Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : February 2015

Thursday, February 26, 2015

It is hard to believe that we are into the last week of February! Time is flying by really fast. We had a great day in our classroom. We had fun exploring the toys, playing with play dough, lacing big buttons, solving puzzles, building towers with big blocks and small blocks. Imaginative play is really starting to come out in our little friends and it is so exciting to observe and watch.

Today we started to wrap our study on the number 7, the shape of the heart, our purple and pink pattern and the color of pink. We started to talk about the season of lent.

We are really concentrating on sitting during our morning meeting and making sure that we are keeping our bottoms on the stage and not standing on our heads!

There are some friends that are still out with viruses so please be sure that you review our policy on returning to school after being sick.

Many of our friends have been fighting colds, coughs, fevers and snotty noses. As a reminder your child needs to be fever free for a complete 24 HOURS before returning to school. With that being said we are really enforcing hand washing, covering our mouths when we cough or sneeze and using a tissue to wipe our noses.

Enjoy reading about our day and viewing the pictures.

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story comes fro Genesis 2-3

The first week in Lent: Today we talked about how God created the Garden of Eden and that means paradise. In the garden God planted two Trees the Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God told Adam and Eve they could eat from the Tree of Life but they must not eat the fruit for The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, because they would then know all that was good in the world, but they would also know what was bad in the world and this would make God sad. Well, Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and God was very sad and even though he had built this beautiful place for them they had to leave. God wanted to be able bring them back to the paradise and in order from him to do that he had to buy them back and he did that at the price of his son. Jesus.

Number: We reviewed learning how to count to the number 7 We practiced counting 7 fingers, counting 7 hearts, counting 7 friends and clapping 7 times.

We did some more spin art today with hearts so we practiced squeezing 7 drops of pink paint and 7 drops of purple paint.

Shape: We reviewed our shape the Heart this month so.

We did spin art of the hearts. They look beautiful and we had so much fun doing it!

Color: Pink is our color for the month we had fun placing different pictures on our board. Ask your child what pictures they placed on my color board today. We are making Morning Meeting more interactive so my friends helped my put all the pink pictures on our board.

During center time we squeezed pink and purple paint onto a pink or red heart and then stuck it into a salad spinner and spun the spinner as hard as we could to make a very cool looking heart! We also painted a picture of flamingo. We spent time talking about flamingos and what they look like. When we painted today we used smaller paintbrushes and we practiced staying inside the lines.

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The Wheels on the Bus, Jumping and Counting, Silly Dance Contest Five Little Ducks, Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee, the Washing Machine Song and Jumping and Turning around.

Outside Time: With the ground covered in snow we did not get to go outside and we were unable to head to the commons due to an event taking place in there with the preschoolers. So we had the opportunity to play in one of the other PDO Rooms. It was a lot of fun for us to play in a different room with different toys

Patterning: We reviewed our pattern today of pink and purple hearts.

We used bingo daubers to make a pattern with pink and purple hearts.

We are continuing along our letter journey today we learned about the letter I and made an ice cream with our hands for our letter Alphabet book. We charted what kind of ice cream we like to eat. We also learned about the letter J for Jelly Fish. We looked at some jellyfish and learned that jellyfish can be very dangerous if you touch them.

Sensory and Science we talked about the snow that was falling today and if it was loud our soft and we were so excited to see the geese on our soccer field and watched them fly away!!!

We are doing lots of exploring, learning and discovering all types of things through out the day in our classroom. Everyday is an adventure and everyday is different. Which is the beauty of working with this age group.

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice

.FROZEN FLOOR PUZZLE

Thanks to Mrs. Wegner for purchasing this Frozen Floor Puzzle from the clearnce asile of Target. We loved putting it together and we did a great job working together to get finished.