Monday, February 29, 2016

Monday: Bears




        This morning we made a birthday card for Mrs. Derrington's special leap year birthday!


                                                     Morning Free Play with Friends!







  We had two morning messages. The first announced that it was Mrs. Derrington's birthday!
  Our second morning message said, "We will be learning about Bears this week!"




                                       Calendar helper counting the 29th day of February!
                               Our meteorologist predicted a warm and sunny day!

At circle we read, Bear Snores On 
After the story we acted out a couple of our favorite parts of the story. Check out us pretending to be the snoring bear!
We also pretended to wake up like bear and sneeze!


                              At centers we painted a bear cave for our dramatic play this week!
We also worked hard identifying objects that start with the letter Bb sound in our bear picture.
        In dramatic play we pretended to have a Bear Party like in Bear Snores on!











 We delivered Mrs. Derrington her birthday card we made for her!
Look at our Bear Cave...We're excited to hang it up in our dramatic play area.

At Jesus time we are learning about Zacchaeus.  We read our bible story from this big book and learn a fun Zaccheus song. This song tells the story of Jesus going to Zacchaeus' house.






Friday, February 26, 2016

Friday: Dinosaurs Week 2

                                             Heading in from outside time this morning!
Our morning message today reminded us that we sing our songs tomorrow in church! We are very excited to sing together in God's House at the 5:00 pm church service at Zion: ) We will meet at 4:45-4:50ish in the church lobby/north-ex and sing at the very beginning of the service. The children will be dismissed to their parents after we sing!
       At circle we imagined we had a pet dinosaur and read How Dinosaurs Say Good Night.


                 After the story we voted on whether we would want to own a pet dinosaur.

Our decision was split on whether we would want a dinosaur as a pet. Ask your child if they wanted a pet dinosaur or not at circle this morning. Continue the discussion by asking them why.

                                    We worked together to make a dinosaur mural at centers.
                        We also drew a picture of a pet dinosaur and named the dinosaur.

We also excavated dinosaur bones( chocolate chips)  from the earth (chocolate chip cookies) like paleontologist do.
We predicted the number we would find and counted how many bones we extracted before we ate our cookie!
               We worked hard sounding out and writing the names of our pet dinosaurs!













The end result of our dinosaur mural!

                                                 At Jesus time we acted our  Jesus story.
Mary and Martha were preparing for Jesus to arrive at their house by cleaning and preparing food.
         When Jesus arrived Mary stopped what she was doing to listen to Jesus and God's word.
Marth
                                                Martha continued cleaning and cooking.

Martha became angry with Mary because she wasn't helping but Jesus told Martha not to worry and that Mary was actually doing what he wanted. Jesus wants us to stop what we are doing even when our lives are busy and listen/ learn from God's word!