Four year old preschool for the week beginning November 7th

This week rocks!! That is what we are learning and talking about. Rr is the letter rock begins with. We are having fun with rocks this week!

Some of the KDIs we are concentrating on are-

Sense of competence: Children feel they are competent- As they carried buckets of rocks in each hand, they found out how strong they were. Success is a great motivator!

Gross-motor skills: Children demonstrate strength, flexibility, balance, and timing in using their large muscles.- We carried rocks in many different ways, we will experiment with balance and flexibility in our movement to songs while balancing a beanbag on different parts of our bodies.

Patterns: Children identify, describe, copy, complete, and create patterns. - Looking at patterns God makes in nature is also part of our exploration this week.

Some of the other activities we are doing this week are playing with Pop rocks in shaving cream, looking at rocks through a magnifying glass, counting rocks, identifying letters written on rocks, rock tumble painting and doing our journal page for Rr is for rocks.

Jesus Time- This week's Jesus time is about Moses receiving the 10 Commandments on two large, stone tablets on Mt. Sinai. We talk about all ten of the commandments, how the first ones talk about our relationship to God and the last ones about how God wants us to show love to those around us. We are learning the Bible passage 1 John 5:3- This is love for God; to obey His commands." We can't obey God's commandments perfectly, no matter how hard we try! We are so grateful that He sent His Son Jesus, who did obey them perfectly and died in our place so we can have a home in heaven!!

Books of the Week- "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" by William Stieg and "Stone Soup" by Ann McGovern.

Next week at the Detroit Zoo- we will meet in the tunnel as you go into the zoo at 10am and meet again for the snack at 11:30. In between times, you and your child are welcome to enjoy the zoo at your own pace, there is no set program. In school we will be talking about getting ready for winter and how different animals do that, so you may want to point that out as you walk around. However, with the weather we have been having lately, I'm not sure winter is coming!

Have a great week!!
Mrs. Schneck