Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Wonderful Wednesday!

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

We were surrounded by hearts and feeling the love in our classroom today. We had a lot of fun playing with friends and exploring the classroom.

We did lots of different things that are helping us with getting ready for Valentine’s Day and we read some great books too that help us learn about loving each other not only on Valentine’s Day but all year long.

I can truly say I LOVE each and every one of my little friends that come to my classroom on Wednesdays. It warms my heart to have so many wonderful little friends that love to learn, laugh, play and have fun. I have been truly blessed with some wonderful students and families this year.

During Morning Meeting we are continuing to work on sitting down and using our listening ears as we learn about exciting things! We are also learning our new Superman Prayer and are doing a fabulous job at it! Below are the words to the prayer see if your child can recite any of the words for you.

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!

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 from Luke 18:15-17

Jesus Blesses the Children

People loved to bring their children to Jesus for Him to bless them. Jesus welcomed them with open arms.

But Jesus' disciples thought He had more important things to do than talk to children.

"Don't bother Him with the children," they said to the mothers and fathers. Jesus overheard them and became angry.

"Let the children come to me!" He said. "Don't try to stop them!"

"My kingdom belongs to people who are like these children. You will never enter God's kingdom if you don't enter it like a child."

Today during centers we practiced our fine motor skills by gluing a heart onto a black piece of card stock. First we had to stamp a saying on our pink heart that said “Jesus Loves The Little Children” after that we (Mrs. Horn and Student) worked together to use the glue to trace the outline of the heart. Next we glued our heart on our paper and then again traced the outline of the heart with glue and then the fun came in as we shook some red glitter onto our heart. They turned out great and are on display in our hallway being sure to stop and look at them. This was great way to work on our pre-writing skills and building our hand muscles squeezing out the glue.

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.

During our center time we decorated our Valentine Bags for the Valentines we received from our friends. We used 7 stickers on the front and 7 stickers on the back to decorate our bag. They look beautiful. This was also a great way to work on our fine motor skill, as we had to peel off the sticker and place it on our bag.

Shape: We continued to learn about the shape of a Heart.

During our center time we heart cookie cutters dipped in pink paint to help make a heart collage on a piece of white paper. We had big hearts, little hearts, smooth hearts and bumpy hearts. Be sure and check out our paintings in the hallway!

We also made a valentine friend that involved us practicing our cutting skills and gluing skills. Be sure to check out our beautiful Valentine Friends in our Lobby!

Color: We continued to learn about the color pink. We placed many different items on our color board that are the color pink. Ask your child if they remember any of the things that we put on the color board.

Our center time we used pink paint to make a heart collage with cookie cutters.

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We also have been singing 5 little ducks a lot lately to help us with our counting skills. We also did Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes.

Outside Time: We had some beautiful weather over the weekend and I hope everyone was able to find sometime to get outside and enjoy it. Unfortunately, the warm beautiful weather did not stick around this week and we ended up playing in the commons with our other friends from PDO!!

Patterning: We continued working on our pattern today of pink and purple hearts.

Today during our center time we had to make our own heart pattern of purple hearts and pink hearts.

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 G to help us get back on track.

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

We also used red, gold and silver glitter to decorate a heart with the first letter of our name. We have been working all year on learning the first letter of our name. We hear it every day when we transition from Morning Meeting to Snack time and from Music and Movement to lunchtime. We see it written on our transition game and now we are working on writing it and recognizing it. These hearts are displayed in our classroom by our birthday board and the orange chair.

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 spent our morning listening to a variety of classical music during our beginning of the day. We spent the morning making our valentine bags to hold all of our valentines that our friends brought for us. We brought home our valentine bags today and I hope your child enjoyed looking at all the valentines they received. We also had fun doing our pattern activity for the day. This class is smaller so we are able to go about our day a little differently.

Valentine Bags

. Patterning Hearts

We are doing really well with our heart patterning!

. Exploring the classroom

. Just enjoying a puzzle Mrs. Horn up on the shelf! This just made me laugh and remind me how much I love my job!

. Mrs. Jacks, Avery and Kate worked together to complete three big floor puzzles

. Coloring

We love to color in the class. It is a great way to promote pre writing skills, working on coloring in a small place. We also are able to work on our color identification. Coloring is also a great way to have conversation with children. I learn so much by just sitting down and coloring a picture with them.

. Morning Meeting

. Transition and Snack Time

. Circle Time

We had fun starting circle time with Head Shoulders Knees and Toes. We also sang 5 Little Ducks.

. Working on our letter sounds and singing our ABC's

. We read another story about Bear a week or so ago we read about Bear being sick and his friends taking care of him. It was so neat to when I brought out this book that they remember the book about Bear being sick. They all sat so well and were very interested in seeing what would happen when Bear Snores.

Commons Time

. Center Time

Making our Valentine Friends

. My Name begins with …….

. Housekeeping Area was a busy place today. The babies were sick and needed to be taken care of and they were very well cared for by my beautiful little friends today.

. Kate and Sydney found a book in the book basket that is a favorite of everyone in the classroom. It is a Frozen seek and find book, they did a great job finding all the pictures.