Wednesday the 24th

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

It is hard to believe that we are beginning the sixth week of school.  Over the past 6 weeks we have started to establish our routines in the classroom and become more comfortable in what we are learning and doing in the classroom.  We have had several new friends join us in our classroom over the past few weeks and we are so thankful that they have chosen Zion as their school.  As we continue adjust to coming to school, meeting new friends and exploring the classroom it is important to remember that early bedtimes and a consistent schedule helps us all at home and school.

  

Jesus Time: Today we completed the story of Creation with what God did on the seventh day and then we reviewed each day of the seven days. 

Adam and Eve

God named the first man Adam. God put Adam in a beautiful garden. He gave him all the animals. He gave him all the fish and the birds too. 

Then God gave Adam one more thing. God made a woman to be Adam's wife. Adam named his wife Eve. On day Seven God rested from all His work.

We completed day 7 of our Creation Book.  These books will be coming home in the next week or so once they are completely put together.  It is a great way for the children to tell the story of creation. 

We also got to watch a video about the how God created the world in 7 days it followed the same as our Bible that we have been reading out of. 

Number:  We continued our study of the number 2.  We practiced holding up two fingers.  We then waved our two fingers in the air.  Then we practiced counting 1-2, clapping our hands two times, stomping our feet two times, jumping up and down two times, rubbing our tummies two times and turning around two times and waving our hands two times.

Our center time activity led us to using a bingo dauber and finding all the number 2’s on our apple tree.

Shape:  We continued studying about the shape of an Octagon. We reviewed today that an octagon has 8 sides and practiced counting the eight sides. We talked about how an Octagon shape looks like a stop sign and when we see a stop sign we need to STOP!!!

Our center time activity involved us in connecting the dots 1-16 to make an octagon shape.  This also helped us with our pre-writing skills and our hand eye coordination.

Letter: We are studying about the letter “D” this week. Which brought in some big Dinosaurs for us to play with to help us celebrate the letter “D” We listened to some words that start with the letter “D” such as door, doorbell, dinosaur, doll, drum, dance, donut and dragon.    

Our center activity allowed us to use a red bingo dauber and tracing the outline of the letter D. We also had the opportunity to color a picture of a dog that came home in our red folders today.

Color:  RED is the color we are learning about the month of September.  WE started our morning meeting with identifying different objects that are red on our color board.  We also made a chart of the things we see in our room that are the color red. 

We also made an apple collage with red paint using a toilet paper roll.  Be sure to check out our beautiful art work in the classroom and out in the hallway.    

Music and Movement:  We had fun jumping and counting.  We sang Jesus loves our ABC’s and me today. 

Outside Time:  We had a beautiful day to play outside.  God has truly graced us with some beautiful weather!

Sensory:  We had fun in the sensory table to playing with red and green pasta noodles.  We had fun feeling them and pouring and scooping them from one cup to another cup or container. 

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

 Free Choice Play 

This is the time of day in the beginning of the day that the children are allowed to explore and play in the classroom.  This time of the day there is ususally music playing today we listened to The Piano Guys they play a variety of music all done on the piano.  This allows the children to listen to a variety of music and to be exposed to different sounds.  

  Playdough Play  

  Future Artists at Work 

 Jack worked really hard at trying to build a tower with 10 blocks never quite made it but was close. 

 Mr. T-Rex is visiting us for a couple of weeks he came just in time for us to study the letter "D" this week. 

Morning Meeting

  Part of our program is to help our friends learn how to sit and listen during circle times.  This is something we work on all year long and hopefully this will help the transition to Preschool that much smoother for our friends and preschool teachers. 

 Today when we got ready for snack we had to find one thing that was red in the classroom and tell Mrs. Horn.  Once we were done finding something red we were able to stand on a Mickey Mouse.  The purpose behind this activity is to help with identifying the color we have been working on and for our friends to become aware of their surroundings. 

 Our calendar time is spent becoming aware of a sense of time and seasons.  Today we discovered we have four yellow squares on our calendar. 

 Snack Time/Circle Time/ Transition to Outside time

  Charting how many apples tall we are! 

 Outside Time 

 Center Time

Apple Prints 

 Apple Trees

Today we did not do as much as we normally would.  We were all having an off day so we just took it easy and just eased into our projects today.  That is OK it was one of many reasons this program is designed this way.  Have a wonderful weekend!  I look forward to seeing everyone next week!

Mrs. Horn