Letter I

We are going to be very busy in the next few weeks practicing our songs for our Christmas program which is December 18. (time will be announced in a future blog) making Christmas presents and wrapping them.
There is no school the week of November 24-28.
We will be doing parent conferences on Monday November 24th.  There are still some spots available for your convenience to sign up.
Our book fair is this week, please feel free to stop by the youth room (309) for your shopping pleasures before and after school. We will have a wish list posted outside our door if you would like to purchase a book for our class.
Our star student this week is: Mason please bring snacks from the approved snack list and a show and tell every day.

Our letter this week is: I and we will be making ice cream in baggies on Tuesday with the other Pre School classes. We will also be making pilgrims to go with our Indians we made last week. We read the story: The First Thanksgiving.  
The shape is: Rectangle.
Our color is: Brown and we will be reading Brown Bear Brown Bear  and stringing beads on yarn following the colors in the book.
We will be making iguana's 
Our bible verse this week is: Oh give thanks to the lord for he is good. Psalm 107:1
In the afternoon we will be playing bingo and starting on our Christmas presents. And doing an I paper to practice our writing skills.

Review Week

There is NO SCHOOL November 11th  we will be honoring our Veterans and Active Duty Service Members.  We have a few students and facility here at HFYH that are or were active duty.

Thank You for all your service and continuing to protect this great land we call home.  And Thank You to the family members that hold down the fort while they are away on deployments.

This week we will be reviewing our letters X, K and H.

We will be talking about The First Thanksgiving and the pilgrims and Indians.

We will be using brown paper plates and making Indians and using braided yarn hair.  We will be making Indian corn by using buttons and sharing our craft with our Feed My Sheep Elders Group that meets on Tuesday's.  

We will be using saran wrap and paint and making art masterpieces.

We will be playing a shape / shuffle patterning game and using our imaginations.

We are borrowing from Mrs. Mylee's room a listening station.

The children will get to try on headphones and listen and follow directions from the stories that they will hear.

Our Bible Verse: Trust in the lord with all your heart. Proverbs 3:5

We will also review our colors: blue,orange and grey.

Shapes are: Rectangle and Diamond 

           

Our Star Student is: Joshua, please provide snacks from the approved snack list and please allow your child to bring a show and tell every day. ( since we do not have school on Tuesday; Joshua may bring two on either Wed or Thurs. )

DON"T FORGET TO SEND IN THOSE YAMS!!! 

Book Fair: Nov 17-20th will be open before and after dismissal for your shopping pleasure.  

November 24 -28 NO SCHOOL  Thanksgiving Break 

Parent /Teacher Conferences 

Parent /Teacher Conferences will be on Monday the 24th

The conferences will be scheduled to start at 9:30 am.  We will have a sign up sheet available on the door for you to pick your time.  

WE WILL BE HALF DAY DEC 4th due to FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: they will be setting up for our big packing event. ( which our children took part in this past week by packing rice. )

As always Thank You for sharing your child with us!!

We love to learn and grow at Home For Your Heart School.

Kerri and I hope that every one had a fun filled time with our Halloween party.  We both wanted to thank you for all that donated and volunteered your time to make it such a success!

Our Letter this week is H and the  color orange and the rectangle.
The bible verse is: I am the Lord, your healer. Exodus 15:26

We will be very messy this week, so please excuse our mess!
We are making adorable hedge hogs from brown play dough and malted balls and pine needles.  ( Thank You to Mrs. Nettie's son for getting all our needles )
We will be painting our hands and doing a special project which is top secret!!
We will be using a sensory bin filled with corn and using spoons to dig for treasures.

 Kerri and I are asking for each student to please bring in one small item that starts with the letter H so that we may weigh it on Thursday and estimate who's item weighs the most.

We will be reading a cute story about a little hedge hog and his red hat.  And doing a craft that goes along with the book.

Star Student this week is:  Jase
please bring a snack from the approved snack list and a show and tell every day.

As always Thank You for sharing your child with us and allowing us to be a part of their learning.

Oct 28-30

Get ready to learn about the letter K and the color blue and the diamond.

We will be making keys and digging in the sand box for diamonds as well as making paper plate pumpkins.

We will be using eye droppers and different shades of blue and squeezing the eye dropper and letting the paint drip and run down our paper.

We will be watching a movie about a little square pumpkin who saves the day in the pumpkin patch.

Our Bible Verse is: Jesus Christ... is the true god and eternal life. 1 John 5:20 

During chapel time we are going to be learning about how Jesus turns water into wine.

Our Halloween Party : is Thursday Oct 30th from 9:00 am to 10:00 am with a costume parade  following through out the school.

PLEASE make ALL costumes BATHROOM FRIENDLY.

Our Star Student is: Harper B, please bring snacks from approved list, and a show and tell each day.

Thank You so much for all the prayers and kind words for my mom and myself during this very stressful time. They are very much appreciated.

My mom is recovering at home and we will find out the results in a few days.  They took 2 lymph nodes and did a partial mastectomy.  She is very sore but has a positive attitude.  She will start 6-8 weeks of radiation after she heals a little more. If the nodes are involved then chemo will be given as well.  Thank You again for all the prayers and kind words. 

As always, Thank You for allowing us to watch your children learn and grow.    

Blog Letter X

Hi everyone,
Our letter this week is X and we will be drawing the children s arm and hand and gluing q tips to make an x ray. Our color is grey and our shape is

diamond

We will be using craft sticks to make x marks the spot and gluing them into our journal.

Our bible verse is: Fear not for I am with you Isaiah 41:10

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We will be using grey paper and paper plates and grey crayons to make grey bats to hang in the classroom.

We will be using play dough and putting it down on the letter x to learn out to make and X.

We will be using the sand box during  center time and the children will be digging for diamonds.

We will be doing puzzles and stringing beads and lacing cards.

Our Star Student is: Harper A: please bring 16 snacks from the approved snack list.and a show and tell everyday.

There is still room for parents to sign up for our Halloween Party on Oct 30th , we need stickers, snacks and drinks and volunteers for craft stations and snack and story station and some one to man the bouncy slide.

As always, Thank you for allowing us in sharing in your child's education.

We are also in need of paper towels and baby wipes. Thanks!!

Oct 14th -16 Review week

Our field trip to Mayse Farms has been canceled due to rainy weather, but the kids wont miss out, thanks to two great Directors and a few phone calls our field trip as been changed to Pump It Up.  Parents are welcomed to join us. Buses leave at 8:30 am and will return by 11:30 am. I sent everyone an email with the voucher to sign and send back to Stephanie. If you have not done so please do, and I will have extra ones in the classroom if you still need one to sign.
NO BACKPACKS are needed.  But please send a lunch with your child if they are full day.

We will be reviewing this week, the letter M, N and Z. The shapes: square and triangle.
The colors: yellow,green,and black.
We will be making a shape collage using triangles and squares

We will be using a potato masher and yellow paper and black paint to make bumble bees which make the z sound.
We will be starting to make our Halloween crafts by using toilet paper rolls and wrapping them with paper towels and two googly eyes to make a classroom full of mummies.
Our full day students in the afternoon will be making a scary ( not too scary) picture on black construction paper using googly eyes and twigs that we will collect from outside and white paper at the bottom and a yellow moon or white moon.

Our star student is: Connor please bring snacks from the approved snack list and enough for 16 students.  Don't forget a share and tell each day. Please note since we will be on a field trip on Tuesday, please allow Connor to bring two show and tells on Wednesday.

On Day 7 God rested and we had the children draw what they thought God looked like when he rested!  

This week in chapel we will be talking about  how Jesus walks on water

and our bible verse is: Do not fear, only believe. Mark 5:36

Our Halloween Party is scheduled for Thursday Oct 30th from 9:00 to 10:00 in the gym.  We are asking for parents to help with each of the stations and also sign up to bring the following items:

Halloween stickers, Little Debbie Halloween snack cakes and Capri Suns.

There will be a sign up sheet posted on our door  if you are able to help. 

As a;ways. Thank You for sharing your child with us! We love watching them grow and learn.

I also wanted to let you know that the week of  Oct 21-23 there will be a sub for me, my mother was recently diagnosed with Lobular Carcinoma, which is a form of breast cancer.  She is scheduled to have surgery on Oct 22 so I am going to travel to Jacksonville Fla. to be with her and my youngest sister.

Lynn Davidson who is a former pre school teacher here at Home For Your Heart School.  Will be there on Tuesday and Wednesday and on Thursday Sarah Guse will be the sub and she too has worked at the school.  If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call me, or text me 912-674-8288.

I will be back for our Halloween festivities.

Oct 7-9 Letter Z

This week we will be learning about the letter Z and the color black and the square 

We will painting our hand prints and magically turning them into Zebra's by drawing stripes with black crayons, using black yarn for a mane and black pipe cleaners for a curly tail.

We will also be using zip loc bags filled with black paint and making z's and practice zipping a variety of items.

We will be making Sally Square 

 and we will also be learning the Zacchaeus song for our journal. And gluing in a coloring page to go along with the song.

Zacchaeus was a wee little man, A wee little man was he.(using both hands, make it look like you are showing the size of a very small man.)
He climbed up in the sycamore tree, the Savior for to see.(using both hands act as though you are climbing up a tree)
And when the Savior passed that way, He looked up in the tree,(using you fingers, make it look as though someone is walking.)
And he said, "Zacchaeus, you come down from there;
For I'm going to your house today, for I'm going to your house today."(Start clapping your hands when singing this verse.)

In the afternoon we will be making Zinnias from cupcake liners and green paper for the stems and leaves.

We will also be finger painting with black paint and cutting out zig zag lines and gluing them on our finger painted paper to make zig zag masterpieces.

Our Star Student this week is Bryson: please bring snacks from the approved list and enough for 16 students and please bring in a show and tell every day.

October tuition is now due at this time,as well as our field trip permission slips and monies. If you plan on attending our field trip you may meet us there or follow the bus as we will be leaving promptly at 8:30 am. Please dont be late. You may pay at the gate when you arrive.  

Halloween Party Oct 30 we need several volunteers to help.

October 26th is our Mission Moment: We will be singing at the 9:30 and 10:50 services.  

Here are some photos from last weeks Animal Encounters

note the giant hamster said one of the kids 

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touching a really big snake  they all were so brave !

and our bird nests that we worked very hard on.

As always, Thank You for sharing your children with us!