Letter of the Day: Vv

We are back from our Easter break

and I couldn't wait to start the day

by reading to them!

We read

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle.

We talked about the four different stages of a caterpillars life and ...

marveled at how beautiful the butterfly is!

So, what better plan could we have than to make a beautiful

butterfly of our own?!

I taught them about "marble" painting.

They were all very curious.

"But Ms. Ellen, How are we going to paint with marbles?

Don't we need paintbrushes?"

(They are TOOO CUTE!)



Each child received a box, a butterfly print, paint and five marbles.

Then they got to paining!

They were so quiet as they concentrated on getting the marbles just

where they wanted them to go.

They did great!

When they were finished,

we put our painted butterflies outside to dry.

While we waited, we had our circle time, snack, and moved into our Bible time.

Today we focused on the story of Samuel.

They thought it was funny that every time Samuel heard his name being called that

he ran to Eli. They laughed when Eli said, "No, I didn't call you. Go back to bed."

Three times this happened, but then...

                                                 Samuel waited in his bed for God's voice.

He sat up in bed and said,

Speak Lord, for your servant is listening."

I asked them, "Does God talk to us today?"

They said, "Yes."

I asked, "Can we hear God's voice too?"

They said, "Yes."

I than said isn't it exciting to know that God hears our prayers

and He wants to talk to us?

"YES!"

After we finished our Bible time and Bible craft we found that our

butterflies were dry.

They came out just as beautiful as I had hoped!



Today they went home with homework-

butterfly homework of course!

When all our work and worship time was done,

we went outside to play while we waited for the mommies to come =)

Thank you Lord for the blessing of these children in my life!

I love them all so very much.

Letter of the Day: Uu

Pattern Blocks Day!

I love watching children play, examine, and create with Patter Blocks.

I started the morning by showing them these little shaped blocks.

 First, we discussed the different shapes:

We looked at all the different shapes:

square, triangle, two different diamond or rhombus shapes,

trapezoid and a hexagon.

We talked about how two triangles

can make up a rhombus shape.

How it took three triangles to make one trapezoid.

And how it took two triangles and two rhombus

to create the hexagon shape.

Then I gave the children their choice

of an animal or object

pattern template.



We worked on flowers,

cars,

kites,

crabs,

penguins,

and worked together to create a turkey!

After a morning of fun and work we settled down to hear our Bible story.

We read the story of the Prodigal son.

We talked about how the daddy had Unfailing love for his son,

and that's just how our 'Daddy' or Father in heaven has unfailing love for us.

We went back to our seats and began painting in our

big U and little u.

Then we found the stamp of the letter U

and the color stamp pad they wanted, (purple)

and stamped the letter U on our worksheet.

Next, we colored in and prepared our craft.

Afterwards we had our Bible songs time.

As we marched and sang the song, "I have decided to follow Jesus,"

one student said, "Wait. Why do we say, 'no turning back?"

We kept singing and we said it again, "...no turning back, no turning back."

He stopped all of us from singing and asked again,

"Why no turning back?"

So, I explained that we will keep our eyes on Jesus and follow Him,

and not follow anyone else.

"Oooooh, Ohhh-K. I get it."

"Can we sing it again now?"

LOVE these children!!

Thank you Jesus for this incredible opportunity!