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

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We had a great time in our classroom celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and one our little friends birthday! We had fun working with the number 8, rectangles, finishing our Yellow Umbrella project, Stamping shamrocks and painting with shaving cream, green paint and glue!

A big thank you to Evan Taylor and his mom for the yummy snack we had to help celebrate Evan’s birthday. We got to have vanilla ice cream and delicious shamrock cookies. Evan’s mom joined us for Morning Meeting and snack today. We love when we have visitors so thank you!

It was a little chilly, windy and cloudy this morning but that did not keep us from going outside and getting some fresh air. Outside play is so important for our students in PDO so we will do our best to get outside each class period between now and the end of the year.

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.

We had a few friends that were out sick today so we pray that they are all feeling better and are able to join us later in the week. We missed our friends today.

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story comes from Matthew 26: 26-29 The First Lord’s Supper

While Jesus and His closest follower were eating the Passover dinner, Jesus took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke the bread apart and said, “Take this bread and eat it. Do this to remember me.”

Next He took a cup and said, “When you drink this juice of the grape, remember me.” Jesus knew this was his last meal with His followers because He was about to be killed. He wanted his followers to always remember Him.

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! Some of my friends did this on Thursday and some of my friends finished up today. We also stamped 8 raindrops on our Umbrella project today.

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. Some of my friends also completed this last week as well. We also were given 8 different colored rectangles that we had to identify the color and glue onto a piece of yellow paper.

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 glued our raincoat onto our umbrella project and we used yellow paper when we were gluing our rectangles and number 8.

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, and our ABC’s. We also did Five Little Ducks, Wheels on the Bus and Five Days Old.

Outside Time: We had fun playing out on our playground today as we worked on our large motor skills! We worked on our running, jumping, climbing and walking skills. Some of us had fun kicking a ball and trying to make a basket in the basketball hoop. Others of us had fun riding on bikes and cars and got busy scooping and digging in the rock pit.

Patterning: We continued to work on a new pattern of Shamrock and Leprechaun Hats today during morning meeting.

During our Center Time we did a pattern of dark green shamrock and light green shamrock. The students were asked what would come next. This activity will be included in our portfolio that will be coming home in May.

We reviewed the letters 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 how it was windy, cloudy and cold outside today We also had the opportunity to play with yellow play dough and make all types of fun things with it. We also talked about if we were a boy or girl as we worked on our umbrella project and we had to glue a boy or girl on our paper and add the features needed such as eyes, nose, mouth and hair. Body awareness is something we talk about all year long. We have the Mr. Potato Heads out right now which is a great way for us to work on different body parts right now.

We had a lot of fun with our friends today and we continue to work on our listening skills! Have a wonderful evening all my beautiful friends!

.Free Choice Play

Today we listened to a collection of Spring classical music during our free choice time. I am still a very firm believer that children should be exposed to a wide variety of music and the music we play in our room helps set the tone and mood for our day. PDO is all about exposure to many different experiences and music is one of those experiences that should be experienced every day. Today we had fun playing with toys

.Landry had fun rocking baby Minnie mouse

. Carson and Mrs. Wegner worked together to do a lacing card

. Puzzles!

. Reese working on lacing buttons

. Landry and Mrs. Horn worked on identifying different body parts on Mr. Potato Head

Morning Meeting

. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

. Transition & Snack

. Happy Birthday Evan

Yummy Birthday Treat of Ice Cream and Cookies!

. Outside Play

. Working on lining up to go outside.

. Circle Time

. We played a matching game

. We did a Mr. Shamrock color identification board

. We read a story about a yellow school bus

. Center Time

We stamped lots of different shamrocks onto a big piece of paper

. Working on the Number 8

. Painting a Green Shamrock

. Rectangle Collage

. Music during Center Time was a combo of Spring Classical music and Cars Soundtrack Carson loves the movie Cars and had a blast dancing to the theme song from Cars!