January 17/08

The 2s class has snack and story time in one of the classrooms while the 3s eat and have their circle time in the main playroom.
Ummm..... Thunder Bay is really dry in the winter..... it makes our hair look really funky!
Busy artists...

Following the Star... January 17/08

After our teaching time where we reviewed how the wise men visited Jesus, we followed our own star around the playroom wearing our crowns! Our journey also ended in worship where we sang about how much we love Jesus too!

January 10, 2008 Winter & Snow

Following the Christmas story, the children learned about how the wisemen came to worship Jesus (Matthew 2: 1-12) and how we can show we love Jesus too!










Thursday was the first day of our Winter term. Our playroom theme for the month will be "Winter & Snow".










"Where'd my hat go?!"

November & December 2007 Update

November and December 2007 flew by as we learned that God Always Wins through the story of God freeing the Israelites and that there is Only One God through the story of Naaman's healing from leprosy. As we prepared to teach the children about Jesus' birth and celebrate His birthday, two of our little seedlings became big brothers (congratulations Asher & Jude!) and Abby became a big sister to a second little brother. Jordan Nathaniel Gomes and Myah Grace Newman joined their families a day apart. They will themselves be Little Seedlings in September 2009!

In November, we used Nursery Rhymes (Humpty Dumpty and Jack be Nimble) to teach the children Biblical truths that God is there to help us and that He wants us to let our "lights" shine for Him. Our December playroom theme was "Christmas and Giving" as we prepared to celebrate our Saviour's birth. The kids had Jesus' birthday party on December 13 and made Christmas cookies as a special treat (check out the pictures below!)

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Decorating Christmas stars with glitter paint

October 25 - November 1, 2007

Following our "Apples and Pumpkins" theme, the children played with "pumpkin guts", pumpkin seeds and then helped us carve the pumpkin.
















On October 25 and November 1, the children learned that "God is Good" through the story of Abraham and Sarah. In this craft, children coloured pictures of Abraham with baby Isaac and then gave him a cotton ball beard and hair.

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.

Our "Picnic"

We didn't have the best weather for our picnic. There wasn't just drizzle...we had thunder and lightning!! Because the weather that week had been soooo unpredictable, we planned for an indoor picnic at the church. The kids played with sidewalk chalk (on our paper "sidewalk"), bubbles, water table, tricycles, slide, tunnels and ball tents. We painted faces, ate hot dogs, cheezies & apples, and spent time singing praises to our God and Saviour. As we heard the thunder and rain, we sang about how BIG our God is. How perfect!

Playschool Fun Day in the Park

Playschool welcome song

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Busy Morning at Playschool

Worshipping

Each week, we spend time worshipping with the children. Although they are too young to understand what it means to truly worship God, we are teaching them to sing with their mouths and their hearts to the one true God. We sing songs that reflect the majesty and attributes of God so that one day when they are singing, they will be able to truly worship.