Three’s Company

We’ve been busy practicing our Harvest Day songs we plan to sing to our parents on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Hope you can make it! You can stay with your child at drop off and we will sing a few songs beginning at 9:15. The sign up sheet for the Harvest Day party is up on the hallway bulletin board. If you haven’t already done so please sign up to bring one item to help us celebrate. Remember to check labels for any nuts or nut oil.

After our party the firemen will be visiting our school to teach us about fire safety. After pick up at the end of the day you are invited to take your child out to the fire truck parked in the Niagara Falls Blvd. parking lot.  It’s going to be a full day!

We met Orange and Black Crazy Color Creatures this week. I was going to save Black for this coming week but the children kept asking for him so out he came. Our songs go “Orange, orange ate a carrot, Crazy Color Creature” and “Black, Black lives in a shack, Crazy Color Creature.” Now, I know carrot does not rhyme with orange but he was pictured taking a bite of a carrot and since nothing really rhymes with orange we sang it.

We made an orange and black color page for our color books by dipping halved carrots and yams into orange paint and pressing them onto a black piece of paper. It sounded like construction workers were in our room with all the pounding. We also made Laura the Carrot from VeggieTales.

Please remember to take a few minutes this weekend to help your child pick pictures of food that he/she likes, cut them out and bring them to class on Monday/Tuesday. You can use grocery store fliers, magazines or whatever you can find. We will be making “I am thankful for… pumpkins.”

I am thankful that the sickness that has been prevalent around the local schools has not hit us. We have had near or perfect attendance all week. I pray we all continue to stay healthy.

First Trinity is hosting an awesome event for young children and their parents on Sunday, October 25 at 5:30 pm. It is called “In Jest” and features Nels Creamean, who does a comedy variety show including side-splitting, gravity-defying fun with clean comedy, flying objects, audience participation, incredible stunts and amazing yet useless skills!

Tickets are available at the church office and cost only $1. If you bring a child, the child is $1 and you are free! An offering will also be taken.

Here’s the best part: Included is a pasta buffet with mac and cheese, baked ziti and alfredo. All for $1! Let me know if you have any questions about it.

My family and I will be there. Hope to see you there too!

What does Madame Blueberry, a bluebird and the whole earth have in common? They are blue and were created by our children last week! What fun we had as we painted with feathers and sponges, glued and traced our hands to complete our masterpieces. Some will be saved for color books, some for our art show in February and others to hang on our hall walls. We watched a short clip from the VeggieTale video, Madame Blueberry where we learned that a grateful heart for all that God has given us and not more “stuff” brings us true happiness. We also met another Crazy Color Creature… Blue! We sang, “Blue, Blue, has the flu. Crazy Color Creature! Blue, Blue has the flu! Crazy Color Creature!” We learned that blue is not only a color but it also means sad. Madame Blueberry was blue because she always wanted more stuff and our crazy color creature was blue because she had the flu.

We had a bewildering Science lesson when we washed different color “stinky socks” together only to be surprised by the final outcome. Mrs Ferrante  threw some red and yellow socks in the washer (blue bin) and we all helped agitate the clothes by singing, “Shake it baby, shake it. Shake it if you can. Shake it like a milk shake. Shake it once again. Hey!” while Mrs. Ferrante shook the bin. When the “wash” was finished we found the socks were no longer red and yellow but had turned orange. We then looked through red and yellow translucent circles and noticed when we overlapped them their color turned orange! Through this same method we found that red and blue make purple and blue and yellow make green. The process of making secondary colors from two of the primary colors was reinforced at our easel when the children had the opportunity to paint with two colors.

We continue to learn that God keeps His promises. Many years ago God sent a big flood that covered the whole earth but He protected Noah, his family and the animals by telling Noah to build a big boat called an ark. Noah obeyed God and was protected and blessed. When the flood subsided God put a beautiful rainbow in the sky to remind us that He would never cover the whole earth with a flood again.

We helped Noah build and get the animals on the ark. We hammered the nails in the boat with our hands, sat in our boat (chairs), felt the rain (Mrs. F sprayed us with water), and rocked back and forth to the rhythm of the waves. Each of us chose two animals from the pile of toy animals and brought them on the boat with us where we would all be safe. When we obey God’s commands we know that God will keep us safe and bless us too. The best promise God ever gave us was a Savior. He sent His very own son to die on the cross and rise again to pay the penalty for our sin. This promise is for everyone! He promises all that believe will be saved! God keeps His promises!

Monday October 5 & Wed Oct 7 2009

Tuesday, October 6 & 8, 2009