Book List for Grace, Courtesy, Friendship and Valentines

Grace, Courtesy, Friendship and Valentines

Day It Rained Hearts

By Felicia Bond

The Pigs’ Wedding

By Helme Heine

Slugs in Love

By Susan Pearson

Toot & Puddle The New Friend

By Holly Hobbie

Toot & Puddle You Are My Sunshine

By Holly Hobbie

Kisses

By Nanda Roep & Marijke ten Cate

If I Could A Mother’s Promise

By Susan Milord

Friends

By Helme Heine

Tarra & Bella

By Carol Buckley

Never Too Little to Love

By Jeanne Willis

Hug Time

By Patrick McDonnell

When You Are Happy

By Eileen Spinelli

You and Me

By Martine Kindermans

Cookies Bite-size Life Lessons

By Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Blasting into Outer Space!

3,2,1 BLASTOFF!!  Harmony Preschoolers have had such a wonderful time learning about outer space.   Some of our most favorite activities have included blasting off rockets, making moon sand, creating our own special constellations and making a Harmony rocket ship!  Please enjoy the pictures of Harmony Preschoolers making magic.  

To the Moon and Back: Book list

To the Moon and Back!

On the Moon

By Anna Milbourne and Benji Davies

The North Star

By Peter H Reynolds

Space: For Kids who really love Space!

By Sarah Powell

On Earth

By G. Brian Karas

Touch the Earth

By Jane Baskwill

Roaring Rockets

By Tony Mitton and Ant Parker

Earthdance

By Joanne Ryder

Thank You, World

By Alice B McGinty

Max Goes to the Moon

By Jeffery Bennett

The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

By Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen

Papa, please get the moon for me

By Eric Carle

If You Decide to Go to the Moon

By Faith McNulty 

Time for Slime!

It's time for Slime!!  Our new theme at Harmony Preschool is discovering Outer Space.  A great way to celebrate our new theme is by making slime with your Preschooler.  This recipe is sticky, gooey and oh so fun!    

Ingredients

• Water
• Elmer's Glue (white liquid school glue)
• Borax (can be found in the laundry detergent aisle of most grocery stores)
• Food Coloring

Directions

1. In one bowl mix 1/2 cup of water with 4 oz. of Elmer's glue (most containers are 4 oz. so you will just want to squeeze out as much as possible from the bottle).  Stir everything together until it is nice and smooth. Set this mixture aside.
2. In another bowl mix 1/4 cup of very warm water (heat in microwave for about 1 minute and 30 seconds) with 2 teaspoons of Borax.  The water needs to be warm enough that the Borax will completely dissolve when stirred.
3. Add the desired amount of food coloring to the water and Borax mixture.  You want to make it much darker than you intend for the end result because it will lighten a lot when mixed with the glue.
4. Stirring the water and glue mixture constantly, add the water and Borax mixture in.  Stir for a minute or two until it is starting to all come together.
5. Mix everything together with your hands until it forms a solid ball and has absorbed most of the water.

Winter Fun and Gingerbread Houses

We have had so much fun learning about winter and enjoying holiday festivities!  Harmony Preschoolers have been busy decorating gingerbread houses, trimming the tree, experimenting with ice and much much more.  We wish you all a very happy and safe holiday season. 

Making our own Gingerbread Baby

Where did he go???

We found him hiding outside!  

Winter Fun with our small group friends!  

Happy Holidays!  

Book list for Winter Fun

We at Harmony Preschool created a book list of featured literature from each of our favorite Harmony themes.  These books have been chosen by their past popularity and well as their support to our nine key core values.  We hope these books help bridge the gap between home and school.    

Winter Fun

Tacky the Penguin

By Helen Lister

Penguin and Pinecone

By Salina Yoon

Snow Party

By Harriet Ziefert

The Wild Toboggan Ride

By Suzan Reid

Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?

By Bill Martin Jr. / Eric Carle

Thomas’ Snowsuit

By R. Munsch

365 Penguins

By Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet

Stella Queen of the Snow

By Marie-Louise Gay

When Winter Comes

By Nancy Van Laan

The Mitten

By Jan Brett

Little Penguin’s Tale

By Audrey Wood

Owl Moon

By Jane Yolen

Gingerbread Baby

By Jan Brett

Celebrating Winter Holidays

Dream Snow

By Eric Carle

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree

By Robert Barry

Seven Days of Kwanzaa

By Ella Grier

My First Kwanzaa

By Karen Katz

Santa’s New Suit

By Rojany/Lester

The Polar Express

By Chris Van Allsburg

Olivia Helps with Christmas

By Ian Falconer

The Chanukah Guest

By Eric A. Kimmel

Light The Lights!

Margaret Moorman

Latkes, Latkes Good to Eat

By Naomi Howland

Bear Stays Up

By Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman

Wombat Devine

By Mem Fox

Pie Days!

Thank you to everyone for making our Thanksgiving pie day celebration a huge success!  Harmony Preschoolers enjoyed pumpkin pie with their families and started their Thanksgiving break with a full belly.   We look forward to many more celebrations together.