Happy Friday

Ben really enjoys

the gingerbread cookies 

and cookie trays

Otto played 

Roll A Gingerbread Man

Luke also enjoys them

Ella showed me she was Rolling 

play doh balls

Lots of friends enjoying the

play doh Arwen's family

brought in

THANK YOU!

A few friends still needed to VOTE

Each friend has a litte

wooden person we decorated

and put their picture on....

Abidaan thinking about

what name he wants to choose

Otto also got to VOTE today

Rowen also got to VOTE

It was between 4 choices:

The Joy Party

The Best Friend Party

The Valentine's Party

The LOVE party

After ALL the votes were in....

we counted each one....

we talked about 

words like...

MOST

and 

LEAST

These 2 were VERY close together...

we counted.....

1 has  9 

the other had 8

so close......

THE WINNING NAME IS
THE LOVE PARTY

the other 2 had LESS.....

Arwen got to hold Zebra...

Lucas was our attendance helper

2 friends not at school

11 friends  here

Luke was our invocation leader

JESUS TIME

We reviewed this week's

story

Children raised their hands and shared

what they remembered...

a few thoughts...

it was about disciples

Jesus

12 people

most of Jesus's disciples were fishermen

and Jesus said, "Come follow Me--- I will make you Fisher-Men

WOW!! Lots of great remembering!!!

Then I talked to the children how they can be

disciples...

we played a game to show us how we can

spread God's Word!!

I whispered a message into one

person's ear

and then they got to whisper it 

into the next person's ear...

so forth until everyone heard the

message

JESUS LOVES YOU

we came behind the smartboard to 

whisper the message so others didn't

hear what was said....

It was so SWEET watching the children

whisper GOD'S WORD to each other

💜💛💚💙

(missed snapping Otto's

 picture telling Charleigh)

Then I told the children...

See how easy it is to be a disciple

and spread God's Word..

We were able to spread it to each 

other and you can go home and share

God's word with others!!!

Today's Helpers.....

OUTSIDE

No sun made it chilly today...

we had lots of wood chips on the

sidewalk and we had LOTS of help

sweeping...

Ben was our

Librarian today

Ben's choice....

At the end of the book it

shares a recipe for making

Ninjabread cookies....

in case you want to bake

this weekend......

Rowen was our

weather helper

Arwen volunteered to be

our prayer leader

Charleigh was snack manager

SNACK

Arwen was helpful during 

snack and got to add

a heart to our KINDNESS HEART

Which is a new one heart

we filled the other one already

with all our KINDNESS!

Maisie helped Arwen hold something

while she added her

heart SO she was kind by helping

Arwen and added a heart

Handwriting without tears....

We practiced making

Q's

2 big cureves

1 little line

CENTER TIME

Abidaan got to 

paint his person(for voting)

Rowen, Charleigh and ella

started in dramatic play

Ben, Luke and Samuel

started in the manipulative area

But Samuel was really waiting for a turn

with the cash register.....

HOCKEY

Ice Skating

A few friends didn't have a chance to learn

about our  name journals until today...

This is something I just introduced this week...

I will have our name journals out during morning work and will encourage 

children to write their name everyday!

Making Creations

These 2 formed a sweet friendship today..

They are together on

both Monday and Friday (but with all the snow days and stuff)

they haven't had many days together until this week,,,

Abidaan and Samuel

we needed a volunteer for

Yoga today

Luke chose 

downward dog

we also needed a volunteer for

exercise leader

Charleigh chose

SIT UPS

Prayer requests

Ella chose 

Give me a hug, bug

for our good bye rhyme

Abidaan was very kind today

and helped Samuel

with his coat and backpack

and got to put a

heart on our kindness chart