Morning Work

LOTS of gingerbread activities

Gingerbread cookies

make gingerbread men with

the play doh

cookie cutters

and beads

Cecilia and Ella using the writing table

Someone donated books

and there were 2 dino books

SO I put those out on the table

because I knew Oliver would be really

excited!!

Otto was also interested

Morning Meeting

Calvin got to hold Zebra

Cecilia was our

attendance helper

1 friend NOT here

14 friends here

Calvin volunteered to be

our invocation leader

Today's story...

Jesus gathers HIS disciples

Jesus told the disciples

I will make you fisher of men

So we threw out the fishing net

and gathered LOTS of fish

Then we talked about how we

each can be Jesus' Disciples

Jesus wants us to follow Him and 

spread the word of God!

Yesterday I showed the children this bible

The one with the Jesus Sticker on it...

I got this book specifically for the children to use

They love to use my bible and the one I read from

daily is a keepsake with my children's name on it

So I found a used one on Amazon and will not be worried if

it gets a lot of "love"!!

Today's helpers....

OUTSIDE

WINDY and CHILLY

And a little muddy!!

The children LOVE to pretend with the

mud and cooking pot and pans...

A few friends made me

Chocolate pudding

and someone else brought

me Mud Soup....

Calvin was our Librarian today

The book Calvin chose

Mack was the weather helper

Charlotte was

our prayer leader

Lucas the snack manager

SNACK

Kennedy was our teacher assistant

Q words

Ideas for names

for our Valentines Party

tomorrow we start voting......

Then we talked about what kind of food

we need for our party......it started as mostly "junk" food

and then I suggested adding a few healthy

items and then a few children added things like apples and

vegetables 

SMALL GROUP WORK

Today we divided into 3 

groups...

one group got to play with trains or legos

One group worked

with me and I introduced

NAME JOURNALS

and the 3rd group

went with Mrs Koenen

to decorate a gingerbread man

Practicing our names on the 

first page of the journal

everyone's names are

printed on the front

and until the middle of their journals

then near the end I will see

who can write their names

from memory...

Also the journal model 

writing their names smaller

especially for those going to

Kindergarten so they

aren't taking the whole paper to

write their name

Some are ready for that and some

aren't -- either is OK

JUST getting each child

more familiar with thinking

about the size of their letters.....

Plus modeling how to correctly form

their letters

LIKE always start at the TOP

I also use words the children

are familiar with like

BIG LINE

LITTE LINE

BIG/LITTLE CURVE

when helping them with

proper formation

For example

I might say start at the top and make a big line down

then leap frog to the top and make a diagonal line

down and then big line back up.......

Foster was excited to show me his

big tower he built

after each groups got a turn

at each station we started.....

CENTER TIME

Getting ready to ice skate

HOCKEY!!

a few friends chose to play independently

Ice Skating and Hockey

do get a little loud

Emmy wanted to make a craft

Ella reading the bible💜💜💛💛💚💚

Doing his birthday art

Lincoln and Lucas played HOCKEY the

entire center time

Calvin played for most of 

center time

Emmy excited to show me her

bracelet she made

Oliver joined in with hockey

Mack and Ella joined

in near the end of center time

with hockey

working to put their own

"skates" on is encouraging

independence

Otto and Winston enjoying

the quiet of

being read to

Emmy was our

superintendent

Arwen was exercise

leader

SIT UPS

Prayer Requests

Give me a Kiss, goldfish!!