The Super Heroes have Arrived!

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

I hope all the moms in our class had a wonderful Mother’s day and you all were pampered and loved.  Thank you for all you do for your families being a Mom is a wonderful and hard job and we all would not be where we are today without the help of our moms! 

Today Mrs. Wegener was not here; please keep her and her family in your prayers her grandfather passed away over the Mother’s Day Holiday.  She was out of town to attend his funeral.  We had Miss Rebecca Thoelke in for Mrs. Wegener and my friends did a great job helping her out with our routine and what we do in our class all day! 

We had some new toys in our classroom today!  The superheroes have arrived and they were busy saving the world from all the bad guys!  We will have more new things out as the week progresses.  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 given out next week).  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.” 

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 identified who each superhero was and found which ones were the same and which ones were different.  It was great to see how everyone tried to find how they were the same and different. 

During our Center time we practiced our counting skills, we also had fun placing 10 Mickey Mouse Stickers on a big piece of paper that we will be filling up over the next few days. To help us work on our fine motor skills.

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 will be turned into a kite!  Some of my friends also finished up using bingo daubers to outline a diamond. 

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 Loves Me, and our ABC’s today. We had fun doing Five Days Old, the Silly Dance Contest, The Washing Machine and Jumping and Counting.

Outside Time:  We did go outside today.  It was windy and cool but we had a great time playing with our friends and enjoying the beautiful spring weather God gave us.

Patterning:  We were introduced to a new pattern of Spiderman and Batman for the last few weeks of school. 

During our center time we did a pattern of yellow flower and orange butterflies with stamps we did a great job figuring out what comes next!

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 and we filled them up with some more bird food.  We are all pretty interested in watching to see when the birds will come and eat from the feeders.

We also had fun cutting with scissors today as we had to cut on a straight line and stop at the superhero.  We also worked on the first letter in our name today

Enjoy the pictures for Today!   

.Free Choice Time

We had fun using our imaginations and playing with our friends. 

.Checking out fun new toys 

.Enjoying doing new puzzles 

.Playing with our friends 

.Reading books with Miss Rebecca 

.Cooking in the Kitchen 

.Practicing our drawing and writing. 

.Building with blocks 

.Playing with Super Heroes

.Being SuperHeroes 

Morning Meeting 

Happy Tuesday!

.Our ten superheroes that we counted out. 

.Evan Taylor brought in a book for us to read and went great with us to review our farm animals and colors 

Transition and Snack Time

.Circle Time

Singing our ABC's 

.Julija brought in a book about our favorite Bear. 

.We heard flannel board story of 6 little butterflies

.Outside Time

.Filling our Bird Feeders 

.Painting  A Diamond 

Today we chose our favorite color to paint a diamond. 

.Putting 10 Mickey Mouse Stickers on a piece of paper 

.My Name begins with..

All year we have been working on the first letter of our name and today we practiced some more make a super hero name plate. 

.Cutting with Scissors

we had to cut on the straight line and stop at the super hero.  If we cut through the super hero our super hero would lose their powers 

.Enjoying Puzzles 

.Coloring on the art easel

.Pattern Work 

Patterns have been a big part of our classroom this year and we had fun today making another pattern.  I am pretty impressed with how well all of our friends have done with learning and implementing the patterns. 

.Music and Movement 

.We had fun playing a number/color matching game with butterflies 

.Doing our Favorite Dance the Silly Dance Contest! 

.Look everyone is dancing! 

.The Washing Machine Song! 

.Counting to 10 while jumping and counting 

.Final Book for the Day about another bear.  Helped us to review some of our colors. 

.Transition and Lunch Time.

.We had another wonderful day in our classroom.  During Morning Meeting we talked about how we only have two more green squares on our calendar and then school will be done for the summer.  Mr. Debrick is not big on counting down the last days of school and we are not counting down but talking about what is coming up in the weeks to come.  It will be a bittersweet time for sure I have really enjoyed my students and classes this year and the year has flown by so quickly!  Have a wonderful evening and I look forward to seeing everyone later in the week!