Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Warm Winter Day Tuesday!

Tuesday January 19, 2015

Welcome to a Warm Winter day! I hope everyone enjoyed the three-day weekend and you all were able to get outside and enjoy this beautiful weather that God graced us with. We were so excited to be able to go outside and play on our playground today. It is nice for us to have access right out our classroom door to the play ground which is a great help with classroom management as we don’t have to build in time walking from one place to the next!

Today was a bit of a challenge for some of my friends with keeping our hands to our selves and using our listening ears. We had several friends that were “testing the waters” so to speak. We had a brief conversation about how it “hurts” Mrs. Horn’s heart when her friends are not nice to each other or chose not to listen. We talked about how important it is to use our listening ears at all times and we need to respect our friend’s personal space.

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.

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 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 Bringing Home A Baby Bumble Bee and Head Shoulders Knees and Toes.

Outside Time: We got about 45 minutes of fresh air today, which was wonderful.

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

During Center time we made our own pattern of red mitten, blue mitten 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.

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 1-10 and discovering we made a star! We then used our crayons to color the star.

Cutting Skills:

We practiced cutting white paper for a group project we are doing for National Lutheran Schools Week. We are making a winter scene.

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 some classical music today. We enjoyed a variety of activities during our first hour of the day.

Sensory Table

We are loving playing in the rice and are doing really well and trying to keep it in the table.

. The Kitchen saw a lot of action today there were lots of different cooks in and out of the kitchen making some delicious and yummy meals

Block Tower Building

. Yummy Food from the Kitchen

Art Work on the Easel

Letter Recognition

Group Art Project

Today we glued more paper onto our big snow storm and we also used white paint and qtips to make a snowstorm in the sky.

Morning Meeting

Transition &Snack Time

Today when my friends put their mitten on the snowman they had to tell me what they had on that was white. We did pretty good finding something white on everyone in the classroom.

. Snack Time!

Today Landry brought in a special Treat for his birthday. We sang Happy Birthday to Landry and enjoyed some Oreo's. Thanks Landry and Happy 2nd Birthday!

Circle Time

Outside Time

Some of my pictures are super bright but I think it was because of the sun!

. Center Time

Stamping and Counting six stars

Bingo Daubers

We decorated a snowman today be sure to check them out hanging up in our classroom.

. We are loving the slide and climber in our room it is a great way to work on our Gross Motor skills as well as our ability to share with others

Connecting the dots to make a star

Patterning

.Mrs. Wegner is really loved by the children and she has really been great with the students. They were having fun today trying to see how many animals they could get to stay on her and were imitating all the different noises they make!

The Beginnings of our Snowmen