Ss is for summer sun!

 

This week we are listening and looking for the Ss sound and letter and enjoying the summer sun!

Our KDI for the week is predicting- Children predict what they expect will happen. We will be predicting what will happen when we use sun print paper, solar beads and trying to figure out what will happen to items we place in the sun- will they melt or not? Hopefully we can predict better than some local weather people!

Table Activities- Our table activities for the week include decorating paper popsicles, making foam sun visors, creating suns with construction paper and practicing scissor skills while cutting yellow plates for suns, exploring a sunny sensory bin, do some shadow drawing, making sun catchers and cutting some sunny colored ribbons.

Small Group Activities- This week we will make a sun print on special paper, make a solar bead bracelet, add Ss to our journal and make a melt prediction experiment.

Large Group Activities- This week we will play in our sunglasses, do a nature scavenger hunt, play with shadows and see what happens when ice melts in our kiddie pools.

Books of the Week- "I See Summer" by Charles Ghigna and "Sun" by Carol Thompson are our books this week.

Bible Story- This week's Bible story is about the flood. I know many experienced flooding last week, but this flood was much worse than that. Adam and Eve had spent time with God and he gave him one act that showed their love for Him, that was to not eat from a tree called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. That was their way to worship and honor God. Unfortunately, they were tempted by a fallen angel called Satan and they were no longer perfect or in a perfect relationship with God. From that point on, things just got worse and worse until there were only 8 people on earth who still had faith in God. The father was named Noah and he had three sons who were also married to believers. God instructed Noah to build an ark, a huge boat. He took 100 years to build it. There was room for Noah's family and for all the animals that God had created along with food for them. Noah was a laughing stock for the people around him. It probably had never rained, things were watered by ground water. They may have been far away from any body of water large enough to float a giant boat on. Noah persevered and tried to warn others of God's anger and their fate. Eventually, God sent animals to Noah to berth on the ark, He instructed Noah and his family to go on board and He shut the door. Then it began to rain! It rained for 40 days and nights. The entire earth was covered in water. All the people and animals who lived on land died. Noah and his family were kept safe on the ark. The waters flooded the earth for 150 days. The ark came to rest on top of Mt. Ararat. After 40 days, Noah sent out a dove to see if there was dry land to live on. It took two more weeks after that for the dove to stay outside the ark. Noah and his family opened the door to the ark and they left it. Noah built an altar and sacrificed to thank God for keeping them safe. God placed a rainbow in the sky to be a sign of the promise that He would never again flood the earth and kill everyone on it. Every time it appears, it is a reminder both to us and to God of that promise! 

Some people might remark, what a horrible God to destroy or kill all those people. What would you do? Imagine you made a plate, it came out of the kiln perfect, a beautiful finish, wonderful to look at! It was your favorite plate! You made it just the right size and weight. You used it to eat every meal on. And then it began to fall apart, got cracks, slivers of porcelain would show up in your food. Can you imagine if the plate was purposely trying to hurt its creator? Wouldn't you throw that plate away? I know we aren't plates, but we are God's creation. Special to Him and He desires a close relationship with us. God is love, He sent His son Jesus to take the punishment that we rightly deserve because of our messing up and falling apart. We can't be perfect anymore, but we try to follow Him because of our love for Him. Jesus was perfect for us, we receive his righteousness so we can have a right relationship with God again!

Some pics from the week-

Welcome to preschool!! Mm is for marshmallow!

 

This week we are going to start our preschool year out with something yummy, marshmallows! And we are going to look for the letter Mm and listen for it's sound!

Each week we concentrate on a Key Developmental Indicator which define important learning goals for preschoolers. Our KDI for this week is Patterns: Children identify, describe, copy, complete and create patterns. We will be creating our patterns with marshmallows- patterns by color, patterns by size.

Table Activities- Each week we have special table activities that students are encouraged to try before they play with the other toys in the room. Later in the year they will be required to try the activities before moving on. This week our table activities include marshmallow exploration (yes, we do play with our food in preschool), marshmallow playdough, sorting marshmallows by color and size, counting marshmallows, experimenting with marshmallows in water and colored water and painting with marshmallows.

Small Group Activities- This week our small group activities include marshmallow patterns, adding the journal page Mm is for marshmallow, using our 5 senses to describe a marshmallow and writing our own marshmallow book.

Large Group Activities- We will use our whole bodies to do a marshmallow toss, dance with a marshmallow and lastly taste a marshmallow after we've explored it with our other senses.

Books of the Week-  "Most Marshmallows" by Robert Weinstock and "The Marshmallow Incident" by Judi Barrett.

Bible Story Time- This week we begin at the beginning- creation. We will hear about how God created this world in 6 literal days and then rested on the 7th. On the first day, God created the day and the night, and it was good. On the second day, God separated the waters, the waters above are the sky separate from the waters below, and it was good. On the third day, God gathered up the waters and separated it from dry land. He commanded the land to produce vegetation, plants with seeds, trees with fruit, all to continue to produce and grow from that which He created, and it was good. On the fourth day God created the sun, moon and stars to mark the days and years, and it was good. On the fifth day, God said, "Let the waters be filled with living things, fish, sea creatures and let the sky be filled with flying things, birds, insects." Everything was told to be fruitful and multiply. And it was good! On the sixth day, God created the animals that live on the land, livestock, wild animals and creatures that move along the ground. Then God made man and woman. We are his special creation. God formed man from the clay of the earth and breathed the breath of life in him. He created woman from man, especially made to work and live together. God made man and woman in His image. He doesn't say that about any of the other things He created. At the end of the sixth day, God said it was very good. And on the 7th day, God rested. He was finished creating, it was complete. God gave every fruit and vegetable for man to eat at this time. He talked with and walked with the man and woman He created. They are given the names Adam and Eve in the Bible. God created all these things to show His glory and His goodness. We believe it happened just as the Bible says, there was morning, there was evening, the first day, etc. There is far too much order in creation to have it happen by chance like evolution suggests. Designed carefully by our Creator, in His image, His precious and loved children!

Have a wonderful first week!