Faith Lutheran Preschool eNews: Newsletter 1/28/15

Important Dates to Remember:
January 30th - School Choice Movie Night and Ice Cream Social; 7:00pm-8:30pm
February 12,13,16 - No Preschool; Teacher's Conference and President's Day

THIS WEEK’S LITERACY EXPERIENCES
Morning Books
"Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed" by Mo Willems
"Tadpole's Promise" by Tony Ross
"Pie in the Sky" by Lois Ehlert

Afternoon Books
"There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Rose" by Lucille Colandro

PLANNING & RECALL
This week we bring a mixture of fine motor skills and literacy to planning time as children had the chance to write or draw their work time plans on a whiteboard. Some children chose to write letters which represented the area in which they wanted to play and others drew pictures.

BIBLE LESSON
This week we reached the portion in our Bible curriculum where we hear about the Christmas story. Since we already inserted these lessons at the appropriate time in December, and then returned to our Old Testament lessons again, we will be picking up where we left off after the Christmas story.
There was a wicked king in the land at the time of Jesus' birth named King Herod. When he heard that a new king had been born (Jesus) he was afraid that this king would try and take over the kingship as he got older. He viewed Jesus as a threat and wanted him killed. When his attempts at finding out where Jesus was failed, he made a horrible order to his soldiers to go out into the land and put to death all the baby boys two years old or younger, hoping that Jesus would be killed in the process. God sent an angel to Joseph who warned him to take Mary and Jesus and flee to Egypt, where they would stay until it was safe to return home to Israel.

God had a plan for Jesus. Jesus came to this earth to live perfectly in our place, to suffer and die in our place, and to defeat sin, death, and hell by rising from the dead. All this would not be accomplished if Jesus would have been killed by Herod as an infant. God also promises to be with us always and commands his angels to watch over us. Praise God that his loving plans and purposes always prevail!
Bible verse: Psalm 91:11 "He will command his angels to guard you in all your ways."
Bible song: "Surely It Is God Who Saves Me"

MUSIC
This week in Music we will be exploring new instruments - handbells! We will be discussing the proper use of handbells and how to control them. As the week goes on, we will work on learning to read music (with color symbols) as we learn to play familiar songs such as "Jesus Loves Me".

MOVEMENT
We open movement time this week with the song "Penguin Waddle". We then move on to play some new games with bean bags and hula hoops. We are practicing our underhanded throwing technique as well as our aim. We lay the hula hoops flat on the floor and try tossing our beanbag into the center of the circle. As we get better at our aim, we move the hula hoops further away from our bodies to make it more challenging. The children have enjoyed tossing their beanbags in this way. We hear lots of clapping and cheering as children get the beanbag in the hoops or cheer on their classmates. We end with a song called "The Beanbag" where we get to toss the beanbag, catch, turn around with it, and balance it on our shoulders, knees, feet, arm, finger, and head.

SMALL GROUP TIME
This week during Small Group Time, we’re focusing on the Key Developmental Indicators (KDI): Number Awareness and Counting. One Monday we use magnet wands to dip them into a cup filled with magnetic tiles. As we pull the wand out, we pull off and count how many chips we were able to collect. On Tuesday we use unifix cubes to making towers. On Wednesday we include a little one-to-one correspondence work as we count and place buttons on numbered lines. On Thursday we count clothespins as we use our fine motor skills to clip them onto number sheets. On Friday we play a little game with dice. We roll the die and place the corresponding amount of beads onto a pipe cleaner. Whoever fills their pipe cleaner with beads first, wins.