Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Welcome to week 3 of the school year.  I hope everyone enjoyed their extended weekend and you found time to be with family and friends.  We had a great day in our classroom and even though we have entered the month of September we are going to continue our studies of the number 1, the shape of a square and the color blue for one more week. We did begin our study on the story of creation by learning about day 1 and day 2 and we started our study of the alphabet starting with the letter A.  As we continue to progress through the school year new ideas and concepts will be introduced each week.  Next week we will begin our study of the color red, the number 2 and the shape of the octagon.  

Jesus Time:   Today we begun 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.  

Number:  We continued our study of 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.  During center time we used a blue bingo dauber to trace the outline of the number 1 as we did so we practiced saying the number one over and over. 

Shape:  We continued our study of the 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!  I had some very observant little friends today, they were able to find the window, a table, the tiles on the floor and the squares on my calendar. We practiced our pre-writing skills by tracing the outline of a square with a blue marker. 

Letter: Today 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 and Ariel.  After we practiced saying those words we colored a picture of an apple and the letter A 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.   

Color:  We are continuing our study about the color blue this month.  During our morning meeting we identified different blue objects and during center time we painted a picture of a blue train and painted the water that God created on the second page of our creation book we are making.  We also used blue markers for tracing the shape of a square.  We also read a book about a little girl who liked to sleep in a blue room. 

Music and Movement:  We had fun doing a finger exercises to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.  We had fun doing The Silly Dance Contest and Counting to 10 as we Jumped around.  All of the songs we are currently working on have to do with self regulation.  

Outside Time:  We were unable to go outside today due to the wet playground from all the rain we encountered on Monday evening and night so we took a walk to the main building and had fun playing in the commons area with our friends from our other PDO Classes.  

Enjoy the pictures from our day.  We are all adjusting really well and are having fun learning and playing!  

FREE CHOICE PLAY

We had fun playing with lots of toys and exploring our classroom more! 

Evan found lots of cars that looked the same but still looked different

Susanna had fun rolling out the playdough and making lots of fun shapes 

Puzzle time for Nicholas 

Jack started his morning with his buddy Mickey Mouse 

Playing with friends working on our sharing skills 

Picking out who is going on the bus and who is going on vacation 

Jack took a turn at playing with the blue playdough 

Trying a hand at the puzzles 

Julija enjoyed using the chalk on the chalk board 

Getting creative with the markers on the dry erase board! 

MORNING MEETING

Singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Reading a book about a rainy day 

Getting ready for snack look at how great we are doing standing in line! 

We were marching to wash our hands for snack 

Studying the number 1 and the shape of a square ask your child if the can identify both or just one of them. 

Our blue color board see if your child can identify any of these objects 

Mr. Weather Frog was prepared today for some more stormy weather .

ONE RAINY DAY was a great story that incoroporated the numbers 1-10, animals and different type of weather 

New month new calendar 

SNACK TIME /CIRCLE TIME

Praciticing sitting at a table like a great friends do. 

Clapping our Hands 

Letter Sounds and recognizing the letter A and it's sounds

Great book to tie into the color Blue for the month 

Color Identification board changed becuase for next month. 

COMMONS TIME 

This is a great place for us to all go and burn off some energy and work on our gross motor classes 

CENTER TIME

First we painted a blue train and practicing saying CHOO CHOO

Finding the number one using a paint dauber 

Tracing a square with a blue marker 

A is for Apple and the beginning of our alphabet book 

Working on our creation book.  God creatied the light and the dark and the sky and water 

MUSC AND MOVMENT 

INDEPENDENT READING

Hope you enjoyed the pictures look forward to seeing you all soon!