Big Energy-Little Learners...Can I do it all?

Bible To help understand The Prodigal Son  The Dragons and I acted out the story.  We did this a couple times switching roles.  Little Dragon enjoyed the role play because he got to wear his spider man robe and be 'dad'. We used stuffed animals and play food as props. (I was busy playing too so there are no pictures) The felt board was another way The Dragons re told the story. Alphabet Inside this weeks folder were small pictures of letter p animals and items.  The Dragons painted these then added them to their letter 'p' for the alphabet wall. Using pink and purple markers (both start with p and purple is our week color) The Dragons practiced writing the letter p in their alphabet journal. The Dragons finished their week folder. Pigs Pigs as the main theme we had a lot of fun with them.  Me being a pig lover we have many stuffed pigs in the house and they came in handy this week. Little Dragons favori...

Bible We are moving on to the story of The Prodigal Son  this week.  I think this is a hard story for preschoolers to understand.  After reading the story to The Dragons I asked what was the lesson/moral for this story, Doll Dragon answered 'thankfulness because the son was thankful he got clothes." We went over the main events of the story again and I explained to them that Jesus was trying to teach people of God's love, comparing it to the love of the father in the story.  Hopefully the concept will grow as we re-read the story this week. Purple The Dragons went on a hunt for purple things.  They didn't find much, no picture. The Dragons practiced their handwriting by writing the word 'purple' with purple markers. Alphabet The Dragons made their pencil toppers.  Today they really enjoyed decorating them.  It was more then handwriting practice, it was nice. I introduced our hand motion.  Use your left  hand for the line and ma...