Good Wednesday

Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Our Wednesday was great.   We scaled back on what we did this week and eased our way into some of our activities to help our friends who are still adjusting to coming to a school setting.  We spent our morning playing with new toys.  We took our time transitioning to morning meeting, everyone did great at snack.  We took a walk to ease into playing outside; we spent about 45 minutes on our playground playing with friends and toys.  We ate lunch a little earlier today and then had fun doing a few centers and then back outside to play.  We had fewer tears and we are working through the day with a little more ease.  It is going to take time and the more comfortable the students became with the classroom and the rules the easier the transition will become. 

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. 

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.  

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 a paper towel roll to make a circle collage with orange paint.

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. 

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 jack lantern today the color orange. . 

Music and Movement: We sang the Wheels on the Bus, Clapped and stomped our feet.  We practiced singing our ABC’s, Twinkle Little Star and Jesus Loves Me   WE are also learning the finger play 5 Little Pumpkins

Outside Time:  It was beautiful outside today, so we took around Zion’s campus and talked about all the neat things we saw a long our walk.    We then played on the playground with our friends from the other classes.  Playing outside is a very important part of Early Childhood, so we do spend a lot of time playing and learning outside weather permitting.  

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

Morning Meeting

Transition Time

Circle Time

Outside Time

Center time

Final Book of the Day

Have a fabulous evening!