Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite! What kinds of phrases or poems do you put your kids to bed with? What phrases did your parents say to you? This week one of our books, "Good Night, Sleep Tight" by Mem Fox explores a lot of bedtime rhymes.
This week our theme is Night time and the letter Nn.
Our table activities this week are nightime rice with glitter stars, decorating black paper with white or metallic crayons and star stickers, star cookie cutter printing, coloring pajamas, starry night slime and decorating a star.
Our small group activities are a watercolor resist painting- we colored with a white crayon on white paper and then painted over it with night sky colors and we could see where we colored, making constellations by connecting the stars with chalk and adding Nn is for night time to our journal.
Our books are "Good Night, Sleep Tight" by Mem Fox, "Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late" by Mo Willems and "Rise the Moon" by Eileen Spinelli.
The KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Emotions: Children recognize, label, and regulate their
feelings.- Mo Willem's Pigeon books are great at expressing emotion. We ask how the pigeon feels and why does he feel that way? Feelings are okay to have,what do we do when we have them?
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge
about the natural and physical world.- We are learning about the night, nocturnal animals, constellations, lots of different night time words.
Sense of competence: Children feel they are competent. - Getting coats, hats, gloves, outside shoes on are great things to be able to do ourselves. We use some different tricks, but promote independence.
Jesus Time- This week we are hearing the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. The Israelites had entered into the Promised Land and God told them to take over. They were not an army and the cities in the Promised Land were well fortified. They came to the city Jericho which was surrounded by a wall so thick that people lived in it. After spies came back and told them how strong a city it was, God gave them marching orders. The people were to march around the city once a day for seven days, then on the seventh day they were to march around it seven times, then shout and blow the trumpets. When they did this, the walls of the city came crashing down. God gave them the victory and He gives us the victory too! Not over cities or people on earth, but over sin, death and the devil through the life and death of his Son, Jesus Christ!
A reminder that Wednesday is Pajama Day!!
Also, we have worked it out with the big school that they wait for us and we are able to join them for chapel each week. Each of your children has a chapel buddy that walks them to chapel and helps them follow along. Chapel lasts about 20 minutes, from 8:30-8:50. Once a quarter, we will also have a project we will do with our chapel buddies. This last week we made poppy magnets to give to Veterans to thank them for their service.
Next week is Thanksgiving! We have school on Monday and Wednesday, but not Friday!
Have a fantastic week!
Mrs. Schneck
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