Rooooooaaarrrrrrr!!

Happy Saturday preschool fam! This week we had more dino fun digging for fossils, eating donuts, making puppets, and moving our body’s to music. We also learned about Jesus’ 6th miracle. 

In our Bible story, Jesus was preaching in a house. The house was packed full and no one could enter because so many people came to hear about God. Outside a man who was paralyzed wanted to see Jesus but could not enter. His friends carried him up to the roof and made an opening so they could lower him down. When Jesus saw the man and his friends, He knew they believed and He said, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” But the teachers of the law were there and thought, “Who does this man think he is? Only God can forgive sins!” Jesus knew exactly what they were thinking and said, “Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or ‘Take up your mat and walk?’ Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” Everyone was amazed and praised God. The Saddleback Kids version we watched this week can be found here. 

Our books this week were Dinosaurs Love Donuts by Ben Okon and Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller. There is a great video of each found here and here. I think I loved Arnie the Doughnut read by Chris O’Dowd more than the kids did!

We moved and grooved to some Laurie Berkner songs this week. We love I Know a Chicken and We are the Dinosaurs. They’re great for getting us warmed up on these colder days  

On Thursday we finished off our week by visiting the MCLS Bookmobile, digging for fossils, and enjoying a donut during snack time! Phew! We sure fit a lot in during this short week!

Our last week of January should be pretty easy peasy. Wednesday will be afternoon chapel and our school shirt day, so wear your school themed Soar shirt. On Friday we’ll have our first basketball home game! Our theme is Alaska. We have a pretty amazing concession stand. Come out and cheer on our Warriors, and enjoy the game and some yummy food!

Finally, enjoy our pictures from the week. Blogger was not letting me upload directly to the blog so I created a iCloud link that anyone can view. If you’d like the blog or pictures emailed to you send me a message at LSeibert@zionmonroe.org or text me at (808) 223-2621. Stay warm friends!

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January 26-30

 Hello Parents!

Can you believe we're already in the last week of January?! For me this time has gone incredibly fast! As you know all too well, the weather has been quite chilly. When the real feel is below 20, we for sure will not be going outside. If you are just not sure if we will go outside or not, I suggest you send the snow pants, boots, gloves and hat just in case. I personally enjoy the winter weather, so I am not too afraid or reluctant to go outside most times. I will admit, however, that this recent weather is even too much for me. This coming week is supposed to be cold also.

Before I forget, we WILL be having a small Valentine's party. We will have our party on Thurs, Feb. 12th. The children will be exchanging Valentine's cards with one another. If you would like to send in some kind of small snack, I would not object, but that is definitely not mandatory. Also, you do not have to send in cards for the session that your child does not attend. In other words, if your child goes to school in the morning session, you do not have to send in cards for the afternoon children as well. The children that attend the morning session are Evelyn S., Evie C., Margot, Avanni, Lilly, Nora, Sylvie, Rosalie, Malachi, Conner and Andrew. The afternoon children include Londyn, Rosalee, Kai, Victor, Brady, Marvin, Elijah and Lachlan. 

This coming week we will be learning about the letter "t." That means we will be talking about the trumpet and trombone and tambourine and turtles. We will also be learning about the number 10.

Spending another week talking about dinosaurs was fun. On Thursday we got to "crack" open some dinosaur eggs to find a dinosaur skeleton in the inside! (Thank you so much Mrs. Seibert for making those!!) We also decorated a paper egg from which a baby dinosaur could hatch. We tried to make a dinosaur using hearts, but it looked like a fish. The kids enjoyed it, but it was a flop in my eyes. Oh well. We hung those in the hall, so others could see our fish. Lol. We started to learn to sing with Laurie Berkner's song "We Are the Dinosaurs." (This is the second Laurie Berkner song we have learned. The first one was "I Know a Chicken." We will definitely be learning more songs by her. She is very fun.) We also got to get a book from the Book Mobile. It has been a long time since we were in school when the Book Mobile came to school. This comes only once a month.  

Stay warm. It's cold here, but we can be more than grateful we don't live in South Dakota. There temperature is -23 with the real feel of -40! Everything is still open, and the schools in south eastern SD only had a 2 hour delay!! May God keep all of us warm. God bless you!

D is for Dinosaurs and Drums!

Well, that was a short week with that snow day! Still, we kept busy this week making dinosaur hats, riding dinosaurs, looking for things that start with the letter “d” in our sensory bin, and drumming with Danny Go!. We also heard about John the Baptist baptizing Jesus, you can watch the Saddleback Kids video here.

Next week will be another short week, so we’ll continue with the letter “d” and do more fun dinosaur activities. Thursday is show and tell day, and the bookmobile will visit. If you’d like your child to borrow a book to bring home send your library card in with them.

We have some fun things coming up at Zion. Mark them on your calendars!

Here our are pictures from the week. I hope you all enjoy the longer weekend!