Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Happy Veteran's Day!

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Happy Veterans Day! To all those who have served or are serving thank you so much for allowing us to be able to live as freely as we do. We had a wonderful Tuesday filled with lots of talk of Thanksgiving and the season of the fall. We had fun playing with our friends and we continue on working on keeping our hands to ourselves and remembering everyone’s personal space. Be sure to read all about what did today and view the pictures.

Jesus Time: Today we talked about how thankful we are for our church and our home We reviewed about how the church is a place we can always go to to feel welcomed and loved. That Jesus is always there to listen to us. We also learned how thankful we are for the two awesome pastors that we have at Zion, Pastor Mark Rouland and Pastor Jason Reitz, Zion has been so very blessed to have such great Pastors help us learn about the word of God. We talked also about how thankful we are for the house we live in that keeps us safe, warm and dry. We talked about how thankful we are that when we walk inside the door of our home there is always someone there that loves us.

Number: We continued learning about the number 4 today. During our Morning Meeting we were introduced to what the number 4 looks like. We then practice counting our 4 fingers, clapping 4 times, jumping up and down 4 times, stomping our feet 4 times, rubbing our tummies 4 times.

Center time led us to a brown piece of paper with the number 4 on it. Once we identified the number four we were given 4 Thanksgiving stickers that we had to place on our paper in the proper spots. We then counted our 4 Thanksgiving stickers and practiced saying the name of each sticker. Using stickers helps us work on our pincer grasp, as we have to peel the sticker from the sheet to the paper.

Shape: We continued our study of the shape of a cross today at Morning Meeting as well. We learned that we can make a cross with our fingers and that it is made with two lines. We talked about places we might see a cross. Hopefully we will be able to make trip to the church this month to find some crosses on the wall in the church.

Letter: The letter “G” is the letter we are working on the next week or so. Today we looked at what the letter G looks like and sounds like. We heard some words that start with G as well such as, Giraffe, Goofy, and GO GO!! Gorilla, gorgeous and guitar to name a few more.

Color: Brown is the color for November. During Morning Meeting we looked at what the color brown looks like and identified some brown objects on our color board for the month of November.

During center time we painted a picture of an acorn to go with our brown squirrels.

We used a brown bingo dauber to decorate a pilgrim and brown paper to cut to decorate a turkey.

Music and Movement: We had another great day dancing and singing. We added a new song to our ever-growing list of fun songs. The washing Machine was another silly fun song we did today. We also sang our ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Jesus loves Me. We really love Jumping, Counting and Holding our Breath! We also practiced our Five Finger Play about some silly Thanksgiving Turkeys!

Outside Time: It was too windy and cold outside today so we headed for the commons to play and run and burn off that energy we keep stored up. After our commons time we took a small walk around the school in search of crosses. We found some along with some other really neat stuff. Be sure to check out in our pictures what we found.

Patterning: We continue our pattern for the month of November. It is a little tricky at times but we are doing a great job with it. We practiced saying the pattern and counting to 10.

During our Center Time we did a pattern of Indian and Pilgrims. The students were given the pictures and then had to make their pattern with it. They were given a piece of brown paper and a glue bottle and had to place a dot of glue on the dot on their paper and then glue the Thanksgiving picture in the spot. It was neat to hear the children saying the pattern as they did it. We are learning lots of Thanksgiving words ask your child if they can say pilgrim or Indian.

Science and Sensory: We have had lots of fun fall things in our sensory table this past month and it will be in the sensory table next month.

Cutting: Today we practiced cutting a strip of brown paper or two and then glued them on to make a turkey after we glued on the brown paper we had to match the color feather with a bingo dauber to make a beautiful colorful feathers! Be sure to check them out in the lobby this week!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice

Today we listend to another medley of Autumn Music to help us get in the mood for Thanksgiving. We had fun doing puzzles and lots of other fun activities during our Free Choice Time.

This book that Carson and Nicholas were looking at had all types of pictures and words in it. It was great to watch them get excited and say the pictures they could identify!

Puzzles are a great way for us to work on our problem solving skills and spatial awareness.

Painting and Acorn

Morning Meeting

Mr. Weather Frog was dressed for cold and cloudy day in the STL

We read this book last week but it is a great book that helps with repetition and animal identification, colors and sounds animals make.

Transition Time

Circle Time

Today we practiced putting turkeys in the right order from biggest to smallest we did this as a class a couple of times. This another way to help with our pre math skills and being able to identify size.

We practiced putting a puzzle together that looks like a Cornucopia. We also practiced saying the word Cornucopia that is a really really hard word!

For our color identification board we drew and Indian and the 6 colorful feathers to go on his headdress.

Run!!! It was cold outside so we had to hurry to the commons

Waiting our turn to go into the commons and play

Commons Time!

Walk around the School

We spotted an Angry Bird

A Fox

An Owl

A Brown Bear

We found a cross

A few of my Friends were very concerned about the boo boo on Jesus' Foot at the bottom of the cross

We are working on walking soft and quiet as we go through the hallways of the main school

We found a spider by the Mrs. Lail's Kindergarten class

We spotted another cross

We found some very decorated Turkeys' outside Mrs. Lail's class.

Center Time

Putting 4 Thanksgiving stickers on the number 4

A new addition to our room was a Lego table lots of creations going on at this table

Creating a picture with friends on the dry erase board

Intense conversation with Mickey Mouse

Thanksgiving Pattern

Turkey Decorating

Lots of steps to this project. First we cut the strips of brown paper. Second,we had to use the glue bottle to put glue on our turkey. Third, we had to put our brown cut pieces of paper on the glue. Fourth we had to match the bingo dauber to the correct color on our turkey to make the feathers.