Besides the blessing theme, this month we are making something every week out of pumpkin since the kids made yucky faces and ewww noises during stories about pumpkins in October. Last week we made cupcakes. No pumpkin last week as the theme was Halloween and I used candy corn in our creative curriculum and we frosted and decorated our cupcakes at the end of the day with them. But this week we made vanilla pumpkin pudding. The making of it was much better received than the actual tasting of it according to 80% of the class. And, oh my gosh, making something with 10 children all wanting a turn simutaneously stirring, opening, pouring, sniffing, helping, helping, helping!!!! "Wow, that's about all I can say about that...WOW!" Back to the pudding, I personally thought it was delicious. But one little girl summed it up succintly "It's DISGUSTING!!!" I even gave them chocolate sprinkles to help them choke it down, to no avail.
At story time I read "What Mommies/Daddies Do Best". It's a cute story that tells the same story twice, once as what mommy does best, and then you flip the book over and re-read it as what daddy does best. Different illustrations but the story line is the same. Very fun and cute. We brought the discussion around to blessings and being thankful for blessings, how we have lots of different blessings, how our families are all different but similar, just like the book, etc. Then I conducted the interviews to find out what great and small blessings the kiddo's were thankful for, explaining that a big blessing is one that is very important to you and the smaller blessings might be ones that still matter to you but they might be lots of little everyday blessings that you are happy to have in your life. And no matter how you count them, they all add up to the fact that God loves us so much He gives us lots of blessings in just the size you need. Here are the ones that made me smile, minus the repetitive ones (great blessings followed by the small):
We Are Blessed In Ways
Both Great & Small
But We're Thankful For Them ALL!
"A big, big, big, big, BIG house is a blessing!"
"All my little toys"
"My mom and dad"
"I have a cat Tiger"
"Playing Baseball"
"I'm thankful for my dog Boomer"
"My bedtime story at night"
"Our little house"
"I'm thankful that I'm going to get a new pet!"
"I'm thankful that when my dad got hurt shaving on his cheek it got better"
"The trees are a big blessing and my heart diamond at home. The flowers are a medium blessing. The ladybugs are a small blessing"
This one little boy was sooo sweet, I asked 2 or 3 times for an answer I could use for a small blessing but he really wouldn't give me one, finally he said "I don't have one, this is enuf". How sweet is that?!
"Playing with my dad"
5 comments:
Ohh how we love those little ones... I would I LOVED the vanilla pumpkin pudding. :) I'll make some with you next time AND help you eat it. Cute blessings, thats cool to help them know between big and small blessings.
I love your job...maybe I should go out an work at a preschool. Maybe not, then I couldn't go to visit my little preschool in Utah and ID when ever I wanted...
Those were precious . . .
I think I am with the kids on the pumpkin pudding!
That is soooo sweet. :) I'm with Kay...I love your job! ;)
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