Preschool

This weeks Lesson is "I have a body like Heavenly Father" -this one can be really fun!!

Mon- Sing songs and Discuss the lesson for the week.  Songs:  Head, shoulders, knees and toes, Do as I'm doing, I have two little hands, Stand up, Two little eyes. . .

Tues- Library Day. . .any books about the body or body parts, shouldn't be hard to find!

Wed- Body Part Dice. . .make a large die and draw pictures of six different body parts, have the kids roll the dice and find the body part!

Thurs- Get a large piece of butcher paper and trace your child's body, let them draw the details in!

Fri- Show your children how the heart pumps!  Get a clear balloon and fill it with water that has been colored red with food coloring.  Put a straw into the balloon, and tape it really well.  Have the kids squeeze the balloon while you hold it over the sink, this give the kids an idea of how the heart pumps blood.

Preschool

We are going to go back to the lessons we skipped. So for this week it will be lesson #4 Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ Love Me

Mon- Sing Songs and discuss Lesson- Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam, Where Love is, I'm trying to be like Jesus, A child's Prayer

Tues- Library day! -This would be easy to find book on love-one of my favorites is Love you Forever. *this week and next week are lessons on love, so get a lot of books and just keep them for two weeks

Wed- Play hide the heart.  Cut out a bunch of hearts and take turn hiding and finding them.

Thur- Get a box and fill it with something that taste good, smells good, and looks good (colorful). *one for each kid if you don't want fighting lol*  Let them each pick objects out and either smell taste or look at the object.  Explain that we know Heavenly Father loves us because he gives us these things.

Fri- Help your kids make this heart shaped bookmark (origami) to use in their scripture reading!

Preschool

Lesson # 8 Sunday is the Day to Remember Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ

Mon- Discuss and sing Songs- Saturday, The Chapel Doors, When I go to Church, The Commandments, Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked

Tues- Library Day. . .Get books about church or Sunday. . . there are a few at our library. . .you could do books about the days of the week, calendars ect

Wed- Help them use their fine motor skills, and make this

Thur- Make Ice cream sundaes using this idea

Fri- This is a really cute legend-you could make and laminate a sand dollar they could hang in there rooms, to help them remember.

Preschool

This week is lesson number 7 "Jesus Christ created the world for me"

Mon- Discuss and sing songs, they could include, Popcorn popping, Rain is falling all around, In the leafy treetops, The world is so big

Tue- Library books could include anything about the Earth, trees, animals, anything God created you could choose to focus on.  Since we just focus on Earth for our lesson a couple of weeks ago I though it might be fun to focus on water, so we will be getting books on water, and the water cycle.

Wed- Boil water and let them watch it evaporate, and do this science project. 
 Science - The Cotton Ball & Water Activity Ages 2+This is a really easy and fun activity for the youngest children.

Materials:  One cotton ball for every child, some flat pans or containers filled with about an 1/2 inch of cold water.

1.  Give each child a cotton ball to hold.  Tell them to pretend that they are holding a cloud. 
2.  Ask them how does the cloud feel:  heavy or light, soft or hard.
3.  Instruct the children to place the "cloud" (cotton ball) gently over the cold water.  Explain that water that has evaporated has traveled up to the cloud and it is a lot colder up in the sky, so the vapor turns into water, and it is filling up the cloud.  Ask: Can you see the "cloud" (cotton ball) filling up with the water.  
4.  Ask the children to gently pick up the "cloud" (cotton ball) from the pan.  Ask:  How does the "cloud" feel now?  Light or heavy.  Warm or cold?  What is happening with the water?  Yes, the water is dripping from the "cloud".  Why?  The cloud cannot hold all that water, is too, too, heavy.  What do we call when water falls  from the clouds because they are too heavy with water?  Yes, you are right, rain!  It is raining! And what happens to the water?  Yes, it is coming right back into the pan, and the pan could be a stream, river, ocean or the ground.  
Thur- Make your own little green house

Fri-  Get a big bucket of water and let them have water play.

The Daily Grind. . .

So I have taken my Christmas/New Years break long enough, and it is time to get back into the swing of things, and that means Preschool at our house.  So this next week the Lesson will be The Holy Ghost helps me! - (I am skipping lessons 4 and 5 because I want to use them in Feb near Valentines Day)

Mon- Sing songs and discuss the topic for the week- Songs could included- Listen, Listen (this would be fun to teach as a round), The still small voice, The Holy Ghost, The first Article of Faith

Tue- Library Day- Books we got were in the Halloween section, I just found books that had ghost in the title :)

Wed- Play Marco Polo, but change it up and use your kids name. See if they can find you blindfolded by saying their name quietly.

Thur- Stitch a ghost Project.  Here is the link to the Ghost, Trace the shape onto  card stock or cereal boxes work really well, punch holes in it and find a string, let them stitch around the edges.

Fri- Make hot chocolate and put mini ghost in it(marshmallows)-this could help them understand how the Holy Ghost makes us feel warm inside!

Preschool

Lesson three is "I can pray to Heavenly Father". 

Mon- Read and Discuss lesson.  Sing songs. . . I pray in Faith, A child's Prayer, We bow our heads, I love to pray, A prayer Song.

Tue-Library. . .these are the books we found. . . In God's Hands, the scarecrow dance (very good one), Blueberry Girl, Say a little Prayer.

Wed- Play telephone, if your kids are to little for this game, you could call Grandma and relate it to praying to Heavenly Father.

Thur- Draw pictures of things your thankful for and things you can pray for.

Friday- Paint prayer rocks, we were blessed this week with great-grandma visiting us,and she brought us some prayer rocks!!!- coincidence??? I think not!

Preschool

This week the lesson is
"Heavenly Father has a Plan for Me"

Mon- Read and discuss lesson and sing songs.  Some might include I lived in Heaven, Families Can be together Forever, I know my Father Lives, I will follow God's plan for Me, He Sent His Son

Tues- Go to Library- These are the books we got. . .(the way we went with this lesson was the plan was to come to Earth to get a body-so we are studying the Earth this week)- Earth cycles, What's so special about planet Earth?, On Earth, Little Rabbit and the Meanest Mother on Earth.

Wed- Play a game- there are fun online games about Earth Day that you could use, or you could get blocks out and make a "plan" to build a house for the cars

Thur- Draw big circles on papers, and have your kids color the "planets" then hang them up for everyone to see.

Fri- Go play in the leaves!

Gospel Preschool

I have started with my kids a preschool that follows "Behold Your Little One" Nursery Manual.  Every Friday I will be posting the lesson and ideas of what I will be doing with my kids for the week.  I have been searching for something like this, and haven't run into anything I love, so I have decided to do my own.  Hope you can join us!

First Lesson  "I am a Child of God"

Monday- Go over the lesson and explain what the theme for the week is and sing songs.  Some songs might include:  I am a child of God, I'm all made of Hinges,  Every star is different, I'm thankful to be me, I am like a star, Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam. (these songs are all out of the Primary Children's Songbook click here to find the songs.

Tuesday- Find books at the Library that go along with the theme.  Here is what we got: No matter What, Love you Forever, I take care of Myself, A color of his own, and One beautiful baby. Our Library has a website that you can reserve the books you want, so they have them already pulled when you get there, check to see if yours has this program it saves so much time!

Wednesday- Play a game to go along with the theme- Go take pictures of your kids,and then develop 2 of each of them, go home and play the matching game.

Thursday- Spell names out with playdough.  Here is an easy recipe using kool-aid! And the best part it smells good :)
1 c. flour
1/2 c. salt
3 tbsp. oil
1 sm. pkg. Kool Aid (any color)

Combine flour, salt, oil and Kool-Aid. Add 1 cup boiling water. Stir together. Knead mixture until it forms a soft dough. This play dough will keep indefinitely if kept sealed when not in use.

Friday- Lunch at Burger King to get a King's crown. Or if you don't have money for that, make your own crowns at home, and decorate them.
Have Fun Learning!