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

Wednesday November 12, 2014

Wow is all I can say. We had an awesome Wednesday our best Wednesday yet! We did some painting, coloring, patterning, signing, dancing and playing. We are doing great a following the directions and listening to Mrs. Horn when she gives us a direction. We are doing great at sitting at snack and lunch and we are working on sitting at Morning Meeting. Be sure to read all about what we 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. 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.

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 turkey and pumpkins. 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!

Starting our day with a little water color painting of a Thanksgiving Turkey! We listened to some nice fall classical music today to set the tone in our classroom for a fun relaxing day.