FOX TAIL SOUP

Thank you parents for supporting us in this long time tradition at Pasadena Christian Preschool. There are many versions to stone soup and the shortest story for class 4 is “Fox Tail soup,” Thank you for bringing all the vegetables and sides. The kids had fun chopping and tasting them. The soup was delicious and all the kids seemed to enjoy the soup. Enjoy your Thanksgiving week, stay safe and may God bless you and your family.

Give Thanks to the Lord for He is good. Psalms 106:1

BROWN POTATOES

What room 4 had to say about potatoes.

Potatoes are brown, hard and look like ovals. Teacher: “What can we do potatoes?” “We can touch them,” “ We can smell them,” “ We can lick them,” 🥰 Teacher: “Potatoes need to be washed, peeled and cook. Let’s take the skin off and cut them.” Kids: “ The potato has no seeds,” “The pumpkin had lot of seeds,” “Can we eat it now? Teacher: “We will cut them into small strips and put them in the fryer.” “Presto,” Kids: “They are French fries, like McDonals.” “ They are good.” “My mommy buys me French fries.” “I get some too.”

VEGETABLE PREVIEW

We had a little preview of our vegetables we will be using for stone soup next week. The kids got to identify, touch, smell and taste many different kinds of vegetable.

OUR PUMPKIN PATCH

We had a blast at our indoor pumpkin patch, the kids explored different size, texture, shape and color pumpkins.

Chapel – November 2020

November is full of so many things from autumn leaves, squash, farm fun, concepts of gratitude/thankfulness as well as times spent with family and loved ones. It is the family theme that inspires this months Bible focus on Noah’s Ark. Noah’s Ark is the prefect story for preschool to discuss the concepts of talking/listening to God, family, and of course animals. The children had a wonderful time singing “Rise & Shine” and “This is the Day” along with reading from our children’s rhyming Bible.

Rise and Shine! by Tim Warnes — Our song/story book for today’s Chapel

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Colossians 4:2

November Chapel PDF

APPLE PUMPKIN FUN

This month we read many different apple and pumpkin books such as; “Up,up, up It’s Apple Picking Time” by Judy Flickes Shapiro, “The Biggest Apple Ever,” “The Biggest Pumpkin Surprise Ever!” by Steven Kroll, “The Apples on the Tree,” by Steve Metzger, “Plumpy, Dumply Pumpkin,” by Mary Serfozo, “Too Many Pumpkins,” by Linda White, “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything,” by Linda Williams and “ The Pumpkin Patch Parable,” by Liz Curtis Higgs. Some of these books are too long for some of our kiddos so we paraphrase them as we see fit. During circle time we picked special books to read and others were read through out the day.

Our pumpkin patch on the loft was decorated with all the pumpkins you all brought to class, it looks adorable.🥰 Today we all indulge in some popcorn and a movie and a gummy worm.

PUMPKIN DAY TWO

What a fun days we had, thanks for being good troopers and bringing your kids in pajamas.

APPLE PUMPKIN DAY TWO

Hello again, here we are Apple Pumpkin day two. We started the morning by exploring the inside of a pumpkin and learning their individual name.

Stem, flesh, seeds, pulp are main words the children were able to identify from our pumpkin.

With the “Pumpkin Vine Song ,” the class learned the words and sequence of the song by using our flannel props.

Oh, Yes, as they washed, counted and sorted apples the children also discovered that there was a real apple in the activity, real vs not real.

Today was busy, we decorated foam pumpkins with sequences to send home, and colored real pumpkins with oil pastel sticks.

Okay, okay it sounds like a lot but we could not go outside, bad pollution. We had a special morning snack, pumpkin delight, Yummy!!

APPLE PUMPKIN DAY ONE

Today we all dressed up in our comfy pajamas, decorated a shiny pumpkin with each child’s photo to take home, used a giant photo mat with our friends pictures to identify each friend. We also explored the inside of a pumpkin as we used our senses to open and smell the pumpkin’s insides, pull the slimy pulp and seeds out and counted them. We read Apple and pumpkin books, sang “Pumpkin Vine,” and indulged in a special “Apple Pie” snack. What a treat!

The Great Shakeout!

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Today the preschool took part in the Great California Shakeout. Schools, businesses, and companies across the state participate each year in practicing what to do in case of an earthquake. At the preschool we call our “duck and cover” procedure, “Bunnies in the Hole.” All the classes had a fantastic time running through the whole process from “duck and cover” to mustering all the way to the big field on the main campus. They kids did a great job staying safe and listening to their teachers!