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Comments: I hope you all had a blessed thanksgiving. My family celebrated the day by going to worship at First Trinity then to my parent’s home along with my sister, Sue, and her family. My mom has always made thanksgiving dinner but it is getting difficult for her to take care of all the fixings as she gets older so my sister and I enjoyed taking over the kitchen, putting it all together and cleaning up. Like most families we have our certain dishes that are always a part of our thanksgiving meal. Our table sported turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, butternut squash, green bean casserole, ambrosia salad, and dinner rolls. We finished it off with delicious homemade pies! Sue always brings the pies but this year she brought just pumpkin as Anna, my daughter, learned how to make lemon meringue pie in her foods class at school and made one for us! It was enjoyed as there was not a crumb left. Now, the day after thanksgiving, I am ready to dive into all the left overs!
I’d love to hear some of your thanksgiving foods and traditions. Did any of your three year olds wear their Pilgrim hats at the dinner table?
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| Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hats MW |
Sorry, we just took this one photo.
The last week of our Color Unit:
- Every child made a beautiful, rainbow colored, marble painted book cover using all the colors learned at school. They are now the illustrator of their very own Color Book with a crafted page for each color we have learned. I am saving them to give to parents at the parent/teacher conferences in January.
- We made crayon people to illustrate our favorite color. Counting how many liked each color and which color was the most and least favorite was a good practice of our math skills. You can check the test results by reading our crayon chart in the hallway.
- The children got a close look at multicolored Indian corn. We learned that some of our great great… grandparents from Europe had never seen corn until they came to the new world where the Native Americans introduced it to them. Surprisingly, we found out that Indian corn or maize is edible and was often ground down and turned into corn meal or boiled into hominy.
- After learning about the Indian corn, we made our own corn using bingo markers to create different colored kernels.
- We said, “Good bye!” to our Crazy Color Creatures.
- Lastly, we read two fun books on colors; My Crayons Talk by Patricia Hubbard and Jamberrry by Bruce Degen.
Bible Story:
- Samuel is dedicated to the Lord and is learning about and serving God in the temple under Eli the priest.
- We continue to learn and practice talking to God through prayer. It is fascinating to listen to what the children want share with Him.
- The kids enjoyed our new song we learned and danced to: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Let us pray, let us pray, everywhere and every way. Every moment of the day, it is the right time. For our Father above, He is listening with love and He wants to answer us so let us pray. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!”
I had laryngitis on Wednesday and Thursday and Mrs. Coons came through with flying colors; leading circle, Bible, show and share and anything else that needed much talking. She reminded me of what a gifted and engaging teacher she is. Today I am at home trying to rest my voice, hoping I can accomplish my responsibilities this weekend, praying in church and singing in the Grand Island Choral concert on Sunday.
Some highlights from this week:
- I’m loving the hugs I’m getting that are becoming routine with some of the kids. The best part is watching the joy they have in giving them.
- In Celebration I decided to just let the kids run, without getting out any toys. I wish I had a video camera to record the fun. They ran back and forth and laughed and buddied up with friends. Someone tried to tease me into catching them and before I knew it we were into a game of tag.
- Had a good aerobic work out!
- Our hallway prayer wall is filling up with your children’s wonderful prayers. Teaching and reinforcing talking to God is one of my favorite activities that I hope they will continue for the rest of their lives. More prayers will be coming.
- We learned that just as God heard and answered Hannah’s prayer for a baby in the Bible, God hears and answers our prayers too.
- We made painted hand prints, cut them out, folded them and made praying hands on our prayer wall.
- We filled our hallway turkey with thanksgiving feathers. Check out what we are thankful for.
- Some of us got to paint with brown paint mixed with sand. Cool texture!
- I love how the Veggie Tale character, Mr. Lunt, turned out. If you have never seen a Veggie Tale movie I hope you will try one. You are in for a treat.
- On Wednesday, I got to work with my sister, Suzie, who substituted for Mrs. Coons. The kids loved her as she got right down with them to play.
Looking forward to all colors week and show and share next week.
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We do not hold classes today in observance of Veteran” Day.
In chape,l Pastor showed us different ways we could praise God: through stringed instrument, trumpet, lyre, singing and he even got us all up to dance! Don’t tell Eric, our worship leader, but Pastor plucked a few strings on his guitar that was sitting in the worship center. Pastor had a couple of musical instruments of his own to show us too. He brought a brightly painted, one foot long, dried bean that made a neat, rhythmical sound when shaken. He got that in Haiti when he visited there with our mission team. But the best instrument was his huge ram’s horn from Israel. Blowing through that made a deep, loud sound that probably could be heard throughout the whole church. He even let Mrs. Coons and me blow through it. Mrs. Coons had a hard time making any noise but I blew it hard and loud. I guess I have more hot air than Mrs. Coons. Stop by Pastor Chuck’s office sometime to show your parents the neat instruments he has. I wouldn’t be surprised if he let you try and blow it.
We sang Jesus Loves Me This I Know and finished with prayer and everyone shouted, Amen!
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Wednesday, Nov. 5 and Thursday, Nov. 6 a photographer will be in during school to take individual and class photos. If you would like to order pictures bring your order form and money in the day of the pictures. Don’t forget to bring your beautiful smiles.
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Each child made a colorful turkey for display on the front windows of our school or on our classroom windows. Now everyone who drives by our school can see what beautiful artists we have in preschool. See if you can find your child’s turkey.
We glued purple grapes onto our cluster to be saved for our color book. Sorry Mom and Dad, you won’t be able to see our beautiful color books until January. I think you will like them. The children will be the illustrators of their very own books since they created every page, including the cover.
Today we learned about Joshua, the wall of Jericho and the power of prayer. You can read the story in the family letter that will be sent home Wed. and Thurs. Or, if you want more detail on this awesome story you can read it in the Bible in Joshua 5:13 – 6:21. The children and I marched around our “city of Jericho” 7 times while singing this song to the tune of The Ants Go Marching One by One:
God’s children go marching on day 1, hurrah, hurrah! God’s children going marching on day 2, hurrah, hurrah.! God’s children go marching on day 3. One of them stops to scratch his knee. And they all go marching round and around, around Jericho. Tromp, tromp, tromp.
God’s children go marching on day 4, hurrah, hurrah! God’s children go marching on day 5 hurrah, hurrah! God’s children go marching on day 6, one of them stops to scratch an itch. And they all go marching round and around, around Jericho. Tromp, tromp, tromp.
God’s children go marching on day 7, hurrah, hurrah! God’s children go marching on day 7, hurrah, hurrah! God’s children go marching on day 7, blowing trumpets and shouting to heaven. And they all go marching round and around. Then the walls fall down. Boom, boom, crash!
After we blew our pretend trumpets we enjoyed knocking over the block walled city we set up in the middle of our circle. Although we remembered in the real story God did the knocking down.
God helped Joshua when he needed Him and God can help us too. All we need to do is ask Him. Every few days your child will be asked if they want to talk to God. Some of our children have asked God to heal sick family members, bless their mommies and daddies and help them to be good listeners. Others have thanked God for the good things they have. After sharing their prayer request with me we will talk to God together and I will post the request on the prayer wall that will soon be up in our hallway. You are welcome to take the request home so you can pray with your child.
