Enjoying SNEAK A PEEK

I am loving the chance to talk 

with the families and the 

children seem to be enjoying

showing their families around 

our room

Kennedy choice to play

Roll An Apple Tree

Then Ellie came and joined her

Luke played a round

of Roll An Apple tree

Jacob began his 

morning work with

Building a Fall tree

Many friends chose

play doh during morning

work time

During Morning work

children can play in several of the

 areas I have set up----

as long as it is something I have out and a

place for them to sit---then they 

can play with it

Austin wanted to use

the scissors that make

wavy lines

A Moth....

So a few weeks ago, Mrs Koenen

and her grandson brought in 2

caterpillars. After a day we notice one caterpillar was 

missing( I think it got out of the 

opening. We continued to watch the other one

But after about a week, it seemed like

it wasn't moving and I figured it didn't have enough food

in the cage. Fast forward another week or so, Mrs Koenen

decided to take her cage back home and when she

went to dump out the leaves-----

she noticed A MOTH!!!

So it turns out after looking more closely, we could 

see a cocoon ( moths make cocoons /butterflies build

chrysalis) and the moth emerged

yesterday!!!

The children were excited to check it out today.

More Morning Work

Kennedy was our

attendance helper today

Zero friends NOT at school

16 friends AT school

Emmy was our

invocation leader

on chapel days

we just look at the Jesus Time 

Story and the children tell me what they

remember. You would be impressed

with how much these kiddos know

💗💗

Luke was our

Yoga Instructor

OWL POSE

SECOND STEPS

This is Gloria. Gloria is just standing 

 over by her cubby. I showed the children

this picture and we looked closely at her

face and talked about how we think she is

feeling. then we looked closely at what she

is doing and tried to decided what 

is going on.....

(she couldn't get her jacket zippered)

Then we talked about ways

Gloria can solve her problem.

Gloria could ask a friend

gloria could ask her teacher

We also talked about how when you ask

for help, you need to use a polite

but strong voice

OUTSIDE

Mrs Koenen shared the moth

with her grandson's class

and then brought it

outside for us to release it!

Many children wanted to watch

took a little bit to get

it to work it's way out....

on the ground

Mrs Koenen used a stick to help it

move off the sidewalk so it

didn't get stepped on

CHAPEL

Mrs Helmkamp led

chapel today.

She talked about the different

colors you may see when 

you go to church

(the color red is coming up next)

Then she "discovered" this 

box/present for her....

it said, "To Mrs Helmkamp

Love, God"

Inside she found a cross

and a bible

She reminded us that God sent

all of us the best gift of all.

His son, Jesus, to die on the

cross to save us all from sin.

The bible reminds us

of all of God's words.

She also taught us a bible

verse from

Ephesians 2 8-9 and taught us 

the sign language/

hand actions.

Jacob was our offering helper

We also celebrated

Baptism Birthdays...

Oct is Maisie's

Baptism Birthday month

NEW BOOKS>>>>>>

I went to the library yesterday and picked

out new books. I tried to find a few books of

the things the children said they might be interested in learning 

more about. Like animals, firetrucks, ABC(rhyming books)

etc......

Our librarian now will have a NEW

special part to his/her

job...... the librarian gets

to chose a book for story time..

Cecilia was our Librarian today

Jacob was weather helper

Winston was prayer

leader

Ellie was our

snack manager

SNACK

Charlotte was our

teacher assistant

A few A words-----

if you want to think of any A words

tonight with your child

he/she can share them tomorrow at school

Today we started SMALL GROUPS

I divided the children into 3 groups

1 small group got to play with

the firehouse/truck/doll house

the other group went 

with Mrs Koenen

and played TRICKY MOUSE

And the 3rd group

worked with me. We concentrated

on talking about feelings and

learning about how to name our feeling

and what makes us feel a certain way...

After about 6-7 mins we switched groups

so each group got to do each activity.

I have this wonderful

book, A Spot of Emotion, that 

also comes with these emotion

stuffed animals

Each child got to hold

an emotion card, name the feeling

and share what makes them feel

HAPPY/SAD

(these are the 2 emotions we

talked specifically about today)

After each group spent time in each

area, we did center time.

It was already 10:55

(usually we clean up from centers at 11), 

but I decided to let everyone 

have 20 mins of centers

A few friends were really

enjoying tricky mouse

Emmy wanted to makes Charlotte's sister,

Abigail, a birthday card today

LOTS of creating.....

Ella was our

superintendent

Charleigh was our exercise leader

She said, " I am going to chose

something easy today!"

She chose SIT UPS

Since we were running a little behind with time,

we said our prayer requests and thank you Jesus prayer together

and I didn't write anything down today!

Ben was line leader

After awhile, crocodile