Happy St. Patrick's Day One Late!

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day!  We had a great time in our classroom celebrating St. Patrick’s Day a day late We had fun working with the number 8, rectangles, finishing our Yellow Umbrella project, Stamping shamrocks and had fun making a shamrock necklace!

It was a pretty cold outside for us to brave today so we headed to the commons to play with our other friends in PDO.

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 next 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.

During our center time we stamped 8 raindrops on our Umbrella project today.  These are displayed in our hallway 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.  We looked around our classroom to see what other kind of rectangles we could find.  I was pretty proud of how well we did finding rectangles in our classroom. 

We practiced the outline of a rectangle by using a green bingo dauber and tracing the outline of a rectangle. 

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 I am bringing home a Baby Bumble Bee. 

Outside Time: we headed to the commons today to play.  It was pretty cold and windy outside for some of our little friends. 

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 worked on our pre-reading skills and cutting skills by cutting out different words surrounded around St. Patrick’s Day and gluing them on a piece of a yellow paper.  Each friend cut out 12 different pictures with words on them after they were all cut out I would ask them to find the different pictures and repeat the words back to me.  This activity was to help the students just become familiar and exposed to different words and to look at the letters in the words. 

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 Spring Classical Music  during our free choice time.  We had a lot of fun doing lots of different things around the classroom.  We are working on playing with our friends nicely, sharing the toys and using our words when things do not go the way we want.  We also are working on our clean up skills when the clean up music comes on.  Everyone needs to take part in cleaning up our classroom this helps us with our self-help skills.  

.This was the sunrise this morning my children and I witnessed on the way to school in our Van!  What an amazing way to start our day! 

.YELLOW PLAY DOUGH FUN

.  Building with blocks

.  Drawing and Coloring 

.  Puzzles

.  More Creating with different wood pieces 

.  Gavin made a fighter jet with his wood pieces!  

.  Lots of laughing and giggling in the Kitchen Area

.  Claire was busy cooking up a fabulous dinner for everyone 

.  Oreo Cookie Fun

.  Reading a Book or Two! 

Morning Meeting 

.  Happy Wednesday!

.  Transition & Snack Time 

.  Independent Reading Time 

.  Commons Time

.  Circle Time

.We read another great book about Bear and his friends. 

.  We played a shamrock number matching game to transition to center time 

.  Shamrock Patterning

.  Shamrock Stamping

.  Umbrella Project

  Cutting and learning St. Patrick's Day Words

.  Mr. Potato Heads!

.  Imaginative Play Hard at work 

.  Mrs. Jacks, Sydney and Claire were busy learning and working with the letters on the magnet board. 

.  Making a Shamrock Necklace

.  Rectangle and Bingo Daubers

.  Music and Movement

.  We read this book about counting Cheerios

Transition and Lunch Time 

.  The girls standing in line waiting for the boys to finish getting their leprechauns 

.  Practicing for Preschool standing in line! 

We had a great time today as you can tell by all the pictures.  Every day in our classroom we are learning and growing.  I hope you enjoyed seeing our day and you all have a wonderful weekend.  I look forward to seeing you all next week.