UCCPA 1-2s

HAPPY NEW YEAR

  Welcome back, and I hope everyone had a very blessed Christmas season.  We will start the new year with our emphasis of "Share with Friends--Jesus Feeds the 5,000" as our Bible story.  We will tell the story using a basket with 5 loaf shapes and 2 fish shapes that show the pictures and words of our story.  We will also practice our counting skills by counting the bread and fish.  Our songs this week include "My God is So Big," "I've Got the Joy," "This Little Light of Mine," "Itsy, Bitsy Spider," and a fingerplay with felt snowmen written below called "5 Little Snowmen."
  For our craft, we will make a paperplate snowman with eyes, nose, buttons, hat, boots, and Christmas wrap mittens.  We also have a felt board activity called "Dear Old Frosty" (words also below) where we will add the hat, eyes, nose, broom, scarf, mittens, and boots to Frosty as we sing.
  For storytime, we have "Dear Daisy, Get Well Soon" by Maggie Smith about how Peter shared and was a good friend to Daisy who had chicken pox.  It reinforces the days of the week and counting as each day Peter sends over a different number of items each day to cheer Daisy up.  Our second story is a Mercer Mayer story called "Just For You" about Little Critter who tries very hard to be helpful to his Mommy.
  We will also continue painting our "Brown Bear" animals this week with "white dog."  We will paint him with white fur attached to clothes pins.  Next week, we will paint "goldfish," and that will be the final animal.  We would like a family picture to add to your child's last page.  If you haven't brought one in yet, please plan to soon.  Once we bind the books, we plan to use them in our room for a few weeks before we send them home with your child.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Shelly

5 LITTLE SNOWMEN
Five little snowmen standing round my door.
This one melted, and then there were four.
Four little snowmen beneath a green pine tree.
This one melted, and then there were three.
Three little snowmen with caps and mittens blue.
This one melted and then there were two.
Two little snowmen standing in the sun.
This one melted, and then there was one.
One little snowman started to run.
But he melted away, and then there was none.

DEAR OLD FROSTY
(tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Guess who wears a special hat, special hat, special hat.
Guess who wears a special hat?
Dear Old Frosty.
Guess who has two eyes of coal. . . (touch eyes)
Guess who has a carrot nose. . . (touch nose)
Guess who carries a big yellow broom. . . (sweep)
Guess who wears a big red scarf. . . (tie scarf)
Guess who wears big green mittens. . . (hold up hands)
Guess who wears big black boots. . . (march feet)