A Beautiful Wednesday in March

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

What beautiful weather we were graced with on Wednesday.  We had the opportunity to play on the “big kids playground” today and we loved every minute of it.  Be sure to check out our pictures from our playground experience.  Play is such important part of early childhood and many times it gets mistaken as that just play but there is so much more taking place, such as cooperation, sharing, taking turns, communication, building relationship with others.  We do a lot of playing in our classroom and it is great to see how far we have come in the last seven months of school.  I am sure we will see lots more growth in the last few months of school before our summer break comes. 

With warmer weather upon us we will continue all of our studies but we will also be spending a fair amount of time outside it is important that your child is dressed appropriately for the day.  Please make sure appropriate shoes are worn as well, It would be best to put an extra set of shoes and clothes in your child’s backpack to be on the safe side if accidents or if they get muddy occurs.  It is also best if you make sure your child has enough to drink during their time at school.  We will do our best to bring drinks outside when we head out to play. 

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story comes from Luke 19 36-38 Jesus Rides like a King

The donkey started to clip pity-clop through the town.  People came running.  They threw their coats down for the donkey to walk on.  They took palm branches and waved them in the air “Praise God!” they shouted.  Some of them remembered what God’s scriptures that said, “Your king is coming…sitting on the coat of a donkey.”

During center time we used our watercolor paints to paint a picture of Jesus riding through the town on a donkey and people waving their Palm Branches.  These pictures will be put in our portfolios that will come home in May. 

Number:  We continued to learn about the number 8 today.  We looked at the number 8 and how it looks like to circles on top of each other.  We counted our 8 fingers and then we counted 8 Shamrocks.  We also counted our 8 friends that we had in our classroom today. 

During our center time we glued 8 different colors of the number 8.  This activity allowed us to work on recognizing what the number 8 looks like as well as worked on counting 8 number 8’s and we also worked on our color identification.  As each number 8 was a different color.  We are doing really well as identifying each color.  These are currently displayed in our hallway on the way to the cubby room be sure and check them out!

Shape:  We continue to work on the shape of a rectangle.  We talked about how the door to our classroom is the shape of a rectangle.  One our friends also discovered that our bulletin board that Mr. Weather Frog is on is the shape of a rectangle. 

During center time we had the opportunity to pick out our favorite color and then cut out a rectangle in that color.  We are going to make a big train to go along with the book we read called Freight Train.  We talked about how a rectangle has two short sides and two long sides.  We not only were working on the shape of the rectangle, but we also worked on color identification and our fine motor skills, as we had to cut with scissors.  Some of our friends have reached the point where they can cut all on their own. 

Color: Yellow is the color we will be learning about in the month of March.  We placed yellow objects on our color board today and each student was given the opportunity to help put an object on the board during Morning Meeting. 

During our center time we painted yellow rain coat that we will be gluing on a person next week to go along with the yellow umbrella we painted and glued on a on a blue piece of paper As the children came over the center I would ask them what the object was and when they would use it. This project is a progression project that will be completed this next week and hung up to display. 

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, and our ABC’s; we did a few more songs we didn’t do quite as much music today because we were able to get outside and play so much! 

Outside Time: We went to the commons for a few minutes and played then we took a walk through the main school building and then headed outside for a walk around our entire campus that ended with us playing on the big kids playground.  We really got to work on our gross motor skills as we were running, climbing, jumping, sliding and walking.  We had so much fun it was hard for us to leave but we will be returning! 

Patterning:  We continued to work on a new pattern of Shamrock and Leprechaun Hats today during morning meeting.   Two new words for us to learn and become familiar with during the month of March.

We are continuing along our letter journey today we learned about the letter M and N We painted our hands this week to continue our alphabet book that will becoming home in May!

We also worked on the letters in our name mainly the first letter as we traced the letters of our name with glue and then used gold glitter to make them sparkle on our rectangle we had cut out for the train that we are going to make to go along with our Freight Train Book!

Sensory and Science led us to talk about the weather today and what we need when it would rain outside. We also had the opportunity to play with yellow play dough and make all types of fun things with it.

We did lots of exploring, learning and discovering all types of things through out the day in our classroom.

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice Play 

For some reason I do not have any pictures from this time of the day.  I am not sure what happen.  i apologize for this mistake.  We did do a few centers this morning and listened to some Christian Rock Music this morning.  

.Bingo Dauber Shamrocks

We worked on our fine motor skills as we decorated a shamrock with green bingo daubers.  We have them proudly displayed in our classroom be sure to check them out! This activity is a great way for us to work on our self control in a small spot as well as prewriting skills and fine motor skills.  As the year has progressed each child has gotten better in using these bingo daubers and improvement can be seen! 

.Freight Train Rectangles

We picked out our favorite color and got to work on cutting out our rectangle so we could add it to the train that will be displayed in our classroom.  After cutting out our rectangles we worked on the saying and recognizing the first letter of our name and then tracing all the letters including the first one with glue and then shook gold glitter on our rectangle to show our name!   We are getting good at remembering the first letter of our name.  

.Morning Meeting

Happy Wednesday!  We are ready to start the day and we are working really hard at keeping our bottoms on the stage and using our listening ears to listen to Mrs. Horn

.Place Yellow Objects on our Color Board

.Commons/Outside Time

.Walking through the Big School! 

There was lots of new art work on the wall for our big friends are getting ready for Grandparents Day.  

.Walk around Campus 

.During our walk through the cemetery we saw a family of geese in the distance.  

.BIG KIDS PLAYGROUND

We had a blast on the big kids playground!  Enjoy seeing what all we did on the playground. The smile, giggles and laughs that were happening while were up here made me realize that we need to make time to come up here more often which we will be doing.  

.Circle Time 

We sang our ABC's and looked at the letter M and the letter N. 

.We read this book about a construction site

.We played a matching game with shamrocks and numbers we are getting good at matching.  After we made a match with Mrs. Horn we got busy playing in our classroom and working at some centers. 

Water coloring A Picture of Palm Sunday

.Number Eight Collages

.We have really enjoyed playing with the foam blocks in our classroom this month.  We have been busy creating towers, buildings, castles, houses and tunnels.  

.We love playing with the Mickey Mouses

.Drawing on the dry erase board is a favorite center to play with each day! 

.Puzzles

We had some more difficult puzzle this month and some of our friends have had to work together to complete the puzzle.  I am so proud of my friends working together to get it completed. 

.Music and Movement

.We read this book where we had to be the decective and figure out what kind of tail belonged to what animal they were kind of tricky.  

Transition and Lunch Time