Letter of the Day:Qq

We started the day with "Snap Blocks."
They are metal toys with snaps on them
that you can build with.

Some of the parts do not have snaps.

They twist together to make wheel sets.

After a few short lessons

the children were well on their way to making much!



A gun is always in order!
He was shooting the dangerous, and fierce, attacking turtles!

And then me, of course!

We made a camera!

"Cheeeese!"

Trucks!

And Trains!

When we finished our morning play time
we went to have our Circle Time.
Today, when reviewing our shapes through the use
of our shape flash cards, one child didn't remember the difference
between a triangle and a rectangle.
So, I taught them a new song on shapes.

"What is a triangle? what is a triangle?
How can you tell? How can you tell?
It has three sides,
It has three sides,
It is a triangle.
It is a triangle."

What is a rectangle? What is a rectangle?
How can you tell? How can you tell?
It has two long sides,
 and two short sides,
It is a rectangle.
It is a rectangle.

After our Bible Time

we headed to the table for our Bible Craft time.

Today we painted in our Upper-case and Lower-case

Letter Qq.

They really enjoyed it!

We talked about what a Godly woman Queen Esther was.

She prayed and fasted to hear from the Lord.

Even in her fear she sought God's will for her life.

"Queen Esther was not quiet."

She was so brave when she 'opened' her mouth before the King!

We had about five minutes to spare

before the mommies came.

We ran outside and enjoyed a beautiful day =D



Letter of the Day:Pp

This week we began our morning play time

with the old fashion wooden blocks.

After they built different buildings and towers

I showed them our buckets of play animals.

They quickly went to work making homes for the animals

and creating stories!

After our time creating different adventures with the animals

we moved to our Circle Time.

We had our opening prayer time

in which all of the children continue to pray for their daddies.

We reviewed our calendar facts, numbers, colors, and shapes.

Today we were to focus our Bible time

on the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

I read the Bible story aloud to them, closed the Bible and began

asking them questions about the story.

It was amazing how each child understood

 the bravery and faith of the three men.

I then asked them if they knew any other

stories from the Bible where God protected His people.

Right away I heard, "JONAH!"

"God had the whale spit Jonah out!"

Then one student said,

"NOAH!"

"God protected Noah and His family from the flood."

One little boy said,

"DANIEL!"

"God shut the lions mouths! and angels were there!"

They remembered the story of David, Moses, and Elijah

that we studied here in Joy School.

It was so wonderful to hear their faith come alive.

We then talked about how God hears OUR prayers

and protects us too.

Our alphabet flip chart review time:
Pp.

We went to the table

to color in upper-case P

and lower-case p.

We stamped our letters and then began to

work on our Bible craft.

The fiery furnace!

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

walk into the fire as punishment for

not bowing down to the King's statue.

Jesus joins them in the fire!!!

He protects them and saves them from the fire!

It was a great faith-building day!

Letter of the Day:Oo

Good news!

I have a new camera!

This week I get to show you all that we did together =)

We started our morning

making a Valentine craft!

Each child got to put their hands in red paint

and place them in their paper heart.



After our morning craft time we moved into our Circle Time.

We said our pledges...

We are still working at learning allll the words!

Next, we headed to snack time.

Today was a very special snack time

because two students had finished their 100 books chart!!!

And in Joy School

that means party time!!!

They were so delighted with their special snowmen cupcakes!

Next, we read our Bible story.

We studied the story of Jonah.

First, we talked about how important it is to obey our parents.

For in obeying them we learn how to obey God.

They listed wonderful ways to obey our parents:

-clean up my room

-pick up the toys

-don't hit our sisters

and many more...

After Bible craft time and our Bible song time

we had a little time left for play time.

One of my students brought hot wheel cars for show and tell

and so I took out the cars we own and a race track

to allow all the kids a chance to play.

     It was so wonderful watching them all have fun with the cars.

It was a great way to end the day!

See you all next week =)      



Letter of the Day: Nn

What begins with Nn?

Nn is for Noah

nnnnnnnn-Noah!

Today we started our day

playing with KidKnex.

After this one picture

my camera completely died,

as in, died for good =(

It was fully charged, but had no life.

But we still made some wonderful creatures.

We made puppy dogs, flowers and sunshiny suns.

After that we started our circle time.

(What a blast I had!!).

We sang our different pledges, prayed and then

began working on our months of the year song.

We sang all the months-

"January, February, March, April..."

Then I hear my little boy say,

"I love Aunt April, Uncle Jesse and baby 'Biolet'!"

He heard the month April and thought of his Aunt April!

Sooooo wonderful.

Then when we were singing our numbers song

I cracked up again.

We sing:

"Rickety, Tickety,

clap with me,

How many fingers do you see?"

Then I hold up fingers between 1-5.

For the last time around I surprised them by holding up

all ten fingers.

I said, "How many fingers do you see?"

I held up all 10 fingers...

The response?

"LOTS!!!"

 The children had no idea why I was laughing.

In Bible time we studied the story of Noah and the ark.

We talked about how, "God shut the door."

"That's so cool Mrs. Ellen."

"Yes, God made sure that they were safe.

Our God keeps us safe too."

We talked about how God protected Noah and his family

and how God protects us.

We had a sweet time of giving thanks to God.

Next, we headed to the table for our craft time.

"Noah needed to build an Ark."

The children enjoyed placing all the animal stickers on and around the ark.

Outside of my camera breaking,

it was another precious day.