April 12th - UAA Creative Arts Fair 1-4PM
April 18th - No Preschool; Good Friday
April 21st - No Preschool; Easter Monday
THIS WEEK’S LITERACY EXPERIENCES
Morning Books
"Let's Go for a Drive" by Mo Willems
"Sheep in a Shop" by Margot Apple
"Mole and the Baby Bird" by Marjorie Newman
Afternoon Books
"A Funny Little Bird" by Jennifer Yerkes
PLANNING & RECALL
This week at planning and recall time we use a microphone made out of our toy magnets to share our work time plans.
BIBLE LESSON
A man named King Nebuchadnezzar made a rule in his land that all people must bow down and worship a golden statue. Three Israelite believers named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to worship the statue. They knew it was a sin to bow down to the statue and they continued to worship the one true God. When this was reported to the king, it made him very angry and he threw the men into a fiery furnace. Before long, the king noticed that there was a fourth person in the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He was seeing the angel that God sent to protect his three faithful men in the furnace. After calling the men out and realizing that not even a hair on their heads was singed, he made the decree that anyone who said anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego would be put to death.
Just like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, we should also keep God as the most important thing in our lives - placing him above any earthly blessing, friends, or family. He has forgive our sins through Jesus and wants us to worship and serve him alone. We ask God to give us strength to do this!
Bible verse: Matthew 4:10b "Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only."
Bible song: "Surely It Is God Who Saves Me"
MUSIC
This week we continue to practice ascending, descending, and repeated-note patterns. We learned the song "We Can Make a New Song" to explore the concept as the pitches go high, low, and repeat. Moving our bodies, looking at visual cue cards, and getting the chance to play the piano ourselves help us to remember these musical concepts.
MOVEMENT
We continue our work with scarves this week as we warm up to the song "Kuma San". We turn around, touch the ground, and reach in the air with our scarves. Some of the scarf challenges we practice include folding the scarf into rectangles, squares and triangles on the carpet, throwing them, clapping our hands, and trying to catch the scarf before it touches the ground. We end movement time with the song "Toss and Catch".
SMALL GROUP TIME
This week during Small Group Time, we’re focusing on a Key Developmental Indicator (KDI): Filling and Emptying . The simple act of filling and emptying is a satisfying activity for preschoolers. As they gain experience with putting objects together (filling) and separating them (emptying), these actions eventually help them see objects as together or separated in space. We filled egg cartons with beans, counted how many scoops it took to fill cups with materials such as gem stones, noodles, buttons, and beads, filled empty water bottles with cotton balls, pom poms, and shredded paper, filled toilet role tubes with caps and pieces of wood, and filled and emptied cups with water.
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