Jingle Jangle

(So Lorien got sick on Tuesday and I got sick on Wednesday. We rescheduled preschool for Thursday.)

11-6-08

9:30am, Opening Circle: We found the date first and I was about to go on when I remembered we needed to sing! So we sang "Good Morning", Darius said he'd write me a note to help me remember to sing the song! Then we said the Pledge of Allegiance. We reviewed old J words then went over the new ones. Juego (which means games, as in board and card games) was the Spanish word, and Journalism was our English word. We are going to be Journalists on Friday. I asked them to get their sharing things. Darius brought his car that was named Jack, he says he plays with it with Cyrus. Cyrus has his own car too that looks similar. Lorien brought her Jack-in-the-Box. She let Darius try it. He went as fast as he could.

9:50am, Reading and Writing:We practiced writing J and colored the picture of the Jellyfish. Darius asked a lot of questions about Jellyfish, so we will probably talk more about them on Friday. I had the kids read and write the following words: Jelly, Jerk, Jest, Jet, Jig and Job. They did a great job sounding out the words.

10:15am, Free Craft: Again I had something for them to do. We made wind chimes out of hangers and metal that I found at a thrift store. They turned out very beautiful. When Farah came home Darius said "You won't believe this!"

Lorien was excited to hang hers up when we got home but was dissapointed to find out we had to hang it up with the spider webs. She said "It's too pretty to hang with the spiders!"

11:00am, Snack Time: Wash hands, eat, free play time (which they spent battling pokemon cards).

11:30am, Science: We talked about North, South, East and West. We drew our own "Compas" on paper. Then we faced in each direction and talked about what things were in what direction. For instance, Santa Claus lives in the North, Utah is in the East (Lorien was excited about that 'cause Grandpa Stolp lived there), Ocean is in the West and Penguins live in the South. We also talked about the path of the Sun. We'll go into that in more detail later. Afterwards Darius was quick to get his real compas. He was excited to find that the pointer always pointed North.

11:45am, Reading: Jake the Philharmonic Dog by Karen LeFrak Illustrations by Marcin Baranski, and Jingle the Brass by Patricia Newman pictures by Michael Chesworth.

12:00pm, Closing Circle: We sang Jolly Old St Nicolas, Jingle Bells, and Jack and Jill. Closing prayer by Lorien. Library tomorrow!