A visit to the big Church to celebrate the life of Drew Albritton

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Soggy Wet Tuesday is what we were greeted with today.  We had a different kind of day today and my friends did fairly well with the schedule we were on today.  Today we had the opportunity to go to the big church with the rest of the school to help celebrate the life of one of our former students Drew Albritton.  I was so very impressed and happy with how well behaved and quiet all my little friends were today in the church.  We were there for about 40 minutes and they were all great!  It was a beautiful celebration of Drew’s life and I am sure he is up in heaven smiling down at the celebration that was in his honor.  Please keep the Albritton family in your prayers. 

We had fun in our classroom today doing lots of fun things to help us get ready for the spring season.  We had some new items in our classroom to play with as well we had fun exploring the new things that were out for us to learn and discover about.  

 

We continued on our journey of the number 8, the shape of a rectangle and the color yellow.  We had fun stamping, painting, coloring, cutting and reading books. 

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story comes from Matthew, Mark and Luke.

Taken from Read and Share Bible:

Jesus prays for help

Jesus and His followers went straight from dinner to a quiet garden. Jesus wanted to pray and ask God to make Him strong for what was about to happen. He took three of His closest followers- Peter, James, and John- with Him. Jesus asked them to wait and pray.

He went a little farther into the garden so that He could pray by Himself. It was very late, and the three men were very tired. They couldn't keep their eyes open to pray. Soon they were asleep. Jesus woke them twice, but they went back to sleep each time.

When we have tough things ahead of us, we need to pray and ask God to help us.

During our center time we colored a picture of Jesus Praying in the Garden.  We also talked a lot about praying today before we went to the main church.  We practiced folding our hands and bowing our heads. 

Number:  We continued to learn about the number 8 today.  We looked at the number 8 and how it looks like to circles on top of each other.  We counted 8 Easter Eggs in an Easter Basket to help us with counting the number 8.

Today we stamped 8 shamrocks for our counting book that will becoming home in May.  We did this activity during our center time.   

Shape:  We continue to work on the shape of a rectangle.  We talked about how the door to our classroom is the shape of a rectangle.  We also found other things in our classroom that were shaped like a rectangle we came up with quite a list we will be charting these rectangle finding on Thursday.  

During our center time we practiced our pre-writing skills with tracing the outline of a rectangles that made a train. 

Color: Yellow is the color we will be learning about in the month of March.  We placed yellow objects on our color board today and each student was given the opportunity to help put an object on the board during Morning Meeting. 

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, and our ABC’s, we shook our bodies down and Five Days Old!

Outside Time: we were unable to go outside due to the rainy, chilly wet weather and we did not go to the commons today because we were in the church for the celebration of Drew’s Life.

Patterning:  We started a new pattern today of pink and purple bunnies.    

Sensory and Science led us to the sensory table where we discovered Easter Grass and lots of plastic Easter Eggs that we had to match together.  We talked about how it was rainy today and that we needed our umbrella to keep us dry. 

We did a great job in the church I cannot say it enough and I know the Albritton appreciated us being there and supporting them and Reese as they get through this difficult time.  Remember life is short and we never know how long we will be here so hug you little ones a little tighter today and pray for the Albrittons.  At Zion we are not only a school but we are family!  

. Free Choice

Today our Free Choice time was shortened quite a bit, but we still managed to get a lot of exploring and playing in our shortened time.  We listened to some Christian Rock music this morning. 

 Easter Eggs!

We had lots of Easter Eggs to match and play with baskets and egg cartons to load them up in and unload them in. 

. Calculators 

We had someone donate a bunch of calculators and my friends had a great time playing with them.  They used them for all sorts of things, phones, remotes, ipods, iPads our world has definitely changed!  This was great exposure to numbers as well. I heard lots of numbers and counting going on. 

. New Easter Magnets on our Board 

. Easter Cookie Cutters 

.  Mrs. Wegner in her position ready to read away.  We had an assortment of new books to read and look at.  

. A Little Drawing 

. Checking out all the things in our Housekeeping Area

. Morning Meeting 

. Happy Tuesday

. Instead of a story at morning meeting we did a little flannel board story about 5 chicks wishing us a Happy Easter

. Transition & Snack Time 

Our Leprechauns have left the building and been replaced with ducks.  We had new colors to learn and remember.  

. Mrs. Horn's Lucky Ducks, I am truly lucky and blessed to have these beautiful "ducks" in my classroom this year 

. Yummy Snacks!!

. Heading to the Church 

. We are doing great at standing in line waiting to go 

. CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR DREW ALBRITTON

. Sitting in the Pews 

We did awesome sitting and waiting for the rest of the school to arrive and we were so quiet I was told by many of the teachers that their students could learn a thing or two from how well my friends all sat! 

. Preschoolers Ringing the Bells 

The entire preschool rang hand bells that were given by the Albritton Family in honor of Drew.  They played Jesus Loves Me and it was beautiful I don't think there was a dry eye from the adults.  I am sure Drew was smiling down at all his friends. 

. After the preschoolers rang the bells.  We listened to Pastor Rouland talk and he read a book about what Heaven was like and what a beautiful safe place it is and there is not crying and it is filled with lots of beautiful things.  After Pastor Rouland spoke the entire church sang Jesus Loves Me.  Our kiddos did an awesome job singing it and doing the hand motions.  I wish I could of captured some pictures.  

We then were dismissed to the Welcome Center where we blew bubbles up into Heaven to let Drew know we love him and he will never be forgotten.  Each of our little friends were paired with an eighth grade friend to help them blow their bubbles.  It was really beautiful.  Reese was in attendance with her parents and her friends were happy to see her after we were done.  

. After the service we waited for the crowds to clear out and we did a great job sitting and waiting to go back to our classroom.  I can not stress enough how super proud I am of these kiddos.  

. Circle Time

Because we did such a great job sitting in the church and be so still we came back and got some of our energy out by singing and Dancing.  

. This makes my heart happy!  I love seeing my friends being so loving towards each other! 

. We read a book about a Little Duck named Henry 

. Played a bunny matching game 

. And did our new pattern of pink and purple bunnies. 

. Center Time

We made some pretty colorful flowers that we will be hanging in the hallway in the days to come to help us welcome in the Spring Season.  Each student picked their own colors and we have some pretty colorful flowers! 

. We had fun listening to music for the soundtrack RIO 1 and 2 we were in need of a little up beat music and this did just the trick.  

. Susie reading a book at the table

. The farm puzzle being done by three friends. 

. Easter Egg Fun

. Evan decided to tak a break in the block box 

. Coloring a Picture of Jesus Praying 

. Counting 8 Shamrocks 

. Water Color Painting a picture to help Welcome Spring

. Puzzle Fun 

. Landry so silly with a bucket on his head! 

. A few friends finishing up their Rectangles for our Train. 

. Tracing a Rectangles for A Train 

. Music and Movement 

Was short today we had so much fun during center time that we didn't leave enough time to sing and dance some more.  

Transition & Lunch Time 

. Despite our schedule being thrown off we did great and as a teacher and mom I am so super proud of my little friends and the way they acted in church.  I hope you all have a wonderful evening and keep the Albritton's in your prayers and I look forward to seeing everyone later in the week.  God's Blessings