Old McDonald Had A Farm Part 1

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

WOW!  What a beautiful day God graced us with today.  It was so much fun being able to play outside and enjoy this beautiful weather!  All our friends were here to join us and we had a fabulous time 

We are continuing our study of the farm and were busy today painting a barn and the grass for our barn to be in as well as painting a goat grey to add to our big farm scene on the wall.  Be sure and check out all the animals on our Farm.  We will spend next week wrapping up our Farm theme and will begin to introduce our final theme of the year…SUPER HEROS!   Next week we will start learning about the number 10, review the colors we have learned this year and learn about the shape of a diamond.  We also hope to spend lots of time outside as well doing lots of fun and different activities!

WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD IS NEXT WEEK!

Students in PDO-2nd grade will celebrate Week of the Young Child on May 4th-8th.  During this week, we celebrate the blessing of young children, especially all of the young children here at Zion!  As part of the celebration, there will be optional dress-up days this week.  The themes are listed below:

Monday:  Sports Shirt Day-wear a sports shirt of their favorite team

Tuesday:  Favorite Color Day

Wednesday:  Spirit Day - Wear red or white or Zion wear

Thursday:  Stripes Day

Friday:  Mismatched Socks Day

Please remember that these dress-up days are optional!  If your child chooses not to participate, he/she should be in Zion standardized dress (K-2nd grade).  If your child participates, he/she doesn't have to be in standardized dress.  It should be a fun week!

Also next week is National Children’s Book week.  I am asking children to bring in their favorite book.  Please make sure your child’s name is on the inside cover and it will be returned at the end of the day.  We will be doing lots of reading but it should be a lot of fun to hear our friend’s entire favorite book!

We had a lot of fun learning about the farm and all the different things there are on the farm and the type of animals on the farm. 

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time: Today we reviewed our Bible story of Jesus meeting the disciples after he had rose from the dead.  We talked about how Jesus ate fish and we should always trust Jesus and we should tell everyone we know that JESUS IS ALIVE!!!

Number:  During our morning meeting we reviewed to the number 9!  We counted 9 fingers and then we counted 9 farm animals.   Today we counted three pigs, 3 sheep and 3 goats.  We talked about how they were different and how they are the same.

During our Center time we practiced our counting and color matching skills. We used bingo dauber to match the correct color to nine balloons on the inside of the number 9.

Shape:  During Morning Meeting we reviewed to the shape of an OVAL. 

During our center time we used the purple bingo dauber to trace the outline of an oval.  We talked about how an Easter egg is the shape of an oval. 

Color: Purple is the color we have learned about during the month of April.  We spent morning meeting putting different objects on our color board that were the color purple.

During our center time used a purple bingo dauber to trace the outline of an oval.

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, and our ABC’s.  We also did Silly Dance Contest, The Washing Machine Song and Jumping and Counting

Outside Time:  We did go outside today.  We had such a good time playing this morning early on the playground and it was so beautiful that we stayed out extra long and then returned outside for another 30 minutes before we had our lunch for the day.  We had a lot of fun playing with all our friends today.

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

Sensory and Science led us to the sensory table where we discovered the Easter Grass was gone and it was replaced with CORN!   We had so much fun scooping, digging, pouring and just feeling the corn.  We had fun putting the tractors and animals in the corn and exploring this new fun thing in our table!   We also had the opportunity to play and created with purple play dough.

Pre-Writing:  Today traced the outline of a barn to help us work on holding a writing instrument and to focus on staying on the line. It has been so neat to see how all of my little friends have improved over the year and I can only imagine and wait to see how well they are doing when we return in August

Some of us finished up patterns from last week if they were not at school.  In the weeks to come we will be doing a little bit of catching up on some things if a friend was missing the week we worked on something important that we are going to be putting in our portfolios that will becoming home at the end of the school year. 

Enjoy the pictures for Today!