Letter of the Day: Ww

I thought about what we could do today as our opening play time.
I realized that we had not yet played with "Thomas the Tank Engine" tracks and trains!
I love keeping all the tracks in a big Rubbermaid container
so that each play time the children can discover new ways of setting up their tracks.

It's so interesting to me how many times we've played with these tracks

and how few times we've repeated the assembly of them!

I was asked, as I always am, "Can you dump out all the tracks?"

Although to a mom it looks like a complete mess,

 to a child it's just easier to explore!

Let the experiments begin!

I asked them all to try and make one oval and one circle and see compare them.

An oval, they discovered, requires straight tracks and curved tracks,

 but a circle requires only curved tracks.

(So smart!)



Once they made one circle, the challenge was to make as many as they could.
Every time they made a new circle I had them count them!

When they had just about finished I showed them a track that could connect them all.
That was fun!

When we were done we left everything right where it was for later.

(I could not ask them to clean-up).

We had our Circle Time with a special helper today.

We are working harder and harder as Joy School is coming to an end.

Just a few more weeks and my little ones will have graduated!

In our Bible time and for the letter of the week, Ww, 

  we studied the story of Jesus' first miracle-'Water into Wine'.

We talked about how Mary, Jesus' mother, told the servants,

"Do whatever He tells you."

I shared with them how Jesus asked them to fill six jars

that could hold between 20-30 gallons of water each!

It took alot of energy to obey Jesus.

It took alot of self-control not to question Him.

But they obeyed and they were blessed to be a part of His first miracle.

We talked about how we need to learn to obey our mommy and daddy

quickly and obey with excellence

because one day God is going to ask us to do something for Him

and we need to be ready to obey quickly and do it with excellence.

Here, pinned the colored circle behind the pitcher and

it appears as if water is being poured into the cup.

 As they continue to spin the circle

the 'water' turns into 'wine!'

After a morning of hard work they always look forward to the prize box!