Morning Work

Ben and Luke started with

the gingerbread counting

game

The cinnamon play doh is sticky...so we added

some flour (and more oil) and it is a little better

Charlotte using the writing table

Emmy also at the writing table

PLAY DOH

Lucas and Mrs Koenen playing

roll and cover game

Foster playing with

the gingerbread cookies

Ben got to hold

Zebra

Lincoln was our

attendance helper

1 friend NOT here

15 friends HERE

SECOND STEPS

We looked closely at this picture

I asked the children how the little girl

(SUZY)in the picture on the left looks

How does she feel?

Lots of children said they thought

Suzy was sad. 

1 person said mad

and 2 friends said grumpy

When then talked about how some people can feel differently

about same situation.... like Suzy feels sad because her friend

told her NO, I don't want to build a fort with you...

But it is OK if you might feel mad or grumpy...

Everyone feels differently

We then looked at the picture on the right...

we talked about how 

Suzy looks now.... And we talked about what Jayden 

may have said to make her feel better.

The children had LOTS of great thoughts and ideas

on how Jayden made Suzy feel better.

We sometimes have similar situations in our classroom

One friend will ask another friend to play

The one friend says NO and then the other friend feels sad.

We thought of ways we could tell the

 other friend without hurting their feelings...

Like ...

I am playing with(whoever) right

now but I will play with you when I am done

OR

I am playing with (whoever) would you like to play 

with us.

Often preschool really are NOT saying I don't want to play

 with YOU---they are really just saying

I am already playing  and don't want to stop.

I try to let the children know it is OK

if you don't want to stop playing 

BUT we always have to be NICE.

And say nice words to other friends

Today's helpers.......

So today I knew it would NOT be as muddy

BUT still some mud

SO before we went outside I told the children to think:

Do I want to play in the MUD KITCHEN today?

If the answer is YES, then go put on boots!

If the answer is NO, just leave your tennis shoes on

and get your coat and line up

I reminded the children if they chose NO and

didn't put their boots on to remember to

stay out of the mud!

I did this to get the children

thinking ahead--- making a plan---

and following through with their plan!!!

THIS GROUP DID WONDERFULLY!!!

LOTS AND LOTS Of  RUNNING

CHAPEL

what a special treat!

Zion's band performed for

us today

The band director, Mrs Thoelke,

led us ....

and the band acted out the message

We heard the bible story about Samuel. 

Samuel was faithful and obeyed 

God!

Luke was our

offering helper

Arwen was our

Librarian

This was a cute fun

version of the 

gingerbread story

Mack was weather helper

Kennedy was prayer leader

Ella was snack

manager

SNACK

Ben was our teacher assistant

Our Q word list...

VOTING for the name of our

PARTY>>>>

we should know by tomorrow which

name is the winner

The Joy Party

The Best Friend Party

The Valentines Party

The Love Party

we just had a few friend today

they still needed to vote...

VOTING TEACHES SO MANY SKILLS:

It is interesting to watch 

some of the children when voting....

I think some of the children who just want the name they chose to win

or just want to do what most are doing----

They just go for the one that

already has the most---

I however ask...

tell me which name you like

and then I show you which container to put it in.

I really want to teach the children to be independent

thinkers and not chose based upon what someone else wants...

I even had a few children say, " What did

so and so vote--- but again I encourage 

them to make their own choices

CENTER TIME

Cecilia is really enjoying

reading the bible..

Arwen helped a friend

so she put a heart

on our kindness heart

Ella also reading the bible

HOCKEY

ART

Arwen enjoyed the dramatic play

the almost the entire center time

SO our hockey got cut short by a few minutes when we could not find

the hockey BALL. Almost the whole class was looking for it!!

IT was a BIG MYSTERY!!!

The children actually left for the day before we found it!!

BUT as soon as everyone left--- I went on a hunt and found it!!

I found it in the bathroom between the trash can

and the door!!!--- well hidden

Most of us looked through the bathrooms several times!!

But let your children know

MYSTERY was solved and we can play

hockey again tomorrow!!

Oliver was the superintendent 

LOTS of friends adding

Kindness Hearts...

we filled another HEART TODAY!!!

Emmy was yoga instructor

Tree Pose

Foster was exercise leader

Sit ups

Prayer requests

Luke was line leader

and chose this for our good bye rhyme