First Thursday in February

Thursday February 05, 2015

A new month brought lots of new things for our classroom!  We started a new study of the number 7, the shape of a heart, the color pink and the Bible Story of Jesus and his Friends.  Not only did we begin new studies but also our classroom had a complete overhaul of toys!  We had lots of new things to explore and play with.  A puppet show is set up in our classroom as well as a tool bench and lots of neat tools to learn how to play with.  We have big blocks to help us with our stacking, counting and building.  New Hot Pink Play dough to practice making heart shaped cookies and cut outs.  We had some addition to the housekeeping area we had the addition of some more baby dolls, blankets, a baby bed and high chair.   We also have a new dollhouse to play with.  WOW!  We were busy this morning and this is just what we needed to help us recover from the rough week had the week before.  Our classroom was buzzing all morning long with our friends playing, exploring and sharing new toys.  

We also during morning meeting continued working on 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!

We had a few friends missing this week because of illness we pray that they all start to feel better and are able to join us next week.  Please remember if your child has a fever they need to stay home and cannot return till they are fever free for 24 hours. 

Enjoy reading about our day and viewing the pictures. 

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story comes from Luke 5 & 6 

 Found in our Beginners Bible:

Helpers and Friends

Jesus knows that he had much work to do. He wanted to have some good friends who could help Him. One day Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee. He saw town boats there. Peter and Andrew were fishing from one boat. James and John were mending a net in the other boat. Jesus called to them, "Come and follow me."  And they did.

Later, Jesus passed by a tax office. There was a man there named Matthew. Matthew's job was to take the taxes, the money the people paid to the king. Jesus looked at Matthew.

"Follow me," Jesus said. Matthew got up and followed Jesus. Jesus asked twelve men to be his helpers. Besides Peter, Andrew, James, John, and Matthew, he called Philip, Bartholomew, Simon Thaddeus and Judas.

Number:  Today we started our study of the number seven.  We practice counting to seven with our fingers, finding seven hearts to count. Clapping our hands seven times, jumping up and down seven times.  We also counted seven Mickey Mouse heads. 

During our center time we had seven valentine stickers and we put them on a shape of a heart.  We practiced counting the stickers as we put them on the heart and then we went back after we had all the stickers on the heart and counted the seven stickers. 

Shape:  We were introduced the shape of a heart. 

During our center time we used scissors to cut a strip of pink paper to glue onto the shape of a heart.  These are displayed out in our hallway be sure to stop an take a look at how great our cutting skills are coming along.  

Color:  We started our study of the color pink today during morning meeting and we had new images and objects to put on our color board.  Ask your child about what they saw on the color board today.   

Our center time was centered on the color, our heart shapes were pink and we did a bingo dauber page of a flower in the shape of hearts with a pink paint dauber.  

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Hands are for Clapping, Silly Dance Contest and The Washing Machine!  Another fun filled Music and Movement Day there are quite a few pictures from this time in our day!  I love this time with them. 

Outside Time: Well February came in cold and windy, so we headed to the commons to play with our friends from the other PDO classrooms.    

Patterning:  We started a new pattern to day of pink and purple hearts.  I am really impressed with how well all of my friends are doing with patterning.  They are all in different levels of learning patterns but they are grasping the concepts and that is wonderful to see.      

We are a little behind with our letter study and we are going to play catch up so this week we went back to the letter F to help us get back on track. 

We made Fish for our letter book that will be coming home in May. 

We decorated a heart with the first letter of our name using gold and silver glitter.  These are displayed in our classroom.  It was a great way to incorporate our shape of the month, the letter of our name, fine motor skills with using the glue to trace the letter of our name and sensory skills, as we had to shake out the glitter. 

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 had so much fun today playing with all the new toys.  We enjoyed listening to the Cars Soundtrack today.  

Tool Bench Fun

.  Having Fun with The Dora Explorer House

.  Puzzles

.  Imaginative Play

. A Little Light Reading

.  Morning Meeting

.  Transition & Snack Time

.  Commons Time

Sorry for the lack of pictures during this time.  My little girl got sick and I was taking care of arrangements for her to be picked up. 

.  Center Time

Pink Bingo Dauber Fun

.  Cutting With Scissors

.  More Exploring in the Classroom 

.  Number 7 and Valentine Stickers

.  Puppet Show Fun

.  F is for Fish

.More Playing taking place

.  Fixing the vacuum cleaner

.  Having fun building with the blocks 

.  My Little Pony Castle

.  Friends enjoying books together

.  More Puppet Fun

Glitter Letters

.  Music and Movement

.  Shape Recognition 

When a shape was put on the magnetic board my friends had to see if they had the same shape.  if they did have the shape then they brought it up to put on the board to make a match.  

.  Transition and Lunch Time 

.  Wow we had a busy, jammed packed day in PDO but we had an awesome time , playing, learning, exploring and most importantly having fun!  Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing you all either Saturday at our Valentine Open House and next week at school.  Hope you enjoyed looking at what we learned today!