Preschool: Healing of the 10 Lepers

March 8th, 2009

March 8, 2009

This morning we had a great question: Who will help you? Jesus will help me!

Today, in Greenhouse, we learned that Jesus loves us and will help us. In the story of the 10 lepers, Jesus healed all of them and made them better. To help us remember our story we made a cool band aid picture, played with doctor kits, and played a few other fun games.

Each week, as part of our time together, our kids sit in small circles and share an answer to a question that helps them apply the point to their own lives. Today our question was, do you know someone who Jesus can help? Some of us named our moms, dads, brothers and sisters, and people we know who are sick. The we stopped and prayed that Jesus would help all those people who need Him.

Parents, This is a great week to tackle a new challenge with your child like doing a puzzle, writing their name, tying their shoes, or making the bed. Each day before you begin the learning process, review our question and answer. Who will help you? Jesus will help me? Explain that learning a new task takes time, but we can ask Jesus to help us.

Our memory verse ties in very easily this month. “He (point up) cares (hug self) for me (use both thums to point to self.) 1 Peter 5:7 (open hands like a Bible.)

SPECIAL NOTE:

For those of you who were present for the 11:00 service, we had a tornado warning/watch at the end of the service. We moved all of the children to the interior rooms where there are no windows to the outside. These rooms are the safest places in our buildings. We want to thank all of our volunteers (Hooray Volunteers) for keeping our kids safe, calm and happy. We want to thank our directors, Jennifer & Ticarafor managining the situation with confidence and calm. And we want to thank our parents and other West Siders for helping uskeep oursafe area clear and remaining patientas we safely returned the children to their parents.

In case of a tornado warning or watch, all children are moved to the interior rooms in the education wing. Early childhood kids are gathered in the rooms closest to them at the south end of the ed wing and the Elementary children are gathered in the interior rooms at the north end. In the Early Childhood area, we keep the children calm, happy and busy. If we feel the situation has become more dangerous, we play a game of “hide” with the kids, having them hide under the tables. Our goal is to keep the children safe and help them feel secure. Once children have been safely moved and are accounted for, parents can join their children in the safe rooms by presenting their family i.d. card to a director. Parents are asked to remain calm, as well, so that the all children in our rooms feel safe and secure. Once it is possible to safely check out children, we will do so by asking each parent to present their i.d. card or a driver’s license. Check-out might require a little more time under these circumstances, but getting each child safely returned to their parents is the priority.

If you have any questions regarding our tornado plan, please contact me at Jessicas@wschurch.org

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