November Papers

Sarah learned to write the lowercase letters g-j this month at school.  She continued to work on writing and recognizing numbers and counting.  She can count up to 34 now with no help!

This is a picture that Sarah drew for me one day while she was at school... They had to stay indoors for recess due to rain/mud.  She choose to color and draw and was very excited to give this finished picture to me... "Mommy this is a picture I drew for you.  It is you, me and Jesus. And, Jesus is making the light shine on us." (Jesus is the very tall person in the picture and Sarah and I are the two short people.) 

This is my favorite picture that ANY child has ever drawn or colored for me up to this point in my life.  For REAL.  It made my day and month.  When I look at this picture, hanging in its permanent home on our refrigerator, it makes me smile and warms my heart.  Sarah knows that Jesus loves her and others, and she can illustrate this in her drawing and in her words.

Sarah has been practicing cutting with scissors at school.  She hadn't used scissors very much before school started in September.  She is getting better at this skill.  She cut out the inny inchworm in the colored picture below for me when she brought it home that day from school.  She was able to turn the paper and cut all by herself and followed the dotted line pretty well.

We decided to let her practice cutting some more the week before Thanksgiving... She was helping Daddy cut wrapping paper pieces to wrap some Christmas presents when I heard from the living room, "Honey come out here..."  I went out to see what Eric and Sarah needed me for and discovered that when Eric wasn't looking, Sarah had cut a small piece of her hair... about 4 inches of hair in one small section on the right side of her head... and a few other random little hairs that lay around her on the floor.... all in all not too much hair was cut and the damage was minimal.  Not enough to need a big haircut, but enough to get in trouble and get the scissors taken away for awhile.

Here is a little refrigerator magnet - inny inchworm that Sarah made at school.  It is glued onto a clothespin, so it can hold papers.

We had our first parent teacher conference for Sarah this month.  Her teachers had very nice things to say about her.  They said she is polite, quiet, nice, and shy. Ms. Lila also said, "Sarah is a joy to have in our classroom.  She is such a hard little worker."  She has mastered most of the things on her Preschool Assessment report card in literacy and language, gross and fine motor skills, personal safety category, listening and verbal skills category, classroom interaction category, and in the spiritual development category.  (Yay Sarah!!!) Sarah IS smart and IS a hard worker.  We are glad that she is doing so well in school! 

Sarah made this cute little I Am Thankful book.

She came home with this card that she told me she had made for her Popee and Nanee... The turkey feathers are made with her hand prints.  Then she glued the paper on the inside of the card and signed her name.

 

Sarah finally got a turn to take the Mystery Bag home this past Monday.  As you can read below she had to bring the bag back on Wednesday with something in it that started with the letter j.  Then she had to give clues to her classmates about what she had picked to put in the bag that started with the letter j.  Once the item is guessed then Sarah could show and share about it with her classmates.  First, she thought of taking a jump rope in the bag.  Next, we thought about putting a jingle bell in the bag.  Then, we thought of putting her Jessie the Cowgirl Doll in the bag.  So, Jessie got to go to school in the Mystery Bag!

Some clues that Sarah gave to her classmates to help them guess what might be in the Mystery Bag were...*It has a pull string on the back *It has red yarn hair *She wears a cowgirl hat *She wears boots *She says "Yo-da-la-he-hoo!" *She has a horse named Bullseye *She was in two movies *She has friends named Woody and Buzz

   

She has been practicing for a school Christmas program, called "An Old Fashioned Christmas", that the the children will be performing in mid-December.  She has been learning the songs "We Three Kings" and "Angels We Have Heard on High".  It should be a cute performance and we are looking forward to it.