Primary Program Song

I had the opportunity for much of this year to be the Primary chorister.  So, for the Primary program I taught the older children both verses of "I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus" and the younger children the first verse of "Jesus Once Was a Little Child".  I combined the songs into a medley and added an instrumental part.  Leah played the violin as our instrumentalist and did a great job.  We tried to capture the essence of how it went tonight by having her play the violin and having Hyrum and Kaitlyn sing the songs.  We were much more relaxed at home, and so some of the song gets a bit casual, but you can use your imagination.  The song is long, but the point was to showcase both songs.

Preschool is in session

Hyrum started our preschool coop in September, and last week was our first week to host.  We had the theme of nursery rhymes and the letter L.  We started off by playing  a matching game with rhyming words:

By far, the most popular game we played was "Little mouse, little mouse, what color is your house?"  One of the kids would leave the room and we would hide the mouse behind one of the houses.  Then, the child would come back, we would say the rhyme, and the child would guess a color house to look behind until we found the mouse.  We had to play this several times because they loved it so much.

We practiced counting and estimating with "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe".  It turns out Jared's shoe hold 14 people, mine holds 7, and Hyrum's holds 4.

For our snacks, we had muffin man muffins, curds and whey (cheese curds and cottage cheese), Jack be nimble's candlestick (baby banana inside a bagel), and yes, we let Humpty Dumpty fall and then ate him.

For the letter L I realized that many nursery rhymes had a lamb in them (Mary had a little lamb, Little Bo Peep, Baa Baa Black sheep).  We took a lamb theme as a mini-theme for one of the days.  One of our activities was sorting black and white pom poms and then glueing them on lamb pictures to make one white and one black sheep.

Preschool October 2012 - free slideshow

We have a good group of kids this year and we're having a lot of fun!  We'll be hosting again in two weeks with  the themes of opposites and math.

More of the latest

This post is just to document a thing or two...

Amy's latest artwork:

Recently Jared took out a flowerbed in the middle of our front yard and added a new one.  We  need to water the transplanted grass and new plants, so Kaitlyn and Hyrum took advantage of sprinkler time (unheard of here):