A Beautiful Spring Day!

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

WOW!  Could we have been blessed with a more beautiful spring day!  WE had a great time playing outside on the playground today and then as an added bonus we took a walk to the “big kid” playground and got to play there as well.  We had a lot of fun playing with our friends inside and outside we also did a lot of learning today as well. 

Today we were introduced to a new number, a new shape, and a new color and heard the story about Jesus dying on the cross to save us from our sins.  Along with learning all about these fun new things we heard some really neat books today and worked on our colors, counting and shape skills. 

As a reminder please makes sure your child has an extra set of clothes in their backpack.  We do go outside and sometimes we have accidents and need to change our clothes.  If you do not want to leave them in your backpack you are more than welcome to leave them in your child’s cubby.  Also, with us being able to get outside more please make sure you send plenty for your child to drink through out the day.  

We got dirty today and that is ok if your child came home completely clean then we have a problem.  That being said remember we do lots of painting and things that require us to get dirty so please do not send your child in anything that you do not want to get ruined.  Also, a reminder that tennis shoes are best for our little friends to wear on the playground! 

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time:

Jesus is arrested

Matthew 26

Suddenly a crowd came toward them and Judas Iscariot was with them. Soldiers and chief priests followed closely behind. 

Jesus was arrested and taken away to see the high priest.

Jesus is taken to Pilate

Mark 15

The soldiers who were guarding Jesus were very cruel to Him. Then Jesus was brought before Pilate, the Roman governor. 

Pilate did not think Jesus had done anything wrong, but he wanted to please the crowd. So he handed Jesus over to the soldiers to be killed. The soldiers put a purple robe on Jesus and a crown of thorns on His head.

Jesus dies on a cross

Mark 15

The soldiers took Jesus to a place called Golgotha. There He was nailed to a cross. Above His head was a sign, 

"The King of the Jews."

Darkness covered the land. At the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice to God, the breathed His last breathe. Jesus died.

A Roman soldier near the cross saw this. He said, "Truly, this man was the Son of God."

During our center time we did numerous activities surrounding around our Bible Story.  We water colored a picture of some Easter Eggs that said Jesus Has Risen.  We painted a cross purple that was made out of special sticks that we will be bringing home on Wednesday or Thursday.  Lastly, we cut a green piece of paper like grass and painted our hand yellow and glued a black cross on the paper to show Jesus had died for our sins.  These will be hanging up in the hallway soon. 

Number:  During our morning meeting we were introduced to the number 9!  We counted 9 fish on our board and we also counted the 9 Mickey Mouse heads above our magnet board.   

During our center time we stamped 9 Easter Eggs into a basket four our Number Book that we will be bringing home in May.

Shape:  During Morning Meeting we were also introduced to the shape of an OVAL.  We decided that an oval looks like an Easter egg.  It kind of looks like a circle but it is taller and skinny, not short and fat.

During our center time we made an Easter egg using shaving cream and different watercolors to make some beautifully decorated eggs to display in our classroom.   

Color: Purple is the color we are learning about during the month of April.  We had new objects to put on our purple board today.  Ask your child if they remember any of the items we put onto the board.

During our center time we painted our cross for our special project we are doing purple. 

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Little Star and our ABC’s.  We had fun doing the silly dance contest as well as the Washing Machine song.   We also had fun doing Five Days Old.

Outside Time: It was beautiful outside today so we took full advantage of the beautiful weather today and played on our playground and then we walked up to the “big kids” playground and played up there for about 10 minutes and my little friends had a blast!!

Patterning:  We continued our new pattern today of pink and purple bunnies.    

Sensory and Science led us to the sensory table where we discovered Easter Grass and lots of plastic Easter Eggs that we had to match together.  We read the book Looks Like Spilt Milk and talked about what clouds look like and feel like. We then made clouds to add to our ducks on the wall and our flowers on the wall.  We also played in shaving cream today as we made some beautiful Easter Eggs!

Letters:  Today we didn’t do a letter from the alphabet, we did work on the first letter of our name as we used blue glitter to decorate an Egg and Easter Bunny was holding with our letter on it. 

Enjoy the pictures for Today!   

Free Choice Play

Michael Buble was our music selection for today.  It just felt like that kind of music today as the sun beamed in our classroom and the hustle and bustle of activity took place around the classroom.  

.  Imaginative Play

.  Drawing on the Art Easle

.  Magnet Board 

We had fun creating Spring scenes with our new Easter Magnets. 

.  The Three Amigos and their babies! 

Sometimes the things that take place in the classroom do not do justice by picture you just have to be there! 

.  Morning Meeting

.Happy Spring! 

. Good-Bye March

.  We were exctied to 

.  this is the book we read to tell about the Easter Story

.  What kind of cloud do you see?

. Transitiom & Snack Time

.  Practicing standing in line!

Circle Time

We did a little bit of music and movement before we headed outside!

. We read this book to go along with our small unit on Ducks! 

.  Outdoor Play! 

.  We finished at the little playground and we headed to the big playground where we had a ton of fun! 

.  Circle TIme

We cam back from our great experience outside and played a bunny matching game and then headed off to centers 

.  Stamping 9 Easter Eggs in our Basket

.  Making Easter Eggs with Shaving Cream and Paint

.  BIngo Daubers 

We did a cross with purple bingo daubers today to help us remember that Jesus died on the cross for us to save us from our sins.  We have done lots of Bingo Daubers this year and many of them will be included in our portfolios for the end of the year! 

.Clouds

Some of my friends did clouds last Thursday and the rest of my friends finished their clouds today! 

.  Play Dough Fun

.  Painting Purple Crosses

.  Water Color Painting 

.What letter does your name begin with?

.  Puzzles

.  Making a Spring Scene on the Magnet Board

.Mr. Potato Heads

.  More Puzzles

.  Jesus has Risen Activity

.  Music and Movement

.  A great Book we read about doing a prayer and remember certain people with each finger of our hand

.  As you can see we had a very busy and fun day in our classroom.  Thank you for your patience and understanding with getting the blog out.  Below is why my blog was not posted on Tuesday Night.  I was with my family celebrating my dad's last day at his job he has had for 34 years, It was a major accomplishment and we spent the evening celebrating him and all his hard work.  Family is of great importance to me and I am thankful for my family and my Zion Family as well.  Have a wonderful evening and look forward to seeing many of you later in the week! 

.  Mrs. Horn with her Family!