Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Thursday, September 04, 2014

Thursday, September 04, 2014

Week 3 of the school year is done and all I have to say it has been a great three weeks. I have been blessed with some really great friends and I thank you for all your support and patience as we get into the routine of things! We spent today reviewing the number one, the color blue, and the shape of a square. We began learning about the letter A, started our study of the story of Creation. Next week we will be introduced to the Number 2, the color red, the shape of an octagon and the letter B!

Jesus Time: Today we began our study of the story of Creation

The First Day Genesis 1:1-5

In the beginning God made heaven and earth. At first it was empty and dark. But God gathered up the light and called it day. Then he gathered up the darkness and called it night. God was watching over everything.

The Second Day Genesis 1:6-8

On day two God divided the air from the water. He put some water above the air and some below it. He named the air sky.

Each week we will add 2 more days to our study of God's Creation. Today during center time we began our making our own book about the story of Creation, which will come home after we complete all 7 days of Creation. We also water colored scenes from the first two days of creation.

Number: We reviewed the number one by holding up one finger, saying the number one and then waving our 1 finger in the air. My friends helped me clap our hands one time, stomp our feet one time and blink our eyes one time (that was a little tricky!) and rub our tummies one time.

Shape: We reviewed the shape of a square. We talked about how it has four sides and often looks like a window. I then asked the children if they could help me find things in the classroom that were the shape of squares! We have done really well using our detective skills to find different squares in our classroom. We practiced cutting squares to glue on to the second page of our creation book.

Letter: We began our journey of studying one letter of the alphabet a week. Letter A was up first, we practiced saying the letter A sound and then listened to different words that began with the letter A, such as apple, ant, awesome, Avery, animal, aardvark. And Ariel. After we practiced saying those words we colored a picture of an alligator shaped like the letter that should be in your child's red folder. We also started an alphabet book that your child will be bringing home at the end of the year. Today we painted our hands red and made an apple for the letter A. We then used a red bingo dauber to trace the outline of an Upper Case and lower case A and find apples on the apple tree.

Color: We reviewed the color blue today. During our morning meeting we identified different blue objects and during center time we painted a picture of an airplane and painted the water that God created on the second page of our creation book we are making.

Music and Movement: We had fun doing a finger exercises to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. We also did jumping and counting; My Hands are stuck like Glue All of the songs we are currently working on have to do with self-regulation.

Outside Time: it was a little humid but we were able to finally play outside for about 10 minutes in the morning we played on the grassy area where the soccer nets are. We did go to the commons to play with our other PDO friends and then after lunch we went out for about 10 minutes.

Enjoy the pictures from our day. This group plays really well together and is settling into routines really well!

Morning Free Choice Time

The orange chair is a favorite of all the kids! I love to see them sitting it reading books.

Reading in the Buzz chair is a favorite day.

Sharing the train tracks and building a train.

Cousins playing in the kitchen area. Cooking up a great meal

Sophia loved working with all the different puzzles

Sarah drawing a creation on the wipe off board. The children have free reign of drawing on the easel and chalk board through out the day. It is a great way to work on pre-writing skills.

Evan rolling out some blue playdough to work on building his fine motor skills.

Nicholas lining up his car by color and rolling them all around.

Ella getting to know the animals and putting them in and out of the train.

We had fun rolling the balls in out of the path.

Pushing the playdough down with the cookie cutters to make the animals.

Sophia making her own creation on the chalk board

Ella coloring on a coloring sheet.

Painting a blue airplane

Joesph loves to paint.

Nicholas worked really hard at painting just the airplane

Lots of concentration going on with painting.

Morning Meeting

Standing up when we heard our name called during on our morning song.

Identifying the differnt items on the blue board

The mice in this book were so sneaky and smart!

Transition time to stand on the mickey mouse to wash hands

This is a great way to work on self -regulation

listening skills

and patience

Look at this great looking class!

Our number and shape of the month

Calendar time!

Our blue board for the month of August

Mr. Weather Frog is ready for the steamy hot day

Our first two days of Creation!

Snack Time/Circle Time/ Outside & Commons Time

sitting eating our snack

AWW! Is all I am going to say!

We love each other in this class!

Book we read today during circle time, my friends really loved this book we had a lot of fun talking about the different pictures we saw.

We also worked on our letter sounds and looked at the letter A

Our color identification board an "Apple Orchard"

Commons time

We love running and playing

Hula Hoop fun

Tunnel fun

This group does a great job listening and waiting patiently!

Walking on the backside of the new building

Playing with the balls on the soccer field

Nicholas future Bobcat Soccer player?

Sophia future Bobcat Basketball player?

Julija kicking the green ball

Balls stuck in the net

We had a great time doign something new and different

Center Time

Today we colored a picture of the letter A.

Using Bingo Daubers to help us learn about the letter A. Bingo Daubers help us work on self control as well as pre-writing skills by holding a writing tool.

The letter A is for Apple working our special alphabet book that will becoming home in May of 2015

Working on Day one and Day two of our Creation Book.

Water Color painting the first two days about creation. We LOVE to paint!

Music and Movement

We had fun jumping and turning around

Clapping our hands

This was tricky but we did great!

This fat cat was so funny! Book we read at the end of Music and Movement

Lunchtime eating with our friends and learning how to sit at a table!

Independent Reading
This is a time that is carved out after lunch that the children are able to look at books on their own and "pretend" to read. This is a great way to promote a love for reading.