Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : FIrst Tuesday in October

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

We started out our week in PDO with some clouds and rain, but it gave way to what happen to be a beautiful day in PDO. This group plays so well together that today we did a lot of playing and just learning and exploring with our friends. We started a new number 3, a new shape the circle, a new color orange and continued to learn about Noah and the letter E.

Jesus Time: Today we continued our story about Noah and this is what we learned today….

Genesis 6

Many years later there were lots of people on the Earth, but most of them were bad. One man-Noah-was good. He obeyed God. “I want you to build a boat, God told Noah. Noah started right away. People laughed at Noah because they lived in a desert and there was no water for the boat. Noah just went on building the boat.

We had the opportunity during free choice play to play with some Noah’s ark and all the animals he put inside them.

We also water colored a picture of Noah and his ark with all his animal friends.

Number: Number three is what we are studying this month. We practiced making the number three with our fingers this is good practice for our finger and hand muscles. We practiced counting to three and looking at what the number three looks like.

During center time today we practiced our cutting skills cutting out the numbers 1-2-3 and pumpkins that correlated to the numbers and matching them up and gluing them on a piece of orange paper.

Shape: We are learning about a circle this month. We learned that there is no beginning and end to a circle and that we can think of many things that look like a circle.

During center time we got to use circle stamps and an orange ink pad to make a circle collage on our paper.

Letter: We are continuing our study about the letter “E” this week. We learned about different words that begin with the letter E, such as Elephant, every, our Friend Evan’s names starts with E, excited, exactly, egg and emotion.

Our center activity we used bingo daubers to decorate the letter E.

Color: Orange is our color of the month. So we spent time during morning meeting identifying different things that were orange.

We painted a picture of a pumpkin today the color orange. .

Music and Movement: We practiced clapping our hands, jumping and turning around, and getting silly during the silly dance contest. WE are also learning the finger play 5 Little Pumpkins

Outside Time: It was to wet for us outside today on the playground, so we took around Zion’s campus and talked about all the neat things we saw a long our walk.

Patterning: We introduced a new pattern today of pumpkins and leaves that we will work on more through out the month today.

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice

We had new play dough, new books and new toys to play with and explore!

Morning Meeting/Transition Time

We had a new month, a new color, a new number and a new shape during our Morning Meeting. We had a new pattern of pumpkins and leaves and learned more about why God wanted Noah to build and Ark.

Standing in line ready to wash hands for snack!

Circle Time

We are continuing our study of the letter E this week.

Silly Dance contest had us doing all types of silly things today!

We had a scarecrow visit us today and tell us all about the colors and the pumpkin patch.

We talked a little about the leaves changing on the trees.

Painting as a Group

Today we painted a picture of an Orange Pumpkin to help us with the color orange. We did this as a whole group and did a great job!

Bingo Dauber fun with the Letter E

Outside Time

It was too muddy for us to go to the playground today, so we had fun playing in Mrs. Schenck's classroom today and then we went out for a walk around the campus of Zion to get some fresh air and enjoy the weather!