Wacky Tacky Tuesday

Tuesday January 27, 2015

National Lutheran’s School Week is being celebrated this week at Zion where not only is it a great day to be a Bobcat, but it is great that we are able to attend a school where we are able to learn about Jesus and all his wonderful teachings.  Today was Wacky Tacky and some of us did a great job looking Wacky and Tacky!  Mrs. Horn was unable to let go of her OCD to participate in Wacky Tacky Tuesday, but Mrs. Wegner looked awesome!  As we had fun seeing how silly some of our friends in our classroom looked we were able to also see how silly some of the bigger kids looked as well. 

Room C had a rough go at it today.  We had to do a lot of talking about keeping our hands to ourselves and how it is so important that we listen not only to Mrs. Horn and Mrs. Wegner, but we need to listen to our friends too because sometimes they are telling us to stop or they don’t like something we are doing.  We also talked a lot about sharing our toys and how we need to use walking feet in the classroom and save our running feet for outside.  Speaking of outside we did get to go outside for about 30 minutes today which was great to help us get some fresh air and exercise.  We continue to work on our self help skills such as washing our hands and drying them off, putting our snack items in the bucket or trash, attempting to put on our own coats, hats and gloves. 

We did not do as many centers and activities today due to time and some of our friends not listening and cooperating but we did talk more about snow and finished up our snowmen we started last week.  Be sure to check them out on our bulletin board by the classroom door.

We also during morning meeting are learning a new prayer to say before we head for snack and lunch it is called the Superman Prayer, it is to the theme song of Superman”

Thank you, God for giving us food

Thank you, God for giving us food

For the friends that we meet,

For the food that we eat,

Thank you, God, for giving us food

Amen!

Ask your child if they remember any of the new prayer they learned.   

Enjoy reading about our day and viewing the pictures. 

Jesus Time: Today we learned about Jesus being baptized….

Mark 1:11

 And a voice came from heaven, "You are My Beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."

God Is Pleased

John the Baptist was a prophet who lived in the wilderness near Jerusalem. He ate grasshoppers and honey. His clothes were made of camel's hair, and he always wore a big leather belt. John was very wise. Many people came to hear him preach. He baptized them in the Jordan River. One day, Jesus came and asked John to baptize Him. John didn't want to because he knew whom Jesus was and that He was Holy. "You should baptize me," he said to Jesus. But Jesus said it was right for John to baptize Him. So John baptized Jesus in the river. When Jesus rose out of the water, the sky opened and the Spirit of God, like a dove, came down to Him. At the same time, a voice from heaven said, "You are my own dear Son. I am very pleased with you." Jesus invites us to be baptized, too. In Baptism, Jesus washes away our sins and makes us God's children.

During Center time we painted a picture of a white dove.

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. 

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

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 we used white paint to paint a dove to remind us of God descending from Heaven to see Jesus when he was baptized.

Music and Movement: We had fun singing Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Little Star, ABC’s.  We also did Hands are For Clapping and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony finger exercise.  We missed the rest of our Music and Movement time because we had a really hard time cleaning up today. 

Outside Time: We went to the commons for a bit to play, took a walk around the school where we saw lots of cool art work and then we went outside to play for about 30 minutes.    

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

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.

We finished our snowmen today which led us during center time to put two eyes, a nose, a mouth, buttons, hats and scarfs on our snowmen.  They are all different and unique and look great! 

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

We listened to the Frozen Soundtrack this morning.  

Block Building

We have really enjoyed building with the blocks this month.  We maybe have some future architects on our hands.  Building with blocks is a great way to promote so many areas of learning, math, spatial awareness, heavy light, shape recognition, color recognition, counting, creativity and imagination.  

.Puzzles

Puzzles are always available to my friends as well.  We have really been doing great at putting them together.  New puzzles will be introduced next month!  It is a great way to work on problem solving skills.

.Race Track

Last week for the race track in our classroom we will have new toys next week to play and explore with. 

.Sensory Table

This month Mrs. Wegener has gotten a work out cleaning up all the rice off the floor.  We have loved playing in the sensory table and it will be exciting to see what is offered to us next month in our sensory table to play with.  Today we had a lot of rice on the floor and ended up closing the table early.  Two friends helped Mrs. Wegner out by sweeping up all the rice that got onto the floor.  

.Art Easel

This is always available too.  It allows the children to work on their pre writing skills, literacy skills as well as their imagination and creativity.  

.The Climber

It has been great to have the climber in our classroom this past month but it will be gone next month too.  It will be replaced with something new and exciting to explore and play with. 

.Morning Meeting

.Last week for the number 6, the shape of the star and the color white.  Next month new number, shape, color and pattern will be introduced.  

.We read this story about different animals we might see in the snow. 

.Transition & Snack Time

Last week for Mr Snowman and his mittens.  It will be replaced with something new next week. 

.Working on following directions and standing in line waiting to use the bathroom to wash hands and go potty. 

.Circle Time

We spent this time today singing our ABC's, Clapping our Hands and Doing a finger exercise to Beethovens' Fifth Symphony we also helped Mrs. Horn Draw a snowman. 

.Commons Time

.Walk around the school

We saw lots of neat things today in our school! 

.Our hand prints will be added to the wall tomorrow for part of Lutherans' School Week. 

.We found an M & M drawing done by a fifth grader

.Super Hero Drawings done by Fifth Graders.  I was pretty impressed by how well this class know their Super Heroes! 

.Outside Time 

We love to get outside and play and soak up the sunshine and the fresh air! 

.Center Time

.Snowmen Project

We finished our snowmen we started last week.  They look great.  

.Painting with White Paint 

Today we painted a white dove. 

.More Block Building. 

.Dramatic Play Area has been a big hit lately 

.More Artist at work 

.Puzzles being built

.Tracing our Hands 

Mrs. Wegner helped us today trace our hands for the school art project in the new lobby of the school. 

.Music and Movement

Was cut short today because we had a hard time cleaning up our toys.  We reviewed our letter sounds and watched a video of the book THE SNOWY DAY.  We try and incorporate different media into our classrooms as it permits.  

.Have a great evening and I look forward to seeing you all later in the week!