Go Texan Week Is Here!

We are so excited for our upcoming week!  This is such a special time as we celebrate all things Texas!  We have enjoyed this month of Valentines, Loving our friends and now, Rodeo.

This month we have enjoyed sensory play with hearts, red pasta, play-doh, and pink cornstarch goo.  Such fun!  We will continue to focus on our Bible Verse, "Love One Another." 1John 4:7, as we share s'mores around a pretend campfire.  

Sensory Table: 

Blue rice, red pasta, tin pie pans, horses, cows.

Water Table:

Hay, Rodeo animals.

Block Center:

Farm, animals, foam blocks.

Art: 

Bluebonnet art, using blue paint, white paint, popcorn, and pantyhose.

Home Living:

Bandanas, cowboy hats, pretend cowboy coffee pot for campfire, pretend campfire.

Our Rodeo Days will be, Feb. 25th, 26th, and Friday, the 28th.

We will have our pretend Rodeo on the side yard with Ms. Betty, our motor movement teacher. She has so many fun mock rodeo things planned for the children.  We look forward to seeing all of the fun western wear this week!

Parent Teacher Conferences This Week

 

We are all so excited to meet with each and every one of you to discuss your child's development and how special each and every child is to us.  We look forward to meeting with you this week.  

 

Conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, February 4, Wednesday, February 5, and Thursday, February 6.  School will be closed to normal classes on those days, as we want to devote time to each and every parent to discuss and praise your sweet little ones! 

 

 We ask that if you possibly can, not to bring your child with you.  If you can work out trading off with another mommy for a few minutes, that would be ideal; but if not, we will have an area set up for play for your children.  We want to make this day as easy on you as possible.

We will have classes on Monday, February 3rd and that will be our make-up pajama day, as we missed this event due to school closings.

 

We will have regular classes on Friday, February 7th and will introduce our new Bible Verse, "Love One Another", 1 John 4:7.  We will also work on our bulletin board, decorating it with hearts, doilies, stickers, and red paint.  This is the time of year where we focus on loving one another, so we will be working together to show ways of loving our friends.

Sensory Tables: Red and pink pasta, with hearts and glitter.

Water Table: Fishing nets, pink foam hearts to catch.

Blocks: Connecting people (for friends), hearts to stack.

Home Living: Cupcake tins for baking, sharing heart cookie shapes, mailbox, paper and stamps for delivering mail to friends.

Writing Center: Paper and stamps to give to friends.

Books: Mouse's Valentine, Guess How Much I Love You, I Am Special (song), Hickory, Dickory Dock Nursery Rhyme.

Art: Painting with red, making a special card for Mom and Dad.

 

We love this time of year as it focuses on the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and gives us a chance to show that love to your sweet little ones.  Thank you for all that you do and for allowing us the privilege of teaching your children.

Pajama Days are Here!!

This week we will enjoy our annual pajama days on your child's class day: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  We will be enjoying the fun of making pancakes and the best part; eating them!!!  Please send your child in his/her pajamas with tennis shoes or other closed-toe-shoes as we will still play on the playground.  Of course a change of clothes is always recommended as we still have accidents and get wet from the various sensory tables offered.

We will be reading If You Give a Pig a Pancake  and mixing red and white to make pink to paint a pig shape.  So fun!! We love this event and look forward to seeing all the fun pajamas this week!

Sensory Table: Pretend snow, flour, cornstarch, felt snowmen, snowmen figures, scoops and sifters.
Water Table: Ice cubes, mittens.
Home Living: Muffin tins, potholders, aprons, cookie shapes.
Blocks: Foam blocks, snowmen, cars and trucks.
Writing: Chalk, stickers, paper and crayons.
Circle: Snowy Day, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Five Little Snowmen Flannel Board.

As a reminder, if you have not signed up for a conference time, please stop by and jot down a time as we will be sending out reminders this week.  If you have not signed up, a time will be assigned to you.  Thank you again for all of your sweet little ones each week!!!
 

Bluebird Conferences are Coming

This week in the Bluebird class we will continue to explore snow, ice, and our nursery rhyme, The Three Little Kittens.

Sensory Table: Flour, cornstarch, sparkle snow, scoops and tins.
Water Table: Ice, food coloring, mittens.
Science/Math: Making snow.
Art: Snowflake hand prints
Blocks: Magnet boards, blocks, snowballs to stack
Circle: The Three Little Kittens, 5 Little Snowmen flannel board. Bible verse, "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26

We will have our first Motor Movement class of the New Year this week, along with resuming our regular Chapel Schedule.

As a reminder, please continue to label all items as we still have some lost items.  
 

We have come so far this school year and watching the Bluebirds grow and change has been such a privilege for us. 
We will have our mid-year conferences on February 4,5,6.  The sign up sheets are on the bulletin board outside of our door.  Please come in and sign up for a time on your child's class day.  If you have scheduling problems with sibling's times, etc., please stop by and we will try and resolve them. 

Due to conferences on these days, school will be closed.  
We look forward to meeting with each and every one of you!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow.......

We want to thank you all for your generous gifts to us during Christmas.  We hope you all had a wonderful holiday with family and friends.  This month we will be focusing on Winter, Snow and our nursery rhyme, The Three Little Kittens. 

Our centers this week:

Sensory Table: Flour, cornstarch, sparkle snow, scoops and tins.
Water Table: Ice, food coloring, mittens.
Science/Math: Melting ice.
Art: Painting with yellow to follow the star, using glue on a mitten shape to add sparkles.
Blocks: Magnet boards, blocks, snowballs to stack
Circle: The Three Little Kittens, 5 Little Snowmen flannel board, Bible verse.

Our Bible verse for the month is "With God, all things are possible." Matthew 19:26.

This week for snow days the schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, Jan. 14
10:15-Bluebirds

Wednesday, Jan. 15
9:15-Bluebirds

Thursday, Jan. 16
10:45-Bluebirds


Please remember to send in extra clothing as we get really wet and messy in the snow!  Also, if you would, label all items for easy return to you.  Parents, we invite you to come enjoy the snow!!!

As always, thank you for sharing your sweet ones with us each week!!!

Ho Ho Ho........

Christmas is approaching soon and we are all getting into the Christmas spirit. We are so thankful for this time of year with your little ones!!!  We love sharing the meaning of Christmas and all the festivities that go with it.  

This month we will focus on the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and loving our friends.  

Centers this month:
Blocks: Nativity figures, blocks, magnet balls and sticks.
Home living: Christmas cooking, decorations.
Sand Table: Cornmeal, muffin pans, cookie cutters, scoops, peppermint extract.
Water Table: Red and green shreds, nativity figures to discover.
Art: Special presents for Mom and Dad, Christmas stamp art.
Table: Peppermint play-doh with glitter and cookie cutters.

We so love each and every one of your special little ones and enjoy teaching them each week.  This time of year is so special as we are able to share the true meaning of Christmas and how special each and everyone is to Jesus.   Thank you for all you do and for sharing your precious children with us.

Gobble, Gobble!

The Bluebird class is steadily moving along and we are all amazed that we are already into November!! 
We all enjoyed the Fall Festival where many apples were eaten, beanbags tossed, and hay stacked. 

The sights and smells of Autumn are alive as we continue to learn all about the leaves changing colors and crunching underfoot, and we even painted them! In addition, we have shucked corn, painted with it, and opened pumpkins to discover what's inside. This is the time of year that we get excited to share meals, cook together, and focus on what we are most thankful for.

In continuing to learn and focus on these things, we will be washing vegetables in our sensory table and making a friendship mix and turkey hand prints.

Our Bible Verse this month is "Give Thanks to the Lord, for He is good." Psalm 136:1

This Month's Centers:
Sensory Table: Cornmeal, flour, sifters, muffin pans, scoops, measuring spoons.
Water Table: Water, bubbles, dishes to wash
Block Center: Small turkey figures, blocks, plastic washers and nuts to work our fine motor skills.
Home Living: Boxes of food to pretend cooking with, pots, pans, and aprons.
Circle: Learning Bible Verse, turkey song, matching turkey feathers game.  Fall and Thanksgiving books.

We will be sending out information about ELP's annual Big Picnic.  Look for it in your child's backpack.  It is a great time had by all!!

With the cooler weather, please remember to label your child's jacket. We have many that look similar and it is very easy to mix them up if they are not labelled.  Thank you for sharing your sweet little ones with us!