Preschool Week 19 (February 15-20)

Our theme this week was Manners.

• We continued talking about love, including the aspect of Honor “Showing other people that I respect them; giving preference to them.”
• We were supposed to learn Romans 12:10 “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.” But I never got around to putting up the verse and working on it.

Our book list included:

• Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book, by Richard Scarry – a great book! Has several short “chapters” discussing what good manners look like in various situations.
• Manners Can Be Fun, by Munro Leaf – kind of long. I don’t think I really read this one; Ronnie did most of the reading this week.
• How To Behave and Why, by Munro Leaf -- another kind of long one, but easy to break up into shorter sections. Talks about being honest, fair, etc and behaving in ways that make other people like us.

Activities this week:

We waited for baby to come. When we went to the grocery store, Travis found a small cart that was just his size. He was a big help to push it and put groceries in it!

On President’s Day, Ronnie had a holiday from work. Ronnie took boys with him to get the tires balanced on the van. While they waited, they went to a nearby pet store to look at all the fish, etc. Then they went to Chick-fil-A for lunch and to play. Heather had a bad runny nose, so she stayed home and had a day with mom. We did starfall.com, had an indoor picnic with Russell Stover chocolates, and played a sorting game with the stuffed animals (mommy’s trick to get their room picked up and neat again).

I had the bright idea (after seeing a friend’s toy) to put color coded stickers on the piano keys, and then “write” some music for the kids to play. I coded “Jesus Loves Me” and “Higher Ground”. Travis especially enjoyed playing real songs on the piano. (And I enjoyed listening to real songs instead of just banging noise!)

 

We also got to go to cousin Hannah’s wedding on Friday. We got short naps, then got dressed in our wedding clothes and left right on time to pick up Daddy from work. We used the HOV lane to make it through Friday afternoon rush hour traffic with no major slowdowns. We got to the church in plenty of time to eat a “picnic” supper in the van before attending the wedding. The wedding was nice and we got compliments on the good behavior (manners!) of all three kids during the ceremony. We decided not to stay for the reception, but got the kids in pajamas and headed home to bed. It’s a good thing we did, because I woke up the next morning (after a good night’s sleep) in early labor. As mentioned in a previous post, Brian Joseph was born at 3:30 that afternoon.