God keeps His promises

This week the students were able to have a visit from Pastor Chris Ewings and also Pastor Oldfield. Pastor Ewings was able to teach us the Bible story for this week. Pastor Oldfield read a children's book with the students in the afternoon. The students are continuing to work on their counting and days of the week in our morning message. The students enjoy being able to work together to share during work time to play with our new toy (pictured below). The students love being able to use our grocery cart throughout work time.

Morning Stories:
If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura Numeroff
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Say hello to Zorro! by Carter Goodrich
Yes we can! by Sam McBratney
This is NOT my hat by Jon Klassen
A Monster at the end of this book by Jon Stone

The students enjoy pretending they are the teacher during work time.

Bible:
This week the students had the opportunity to listen to "Joseph becomes a Ruler in Egypt." Pastor Ewings came in and spoke with the children about the story. The focus bible passage for this weeks story is Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." We have been singing 'I am Jesus Little Lamb' more and more each week. We are onto verse three of the song. I encourage you all to read through these stories with the children. Especially this week, it is a difficult story for the students to understand.

Movement:
They have been working on hopping this week. The students are still reviewing the basic terms used in the SPARK curriculum. They start out movement on their homes. They tend to do an activity or dance before stretching their muscles for the main lesson. After introducing the concept and demonstrating, the students are able to show their hopping skills. 

Creating tracks is very popular this week during work time!

Music:
This week in music the students are still focusing on a steady beat. They are able to use rhythm sticks and shakers to do this. The students have been focusing on keeping a steady beat during Twinkle Twinkle and Row row row your boat. By keeping a steady beat, the students are better able to sing together and learn the words to our songs. Giving the students instruments helps them to remain focused but also have some fun!

Small Group:
The KDI (Key Developmental Indicator) for this week is Art: Children express and represent what they observe, think, imagine, and feel through two- and three-dimensional art.
Monday: The students were able to see different types of lines (using tape) on a piece of paper. They took paint and creating a picture on this piece of paper - once completed, the tape was then removed. This revealed a different design on their paper and showed the lines!
Tuesday: The students were able to create trees using part of their arms and their hand. After the paint was dry, the students were able to create leaves using their fingers.

Wednesday: The students were able to take an outline for a candy corn and sort pieces of paper into the corn. The colors of paper were white, yellow and orange. The students were able to glue the pieces and create their own candy corn.
Thursday: They were able to paint with legos today! The students were using the legos to create prints onto pumpkins for Fall.
Friday: The students were challenged to use their fine motor skills in creating a pumpkin using beads and pipe cleaners.

The students could play with the rice table this week during work time!
It contained measuring cups, funnels, and scoops.

Afternoon Story:
Franklin Plays the Game by Paulette Bourgeois

Cooking in the kitchen during work time!

Afternoon Tables:
These are items the students can choose to play with after waking up from nap. The students can go to the tables, play in the sensory table or have snack.
Monday (Math): Dominoes, number cards and dot cards, pattern blocks, and counting bears to create patterns.
Tuesday (Fine Motor): Zippers, buckles, shoe laces, clips, and the sorting pie.
Wednesday (Manipulatives): Magnetic shapes, items to test with the magnets, and the rice table.
Thursday (Art): Students were able to draw or create a picture on a coffee filter with marker. (After completing the coffee filter, it will be sprayed with water and blend together to make a butterfly)
Friday (Sensory): No activities, there is a half day of school.

Pastor Oldfield came in to read to the children!

Please consider joining us for the Health Fair on the 17th! We would love to see you there!