Advent!

Changing our Altar

We have had the green parament on our altar since school started. Since yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent, it is time to change our classroom altar.

First, we took everything off, except for the cloth.

Then we added the blue parament and the Advent wreath.

The circle of the wreath reminds us of God's never ending love.

The Advent wreath has three blue candles, one pink, and the middle Christ candle.

We also added the Christmas cross.

This week we only light one candle, the hope candle.

As we prepare for Jesus' Birthday celebration, we read this book.

Decorating

We were busy talking about how we will decorate our room.

We also talked about the Christmas trees at our homes.

We decorated three trees with more decorating to do!

Pictures soon!

It was cold outside!

Look at our rosy cheeks!

 

This Week in Review

Jesus Time 

We loved acting our this story of Gideon and the Battle.

Painting a few more of our "trumpets"!

This battle is amazing, because 300 soldiers shared away the Midianites with blaring trumpets and torches. This only happened, because God was in charge of the battle.

Our prayer this week - 

Help us to know Your love,

Give us strength, O Lord.

Help us trust in You,

Give us strength, O Lord.

Help us obey Your Word,

Give us strength, O Lord.

Help us serve You gladly,

Give us strength, O Lord.

Thankfulness

We sang about things we are thankful for.
We also watched VeggieTales Madame Blueberry.

We learned a grateful heart is a happy heart!

10 Fat Turkeys

We read this book every day during storytime every day this week.

We practiced counting down as each turkey did something silly and left the fence they were sitting on.

Feeling Angry

Our poster picture this week a picture of Li with an angry face because someone knocked his block building down. We also read When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry ... by Molly Bang. Sophie had a special place to go when she was angry. We talked about special places we can go at home when we are angry.

We wrote our names for our November portfolio page.

Storytime with Ashley from Kisker Road Library

We listened to four stories read by Ashley. Then we voted on our favorite one.

What was your child's favorite book?

Shake the Tree?

Dandy?

Everybody says Meow?

or

What does an anteater eat?

Thanksgiving Memories

Making Butter

Fruit Friendship Mix

So, yummy!

Enjoying seeing God's creation on our walk!

Look how windy it was today!

We are thankful God gave us ...

humans

a house

shoes

sisters

blocks

school

magnets

buses

church

pants/shirts

Jesus!

Almost matching!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Special Snack Day

Our fruit friendship mix!

It was so yummy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Taking our food donation to the gym!

It sure was hard to not run in the gym!!

(Maybe someday this school year!)

Loving our Outside Dishes!

Painting and Gideon

Painting "trumpets" for our Bible story! 

The Midianites are Sleeping!

The Israelites marching around the Midianites' camp!

Blow the trumpets!

And the Midianites run away!

Look, we made a "T"!

Working together to make "T"'s using all the blocks!

They did it!

Painting Pinecones

We will hang them on our Thanksgiving tree in the hallway.

(Pictures later of the tree later!)