A Wonderful Wednesday

Wednesday May 13, 2015

We had some more new toys in our classroom today!  The superheroes have arrived and they were busy saving the world from all the bad guys! We also were busy learning about the number 10, the shape of a diamond and reviewing our colors.  Not many papers will becoming home these next few weeks because we are starting to wind down and many of our things we are doing will be in our portfolios that will becoming home in the last week of school. We also will be working on many group projects and doing lots of group activities. 

Park Day is scheduled for Saturday May 16 from 10- Noon at the Tot Lot Park off Kimberly Drive in St. Peters (directions will be an email to follow this blog post).  This a time for friends to come play and for parents to meet and get to know each other and exchange phone numbers for future play dates.  Please be sure an email Mrs. Horn if you will be attending! 

We had a lot of fun today and enjoyed playing with our friends and learning lots of fun and exciting things. 

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time: This week's Bible story is the story of Jesus' Ascension.

From The Beginner's Bible:

Jesus Goes Home (Matthew 28/Act 1)

Jesus led his friends to a place near Bethany. He lifted his hands up and blessed them. "Tell other people about me," he said. Then he went up into the sky. A cloud hid him, so his friends could not see him. They stood looking up into the sky for a long time. 

All of a sudden, two angels stood beside them. "Why are you still looking into the sky?" the angels asked. "Jesus has gone up to heaven. Someday he will come back the same way you saw him leave." Then the friends went back to the city with joy in their hearts.

Jesus had taught them many things. They would always remember that he said, "Do not worry or be afraid. Trust in God and trust in me. In God's house there are many rooms. I will go to make a place ready for you. Someday I will come back and take you with me so you can be where I am.” 

Today during center time we glued a picture of Jesus going up into heaven and then we painted some “puffy” clouds around Jesus.  We used shaving cream and glue to make our clouds white and puffy. 

Number:  During our morning meeting we were introduced to the number 1O and we counted our ten fingers and ten toes as well as ten friends and 10 flowers.  We also counted 10 super heroes we had seven Spider man and 3 Batman’s!  We talked about how they were the same and how they were different.  I am really impressed with how well they are able to make the comparisons and identify the differences in our things we count.   This is a skill that they will continue working on in preschool and we will continue to work on next year in PDO.

During Center Time we put 10 Mickey Mouse stickers on a big piece of paper that is displayed in our classroom

Shape:  During Morning Meeting we talked about the shape of a diamond.  We found out that we can make a diamond with our fingers.

During Center time we picked our favorite color and we painted a diamond that were turned into Kites and are displayed on the bulletin board outside our classroom to help us get ready to move on to preschool and continue on in PDO. 

Color: During the month of May we are reviewing the colors we have learned through out the school year. 

During center time used our favorite color to paint with.  As well as our pre-writing activity to pick our favorite glitter for the first letter of our name.    

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Love our ABC’s and me. We also sang the Wheels on The Bus.

Outside Time:  We enjoyed the beautiful weather outside today and had a lot of fun playing with all of our friends in PDO!

Patterning:  We continued working on our pattern of Spider man and Batman for the last few weeks of school. 

During our center time we did a pattern of butterflies and ladybugs.  I started the pattern and my friends finished the pattern with stamps using red and blue ink.

Sensory and Science Time:  We did not use the sensory table today we have not refilled it yet but will be done in the next few days!  We continued our talk about the birds and bird feeder.  We are all pretty interested in watching to see when the birds will come and eat from the feeders.

We also worked on a special paper for Mrs. Kuhlman as a thank you for all her hard work and dedication to the Early Childhood Program.  Mrs. Kuhlman will be stepping down from the Early Childhood Directors position at the close of the school year and return to the classroom next year as one of Zion’s Third Grade teachers.  We wish her well in her new adventures and thank her for her service and advocacy for Parent’s Day Out Program at Zion.

Enjoy the pictures for Today!   

Free Choice Play

We had fun today playing with some new toys that were in our classroom.  We have worked all year on learning how to play together and how to share our toys. We enjoyed listening to a variety of music this morning as we explored the classroom today. 

.The magnet board has been a great way for us to work on lots of different things it.  Gavin had a lot of fun putting up the alphabet letters.  

.M.D. working on the chalk board. 

.Jack was very interested in watching the "Wednesday Guys"  replace some of the light bulbs in our classroom.  

.Amelia reading some books in our book nook 

Family and Friends

Today we had some new fine motor activities to work on. We had some little people that we had to connect together.  This gave us an opportunity to talk about our families and friends.  Ms. Jacks helped them link them together and count how many people they had in their family.  Not only were we working with family identification, but we working on our fine motor skills, color identification  and our counting skills. 

.Gavin building a tower with the wood blocks. 

Imaginative Play 

.Morning Meeting 

Happy Wednesdays

.Today we talked about how we have 2 more Wednesdays together.  

.We read this great book about Spring and what happens during the season of Spring and what happens after the season of Spring! 

Transition and Snack Time

.Working on standing in line! 

.Circle Time

Singing some songs and reading some stories

.Butterfly Flannel Board Story 

.We played a butterfly color number matching game 

.Outside Time

.Center Time

What does your Super Hero Name start with…..

.Diamond Shape 

We used bingo daubers to make the shape of a diamond. 

.Painting with our favorite color

.Love this picture of Amelia trying to chose which color to paint with. 

.Bible Activity

.Patterning

.Counting 10 Mickey Mouse Stickers

.Circle Time

.Transisiton and Lunch Time 

.We had to wait in the hallway to wash our hands while the preschoolers finished up so we read one more book to help close out our day! 

We had a wonderful day in our classroom.  I really have enjoyed watching all my Wednesday friends grow and learn this year.  Have a wonderful weekend and hope to see some of you at our Park Play Date on Saturday.  Please take time to worship as well if you are looking for a church home please consider joining us at Zion for worship we offer services Saturday at 5:00 and Sunday at 8:00 9:30 and 11:00. I look forward to seeing all of my little friends as we get ready to close out year!