Month: October 2010

We awoke this morning to a very foggy world outside and temperatures around 44 degrees! Brr!!

Isabel got in the car after school and couldn’t remember what went on during school. After a few questions, she spilled the beans…

They read about Noah in the Bible – he listened to God. There was a new color of molding clay, green. They sang 3 songs, but she could only remember 2 of them: “Itsy-Bitsy Spider” and “Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light” (sounds like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star).

“Twinkle twinkle traffic light. Shining at the corner bright. Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow in the middle means you better go slow. Twinkle twinkle traffic light. Shining at the corner bright.”

They read 2 books. One book was about little “c”, who was a girl. Who filled up a box with a cat and other things that started with the letter “c”. The other book was about an egg, 2 chickens (1 yellow and 1 spotted) and a fox. They  were eating, on the table was a big egg and a small egg. The yellow chicken asked the fox if the big egg was his. The fox said yes. The fox went to eat the egg and a baby chick popped out causing the chickens and fox to drop their silverware.

Rainbow colored and cotton ball-clouded “C”.

The special helper today was Makayla. She picked Isabel to be her helper doing activities in class and she kept talking w/Isabel (she was very happy that Makayla was talking to her). Makayla brought crackers/cheese and juice for snack. Isabel said she only ate the crackers though. Which is a surprise to me because she loves cheese! Makayla forgot her show and tell. Ms. Calvert said, “That happens sometimes.” Isabel says she will never, never, never, never forget her show and tell. Never.

Got to school this morning 15 min. early, and I ended up cleaning sticky-gummy toothpaste off my glasses. Don’t ask me how that got there!

Isabel says that they played in a new playground today. It just had grass and it was wet, so her socks got wet. They played the game “Little Bear, Little Bear”; her explanation of the game sounds a bit like tag. She talked with Makayla today and Makayla was in a good mood, she didn’t cry. They sat together and played outside too.

The “leaf” tree, is a combination of the A.M. and P.M. preschool classes, there should be 40 leaves total but it’s missing 6. Can you find Isabel’s leaf on the tree?

The special helper today was Nevan and he’s a boy. For snack he brought pretzels, shark-shaped fruit snacks, and juice. For show and tell, Neven brought a brown toy dog. It didn’t have a name.

“C” is for caterpillar. Caterpillar’s made from egg cartons and painted green.

We grabbed the wrong one!!!… note to self: Check the name!!!!
(BTW: when we arrived at school on Wednesday, Isabel’s caterpillar was there!
Now I need to return Isabella’s.)

Letters for the month of October are: C, D, E, F

Numbers: 1-10

Shapes: Circle, Square

Colors: Yellow and Orange

Concepts: Up/Down and Empty/Full

Bible verse: “Blessed is he who is kind.” Proverbs 14:21

Bible theme: Kindness

Bible concepts: There are many ways that I can show kindness to my family and friends.

This morning we were running late despite the fact that today was Isabel’s day to be the special helper for the class.

After arriving with only a few minutes to spare, Isabel was super excited about being the special helper. She had spent all week trying to pick her item for show and tell. At first she wanted to take a plastic dress-up earring and we talked her out of that. Telling her, that the item has to be exciting, different, and interesting to the other kids. She ended up deciding on a book and was eager to show it to the class.

The kids worked on fall pictures today, with leaves and pumpkins. When I asked about her day and being the special helper, she said she couldn’t remember just that the craft was last. She did talk with Makayla today; who actually talked back to Isabel! I was super excited for this because Makayla is still having a hard time adjusting to being away from mommy. So she’s making progress at getting Makayla feeling better about being in class.

During free play, they got to play doctors and dentists. Isabel said, that they checked each other out, however she didn’t mention anything about being a dentist. Isabel did say that she got a bike again on the playground and that was it. “I can’t remember what we did.” she says.

The special helper today was Isabel! She took mini blueberry muffins (which I later learned was a hit because they had been talking about blueberries that morning), fruit roll-ups, and juice for a snack. Isabel brought the book, “Aslan’s Triumph” adapted from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time for Mrs. “W” to read it to the class. Isabel did get to tell about the book and got to show the class her favorite page in the book.

Isabel after school today with her show and tell item.