Happy Easter! Jesus is risen! We are celebrating Easter this week at Peace Lutheran Preschool.
Table activities are an Easter sensory box filled with grass and baskets and other Easter goodies, Easter egg play, stack them, fill them, match them. We will have some scissors cutting practice to cut eggs and create an egg collage.
Our KDIs this week include-
Diversity: Children understand that people have diverse
characteristics, interests, and abilities.- We all celebrate Easter, but maybe not with the same traditions. What does your family do to make Easter special? What do other families do?
Fine-motor skills: Children demonstrate dexterity and handeye
coordination in using their small muscles.- From snapping together eggs to cutting with scissors, painting with Q-tips and stringing beads on pipe cleaners, we are using our fingers this week.
Jesus Time- He is risen! He is risen, indeed! We learn about Jesus' resurrection from the dead this week. Jesus was placed into a tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathea. The women who had followed Jesus to the cross made plans to further prepare his body for burial on Sunday morning, after the Sabbath. Jesus' enemies were still concerned that his disciples would try to steal the body and claim that he rose, so they pestered Pilate to place guards in front of the tomb and seal the stone. During the night, the ground shook, angels appeared and the stone rolled away. The guards fainted only to gain consciousness later to see the tomb empty. When the women came, they worried about how they were going to roll away the stone, only to see angels who gave them the message that Jesus had risen and to go tell the disciples.
The disciples doubted the women's words, but Peter and John rushed to see what had happened. They saw the empty tomb.
Later, Mary Magdalene returned. She was weeping, trying to find her Lord's body, when he appeared to her and told her he was alive, just as he said!
We sang the song "Alive, alive, alive forevermore! My Jesus is alive, Alive forevermore! Alive, alive, alive forevermore, My Jesus is alive!!
Books of the Week- "Sad News, Glad News" by Lois Rock and Louise Rawlings, "The Easter Story" retold by Allia Zobel-Nolan, and "What is Easter?" by Lillie James.
See you at Domino Farms Thursday! Dressed for the weather! God bless your week!
Mrs. Schneck
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Reminders and address
Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, April 17th due to Easter. We will have school on Wednesday, April 19th.
Also the address for Domino Farms for your GPS is 3001 Earhart Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
See you tomorrow!
Also the address for Domino Farms for your GPS is 3001 Earhart Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
See you tomorrow!
Monday, April 10, 2017
Blog for April 10, 12 and 14
God bless your Holy Week!
This week we are talking about what it means to be a friend. We are friends with everyone in preschool, so our letter is Ee for everyone. Jesus also died for everyone. We are talking about that too.
Table activities this week are things we can do with friends, using pattern blocks, chains, decorating "friends", art together, making puzzles with a little help from our friends.
KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Building relationships: Children build relationships with other children and adults.- We are talking about what it means to be a friend to others.
Cooperative play: Children engage in cooperative play. - We have specific activities to work together on today.
Empathy: Children demonstrate empathy toward others.- We made bags today that others can drop notes into during the week. We want to encourage each other, not tear one another down.
Jesus Time- This week's story is a difficult one- Jesus is before Pilate and is crucified. After Palm Sunday and his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Jesus spends the week teaching and preaching in Jerusalem, in the temple courts, all over! Jerusalem is packed full of people ready to celebrate the Passover, their annual remembrance of God leading the enslaved Israelites out of Egypt long ago. On Thursday evening, Jesus and his disciples are celebrating their Passover meal. Judas leaves to report to Jesus' enemies where he is and betrays him in the Garden of Gethsemane later that evening with a kiss. Jesus is arrested and taken to the Jewish leaders, but they do not have the power to condemn him to death. He is taken to the Roman ruler, Pontius Pilate, and Pilate is told that he claimed to be a king. Treason against the Roman Caesar! Pilate is stuck, he knows Jesus is innocent, but if word gets back to Rome that he let a man who claimed king go, he would be in trouble. He has Jesus whipped and beaten to try to evoke sympathy from the gathered crowd. Instead he is confronted with demands of "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate washes his hands to demonstrate that he is not taking responsibility for Jesus death and hands him over to be crucified.
Jesus is so weak, he can't carry the part of his cross that they give him. He is nailed to the cross, but says, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing."
The only disciple who remains with him to the crucifixion is John. He gives his mother, Mary, into John's care. He asks for a drink. He tells the thief on the cross next to him that he will see him in heaven after that thief comes to faith. He cries out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" during the time of darkness from 12noon until 3pm. He proclaims "It is finished" when he has suffered for our sins and then says "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Then he dies. All for us! We talked about Jesus being buried in a cave by Joseph and Nicodemus. But the kids would not let Jesus stay there, they wanted to know the rest! He is risen!! We will talk more about the next part of the story next week!
It is a hard story to hear and understand. God bless your Holy Week!
Books of the Week- "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon, "How to Grow a Friend" by Sara Gillingham and "Friends to the Rescue" by Suzanne Chiew.
The attendance slip for Domino Farms will come home later this week! We are set to go there on the 20th of April!
Have a blessed Easter!
Mrs. Schneck
This week we are talking about what it means to be a friend. We are friends with everyone in preschool, so our letter is Ee for everyone. Jesus also died for everyone. We are talking about that too.
Table activities this week are things we can do with friends, using pattern blocks, chains, decorating "friends", art together, making puzzles with a little help from our friends.
KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Building relationships: Children build relationships with other children and adults.- We are talking about what it means to be a friend to others.
Cooperative play: Children engage in cooperative play. - We have specific activities to work together on today.
Empathy: Children demonstrate empathy toward others.- We made bags today that others can drop notes into during the week. We want to encourage each other, not tear one another down.
Jesus Time- This week's story is a difficult one- Jesus is before Pilate and is crucified. After Palm Sunday and his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Jesus spends the week teaching and preaching in Jerusalem, in the temple courts, all over! Jerusalem is packed full of people ready to celebrate the Passover, their annual remembrance of God leading the enslaved Israelites out of Egypt long ago. On Thursday evening, Jesus and his disciples are celebrating their Passover meal. Judas leaves to report to Jesus' enemies where he is and betrays him in the Garden of Gethsemane later that evening with a kiss. Jesus is arrested and taken to the Jewish leaders, but they do not have the power to condemn him to death. He is taken to the Roman ruler, Pontius Pilate, and Pilate is told that he claimed to be a king. Treason against the Roman Caesar! Pilate is stuck, he knows Jesus is innocent, but if word gets back to Rome that he let a man who claimed king go, he would be in trouble. He has Jesus whipped and beaten to try to evoke sympathy from the gathered crowd. Instead he is confronted with demands of "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate washes his hands to demonstrate that he is not taking responsibility for Jesus death and hands him over to be crucified.
Jesus is so weak, he can't carry the part of his cross that they give him. He is nailed to the cross, but says, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing."
The only disciple who remains with him to the crucifixion is John. He gives his mother, Mary, into John's care. He asks for a drink. He tells the thief on the cross next to him that he will see him in heaven after that thief comes to faith. He cries out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" during the time of darkness from 12noon until 3pm. He proclaims "It is finished" when he has suffered for our sins and then says "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Then he dies. All for us! We talked about Jesus being buried in a cave by Joseph and Nicodemus. But the kids would not let Jesus stay there, they wanted to know the rest! He is risen!! We will talk more about the next part of the story next week!
It is a hard story to hear and understand. God bless your Holy Week!
Books of the Week- "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon, "How to Grow a Friend" by Sara Gillingham and "Friends to the Rescue" by Suzanne Chiew.
The attendance slip for Domino Farms will come home later this week! We are set to go there on the 20th of April!
Have a blessed Easter!
Mrs. Schneck
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Blog for April 3, 5 and 7
Welcome back!! We are hoping for a little spring to come hopping our way and we are talking about and learning about and playing with frogs and toads this week!
Table activities in the morning are a frog pond with plastic frogs to find, frog poppers to get those little fingers strong, frog prints, sticky frogs catching flies, lily pad counting and picking up flies with tweezers.
Our letter is Rr for Ribbit.
Some of the KDIs we are looking at this week are-
Use of resources: Children gather information and formulate ideas about their world.- We use what we already know to build on what we don't know. We shared what we knew about frogs and taught each other things we didn't know.
Alphabetic knowledge: Children identify letter names and their sounds. - We are really working on this as we get closer to kindergarten. Most already have a great start and knowledge!
Predicting: Children predict what they expect will happen- We have a live frog in our classroom, what will it do? We make predictions as we read books about frogs.
Jesus Time- We are listening to the story of Palm Sunday this week. This Sunday, April 9th, is Palm Sunday. We celebrate Jesus entering into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey which signifies peace. He came to bring peace between God and man by his sacrificial death on the cross. We talked about how the people shouting "Hosanna" were the same ones shouting "Crucify Him!" on Friday. Thanks be to Jesus that he continued on his journey to the cross for us.
We also talked about donkeys having a cross on their backs to remind us of Jesus being carried by a donkey.
Books of the Week- "Hop Jump" by Ellen Walsh, "The Big Wide Mouth Frog" by Ana Martin Larranaga, and "Ten Tiny Tadpoles" by Debbie Tarbett.
Have a great week! I'll see many of you for parent teacher conferences! If you haven't signed up- here's the link-http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45afa72fa3fe3-parent
Mrs. Schneck
Table activities in the morning are a frog pond with plastic frogs to find, frog poppers to get those little fingers strong, frog prints, sticky frogs catching flies, lily pad counting and picking up flies with tweezers.
Our letter is Rr for Ribbit.
Some of the KDIs we are looking at this week are-
Use of resources: Children gather information and formulate ideas about their world.- We use what we already know to build on what we don't know. We shared what we knew about frogs and taught each other things we didn't know.
Alphabetic knowledge: Children identify letter names and their sounds. - We are really working on this as we get closer to kindergarten. Most already have a great start and knowledge!
Predicting: Children predict what they expect will happen- We have a live frog in our classroom, what will it do? We make predictions as we read books about frogs.
Jesus Time- We are listening to the story of Palm Sunday this week. This Sunday, April 9th, is Palm Sunday. We celebrate Jesus entering into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey which signifies peace. He came to bring peace between God and man by his sacrificial death on the cross. We talked about how the people shouting "Hosanna" were the same ones shouting "Crucify Him!" on Friday. Thanks be to Jesus that he continued on his journey to the cross for us.
We also talked about donkeys having a cross on their backs to remind us of Jesus being carried by a donkey.
Books of the Week- "Hop Jump" by Ellen Walsh, "The Big Wide Mouth Frog" by Ana Martin Larranaga, and "Ten Tiny Tadpoles" by Debbie Tarbett.
Have a great week! I'll see many of you for parent teacher conferences! If you haven't signed up- here's the link-http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45afa72fa3fe3-parent
Mrs. Schneck
Monday, March 20, 2017
Blog for March 20, 22, 24
Trees are budding and starting to leaf out! Spring is in the air. This week we are talking about forests, trees and leaves.
Table activities this week center around wood, this morning we made sculptures with twigs, leaves and playdoh and we did leaf rubbings. We will look at cut wooden discs, bark and other tree activities.
Some KDIs we are looking at this week are-
Movement: Children express and represent what they observe, think, imagine, and feel through movement- We can pretend to be different things while moving to music.
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world.- We are looking inside trees and a different kinds of forests throughout the world.
Ecology: Children understand the importance of taking care of their environment.- Trees provide paper and all sorts of different things that we can be careful not to waste.
Jesus Time- Our story this week has a tree as a main character. A tax collector named Zaccheus was anxious to see Jesus. He had heard that Jesus was friends even with tax collectors who everyone usually hated. Zaccheus had one small problem, he was small, short, and there was no way he could see Jesus over the crowds. So, Zaccheus climbed a tree! As Jesus passed by, he looked up in that tree, called to Zaccheus and invited himself to his house. Jesus went to Zaccheus' house for the evening meal and Zaccheus turned his life around. He stopped stealing from his fellow Israelites and paid back double what he had stolen. We should be just as desperate to see and hear from Jesus. He loves us and wants to be with us!!
Books of the Week- "The Umbrella" by Jan Brett, "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen.
Remember to attend Kindergarten Round Up tomorrow, Tuesday, March 21st, 5:30-6:30! Find out more about our program! Your children spent time in the kindergarten room, this is your opportunity to check it out!!
Next week, NO SCHOOL, it is Spring Break!! We will see you in April! Show and Tell schedules will go home on Wednesday!
Have a great week!!
Mrs. Schneck
Table activities this week center around wood, this morning we made sculptures with twigs, leaves and playdoh and we did leaf rubbings. We will look at cut wooden discs, bark and other tree activities.
Some KDIs we are looking at this week are-
Movement: Children express and represent what they observe, think, imagine, and feel through movement- We can pretend to be different things while moving to music.
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world.- We are looking inside trees and a different kinds of forests throughout the world.
Ecology: Children understand the importance of taking care of their environment.- Trees provide paper and all sorts of different things that we can be careful not to waste.
Jesus Time- Our story this week has a tree as a main character. A tax collector named Zaccheus was anxious to see Jesus. He had heard that Jesus was friends even with tax collectors who everyone usually hated. Zaccheus had one small problem, he was small, short, and there was no way he could see Jesus over the crowds. So, Zaccheus climbed a tree! As Jesus passed by, he looked up in that tree, called to Zaccheus and invited himself to his house. Jesus went to Zaccheus' house for the evening meal and Zaccheus turned his life around. He stopped stealing from his fellow Israelites and paid back double what he had stolen. We should be just as desperate to see and hear from Jesus. He loves us and wants to be with us!!
Books of the Week- "The Umbrella" by Jan Brett, "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen.
Remember to attend Kindergarten Round Up tomorrow, Tuesday, March 21st, 5:30-6:30! Find out more about our program! Your children spent time in the kindergarten room, this is your opportunity to check it out!!
Next week, NO SCHOOL, it is Spring Break!! We will see you in April! Show and Tell schedules will go home on Wednesday!
Have a great week!!
Mrs. Schneck
Monday, March 13, 2017
Blog for March 13, 15 and 17
Wow! What weather! Our theme for this week is "spring" ! Man or teacher plans, and God laughs!! The week I planned snow, it was 70 degrees, this week, I planned spring, we get 4 inches of snow!
Table activities this week are dirt and seeds, pinwheel making, kites and flower petal counting.
Some of the KDIs week are-
Classifying: Children classify materials, actions, people, and events. - We are looking at different seeds and plants.
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world. - What does wind do? We will get to learn more about nature and the natural world at the Leslie Science and Nature center.
Jesus Time - This week we see Jesus take time to bless some little children. Traditionally, children weren't part of worship until they were 13. The disciples thought they were doing Jesus a favor by keeping the children away from him, but He told them not to do it! The kingdom of heaven is made up of those with child-like faith and trust. Those children believed that Jesus was their Savior, they didn't doubt it or question it, they believed that He had to do it all, they couldn't do it for themselves. He blessed each child and loved them too!
Books of the Week- "Flora's Very Windy Day" by Jeanne Birdsall, "Rain!" by Linda Ashman, "Worm Weather" by Jean Taft and other rainy, windy weather books.
Wednesday is our field trip to Leslie Science and Nature Center located at 1831 Traver Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.
We will meet there at 10:00 am and we will be outside, no matter the weather!
If you are not coming to the field trip, there is no school on Wednesday and I will see you Friday!!
Also, I don't know if preschool parents are aware, but I have been teaching 7th and 8th grade in the afternoons due to the teacher in that classroom suddenly resigning. Due to this, I will be doing parent-teacher conferences for the 7th and 8th grades. I will not be able to do 46 conferences in two afternoons! So, I would like to postpone preschool conferences to the week of April 3-7. I will send out a Sign Up Genius by the end of the week for you to schedule them.
Thanks for your understanding!
Mrs. Schneck
Table activities this week are dirt and seeds, pinwheel making, kites and flower petal counting.
Some of the KDIs week are-
Classifying: Children classify materials, actions, people, and events. - We are looking at different seeds and plants.
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world. - What does wind do? We will get to learn more about nature and the natural world at the Leslie Science and Nature center.
Jesus Time - This week we see Jesus take time to bless some little children. Traditionally, children weren't part of worship until they were 13. The disciples thought they were doing Jesus a favor by keeping the children away from him, but He told them not to do it! The kingdom of heaven is made up of those with child-like faith and trust. Those children believed that Jesus was their Savior, they didn't doubt it or question it, they believed that He had to do it all, they couldn't do it for themselves. He blessed each child and loved them too!
Books of the Week- "Flora's Very Windy Day" by Jeanne Birdsall, "Rain!" by Linda Ashman, "Worm Weather" by Jean Taft and other rainy, windy weather books.
Wednesday is our field trip to Leslie Science and Nature Center located at 1831 Traver Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.
We will meet there at 10:00 am and we will be outside, no matter the weather!
If you are not coming to the field trip, there is no school on Wednesday and I will see you Friday!!
Also, I don't know if preschool parents are aware, but I have been teaching 7th and 8th grade in the afternoons due to the teacher in that classroom suddenly resigning. Due to this, I will be doing parent-teacher conferences for the 7th and 8th grades. I will not be able to do 46 conferences in two afternoons! So, I would like to postpone preschool conferences to the week of April 3-7. I will send out a Sign Up Genius by the end of the week for you to schedule them.
Thanks for your understanding!
Mrs. Schneck
Monday, March 6, 2017
Blog for March 6, 8 and 10
Mush! Gee! Haw! Let's Go!
This week we are learning about Alaska! Today the mushers left Fairbanks to begin the 1000+ mile trek to Nome in the Iditarod! I am excited to share my love of Alaska and those dog teams with the preschoolers!
Table activities- Today we played with arctic animals in "snow", we made igloos, we will play in other Arctic sensory bins, color some Alaskan coloring pages and design some sled dogs.
Some KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world.- We looked at and made some Northern Lights. We heard about Denali and Alaskan animals.
Geography: Children recognize and interpret features and locations in their environment.- We looked at mountains, talked about glaciers and lakes, rivers and meadows.
History: Children understand past, present, and future- We talked about and will learn more about how the dog sled became so important. How things are moved long distances today.
Jesus Time- This week we hear the story of the 10 Lepers. In Jesus' day, leprosy was a horrible disease. You were disfigured and ill, you had to leave your family and friends because leprosy was also contagious. You lost all that was near and dear to you. Imagine these 10 men, brought together because of this horrible disease and they hear rumors of someone who could cure it. This Jesus has healed the sick, raised people from the dead, fed thousands of people, blind see, deaf hear! We need to see him! They call to Jesus to help them. Jesus has compassion on them and tells them to go show themselves to the priest. The priest was the only one who could confirm that they were healed and able to go home. They ran, they knew they were being healed. They could go home! See their families! All ran to see the priest, all but one. One stopped, turned around and ran! Ran to Jesus! He threw himself at Jesus'feet and fell down in enormous gratitude for what had been given to him! Jesus helped him up and said, "Didn't I heal ten? Where are the other 9?" Wow!! How often do we forget to say thank you to our Lord? The sun rose today, I wake up in a warm house with clothes for my back, food for my belly and a car to spare my feet the walk! Thank you, Jesus!!
Books of the Week- "Granite" by Susan Butcher and David Monson, "Up on Denali" by Shelley Gill and Shannon Cartwright, "Alaska's 12 Days of Summer" also by Shelley Gill and Shannon Cartwright. We may read some other Alaska books this week too!
Next week Wednesday we have a field trip to the Leslie Nature Center in Ann Arbor. The cost is $5 each. An information and attendance slip will be coming home on Wednesday.
So let's go on our Alaskan journey for the week! If you are interested in sharing the Iditarod with your kids there are great websites to see the start on! My favorite musher is Dallas Seavey! My daughter took this picture four years ago, when he was just getting started. He's won four so far! The other pic is of the dogs, they love to run!!
This week we are learning about Alaska! Today the mushers left Fairbanks to begin the 1000+ mile trek to Nome in the Iditarod! I am excited to share my love of Alaska and those dog teams with the preschoolers!
Table activities- Today we played with arctic animals in "snow", we made igloos, we will play in other Arctic sensory bins, color some Alaskan coloring pages and design some sled dogs.
Some KDIs we are concentrating on this week are-
Natural and physical world: Children gather knowledge about the natural and physical world.- We looked at and made some Northern Lights. We heard about Denali and Alaskan animals.
Geography: Children recognize and interpret features and locations in their environment.- We looked at mountains, talked about glaciers and lakes, rivers and meadows.
History: Children understand past, present, and future- We talked about and will learn more about how the dog sled became so important. How things are moved long distances today.
Jesus Time- This week we hear the story of the 10 Lepers. In Jesus' day, leprosy was a horrible disease. You were disfigured and ill, you had to leave your family and friends because leprosy was also contagious. You lost all that was near and dear to you. Imagine these 10 men, brought together because of this horrible disease and they hear rumors of someone who could cure it. This Jesus has healed the sick, raised people from the dead, fed thousands of people, blind see, deaf hear! We need to see him! They call to Jesus to help them. Jesus has compassion on them and tells them to go show themselves to the priest. The priest was the only one who could confirm that they were healed and able to go home. They ran, they knew they were being healed. They could go home! See their families! All ran to see the priest, all but one. One stopped, turned around and ran! Ran to Jesus! He threw himself at Jesus'feet and fell down in enormous gratitude for what had been given to him! Jesus helped him up and said, "Didn't I heal ten? Where are the other 9?" Wow!! How often do we forget to say thank you to our Lord? The sun rose today, I wake up in a warm house with clothes for my back, food for my belly and a car to spare my feet the walk! Thank you, Jesus!!
Books of the Week- "Granite" by Susan Butcher and David Monson, "Up on Denali" by Shelley Gill and Shannon Cartwright, "Alaska's 12 Days of Summer" also by Shelley Gill and Shannon Cartwright. We may read some other Alaska books this week too!
Next week Wednesday we have a field trip to the Leslie Nature Center in Ann Arbor. The cost is $5 each. An information and attendance slip will be coming home on Wednesday.
So let's go on our Alaskan journey for the week! If you are interested in sharing the Iditarod with your kids there are great websites to see the start on! My favorite musher is Dallas Seavey! My daughter took this picture four years ago, when he was just getting started. He's won four so far! The other pic is of the dogs, they love to run!!
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