Happy Birthday, Munchkin

Happy Birthday to You!



Christopher Columbus

In 1492

After our long weekend off, we spent the first day back learning why we were off in the first place! 

We took a whole day to focus on Christopher Columbus.

Our fun included a coloring page...

A dot-to-dot of one of his three boats...

A fun project of his flag ship (named after our Blessed Mother!)...

And a cute little boat to color in our free time.

We even tied Christopher Columbus into our snack!

(Yes, it's a boat.)

Interestingly, I discovered that I have several munchkins who don't like cheese!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Happy Birthday, Munchkin

Happy Birthday to You!

I can't believe I forgot to post this!

Happy Birthday, Munchkin!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.



The Feast of St. Francis

Good St. Francis

We continued to work our way through the first week of October, celebrating each day along the way!  Boy that first week is filled (and next week promises to have several wonderful days as well!)

Today was especially special!

St. Francis is the patron of our Kindergarten classroom. 

And what a beautiful example of how to grow in holiness and live close to Christ.  That is why we study the saints!

We created a fun little woodland scene for St. Francis and all the animals of God's creation that he loved so much. 

The munchkins did a wonderful job making the trees and the setting.

  

  

Then they added all sorts of critters...stickers are sooooo much fun!

When finished, there was a little time for a coloring page, too.

And to end our day, we read the story of the wolf at Gubbio.  What a terrific story.  The munchkins always love it!

We enjoyed wolf paw cookies as a special treat and them we watched

St. Francis: Knight of Assisi

St. Francis, Pray for Us!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

St. Michael

Another Angel

After learning all about our Guardian Angels, we took a day to learn about some other very special angels...The Archangels.  The Feast of the Archangels took place over the weekend this year, so we added it to our week when we had some extra time!  But...because we squeezed this feast day in...we didn't have time to learn about all the archangels.

Our focus was St. Michael!

We read about St. Michael our Protector and learned his prayer.

We enjoyed devil's food donuts, too!

And we made shields of virtue with St. Michael's image.

St. Michael the Archangel

Defend us in battle.

Be our protection against the wickedness

and snares of the devil.

My God rebuke him, we humbly pray.

And do thou, of prince of heavenly hosts

By the divine power of God

Cast into hell, Satan

And all the evil spirits

Who prowl about the earth

seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

Our Guardian Angels

Kindergarten Angels

Well...on to the second feast day of October!

The Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels

We read a cute little book called Angel of God: What's Your Name?  The munchkins had really never thought about the fact that their angels are with them always and that at any given time during the day our classroom is filled with angels! 

We made a quick, easy and oh-so-glittery angel project, which included the Guardian Angel Prayer, to remind us to invoke the help of our Guardian Angel each day and night. 

Then we had angel food cake!

(Although not all the munchkins liked it...)

Angel of God

My Guardian Dear

To Whom God's love

Commits me here

Ever this day

Be at my side

To light and guard

To rule and guide.

Amen

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.

The Feast of St. Therese

Learning About

The Little Flower

Other than December, I'm not sure there is a month with so many wonderful opportunities to learn about the amazing lives of the saints of our Church.  October is packed full of beautiful feast days and we began right off the bat today with one of our favorites...

St. Therese of the Child Jesus

The munchkins enjoyed listening to the Glory Story CD of her life while they worked on a fun make-and-take project.

We created a cross with craft sticks and colored an image of St. Therese for the bottom portion.  The top was decorated with little flowers, much like the cross in the coloring page.  They turned out so lovely and the munchkins couldn't wait to take them home and tell everyone how to follow St. Therese's "little way" to become a saint!

And to top that off...we had "little flower" cookies!

Yum!

St. Therese, Pray for Us!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.