Since we’ve been busy working behind the scenes, updating all the lesson plan pages on Preschool Post, we’re a little bit behind the actual monthly calendar. So this is a post for January, the month we’re currently working on updating and revising……even though we are now currently in the month of February.

Anyway, one of our January topics is SHADOWS! Such a fun unit, and I just wanted to share an additional link for those of you working on a shadow lesson.

Free Hand Shadows Ebook

“Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books,” If you haven’t heard of this website yet, be sure and head on over there to check it all out! I most recently found this e-book on hand shadows, which would be lots of fun for children to explore.

You can search by author, title, or even topic! And if you find something useful, don’t forget to come back and share the link with us in the comments section below!

Isn’t it fun when you stumble across a wonderful site that not only offers Free lesson plans and resources, but has a Christian commitment as well? It just makes you want to jump up and shout “AMEN”, “Praise the Lord”, and “Thank you” to the web-owners who have been called to make these wonderful sites.

ABC Jesus Love Me has a full year curriculum for ages 3 and 4. Each of the weekly lesson plans have a Bible Story, Bible Verse, Bible Song, Comprehension Questions, Snack Time Ideas and more! This is a great resource if your looking for inexpensive ways to teach your weekly lessons.

So get your mouse ready and click this one into your bookmarks for sure! It’s sure to be a fantastic resource when you’re in a quick fix for some lesson plan ideas!

Have you heard the news? There is a brand new, amazing CHRISTIAN website, that is completly and totally about teaching TOTS! Totally Tots is run by Carisa Hinson, a former preschool teacher turned homeschooling mom of 2, who had this amazing idea, (read: vision from God) to start up a website that helps all us parents of of TOT school aged children teach our children with Christian values.

Anyway, back to the site….it’s really amazing, there are lots of Christian Mom’s working very hard behind the scenes to deliver relevant topics that you will find very useful in your day-to-day goings about. My favorite so far are the Bible Bites section, which provides you small yet effective ways to incorporate the bible into your TOT school, and the Getting Real with God section which is a nice little Bible reflection for Me (and other mom’s, but they’re so spot on sometimes I think their talking directly to me….especially this post on The Big Bad Wolf.)

What is a Tot exactly? Any child 12-36 months of age, so when you read TOT, think Toddler! So, when you get an extra second today, make sure you head on over to Totally Tots, and check out all the other fantastic categories they have (Giggle Time, Crafty Corner, Simply Made and lots more!)

Be sure and Subscribe to their RSS feed so you can have their posts delievered directly to your email or feed page, they have a new post almost every day, and you’ll want to keep up with the amazing things going on over there!

Along with our December Theme of Worship and Praise, check out this amazing website where you can download free Praise and Worship music for kids. This site even has the sheet music for you to download if you’ve been blessed with musical ability.

We’ll if you haven’t already noticed from our list of available lessons, there are a few months missing, that we’ve yet to provide lessons for….that’s because we’re just not quite done perfecting them yet! It’s so encouraging to hear from everyone how helpful the lessons are to your ministry, and we are more then blessed to be able to continually add to this site!

And of course we’re working behind the scenes on lots of projects as well (like this blog for example) and switching the theme of our site from the Old Look….to the New Look. All of this takes time, but we do want you to know that we haven’t forgotten about adding new and exciting lessons to the list.

Currently we’re working on lessons with a Transportation theme, you know like Boats, Cars, Trains….fun stuff like that! The transportation lessons will be slotted for the month of June, but as with all of our lessons, you can use them at any time during the year that suits you’re needs!

Anyway, stay tuned for some Transportation fun, and thanks for hanging in there with us as we update and make some necessary changes!

Blessings,

Valerie

Have you bookmarked this fantastic site yet? This website is full of Christian Puppet Scripts that you can download and print for FREE! Yup that’s right! You can search by age level, by topic, by resources required and the scripts are offered in many formats making it easy for you to find a way to get your hands on them! I’ve already gone ahead and found a wonderful script you can use when teaching children about WORSHIP! This is a small script, you only need three puppets and it’s just the right length for preschool aged children! I enjoy the optional ending better for the little ones, the original ending might be a little vague for young children.

This puppet script would go fantastically with our December “Music” theme especially if right after you play the children some worship music and let them praise and worship God!

Be sure and check out all the other Puppet Scripts you can find there, and when you do, leave them some good feedback……it’s always nice to hear that you’re doing a good job!

December is our Musical theme, and these lace up instruments are the perfect center time activity. Print up a few of them and display them on a learning table for children to work on.

Lace Up Musical Cards

These are musical instruments described in the Bible as the harp and the lyre. Laminate these and punch holes where shown. Provide children with a small string to “string” their instruments. There are bible verses on each one, so read the verse to the children and talk about what it means to praise and worship God with music.

You can print these and more Praise and Worship Music lessons free from our website.