Blog for November 6,8,10

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo! How about you, you, you? You can come too, too, too, we're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo!

This week is zoo week and the letter Zz.

Our table activities are printing with animal shaped cookie cutters, building cages for zoo animals out of blocks, an ISpy animal page, making animals with animal print paper and playing with animals in their different habitats.

Our small group activities this week have us doing alot of finger work. Monday we used scissors to cut out a picture of an animal and cut strips from gray paper to glue on as bars to their cage. On Friday we will choose a zebra, tiger or lion and rip paper to glue on as stripes or a mane.

Books of the week- "1,2,3 to the Zoo" by Eric Carle, "Goodnight, Gorilla" by Peggy Rathman, and "Put Me in the Zoo" by Robert Lopshire.

Hopefully you can join us on Wednesday at the zoo at 10am. We will meet near the ramp next to the water tower parking lot, just as you come in to the main gates- not the members parking lot. I will have a sign. We will all go in together, members at the rear so they can scan your cards separately, once we are in the gates, I will be giving your child an animal check off list and we can go our separate ways.

The KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-

Vocabulary: Children understand and use a variety of words and phrases- We are introducing different words, like habitat into our vocabulary. Last week we used arachnid. Keep using words and phrases that your children don't often hear, it's how they get to know them.

Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world.- We are learning a lot about our world at the zoo!

Counting: Children count things.- We are counting animals this week!


Jesus Time- This week we have one last story with Moses before we skip ahead. The Israelites are safely out of Egypt. God provides water from a rock and food in the form of manna and quail as they are traveling through the desert. Because God wants them to be a people set apart, he meets with Moses on Mt. Sinai and gives him many rules for His people to live by. One section of that still helps us today and that is the Ten Commandments.

We talked about how we are not able to keep the Ten Commandments perfectly, but Jesus did and he shares that obedience with us. We also talked about how the commandments show us how we can show love to God and to others. We talked about the two tables of the law- You should have no other Gods, Use God's name to pray, praise and give thanks, and worship God! Those are all showing us how to better show love to God. Honor and obey your parents and others in authority, do not murder or hurt anyone, do not steal, honor marriage, do not tell lies about people, do not want something someone else has so badly that you plan a way to get it or complain constantly how it's not fair they have it and you don't.

We can't do any of these things all the time, we sin all the time. But thank God that He sent Jesus who did and suffered our punishment in our place!

I would like to share a great graphic that I saw about the importance of reading at home- We do read at school, but what a way to help your little ones get a great start! And books are FREE!! All you need is a library card!

Have a terrific week!

Mrs. Schneck