Another Gorgeous Spring DAy

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

WOW!  Could we have been blessed with another beautiful spring day!  WE had a great time playing outside on the playground today and 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 today. 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.  Singing Wheels on the Bus and 5 little ducks

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

We extended our Free Choice Play to so that we were able to spend as much time outside as we could.  We had a great time during Free Choice Time listening to a variety of music today.  I was in an all over the place music mood today so we listened to a wide variety of muisc.  

Purple Play Dough Fun 

.    New Books 

We enjoyed lookng at a lot of different new books today. 

.    Stamping 9 Easter Eggs in our Easter Basket 

.    We Love Easter Grass!  

.    Painting A Purple Cross & Bingo Daubers of a Cross

Both activities were to help us with our new color the color purple as well as remembering that Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins.

.   Playing with Friends

.    JESUS HAS RISEN ACTIVITY

.    Super Proud of the towers Claire built with the Blocks 

.    We LOVE EASTER GRASS! 

.M.D. working and concentrating so hard on building a tower. 

. Morning Meeting 

.    Transition & Snack Time!

.    OUTSIDE PLAY! 

.    While we were outside taking total advantage of this gorgeous weather, we did a few of our centers outside! 

Making Clouds 

.    My Name Starts with the Letter?

.    After we finished we headed to the "park"  and had a so much fun we didn't want to leave! 

.    We did come back inside:(

Center Time

Rolling out the clay for our Crosses we painted purple

.    Sydney and Avery sat for a long time studying the picture of Jesus on the cross 

.    We did a great job on our cross and I hope you are able to enjoy them for years to come and that you will look back on this year of your child in PDO with great memories! 

.    Playing in the Shaving Cream 

.Observed Claire studying the picture of Jesus on the cross as well.  They were all very interested in why he was on the cross. 

.    Music and Movment 

Our time slotted for Music and Movement was a little shorter because we played outside for so long which is ok! 

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 Transition and Lunch Time

.    Last Book we read for the day was about the true meaning of Easter. 

.    Not to sure why I was unable to get the below pictures in the correct spot for the day.  

.Number and Shape Board 

.    Color Board for the Month

.    Mr. Weather Frog has ditched his coat! 

.    I told this little flannel story to help us with our colors. 

.    The Story I read during Jesus Time.

.    The book I read during Morning Meeting to go along with the clouds we made tday. 

.    Our pattern for the month 

.We had a great day today and I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Break and I look forward to seeing you all in a week.  Blessing on your Easter Sunday.