After growing up in the state of Maine, I attended Cedarville University and graduated with a degree in Bible Comprehensive and Elementary Education. God has provided opportunities to serve Him in various cities and capacities; including Pushkin, Russia as a public school Bible teacher and recently as the director of a preschool and child care ministry in Fishers, Indiana. My husband, Drew, is an assistant football coach here at TCS and all four of our children attend TCS!! Eli (16) and Abby (15) are freshmen and Doug (13) and Sam (13) are in 7th grade. We have two golden retrievers, Zeke (10) and Essie (9). God is good-all the time and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve Him in the pre-kindergarten department at TCS. I'm looking forward to all God has in mind!
John 15:5 " I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."
Message
May 16, 2012
Today the children decided the Question of the Day would be: What is your favorite Bible story?
Student Responses: (See the Bible) They pretty much like them all!
May 15, 2012
Question of the Day: What is your favorite thing to do at centers? Student Responses: "Paint, build, make art, and play in the sand!"
May 14, 2012
Question of the Day: How did you celebrate Mother's Day?
"I went to the Dollar Store and picked out candles and a mirror and bought them for my mom!"
"We went to grandma's house."
"I got her two cards and some purple flowers!"
"My dad and me...we went to the store and got a card and some candy for my mom!"
May 11, 2012
We enjoyed having Muffins with Mom this morning!
Question of the Day: What is your favorite thing that you and your mom do together? Student Responses:
"We bake things together" "Snuggle" "Go to the beach" "Hug" "Play" "Paint" "Play dolls" "Play Uno" "Sit together" "Sleep in her room" "Going to speech school" "Cook things"
May 9, 2012
Question of the Day: Which barn animal is the loudest?
Student Response: The students determined it would depend on the time of day. The rooster is the loudest early in the morning so everyone will wake up! Everyone else is quiet because they are sleeping!
We worked on Mother's Day surprises!
May 8, 2012
Question of the Day? How many more days until we will have muffins with Moms? Student Response after counting on the calendar: Just three days are left!
Literary Selection: Inside the Barn in the Country by Alyssa Capucilli
Art: Sponge painting animals inside a barn Writing: Do-a-dot letters- J and X Sensory table: sifting sand Library: Retelling the story, Inside a Barn in the Country, using felt figures
May 4, 2012
We had lots of fun eating donuts with our dads and fishing and finger painting with colored shaving cream!
May 3, 2012
Question of the Day: Why does your dad rock?
Student Responses: "My dad rocks with music and a guitar!" "My dad rocks because he works on cars and he can fix anything!" "My dad rocks my baby and me!" "My dad rocks because he plays with me!" "My dad rocks because he has a really cool car!" "My dad rocks because he is handsome!" "My dad rocks because he plays baseball with me!" "My dad rocks because I love him!" "My dad rocks because he can play a guitar!"
May 2, 2012
Question of the Day: What did you find out about balls? Student Responses: -Balls that are hollow have air in them. -Bowling balls don't have air; they are solid....and so are marbles and wrecking balls! -Some balls have fluff in them and baseballs have string...no it's yarn inside! -Some balls have small holes in them so you can put air inside...just like tires on my bike. -We can only kick balls outside or in the gym. -All balls roll because they are round all over. They are spheres.
May 1, 2012
Question of the Day: How many five year old students are in our class?
After each child put his or her initials under either number 4, 5 or 6 to indicate his or her age, we were able to determine we have 6 students in our class that are 5 years old today. Yesterday we only had 5 students who were 5. We celebrated a birthday today!
April 30, 2012
Question of the Day: What did you do last week? First Response: "We missed you!" (Big Smile!)
Thank you for praying for our family...it is good to be back!
April 19, 2012
Question of the Day: What is your favorite thing to do with balls?
After demonstrating how to use a field hockey stick and ball, I showed the students newspaper articles and pictures from my high school field hockey days. One student asked why the pictures were in black and white and another student responded, "Cause that's all they had in the olden days." The things they say in PRE-K! I felt a little better when they correctly identified my favorite thing to do with a field hockey ball...stopping it from getting in the net!
April 18, 2012
Question of the Day: Can you make your body into a ball? Funniest Response: "Yes...I can do a cannon ball, but it wouldn't be a good idea to try it here!"
April 17, 2012
We had a fabulous time being fancy today at our Day at the Theater! Mrs. Floyd and Friends performed for us on stage...they were FUNNY! We wore fancy clothes...tuxedos, bow ties and silk dresses and after the show we ate fancy foods like little hot dogs with colorful tooth picks!
April 16, 2012
Question of the Day: Who uses balls? Student Responses:Jugglers, dogs and volleyball, soccer, basketball, baseball, and football players!
April 12, 2012
Question of the Day: Will it sink or float?
Students were given an item (ex. cork, boat, stick, straw, pine cone, rubber ducky, seashell, etc.) and held it up for the class describing what it felt like and if it was light or heavy. If students thought the item would sink they stood in the "s" line. If they thought it would float, they stood in the "f" line. If they were right, they got a unifix cube. The person with the most cubes had nine...which just happens to be our number of the month AND it rhymes with their favorite teacher! (Mrs. Rhine) :)
Bible Lesson: Jesus was so powerful he didn't sink or even float. He could WALK on WATER!
April 11, 2012
Today we experimented with how water and air can move balls and made letters with Lego bricks!
April 10, 2012
We had a great first day back from break! The children were excited to see their friends!
The Things They Say in Pre-K: During Bible time we were discussing happy and sad emotions. The children quickly pointed out that the disciples were sad when Jesus was beaten and died on the cross. I asked what the disciples had to be happy about to which one boy responded-"that they were working with Jesus and becoming real men!"
Question of the Day: What makes balls move? Student Responses: Hands, Kicking, Elbows, Knees, Wind, Throwing, Tummies, Other Balls, Water, Blowing and Bouncing!
Literature Selection: The Three Little Pigs Retold by Bonnie Dobkins
Learning Centers: Teacher Lead Center: Writing "E" and Reading The Beach Discovery: Water Table-Making Water Move Dramatic Play: Jesus feeds his friends breakfast; props-Jesus, 3 disciples, fish, bread, sand, boat Blocks: Building Houses with Bricks, Straw and Sticks
April 4, 2012 What a fun time we had at our resurrection party making stain-glass crosses, decorating cookies and making cross jewelry! We even had a surprise Easter Egg Hunt!
April 3, 2012
We reviewed the Easter story with Resurrection Eggs! The students each found an egg and used the object within to tell a part of the story.
Literature Selection: The Parable of the Easter Lily by Liz Curtis Higgs
Learning Centers: Teacher Lead: reading/Sight Words- The Bike Math: Hide 12 eggs and sequenced in numerical order Library/Dramatic Play:Played out scenes of Easter books Art/Writing: Wrote and illustrated an Easter Story
April 2, 2012
Learning Centers:
Teacher Lead-Number Match Discovery-Does it roll? Blocks-Designing Buildings Art-Creating a scene from Jesus' last week with props or on paper
March 23, 2012
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
At circle time, one little girl raised her hand and said, "Mrs. Rhine, this feels like a family. I asked her what feels like a family. She responded, "We do! Our class is like a family to each other."
Question of the Day: Do you think you could roll a pancake? Student responses were split- 5 yes and 5 no
Learning Centers:
Writing: Handwriting Withoout Tears Letters C and S Discovery: Rolling pancake-like things called discs-plates, place mats, carpets, plates Dramatic Play: Props-Jesus and the discilpes figures,table, cup, bread, donkey, palm leaves, rooster, sword, table, cross, linen cloth, and tomb. Art:Making pancakes with play dough and testing them for "roll ability."
We discovered that the thicker or harder a pancake shaped disc is, the better it rolls.
March 22, 2012
Question of the Day: Do all balls roll?
Learning Centers: Blocks: Built Bridges for Billy Goats to Cross Writing: Handwriting Withoout Tears Discovery: Ramps and Rolling Balls Dramatic Play: Props-Jesus and the discilpes figures, donkey, palm leaves, rooster, table, the cup, bread
March 21, 2012
We had a ball with edible balls students brought in to share. We had cheese balls, Whoppers, clementines, Kix and Trix cereal and cake balls!
Literature Selection: The Three Billy Goat's Gruff. We compared two versions.
Learning Centers: Blocks: Built Bridges for Billy Goats to Cross Reading and Writing: Letter A; Predecodeable Book, The Car and the Boat Discovery: Magnetic balls
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
A student made the comment,"That is stupid." Another student responded, "Hey, we don't use that language at school-just at home!"
During interest areas, a girl commented about a boy in her small group,"He is so charming... like a man." Another girl chimed in, "He looks like a prince." The boy responded, "No, I am wearing an airplane shirt."
March 20, 2012
Question of the Day: Is your head bigger or smaller than this one? (Different balls were shown)
Literature Selection: Bounce by Doreen Cronin Bible: The Last Supper
Learning Centers: Writing: T and L Discovery: Exploring height and bounce Library: Tallying each book read Art: Making balls with yarn, twisty ties and rubber bands
March 19, 2012 Question of the Day: Do you think all balls bounce? Student Responses: YES-4 No-8
Literature Selection: The Three Billy Goat's Gruff
Learning Centers: Writing: M and N Discovery: Sorting Balls that bounce and balls that don't Library: Tallying each book read Art: Do-A- Dot Designs
March 15, 2012 Question of the Day: Does the guesssing jar have more or fewer than 10 balls? (Actual amount in jar-9) Student Responses: More-6 Less-5
Learning Centers: Art: Decorated memory verse poster Math: Organized our ball collection according to size and shape Discovery: Used rocks and balls on a "work site"
March 14, 2012
Question of the Day: Is your ball BIGGER or smaller than this one? Student repsonses: 5 bigger; 6 smaller
One student's ball was almost the same size. The students' determined to be sure we should measure each ball with something "bendy".
Reading Selections: The True King (Mark 11:1-10) The Little Red Hen
Learning Centers: ART: Made palm branches to act out our Bible story DISCOVERY: Explored our ball collection DRAMATIC PLAY: Planted a garden: props-seeds, hoe, shovel,watering can TEACHER LEAD: Sight Word Game: a, are, at, my, the, are, you, is, in, on,
March 12, 2012
Question of the Day: Which ball is your favorite? Basketballs and baseballs got the most votes!
Literature Selection: The Little Red Hen
Learning Centers: Sensory:Exploring Balls Large Motor: Bouncy Ball Dramatic Play: Retelling The Little Red Hen with props Teacher Lead: Sight Word Game; making sentences with our words- at, the, my, in, on, is, a, are, and, you
March 8, 2012 What problems have you noticed with our classroom store? Student Responses: "IT GETS MESSY WHEN THE SHOPPERS COME" "ITS UNORGANIZED" "THERE ARE CLOTHES ON THE FLOOR"
The students determined the best solution to this problem was to get a manager. Why? Because "MANAGERS CLEAN UP MESSES" and "They tell people what to do"
After appointing a student to manager, he immediately took charge and gave each employee a job to do. One student told another "He is kind of mean and bossy, but I like it."
We got to play with our food today! We made numbers and letters with our pretzels!
March 6, 2012 We have worked hard and Our Clothing Store GRAND OPENING will be tomorrow!
February 29, 2012 We had a wacky, but wonderful Wednesday! We had two special guests come to our classroom! Miss Courtney, a dental hygienist, showed us the best way to take care of our teeth. We got to be teeth and she used a HUGE tooth brush to brush us round and round...first the front, then the backs and tops!
Our second guest was Mrs. Floyd. She is an actress. She can be over 800 different characters. She uses different costumes and voices. We got to act in a skit with her!
Question of the Day: How should we behave in a clothing store? Responses:
"DON'T KNOCK THINGS DOWN AND ACT A FIT!" "DON'T GET THINGS OUT." "WATCH YOUR PARENTS AND STAY WITH THEM." "DON'T SCREAM OR YELL AT ANYBODY!" "USE NICE TALK." "DON'T RUN" "WHEN YOUR MOM SAYS IT'S TOO MUCH, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT GETTING IT, BECAUSE THAT MAKES IT 'WORSER' AND 'WORSER'!"
February 28, 2012
Question of the Day: What are jobs people have who get to count money? Student Responses: People at the bank, store workers and tax collectors!
We made lots of signs for our classroom store: an OPEN and CLOSED sign, an EXIT sign and a CARTS go here sign!
February 27, 2012 Question of the Day: Would you like to have a job counting money? yes: 10 no: 3
Centers: Sorting money by color, size and shape Dramatic play: shopping with cash registers and money Teams meet and designed the room layout, signs, and determined how to put price tags on items to be sold in our store
February 24, 2012
Where can you play great games, get your face painted, pet real animals, eat cotton candy, jump in a bounce house and have lots of fun with your friends? Give Up? At our school Wild West Carnival!
February 23, 2012 Students were given restaurant and store logos and asked to identify the store and what they sell! We all knew our fast food the best! Many students were able to read the store names without the logo!
Project: Clothing Store We viewed several store layouts and clothing displays and finished our employee name badges!
February 22, 2012 Question of the Day: What items would be needed to open a clothing store?
Student Responses: scanners, cash registers, clothes, signs, shopping carts, boxes, bags, hangers, workers, shoppers, managers, janitors, and an open and closed sign.
After asking the students what they thought about opening a clothing store in our classroom...it was a unanimous "yes!"
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
"We need to make an announcement that this classroom is now going to be a clothing store, because people need to know."
"Mrs. Rhine, when can the workers get here to move these walls? They might need a bulldozer to tear it down so we can build our store."
February 21, 2012
Question of the Day: Where do you get your clothes? Student Responses: "from home" "the store" "from family" and "from sheep"
Ask your son our daughter what country his or her clothes came from, because after investigating the tags on our clothing we know the answer!
Our clothes were made in the USA, Madagascar, India, China, Indonesia, and Guatemala!
Learning Centers: Investigate where our clothes originally came from by looking on the tags inside our clothes, then locating the country on the globe and writing the name of the country Design a delicious dessert with "Fun Foam" Wash dishes at the water table Sort items by color, size and shape
February 17, 2012
"We should love each other, because love comes from God." 1 John 4:7
February 16, 2012
Miss Eleanor was a guest in our classroom today and she showed us how to knit and crochet! We learned it takes a lot of time and money to knit and crochet clothes.
Literature Selection: Paper Bag Princess
We designed clothes out of brown paper grocery bags!
February 15, 2012
Question of the Day: Who do you love? As student responded with (brother, sister, friend, God, Mommy, Daddy, family, dog and cat) I exaggerated each sound in the word and students spelled their answers!
We talked about how to show love and what people do to make us feel loved.
Students said hugs, nice talk, sharing toys, giving pictures (cards), helping and spending time together makes them feel the most loved.
Learning Centers: Paper weaving and weaving on classroom loom Rolling dough to form letters and patterns Designing an over-under obstacle course with chairs and yard sticks
February 14, 2012
What a great time we had at our love your neighbor party! We made heart necklaces, decorated heart shaped cupcakes and painted hearts to reveal secret messages! After playing games with heart balloons, we enjoyed eating pizza together! Thank you to our parent helpers who made it all possible!
February 13, 2012
Question of the Day: How is cloth made?
Literature Selection: Abuela's Weave by Omar Castaneda
Bible Story: Matthew 9:9-13- Matthew invites Jesus to dinner and Jesus goes, because Jesus loves everybody (even if they do bad things).
Centers: Writing on hearts, stuffing them into envelops and addressing them to friends Exploring fabrics with magnifying glasses and documenting observations Practicing weaving on our classroom loom Inviting and preparing dinner for our guests Children of the world match and locate on the globe
February 10, 2012
We went to The Toledo Zoo and saw sea lions and tigers and polar bears! Oh My!
February 9, 2012
Question of the Day: Which fabric pattern do you like the best? Striped: BM, JH, ZC, JM, KM Plaid: NS, JH, IS, MT, TA, SK, TC, MVB
Students were divided into groups according to which pattern they preferred, and they looked through magazines to find examples of their pattern to cut out. After each team filled a heart plate with cut-outs, they designed a collage with their findings!
Students also used colorful rubber bands on geoboards to design striped and plaid patterns.
Literature Selection: The Quinceanera by Judith Bauer Stamper
February 8, 2012
Question of the Day: What colors mix together to make purple?
Everyone said, "Red and Blue!" So we mixed colors at the water table with droppers, squirters, and test tubes to make sure. We were right! After a little rest, we mixed more colors with foam paint and were excited to see so many new vibrant colors on our pictures!
February 7, 2012
Question of the Day: Do you think we can make clothes?
Miss Eleanor came in and showed us how to sew!
February 6, 2012
Question of the Day: What is written on your clothes: words, numbers or nothing?
words: ZC,BM, IS, JH, SK, numbers: TA, NS nothing: MVB, KM, MT, JH
Literature Selection: The Girl Who Wore Too Much by Margaret Read MacDonald
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
After reading the story of The Girl Who Was Given Too Much, we discussed how she learned to only think of herself. We talked about what it means to be spoiled. I told the children it was important that parents don't give their children everything they want because as they saw in the story, being spoiled isn't good for anybody. The girls parents didn't know how to say "no" to their daughter. I told the class, "I hope your parents know how to say 'no' to you." One boy piped in, "Oh, my Mom definitely knows!"
words: ZC,BM, IS, JH, SK, numbers: TA, NS nothing: MVB, KM, MT, JH
February 3, 2012
Question of the Day: What does 100 look like?
Students brought in 100 gummy bears, fruit loops, Q-tips, legos and beads! We counted, grouped by 1's, 2's, 3's and 5's and then charted each item in centers until we got all the way to 100! It was tedious work and many said they were tired and just couldn't do it... but persistence paid off!
February 2, 2012
Today we celebrated Jubilee's half birthday!
Question of the day:
Can you find straight lines and curved lines on the clothes you are wearing today?
February 1, 2012
Question of the Day: Which soap will clean dirty clothes the best? Bar, Liquid or powdered soap?
Predictions: Bar: SK, IS Liquid: MT, JH, MVB, NS, ZC, KM, JM Powder: TC
Mrs. Rhine brought in three of Mr. Rhine's white handkerchiefs. She dropped them in the mud and stomped on them! They were really dirty! We had three different wash bins with the same amount of water. One bin had bar soap, one had liquid soap and the other had powdered soap. After scrubbing and scrubbing, the class determined that it doesn't matter which soap you use because Mr. Rhine's handkerchiefs are all very clean!
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
"Good thing we washed them 'good' for you Mrs. Rhine. Now Mr. Rhine won't be mad 'for you doing' that to his stuff."
January 31, 2012
Today we had a special guest come to our classroom and show us how to use a washboard! Miss Eleanor taught us that before washing machines were invented, people had to use washboards to wash dirty clothes. We all got to wash clothes on the washboard as we sang, "Way down cellar where nobody goes, there's a wishy washy washer woman (man) washing her (his) clothes She (he) goes "oo-ah, oo-ah!" And that's how the washer woman (man) washes her (his) clothes!
Question of the Day: What kind of soap makes the best bubbles? Bar, liquid or powder?
Bar: KM, TC Liquid: BM, ZC, JH, SK Powder: IS, MT, NS
After much experimenting with stirring and whisking, we discovered that liquid soap makes the best bubbles!
January 30, 2012
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
"My Bible's special because it has gold pages and an 'elegont' cover."
Question of the Day: What can you do to take good care of your clothes?
"Don't get in dirty messes!" SK "Keep them in your drawer so they don't get lost!" IS "Not throwing clothes on the floor!" KM "By putting them away!" ZC
January 27, 2012
In art with Mrs. Mercurio we made necklaces! Ask your child what each color represents.
Question of the day: How many buttons do you have on today? Most: 10 Least: 0
Literature Selections: Button, Button, Who's got the button? A Pocket For Corduroy
The Things They say in Pre-K:
Mrs. R: "So how many buttons do you have?" Student: "One" Mrs. Rhine: "I don't see it. Where is it? " Student: (student smiling and pointing to her belly button) "It's right here!"
January 26, 2012
We had two more guest visitors today! Jubilee's mom and baby brother came in with a big bag for all the baby's stuff. The class thought the baby probably took a size, "tiny!"Justice is 7 months old. Even though he is small, he has already outgrown a lot of his clothes. Israel was able to put the baby's hat on his head, but the baby's shoes were way too small for every ones feet!
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
Student: "Mrs. Rhine, Mrs. Rhine, I think I found where we live! (student excitedly points to Canada on a globe) Mrs. R.: "Well, yes, we live in North America...that is our continent. Look down a little...do you see our state? Our state initials are OH..." Student:"Oh yes...I see it! What is this?" Mrs. Rhine: It's Indianapolis where I used to live before we moved here to Toledo." Student:(with face contorted and almost too afraid to ask) "Mrs. Rhine, do the people who live there know God?" Mrs. Rhine: "Yes...many of them do!" Student: (with a sigh of relief, wide eyes and a big smile) "Oh, wow!"
Question of the Day: (for big people!) When was the last time you celebrated the salvation of people you never met from a place you've never been?
January 25, 2012
We had a special guest visit our class today. It was Mr. Clarke, Taelynn's dad! He brought some of his clothes to show us. When he pulled a shirt out of his bag, several students thought it was a blanket. Mr. Clarke is extra-large! He also showed us his workout pants. When he held them up, they were taller than most of the kids in our class! One student thought Mr. Clarke got so big and strong because of the exercising he does in his workout clothes. Mr. Clarke helped us measure his clothes and we sang Happy Birthday to him, because it is his birthday tomorrow!
Question of the day: What shapes do you have on your clothes today? Responses: "circles, diamonds, hearts, squares and rectangles" MT "circles and squares" IS "circles...lots of them" JH "squares and rectangles" MVB "circles, rectangles and a triangle" JM "triangles and circles" JH "circles and rectangles" SK
Project: In small groups we made paper chains with an A-B pattern. We used blue for day and black for night. Each small group combined combined links and all together we had 40 days and 40 nights...which is how many days and nights Jesus fasted and prayed in the desert.
January 24, 2012
We are so excited! God has answered our prayers! We have a student aide who will be coming into our classroom each day to help us during our learning centers. Her name is Sam and she is in high school here at TCS. Sam works with pre-k children at her church and we are so glad to have her helping us too!
Question of the Day: Is the tag inside your shirt a number or a letter?
Responses: "a number 4" MVB "an M...for medium" IS "a number 6" MT "a number 4" ZC "a number 5" SK "I have an M. It's a letter." NS
January 23, 2012
Rain, Rain, go away! Mrs. Rhine's class wants to go out to play!
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
After attempting to demonstrate the concept "too small" by trying on a little girls dress, students responded with, "You have gotten too big, Mrs. Rhine." "You're funny, Mrs. Rhine!" "It looks like a tent!" "You are going to get stuck," and my favorite "It's okay Mrs. Rhine, just take off all your other clothes and it will fit."
Question of the day: What do you already know about Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Responses: I know... "she sat in Papa's, Mama's, and Baby's chair!" IS "the chairs are small, medium and large." ZC "the bears came back home." JH "the bear's saw Goldilocks in baby Bear's bed!" "Goldilocks 'snuck' into the beds." MVB "When she saw the bears she ran away!" JH "Goldilocks was eating porridge...Papa's, Mama's and Baby Bear's was just right!" KM
Literature Selection: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Centers: Dramatic Play-Dress up with clothes classmates brought for our collection Props: Retold story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Art: Made S-M-L biscuits Sand Table: Exploring the Desert where Satan tempted Jesus
January 20, 2012- Pajama Day!
We made our own pillows in art class and Mrs. Mercurio taught us how to sew!
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
" I can't believe we actually get to wear our pajamas to school. That's crazy!"
Question of the day: What do you want to know about clothes? Responses: I want to know... "what they are made of" IS "how big they are" ZC "where do clothes come from" JH "what clothes start with the letter "s" NS "how to make scarves" MVB "how to make the colors" JH "how to sew" JM Literature Selection: LLama Llama, Red PajamaJanuary 20, 2012- Pajama Day!
We made our own pillows in art class and Mrs. Mercurio taught us how to sew!
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
" I can't believe we actually get to wear our pajamas to school. That's crazy!"
Question of the day: What do you want to know about clothes? Responses: I want to know... "what they are made of" IS "how big they are" ZC "where do clothes come from" JH "what clothes start with the letter "s" NS "how to make scarves" MVB "how to make the colors" JH "how to sew" JM
Literature Selection: LLama Llama, Red Pajama
Stations: Dramatic Play-Dress up with clothes classmates brought for our collection Large Motor: Dancing with the Scarves Art: John the Baptist's Clothes-Cutting fur-like fabric to fit Make and Take: Right Choices Tic-Tac-Toe Letter hunt- Colored letters in Bible verse to match corresponding wooden letters
January 19, 2012
The Things They Say in Pre-K:
Mrs. R: "That's quite a bruise you've got there. What happened?" Student: "I was being crazy and jumping on the couch and fell on the table." Mrs. R: "Ouch! That must have hurt!" Student: "Yep... I thought it was the end of me there for a minute!"
Question of the day: Do you have a favorite shirt? Why is it your favorite?
Literature: Caps for Sale and The Hat by Jan Bret
Centers: Monkey See, Monkey Do-Acted out lines from Caps for Sale Striped Scarfs-used colored Popsicle sticks to make patterns on Mrs. R's scarf Fabric Collages-used various fabrics students cut to design collages Letter hunt- colored letters in Bible verse to match corresponding wooden letters
January 6, 2012
Upon returning from a day and a half absence, I was greeted with excited voices," Mrs. Rhine, we made you these cards so you can feel better!" I replied, "Well, thank you, I feel better all ready!" A student responded," Well, how about you take them home so you don't forget us!"
December 9, 2011
After telling the story of how Mary and Joseph traveled to Bethlehem and needed a place to stay, but were told there was no room for them, a student responded, "Mrs. Rhine, we only have three at my house and I would make room for Mary and Joseph, so they could have baby Jesus at my house!"
If only we were all so eager to make room for Him!
November 28, 2011
Serve the Lord with ALL your heart, ALL your heart, ALL your heart.
Serve the Lord with ALL your heart, Dear children of the Lord!
1 Samuel 12:20
November 21, 2011
One student's response to..."Tell me about Joseph's brothers."
"They had a 'schemey' plan. They took Joseph's coat, ripped it up themselves and put blood on it. They told their dad that maybe an animal ate him up. That was a lie!"
November 18, 2011
What a time we had today! Parents joined us and we played pin the tail on the turkey, prepared a table for a feast, rolled out play dough and covered it with pumpkin pie filling (Cool-Whip with orange coloring)...it smelled like real pumpkin pie when we added spices! Then all of us, Pilgrims and Native Americans, went to the dining room for a feast with our friends and families!
November 15, 2011
We practiced SETTING the table, made SAND castles and rolled dough to make SNAKES in the shape of letter Ss!
November 14, 2011
For Rr day, one of our friends brought in his RECORDS and played them on a record player for us! We danced and had a REALLY great time and didn't even mind the RAIN which made for an inside RECESS! We got to play more RECORDS!
November 10, 2011
We compared our silver coins. Queeny Quarter was the biggest. Nice size nickel was in the middle and dinky dime was the smallest!
November 9, 2011
Pretzels, popcorn and pumpkins were a perfect snack for our letter Pp day!
November 8, 2011
We had a terrible, very boring day. Actually, it was opposite day. Our day was really great and very exciting! We wore our clothes inside out, backwards, and mismatched! The first was last and the last was first in our line order.
November 7, 2011
OODLES is how much fun we had with our noodles today! With all the different shapes and varieties of noodles sent in, we practiced making capital and lowercase Nn, sorted by color and shape, made alphabet soup, strung colored noodle necklaces and even prepared noodles with pom-pom meatballs! We had noodles everywhere!
November 4, 2011
Today we learned that mud (chocolate pudding) makes a mess...especially when you take "muddy" hands and fling them back and forth! We liked making M shapes with m&m candies even though that wasn't as messy!
October 14, 2011
We made patterns on pumpkins with candy corn!
October 13, 2100
After describing how our pumpkins looked and felt, we determined which one we thought was the biggest around...the fattest. But how can we know for sure? We measured it with a string! The longest string was the pumpkin we thought was the biggest around...so now we know we were right!
October 12, 2011
RAINBOWS and PROMISES! God always keeps his promises! ALWAYS! He paints a rainbow in the sky to remind us! We used prisms at the light table today and got to see rainbows and it didn't even rain yet!
"I am God ALL powerful. Obey me and do what is right!"
October 11, 2011
What a day! We got to go on a hay ride to a pumpkin patch, and picked our own pumpkin from the vine! The pumpkins were all different shapes and sizes. Some had lumps and bumps. Some were green, but most were orange! We got to see lots of animals like bunnies and peacocks and swans...oh, and a very BIG pig who "had too much for dinner!" Her belly touched the ground! Llamas, goats and a reindeer ate bread from our hands. "Their tongues were hot" and it kind of tickled!
October 10, 2011
We squeezed an orange and made our own orange juice! It was "delicious and sweet"!
October 4, 2011
Orange, orange everywhere! God put lots of orange things in His creation...like oranges, pumpkins, butterflies, flowers, leaves and cheese. We ate orange crinkle-cut carrots for snack. The ranch dressing was "tasty" but "the best part was the CRUNCH sound we could hear"!
