Last Tuesday in February

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

It is hard to believe that we are into the last week of February!  Time is flying by really fast.  We had a great day in our classroom.  We had fun exploring the toys, playing with play dough, lacing big buttons, solving puzzles, building towers with big blocks and small blocks.  Imaginative play is really starting to come out in our little friends and it is so exciting to observe and watch. 

Today we started to wrap our study on the number 7, the shape of the heart, our purple and pink pattern and the color of pink.  We sang our song about Zacchaeus and started to talk about the season of lent. 

We are really concentrating on sitting during our morning meeting and making sure that we are keeping our hands to ourselves and not bothering our friends around us.

It was great to see all of my friends today at school, it has been a while where all eleven friends have been at school… please review our policy on being sick down below. 

Many of our friends have been fighting colds, coughs, fevers and snotty noses.  As a reminder your child needs to be fever free for a complete 24 HOURS before returning to school.  With that being said we are really enforcing hand washing, covering our mouths when we cough or sneeze and using a tissue to wipe our noses. 

Enjoy reading about our day and viewing the pictures. 

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story comes fro Genesis 2-3

The first week in Lent:  Today we talked about how God created the Garden of Eden and that means paradise.  In the garden God planted two Trees the Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  God told Adam and Eve they could eat from the Tree of Life but they must not eat the fruit for The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, because they would then know all that was good in the world, but they would also know what was bad in the world and this would make God sad.  Well, Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and God was very sad and even though he had built this beautiful place for them they had to leave.  God wanted to be able bring them back to the paradise and in order from him to do that he had to buy them back and he did that at the price of his son. Jesus. 

Number:  We reviewed learning how to count to the number 7 We practiced counting 7 fingers, counting 7 hearts, counting 7 friends and clapping 7 times.

During our center time we had to find all the number 7 on our piece of paper and every number 7 we found we had to place a pink bingo dauber on it. When we found a number 7 we said the 7 to help us remember what it looks like.   

Shape:  We reviewed our shape the Heart this month so. 

We practiced tracing a heart pattern today so we would become familiar with the shape of heart.  After we traced our heart with a pink marker on pink paper we stamped 7 different heart shaped stamps in the middle of our heart

Color:  Pink is our color for the month we had fun placing different pictures on our board.  Ask your child what pictures they placed on my color board today.  We are making Morning Meeting more interactive so my friends helped my put all the pink pictures on our board. 

During center time we squeezed pink and purple paint onto a pink or red heart and then stuck it into a salad spinner and spun the spinner as hard as we could to make a very cool looking heart!

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We had fun learning the Zacchaeus song as well The Wheels on the Bus, Jumping and Counting, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Five Little Ducks, Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee and a new song called Bones.  Our new song helps us learn the different parts of our body. 

Outside Time: With the ground covered in snow we did not get to go outside and we were unable to head to the commons due to an event taking place in there with the preschoolers.  So we had the opportunity to play in one of the other PDO Rooms.  It was a lot of fun for us to play in a different room with different toys

Patterning:  We reviewed our pattern today of pink and purple hearts.

We are continuing along our letter journey today we learned about the letter I and made an ice cream with our hands for our letter Alphabet book.  We also charted what we like to eat our ice cream out of a bowl or a cone 7 of our friends love to eat it out of a cone and 4 of our friends like to eat ice cream out of bowl.  Thursday we will chart what kind of ice cream we like to eat. 

Sensory and Science was spent today creating and making heart shapes with our pink play dough and cookie cutters.

We are doing lots of exploring, learning and discovering all types of things through out the day in our classroom.  Everyday is an adventure and everyday is different.  Which is the beauty of working with this age group. 

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Free Choice Play 

We were busy today lacing, building with blocks, doing puzzles, putting on a puppet show and playing with play dough.  We listened to music for How To Train a Dragon today.  

Lacing Big Buttons

This is a great way for us to work on our fine motor skills as well as our color and number skills.  

. Last Week of Pink Play Dough

. Puppet Show Time

. Art Easel Work

. Evan was excited to show us his "rainbow" he drew.  Super proud to see my friends drawing and creating on the erase board so much to be learned by doing this. 

. Puzzles and Block Building

. A little light reading 

. Counting and playing with cars 

. Jack was showing me the different letters on the floor and we were repeating the letter and listening for words that started with that letter. 

. Morning Meeting 

. Color Board Fun 

Ask your child what they put on the pink board. 

. Jesus Time 

Spent learning about Jesus dieing for our sins.

. Patterning

. Transition & Snack Time

We did put our hearts on the board today but I didn't get pictures of it today.  We are working on standing in line here is a picture of us walking to use the bathroom and wash our hands.  We have six of our eleven students that are potty trained I am sure that number will increase before the end of the school year.  To me that is bittersweet because we are growing up and many of my friends will not be with me next year which makes me sad.  

. Circle Time

We practiced our hand muscles to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 

. Singing our ABC's 

. Practicing our Letter Sounds

. A trip to another PDO Classroom 

We had  a lot of fun playing with different toys and looking at different books.  

. Circle Time

We read this book on how it is OK if we make a mistake. 

. We transitioned to Center time by throwing bean bags through the heart.  

A great way to work on our gross motor skills as well as our listening and following directions skills.

. Center Time

We listened to the soundtrack to Despicable ME 2.  My phone was acting crazy during center time.  I have a fair amount of pictures but not of each child doing each activity sorry.  

. Finding the Number SEVEN

. Spin Art Hearts 

. Tracing a Heart and Stamping Seven Heart Stamps

. Landry playing with the ponies

. Susanna and Nicholas were buddies today.  They crawled up in the chair and looked at book for quite sometime. 

. Finding letters on the magnetic board. 

. Puppet Show Play 

. Emma playing with the ponies 

. Super proud of Avery and how well she put all three puzzles together by herself on the floor. 

. More magnetic fun on the board 

. Coloring a Valentine Robot

. Reese doing a little housekeeping 

. Emma checking out the different locks 

. Mrs. Wegner assuming her position go read a book. 

. Evan finding the different locks on the puzzle 

. Susanna worked really hard and did a great job putting this duck puzzle together. 

 I is for Ice Cream 

. Music and Movement 

. How do you like to eat your Ice Cream? 

. Last book of the day was appropriate to our classroom as we are always talking about sharing.  

I hope you enjoyed looking at our day as much as we enjoyed our day!  A reminder Lenten services take place on Wednesday at 3:30 and 7:00 in our church sanctuary.  Have a wonderful evening stay warm and I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday as we finish up learning about the letter I , the number 7, the shape of the heart and the color pink!  Blessings to you all