Reading Thursday!

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Our Thursday was better than our Tuesday!  We had fun learning more about how to build a snowman.  Next week we will finish building our snowmen.  A few of my friends finished theirs today and they are hanging on the bulletin board outside our door.  To wrap our studies of snowmen we will each be making a book next week on how to build a snowman.  We are doing really well with the order we need to build our snowman it is so neat to watch my friends grow and learn a little bit each class period! 

We are working really hard on using our listening ears.  This is something that we work on all year long but sometimes we need to work a little harder on this skill.  PDO is designed to help your child become acclimated to a school environment as well as becoming exposed to a lot of different experiences.  We also work on a lot of self-help skills such as trying to put on our own coat, hang up our coat when we come back into the classroom.  These are not things that need to master but be working towards doing on their own! 

Enjoy reading about our day and viewing the pictures below.  Remember this Sunday from 1-3 is our Open House if you are looking to having your child attend preschool here in the fall or not sure and want to see our school I strongly urge you to come and have a tour of the school it is a great opportunity to meet the preschool teachers as well as other faculty members, you are able to ask questions and see the classrooms your child will be in.  If you have anyone you know that is looking for a Parent’s Day Out Program, Preschool, Kindergarten or Elementary school, please invite him or her to our open house on Sunday.  If they are unable to attend they can set up a time for a tour.  I will be on campus on Sunday giving tours I look forward to seeing many of you and have you all in my prayers that you will consider choosing Zion as a place your child to attend.  It is always a great day to be a BOBCAT!!!!

Jesus Time: Today we learned about Jesus being a young boy and going to the temple. 

Luke 2: 41-50

Every year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. When Jesus was 12, they went as usual. When Mary and Joseph started home, they didn't see Jesus, they thought he was with friends. Late in the day they realized He wasn't with any of their friends. Mary and Joseph were very worried and hurried back to Jerusalem, looking for Him all along the way. They were afraid they had lost Jesus.

When Mary and Joseph found Jesus, He was in the Temple-a place where God's people went to worship. Twelve-year-old Jesus was talking with some teachers just like He was one of them. He asked them questions, and He answered theirs. His mother had a question too. "Son why did you stay behind?  We were worried about you.' Jesus said, "You should have known I must be where My Father's work is!"

Number:  Today we continued our study of the number 6.  We practiced counting six fingers. We practiced clapping our hands 6 times, nodding our heads 6 times, stomping our feet six times, jumping up and down six times and rubbing our tummies six times.  We also counted six snowmen. 

During center time we had to stamp six yellow stars for our counting books.  Our counting books will be coming home in May.

Shape:  The shape of the star is what we will are studying about during the month of January.

During center time we had to stamp six yellow stars for our counting books.  Our counting books will be coming home in May. We also used our watercolor paints to paint a picture of a star.

Color:  We continued to learn about the color White.  During Morning Meeting we identified objects that could be white and put them on our color board.

Our center time was spent making a snowstorm on blue paper. We used a q-tip to make a snowstorm.  We also made snowmen for our winter scene. We started making our snowmen today; we painted the body using different circle sponges. 

Music and Movement: We had fun singing Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Little Star.  We are getting really good at singing our ABC’s.  We sang 5 Little Ducks and brought back some oldies such as Wheels on the Bus, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, and I am Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee.

Outside Time: The cold weather returned so we were unable to go outside today and play but we did walk to the commons area and play with our friends from the other PDO classes.  We also took a walk around the school and got to see lots of artwork in the hallway. 

Patterning:  We continued to work on our pattern of Red mittens and Blue Mittens.    

During Center time we made our own pattern of red hats and blue hats they are hanging in our hallway be sure to check them out and see all the hard work our friends did

Science and Sensory:  The sensory table was filled with a lot of brown rice. We had fun feeling the rice, picking up the rice, dumping and pouring the rice from scoops to buckets and back into the table. We are working really hard making sure the rice stays in the table

Pre-Writing Skills:  Using a marker to follow a line from point A to point B.

Today during center time we practiced doing a dot to dot with number 1-18 and discovering we made a snowman!

We also used bingo daubers to decorate a snowflake.

Letter I:  Today we talked about the letter I and some words that begin with the letter I such as Incredible, Ice, Igloo, Ice Cream, inch and Iguana. 

As a reminder many things will come home over the course of the month but some things will not as this will be put in your child’s portfolio that you will get at the end of the school year!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice Play 

How To Train a Dragon Soundtrack was our choice of music to listen to today.  It is all instrumental so it was a nice change of pace for us to hear! 

Sensory Table Fun

. Block Building

It has been very neat to watch the students since we have come back to school build with the blocks and the big DuPLO blocks.  These were always made accessible to the students first semester but not much interest was shown in them, but since Christmas they have really had a lot of fun building with them. 

. Mrs. Wegner and her friends reading a book!  They love for her to read to them I think about 50% of the books in our reading center were read this week by Mrs. Wegner.  This is something else that has changed since first semester they love to during free choice play have Mrs. Wegner read to them.  The amount of books they look at has also increased. 

. Cooperative learning as a group works on a tough puzzle together. 

Race Track Fun

Each month I change out the toys in our room so that the children are given the opportunity to explore, learn and play with new things.  I am not always sure what will be a big hit and what won't be a big hit.  The Race Track HUGE HUGE hit! 

. Another area that has become extremely popular is the housekeeping/kitchen area we have lots of pretend play taking place and it is neat to watch them cook Mrs. Wegner and Mrs. Horn some delicious and interesting cuisine!  I think Mrs. Wegner drank a lot of fluids today if I remember correctly!

.Group Art Project

We created a winter scene that will be show cased in our Church Welcome Center to help celebrate National Lutheran Schools Week.  After I take it down on Sunday I will display it in our classroom.  Everyone did a great job with this project. 

. Morning Meeting

. Transition & Snack Time

Today we told Mrs. Horn what we had on that was White to help us wrap up our week of wearing something white. 

. A quick peek at how we do washing hands and potty training. 

. Commons Play 

. Hello Landry

. Center Time

Stamping 6 stars for our number books that will come home in May. 

. Bingo Daubers

Today we had to match the correct color to the right bingo dauber.  

. Connecting the Dots

Today we did a connect the dots activity to help with our counting skills, pre-writing skills and fine motor skills.  When we were done we were surprised to see we made a snowman! 

. Artist at work!

. This is another toy that is a huge hit and has been from the beginning of the year.  I am glad to see it get some great use since my own children didn't seem to care for it.   

. Veterinarian in training 

. More Reading and looking at books

. Mrs. Wegner at it again! 

. Painting a Star

. Patterning 

Be sure to check the hallway for our patterning work

. Snowman Creation 

. Music and Movement

. Clapping our Hands 

. We really liked this book about a puppy who got lost in the snow.  This story kind of reminded us of our Bible Story today of when Mary and Joseph thought Jesus was lost, but they found him safe and sound in the temple. 

. One last story of the day about Miffy getting to play in the snow. 

As you can see we had a fun busy day in Room C!  We did lots of reading and looking at books today which is always great to see and hear.  You can never read enough books and help start that love for reading to early.  Take time this weekend to read to your child as well as to worship our lord Jesus Christ.  Remember Zion offers church services on Saturday at 5:00 Sunday at 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00!  I will be at the 11:00 service maybe I will see some of you there!  Blessings to you all on a wonderful warm weekend and I look forward to seeing you all next week!