Morning Work

This week we have legos

out----- all LINE legos

Big Lines and Little lines

Kennedy and Calvin 

chose legos first

Otto also chose legos

Emmy and Winston chose to 

play with the colorful

sticks and cubes....

the cubes have little holes in them that

the sticks can fit through

to make creations

Kennedy is now enjoying ALL the loose 

parts

a variety of different items that

 can be made into letters

or sorted or just

have fun exploring them

Foster and Lucas wanted

to do legos too

Charlotte, Winston and

Emmy came and played

with the loose parts

Oliver wanted to color

Lincoln chose the

puzzle first

Morning Meeting

Kennedy is our

attendance helper

Zero friends NOT at school

15 friends AT school

Cecilia was our

invocation leader

We had a friend come to 

Jesus Time

Zippy( Zippy is a puppet that

sometimes helps us with

Jesus time)

At the beginning of Jesus time

Zippy was hiding from the class.

I had the children call for Zippy several times

and then I finally convinced Zippy he could come out.

I asked Zippy if he was hiding because he

did something he wasn't suppose to do.

Yes, Zippy told the children that he pinched

 his brother. The children all agreed that wasn't nice.

Zippy said it was ALL his brothers fault

 because he was going to draw on Zippy's picture and it

made him mad.

The children then told Zippy others ways to handle being mad

then hurting someone.

THE CHILDREN WERE ALL VERY ENGAGED!!!

The children told Zippy he

could take DEEP BREATHES

to calm down and tell your brother not to draw on your picture

The children then suggested Zippy say he is sorry and ask

 how he can make him feel better.

I told the children this reminded 

me of today's BIBLE STORY

The story of Adam and Eve and the

SNEAKY SNAKE

Adam and Eve hid from God after they did

something God had asked them not to and then they blamed the

snake. We learned that when we do

something we aren't suppose to it

is called a sin. Everyone sins!

God wants us to ask for forgiveness when

we sin and he wants us to forgive 

others like he FORGIVES US!!!

Arwen was our

yoga instructor

Surfer Pose

Then we talked more about our 

school family house and showed the

pictures of our

own houses!

Then we voted for our school family

name. The children created wooden pieces/people

and I put their pictures on them. 

I asked the children who

did NOT vote on Friday

which name they liked the BEST.

Then each child put his/hers

person in the container with the name 

he/she liked best

we then counted each one ...

we have 1 more friend that needs to vote

and then we will have the

results......

so far

Zion Lions has 7

the result have 4 or 5

OUTSIDE

Lots of cooking happened

in the mud kitchen today

After outside time we head inside.....

Back inside...

Children wash their hands and

then sit on the brown carpet

to read while everyone else

washes their hands.

Foster had decided to rest in our

CALMING CORNER....

Then I noticed Arwen and Winston joined him(normally

CALMING CORNER is a one person area, but I overheard

their conversation SO I thought I would

just let it go.......

Foster was explaining to them that

his hair cut was called

a mohawk mullet

he repeated it several times......

Then Foster talked about the hair gel

he uses.... From the looks of it, Arwen is telling him something

 ( I wish I could remember what she was saying....)

It was pretty cute and Arwen and

Winston were learning

all about Foster's hair style!

STORY TIME

Weather Helper

Lincoln chose rainbow

Ellie was prayer leader

Lucas was snack

manager

SNACK

Calvin was 

teacher assistant

we brainstormed

F words

then sang a song

to help us remember where

we start our letters

AT THE TOP

(WHEN WRITING)

CENTER TIME

The children were very

excited to 

play with the big legos

Art

Science Experiment

Yesterday and today

we experimented with color

blending....

I let each child choose 2 

primary colors and then

predicted what would happen

I then gave each child

a popsicle stick

and then they got to mix and mix

to see what happens.......

Then the children

got to paint with the

new color they

created!

SO FUN!!!

Legos was a popular

area!!!

To be honest I knew friends

 would enjoy them .....

what I wasn't expecting was the level

of the EXCITEMENT that then raised the

noise level quite a bit.

I mean FUN was being had for sure--------

we just had

to give a few reminders

of inside voices

😁😁😃😃😄😄

Dramatic Play is also

a very popular area every day!

Emmy wanted to make

a bracelet today

Charlotte was our

superintendent today

Mack was our

exercise leader

Toe Touches

Prayer Requests

We had time for 

TRICKY MOUSE

A super fun rhyming  game

Games are so important for so many reasons

-turn taking

-patience

-impulse control

-handling disappointment: you may not always win

The way this game works-----

I place these houses out in front of me

Each house has a letter on it

I then ask each child to hid their

eyes and faces

NO PEEKING

(huge impulse control here----- many

of course want to peek)

I say 

Tricky Mouse, Tricky Mouse

Where is your house?

The children who want to guess

raise their hands

When I call on them they answer

with a rhyme...

Tricky Mouse, Tricky Mouse

Are you in the (guess a letter) house?

This also helps reinforce letter

recognition 

The children LOVE

LOVE this game!!!