Railroad week!

This week we are working on the railroad and listening and looking for the sound of Rr.


Our table activities are playing with Lego and wooden train sets, creating a train from cut paper, train station dramatic play, drawing trains, coloring railroad pictures and using trains to draw with.

Our small group activities are a name train, cutting a train out of card stock and putting it together, and adding Rr is for railroad to our journal.



Our KDIs of the week are-

Book knowledge: Children demonstrate knowledge about books- We are reading three non-fiction books and one fictional book this week. Talking about how books are written for different purposes is part of our week.

Fine-motor skills: Children demonstrate dexterity and handeye coordination in using their small muscles.-Cutting with scissors, coloring and drawing are part of many activities this week.

History: Children understand past, present, and future. - Steam trains, diesel motors, how trains used to be and are now. What might trains be in the future?


Jesus Time- This week we see Jesus call his first disciples after he gives them a huge catch of fish. Jesus is preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and when the crowds are pressing in on him, he asks some of the fishermen cleaning their nets if they could take him out to speak to the crowds in their boat. They do so. When he is finished speaking, he tells them to let their nets down. They reply that they hadn't caught a thing all night, and now is not the time to fish. He insists. When they let their nets down, they catch so many fish, their boat begins to sink. They call for help from their fellow fishermen, and they have two boats filled with fish. When they return to shore and and get the fish out of their boats, Jesus asks them if they'd like to be fishers of men instead of fish. They agree, so Peter, Andrew, James and John, fishermen of Capernaum, become Jesus disciples.


Books of the week- "Railroad Hank" by Lisa Moser, illustrated by Benji Davies, "Freight Train" by Donald Crews, "Trains" by Gail Gibbons, and "The Train Book" by John Johnson.

Have a fantastic, surprising weather week! Be ready for it all, I guess!!

Mrs. Schneck