Jackson is really doing well with Pre-K this year. I cannot believe the school year is half way through. Wow, time flies.

This past week he made his yearly Thankful tree. We traced his hands (which he always loves because it tickles) and cut out the handprints. We made a tree and glued it to cardstock then wrote what he was thankful for on each leaf (handprint). He sure came up with some great ones this year, and a few random ones as well, like Giraffes and Deer. None the less, it was his and what he was thankful for at that moment, and that is what makes it so special.


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I love fall! It's my favorite time of year. This week, we've done our work in our Alpha Omega Horizons workbooks and talked about fall and Halloween. We acknowledge that Halloween is meant to be fun and games and nothing scary or gory. We participate in Halloween but just the fun side of it. We have tried on our Halloween costumes and made pumpkins and ghosts. We even made Halloween cookies this week.

This week we are learning about Creation. To give this "unit" a snappy name, we're going to title this series of posts, "Creation Station".

I am so excited to expand my 4 year old's thinking about creation. There are lots of ways you could teach about creation, but I wanted to keep it simple.

First, we read this easy to read bible story about creation. I love how easy to read it is and how well my 4 year old comprehended it.

Next, we talked about what God created on Day One. I made posterboard cut outs of numbers for each day of creation. I created and decorated them with what was created on that day to help my "student" understand this concept better.



We then used some of our Alpha Omega Curriculum to talk about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Granted, he doesn't understand the Holy Spirit concept, he now knows that these three make up one...God. We linked that with our family. Our family has one name and we are one big family, but we have different parts of our family. We named out each family member in our immediate family and stated that even though there are four parts, we all are the same family. Just like God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit make up three parts, there is only ONE GOD. I wanted to introduce this concept (even though I knew it wouldnt make sense yet) because later on in the school year, we're going to come back to this. A good way to illustrate this is with an egg. Place the egg in a bowl. Help the student crack the egg. Explain how there are 3 parts to an egg; the shell, egg yolk, and egg white. These three parts make up ONE egg.



Another tool I'm using to help talk about creation is a mini book that I found here. We colored and talked about Day One. All throughout this week, we'll use this book to work our way through the rest of the days of creation. Then he can keep it as a tool to help him remember the days of creation.

We worked through our Horizons workbook and color, cut, and pasted all the things God created for us. He chose where each went on the page and it turned out great! He also colored a picture of "heaven" that was also in our Horizons workbook.


To end this lesson, we watched this video on YouTube about Creation. He loved the pictures and music!

We are coming to a close on our first "official" week of school here! And it's been a blast! I'm very excited about what this school year will bring our way. My little man is loving every minute of learning and doing fun activities together. Here is a run down from our week.

1. We re-read the "Charlie & Trike in the Grand Canyon Adventure" and talked about rocks, the flood, Noah, and how we must always obey God, even when others dont believe what we think to be true. God is the ultimate Father and he knows what is best for us.



2. We did Lessons 1-5 in the Alpha Omega Horizons PreK Workbook. I can't say enough good things about this curriculum. I'm excited to use it in the upcoming years as well. Alpha Omega has everything put together so the teacher/homeschool parent doesn't have to do much lesson planning, if at all. It's all laid out to a "T" on lessons, ideas, worksheets, etc. Everything you need for your curriculum. No more searching for multiple books, publishers, and ideas. It's all in one with Horizons.



This week we talked about Dad's and our Heavenly Father - how God created the heavens and the earth. Little man learned about how God is always there for us and how he knows exactly what we need and when.

Our Dad's are special and we love them for many reasons. We listed the reasons why we love our Dad and why we love our ultimate dad, God. For music time, we sang "Daddy, Daddy, We Love You" (to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star!) We also made a "Dad card" to give to our Dad to tell him why we love him so much. Little Man will explain his card to his dad tonight after he is home from work as well as explain that God is also our Dad and loves us so much.

This week's letter is the letter "A". While Little Man is passed this in knowing his letters, numbers, and writing, it still is a great way to review. Instead of skipping over the basic concepts he already knows and jumping to something new, we are going to review until we make it to something new.

I'm so excited to be able to review the Alpha Omega Horizons Preschool Curriculum this year! Over the next 6-9 months, I'll be reviewing our preschool year using this curriculum. My son is 4.5 years old and is so excited to actually call himself a preschooler! (Cute!)