Turkey Tuesday

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Welcome to a great Tuesday we had!  We are in full swing of getting ready for the Thanksgiving Holiday and we did a lot of talking today about family, friends, and turkeys and working on some Thanksgiving words.  With the very very cold weather we stayed in our building today and were able to visit another PDO room to play for a bit.  We are working really really hard at not touching our friends and giving our friends some space!  I love to see how much they love each other and how they love to help each other.  I am really starting to see some great strides of independence and am so excited to see how many of my friends are starting to become potty trained!  We are growing by leaps and bounds and here and it is so great to see!!  Please read and look at the pictures of what all we did today. 

Jesus Time: Today we talked about how thankful we are for our church our home and our family. 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.  We talked about the important people in our family and we looked at a picture of my family today and I told them how important my family is to me. 

During our center time we glued a picture of a house on a piece of paper and then we drew our family in the house to help us remember how thankful we are for our family.  Be sure to look for these in the lobby through out the week. 

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 making a turkey with 4 FEATHERS!!  We played a game to make our turkey we had a die that had different colors on it and when we rolled the die whatever color it landed on that was the color of feather we put on our turkey.  We only rolled the die and put 4 feathers on our turkey. This was a great way for us to work on the number four taking turns, color matching and color identification.  These beautiful turkeys will be displayed in our hallway through out the week.   

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.

Today during center time we made a cross collage with a big rubber stamp to help us remember what the shape of the cross is.

Letter: The letter “h” is the letter we are working on the next week or so.  Today we looked at what the letter H looks like and sounds like.  We heard some words that start with H as well such as, Happy, hello, high, hungry, ham, and hippo.

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.

Today we were able to paint a cross the color brown that will be cut out and displayed in our classroom proudly

Music and Movement:  We had another great day dancing and singing.  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! We are getting really good at singing Jesus Loves me and will start learning Away in the Manger in the next couple of weeks.

Outside Time:  It was too cold outside today so we stayed down at the Sonshine center and played in another PDO classroom

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 decorated a turkey using orange and brown bingo daubers to decorate the feathers of our turkey.

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

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice Play

Today we listened to a collection of Fall like and Thanksgiving music during our free choice play.  We also had fun painting a turkey with water colors!  

Checking out the sensory table!  Lots of leaves, pumpkins gourds and acorns to look, touch and smell! 

Morning Meeting

We are getting pretty good at counting to 4!

Our brown board not to many on there today we were running a little behind schedule today. 

We practiced counting 4 blue squares today on our calendar

WEll Mr. Weather Frog looks like he is ready for the snow and cold even though technically it is stlll Fall. 

Today we talked about being thankful for our homes and families.  They were all very interested in seeing what my family looked like and finding me in the picture. 

WE learned that Mom's need help too and no matter what they can or can't do the thing Moms do the best is LOVE US! 

Transition Time

We are doing really well at matching our leaf to the right colored feather on our Turkey! 

We are doing really well standing on the MICKEYS! 

Snack Time

Please remember that a sippy cup is best for your child not a cup where the lid comes off this helps us from preventing spills! 

 CIrcle Time

WE had a lot of fun singing and dancing at the beginning of circle time today

We read this book to help us get ready for Thankgiving and we talked about who we might see at Thanksgiving. 

aWe worked on our shape, color and number skills during circle time as well as singing our ABC's, going through our letter sounds and practicing 5 Little Turkeys! 

Coloring

aColoring a picture of a House to help us with learning the letter H. 

Visiting the Other PDO ROOM

We had fun in Ms. Derrington's room today playing with different toys and looking at different books it was a nice change of pace for us to keep us from getting cabin fever already! 

Center TIme

Working on our Families and Homes

 Patterning

Orange Brown was the pattern for our Turkey Feathers today.  Working with Bingo Daubers helps us with our fine motor and pre writing skills.  We are also working on pre-math skills and color matching and identification.  

Painting a Cross 

Making a Cross Collage

Turkey Project!

The students had to glue the body of two circles together, pick and use a bingo dauber to make to eyes, glue a beak and gobbler on.  Once we completed this task then we had to use the colored die to shake it and roll it on the table to see what 4 colors we were going to use for our feathers.  Once it was determined what color our feathers were going to be then we had to glue on our feathers.  This activity allowed us to work on lots of different things together, fine motor skills, spaitial awareness, body awareness, counting, color identificaiton, taking turns and playing a game.  Enjoy the pics an be on the look out for some pretty great looking turkey's in the hallway! 

Music and Movement 

These kiddos love to dance and sing! 

Last book of the Day all about the things we see on the roads while learning about our ABC'S

Transition Time getting ready for lunch

We are doing really well at identifiying the letters and our name! 

Lunch Time

Our group has grown!  So we had to move to tables also all of my friends sitting at the first table are in the process or are potty trained!  Super exciting stuff happening in our classroom! 

WEll you can see we had another great day in our classroom.  Stay warm tonight!