movie" and enjoy a special

snack school provided 

for National Lutheran Schools week

Our RE-VOTE

A few friends enjoying

the trains

SO far

The Joy Party is in the lead

5 more friends still need to vote.....

Mason was our

superintendent 

Carson was our

yoga instructor

Tree Pose

Claire was exercise leader

JUMPING JACKS

The short movie

was from a 

book called 

The Snail and the Whale

link below from YouTube

it ended up being a series of several

clips from several different books

written by Julia Donaldson

BUT the children didn't seem to mind!

https://youtu.be/LJt03eFWoxw

Goldfish was our special snack

Prayer

we just went around the circle today

( I didn't write anything down)

Just in case it comes up at home today...

One friend prayed for his Uncle Leo

who is sick and he told us he was going to die.

Which lead to LOTS of conversations from the other children

about grandparents or great grandparents who are old or who have died.

These are moments I can't plan for as a teacher

 BUT are also really great teachable moments.

I love the natural conversations of 

these little people... moments I wish the parents could see too!!!

I told the children that even though we are sad when

our loved ones die because we miss them and don't get to

 see them now....

we can also rejoice in knowing 

they are with Jesus in Heaven and

we will see them again someday!

♱♱♱💙💙💚💚💛💛💜💜♱♱♱

Roman was our line

leader and chose

See you later, alligator