Our first Monday

and first full week of school

AND YAY!!!  Our job chart is ready!!!!

After the children put their

 snack, folder, water bottle

in their cubbies and sign in

(then washing hands) 

Children CHOSE a job!!!

This is an important part of

being a member of our class...

HELPING!!!

MORNING WORK ACTIVITIES

Charleigh

Ellie signing up

Jacob and Ellie

picking their jobs

Maisie picking her job

Lincoln picking his job

Foster choosing his job

Ben choosing Attendance Helper

Ben and Luke 

have chosen to

do this puzzle

for morning work

each day they have come to school

PLAY DOH

So many friends were 

VERY excited for new 

play doh!!!!!

THANK YOU

Cecilia and Austin's
families for making

the play doh

Samuel choosing 

his job!!

Winston choosing

his job

New activities for morning

work:

KINEX

TINKER TOYS

Play Doh

fun to use rolling pins and

cookie cutters with

the play doh

Mack choosing her job

MORNING MEETING

Ben was our attendance helper

we have 14 friends

on Mondays and ALL

14 friends are at school today!!

Jacob was our invocation leader

Mrs Koenen helped Jacob led....

and I helped the friends with the responses

We sang:

Read, Read, Read

the bible.

God wants us know

that it is a special book

and He loves us SO

we then talked about our THEME

VERSE: CHOSEN

we are ALL CHOSEN children of GOD

we are CHOSEN to be

who we are( and I called each child by name---huge smiles from all)

we are also CHOSEN to be a part of 

the family we are in---and 

CHOSEN to be a part of our SCHOOL FAMILY

I asked the children what are

some things we do

to take care of our family...

Friends raised their hands

and shared their ideas......

Next we did YOGA

Cecilia was

our YOGA INSTRUCTOR

She chose

Tree Pose

Next we did 

Second Steps

our Social Emotional Curriculum 

we looked at this picture and talked

about how we thought this

boy was feeling.......

nervous, scared, worried.....

it is his 1st day of school

we talked about ways to help

a friend if we saw someone feeling

nervous (sad, scared, worried, etc..)

We compared it to ways we would help

our family and I told the children we are

a SCHOOL FAMILY 

and need to help each other....

Here are the jobs your children chose...

(jobs are part of being a school family)

Austin was light helper

Ellie a door holder

Mack was also a

door holder

Learning about walking in a line...

just saying walk in a line

really doesn't mean much for a preschooler....

but it is more helpful to the children for me to

say---please walk behind Lincoln (or whoever

is right in front of them)

But with it being our 1st Monday

( each day same of the children will be the

same but we have many combinations

of days children attend school this 

year---so each day is a new combo of kids)

I am pretty impressed with this

line!

Foster was our gate keeper

A few friends just

ran and ran......

💛💚💙

A few friends being SO

helpful with drying off the 

slide...

Climbing the 

BIGGEST TIRE!!

Foster and Lincoln really

enjoyed playing in the

Mud Kitchen

I heard Lincoln say

I LOVE being a CHEF!

Hard to capture running

photos, but many children were 

just RUNNING!!!

Charleigh and Mack were selling

Lemonade

Fun on top of the mountain

As we were walking back to

our classroom, the parking lot next door

had construction workers

with a BIG CEMENT TRUCK!!

we moved a little closer to get

a better view

STORY TIME

we really enjoyed this book

Charleigh's job

sit by the teacher

Samuel's job today was

weather helper

SUNNY

Rowen was our

Prayer Leader

Ellie was SNACK MANAGER

SNACK

HAND WRITING WITHOUT TEARS:

we will first explore letters that are 

only made from lines!

I will alternate doing 

MYSTERY BAG on

Monday/Tues

so everyone can experience 

MYSTERY BAG

But we will do 

HANDWRITING WITHOUT TEARS

(HWT)

everyday!!

Mystery Bag is a time when I introduce the letter 

we will explore each week...

I put several pictures of items that begin

with that letter in the MYSTERY BAG... show them to the children

one at a time.....

then give the children a few chances to say

what the picture is of...

Leaf

Ladybug

Lion

Next I show them the lines that 

are used to make the letter

ONE BIG LINE

ONE LITTLE LINE...

Then I ask for a volunteer to make the

letter...

Cecilia made a L!!

and the Letter is  L!!

Luke was our teacher assistant

teacher assistant gets to point

to the letters---as the weeks go

on there will be more letters to point to

CENTER TIME

Winston wanted to play with

the TINKER TOYS from

morning work

I put the colorful blocks from

last weeks morning work in our sensory table

The children really enjoyed playing

and creating with them!

AUSTIN ENJOYED CHECKING

OUT THIS 

HOUR GLASS

Samuel likes the 

rotary phone

Jacob chose to do this

puzzle for the beginning of center time

Dramatic play

A few friends did individual work

with me....

Foster wanted to show me

the castle he built

Samuel enjoyed

cutting with these scissors.....

Rowen joined Winston(who played

with the TINKER TOYS the entire center time)

with the 

TINKER TOYS

Winston was our

Superintendent Today

Maisie was our exercise leader

She chose

run in place

PRAYER

At the end of the day, I ask the children for

 PRAYER REQUESTS!!

This is one of my absolute favorite times of

the day!!!  The children are so thoughtful and caring for others.

In years past I always kept it 

pretty open ended

teaching many aspects of pray at once

LIKE THANKFUlNESS and

PLEASE HELP

But I have learned the THANKFULNESS___

turns into a LONG LIST!!!! Which the children get excited

 to hear me saying everything they said

BUT

I decided for prayer requests I am going to concentrate 

on teaching the children

we can PRAY and ask GOD for help

So for now we are going to

say... GOD please Help.....

Here are the friends who raised their

hands and added to our prayer...

Overtime everyone will be adding to our prayer...

After all requests have been made, I say a group prayer

adding the parts your children said (the children LOVE to hear their name)

and then I ask them to say 

THANK YOU for one thing (verbally) as we

go around the circle...

PRAYER TIME IS THE BEST!!!

Lincoln was our line leader

and got to chose the 

good bye rhyme

ADIOS, HIPPOS!