Blog for the First Week!

So glad to have so many friends together with us this year! We were off to a great, but warm start!!

This week we are talking about the letter Ss and the sun! It sure is making itself known these last few days!

Table activities are making a paper plate suncatcher, playing in sunshine yellow bins, cutting sun's rays with scissors and making little suns out of styrofoam balls and pipe cleaners.

Key Developmental Indicators for the week are-

Fine-motor skills: Children demonstrate dexterity and handeye coordination in using their small muscles. - Whether we're picking up just one piece of tissue paper, picking out gems or pearls in a sensory bin or ripping paper in strips to glue on to our suns, we are getting our fingers and hands ready for writing and cutting.

Experimenting: Children experiment to test their ideas. - On Friday, we'll see what melts in the sun, probably should have done that today!! Hopefully, it will still be warm enough to melt something! We'll talk about the scientific method- watching things, making guesses or hypothesis and testing our guesses!

Our small group work this week was making a ripped paper sun and on Friday we'll experiment with melting.


Jesus Time- This week we learn about the creation of the world. We talked about what God created on each day and how it was all good. We are so glad God gave us this wonderful world and we can take care of it! 

Books of the week- "The Sun" by Justin McCory Martin, "First He Made the Sun" by Harriet Ziefert, "Sun Song" by Jean Marzollo.

Next Wednesday, September 12th, there will be a parent meeting for the parents of the preschoolers. At this meeting, Pastor Kieta will be explaining about a program that could make enrollment in our day school something to think about. I will also be giving parents their individual codes for when we switch to our Ipod sign in and collecting any paperwork I am missing at this point. It will be held at 6:30pm at the church! Thank you in advance for your attendance.

Today I sent home a slip about our first field trip which takes place on Wednesday, August 19th at Plymouth Orchards- all are welcome to attend!! Make sure to pick one up on Friday if you didn't get one today!

Have a fantastic week!
Mrs. Schneck and Mrs. Oetzel

Some Pictures from Day One-