October 11, 2007

Last week was the first week of our new playroom theme, "Apples and Pumpkins". The youngest ones especially enjoyed playing in the orange jello in the sensory bin (although their faces reveal that they did more than just play in it!)

We also finished up the "Only God is Big" theme (see previous post). Here are some examples of our first finger painting craft at the playschool. In case you're not quite sure what these works of art represent, the children were painting the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil or an apple tree, whichever they preferred. I think the blue one is actually upside down in the picture...

We would have actually taken pictures of the kids as they painted, but it was "all hands on deck", especially with the younger ones who wanted to taste the paint as they worked on their creations!

September 20- October 4, 2007

Over the past few weeks, the children have been learning that "God Made Everything", through the story of Creation (Genesis 1 & Psalm 139: 13-16) and that "Only God is Big" though the story of Sin in the Garden (Genesis 3). Their memory verse for these weeks has been Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"

We've also been teaching that God made us all special and unique and knew us even before we were born.


Our crafts for the first two weeks focussed on these themes, through tracing and cutting out the children's handprints for our display and by having them colour things that God created with white crayons on white paper and then watching them appear when painted with black paint! Before Thanksgiving, we had children think of what they were thankful for and then helped them print these on the colourful paper tail feathers of their turkeys :)

Our playroom theme has been "Fall" so the sensory bin has been filled with soil & little plastic critters (which God created!) and fallen leaves.