Has It REALLY Been Nine Weeks??

Time is zipping by. It's hard to believe we have been at this preschool thing for nine weeks already. I feel so unbelievbaly blessed to have a group of mommies and kiddos to "do school" with. It has made this journey SO fun. And I think the kids are really getting a lot out of it. The moms stay motivated, and each week the lessons are full of great learning opportunities for the kids. We are LUCKY!

So week 9 is a review week. I offered to plan this week's lessons so I could try out some of the cool ideas I've found on Pinterest!

We started by reviewing the story of Moses crossing the Red Sea. I read the story out of The Jesus Storybook Bible...this is my absolute FAVORITE kids Bible. The three year-olds were riveted. And the stories are longer than the usual kids Bibles I've seen...anyway, I digress. Check it out if you can.

Then I told the story again using the felt board.

 

We also sang our memory verse from last week (Philippians 4:19 to the tune of London Bridge). I think the kids are gonna need some more work on that one :)

 

After Bible time we sat in a circle to play "Pass the Letters". It works kind of like "Hot Potato". I put the capital and lowercase tactile letters we've worked on so far in a bag, and we passed the bag while singing the following song:

 

Pass the Letters

Tune: The Muffin Man

 

Oh, look who has the letter bag,

the letter bag, the letter bag.

Oh, look who has the letter bag,

Now please take a letter!

 

Whoever has the bag when the song stops takes out a letter and tells the group what letter it is, and whether it's capital or lowercase.

 

 

 

They did great once they started to get the concept of actually PASSING the bag! We did discover that lowercase "b's" and "d's" are very tricky :)

 

Next we played a little game using some dominoes. I pulled out all the dominoes in our set that contained numbers 0-5 (I didn't want to confuse them with too many dots). Each child got 4 dominoes in a bag. I asked them to look at their dominoes and listen as I called out a number. If they had a domino with the correct number of dots on it, they were to hold it up in the air. It worked pretty well...they difinitely had to concentrate!

 

 

 

 

I decided to throw in a little science today too. I made up some "experiment bags" for the kids. Each bag contained magnetic, and non-magnetic items. Then I gave each child a magnet and they had to decide which items would stick, and which ones would not. It was a hit!

 

 

 

 

 

We wrapped up the morning with a quick game of Colorama. We love this game! It's great for the 3-year old crowd because they don't get too frustrated. It's fast moving, and it was great for reviewing colors and shapes.

 

 

See you all Thursday!