Week of the Young Child Show us your Bobcat Spirit!

Tuesday, May 05, 2015

This week we are celebrating the Week of the Young Child and National Children’s Book Week.  We read lots and lots of books today that our friends all brought to school.  We also had fun learning more about the farm and exploring the classroom and outside. 

We are continuing our study of the farm and we painted the sky for our farm scene and glued our red barns we had painted and 10 animals on our page.  Be sure and look out in the lobby for  all our great farm pictures.  We also started our study of the number 10, the shape of the diamond and reviewing the colors we have learned about this year.  We also did a small introduction into Superheroes this week. 

 
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 learning about the farm and all the different things there are on the farm and the type of animals on the farm. 

Enjoy reading about our day!

Jesus Time: Today we started talking about how Jesus rose to heaven and went up into the clouds.  We also reviewed the Easter Story and what happened after Jesus rose from the tomb. 

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.  The ten flowers we counted we then discussed how they were the same and how they were different.  Some were the same because they were from the same color family and others were different because of the colors they were.  This is something we have been focusing on more the past few weeks and we are doing really well and finding things that are the same and different. 

During our Center time we practiced our counting skills, we counted out 10 farm animals and put them on our farm page we are making.  We also counted 10 flowers to stamp in our flower vases for the last page of our number counting books.  These will start coming home in the next few weeks! 

Shape:  During Morning Meeting we were introduced to the shape of a diamond.  We found out that we can make a diamond with our fingers.  We also read a book that one of our friends brought in that was about a kite and we discovered that a kite is the shape of a diamond!!   

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

During center time we used bingo daubers to match the colors on our sheet to decorate a flower.  We used the colors red, blue, purple and green.  We practiced identifying the colors as we found them on our flowers. We also played a color matching game during one of our circle times we had to match the bow tie to the right colored penguins. 

Music and Movement: We sang Jesus Loves Me, and our ABC’s today.  We did not do any other music and movement today due to our time outside and the other activities that we had going around the classroom.

Outside Time:  We did go outside today.  We had such a good time playing this morning early on the playground and it was so beautiful that we stayed out extra long and then returned outside for another 30 minutes after we had snack and circle time.  

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

Sensory and Science led us to the sensory table for the last week of corn being in our sensory table we will have something new and different in there next week.  We also spent time talking 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 were introduced to lots of different types of flowers today as we played a flower matching game on our magnetic board. 

We also made a special Mother’s Day gift that came home today. 

Enjoy the pictures for Today!  

. Free Choice Play 

Sensory Table Fun

. Hats, Hats, Hats

Mrs. Wegener my aide on Tuesdays and Thursdays brought in some "treasures" from her house this week and one of them were some fancy hats that we have loved using and playing with. 

. Outside Play 

. Free Choice Play

After our time outside some of my friends worked on the third part of our farm page project.  We had to paint the sky blue, we had already completed the first two steps last week.  We painted the barn red and we painted the grass green. 

. Morning Meeting

Happy Wednesday and it is a great day to be a BOBCAT!

. We started by reading a book a friend had brought in 

. Color Board for the month.  We talked about how the super heroes all have colors on that we have been learning about all year. 

. New pattern for the month

. Transition and Snack Time

As we begin talking about super heroes we talk about how we are like super heroes and our superpower it to tell people that Jesus is ALIVE! So today each of us had to put a super Hero on our board that looks just like us! 

. The next book we read was another one from a friend.

. Outside Play 

. Circle Time

We sang our ABC's and played a game where we had to match the right colored bow tie to the Right penguin

. We then listened to a flannel board story about 6 colorful butterflies 

Flower Matching Game

We then played a matching game of different flowers.  Each child was given a different type of flower and when I showed their flower they had to bring up and match it to my flower.  Some of the flowers we named were, Rose, Peonies, Lily, Dandelion, Crocus, Tulip, Daffodil, Daisy and Carnation.  All year we have worked on expanding our vocabulary.  By no means are they suppose to know all the words we have learned but the exposure will help them as they continue to grow and learn. 

. Center Time

We had fun exploring and playing as we worked on different centers. 

. Finishing up our number books

We had to stamp 10 roses in a vase for our number books that will becoming home soon. 

Bingo Dauber Fun

Each child was to match the colors on their page to decorate a flower.  This was a great way to work on reviewing our colors and identifying the different colors we know. We also were able to work on our fine motor control as we had to try and stay in the dots.  We made some pretty colorful flowers! 

Farm Pictures

We painted the skies on our Farm Pictures this morning and by the time we got to center time we were ready to glue on our red barns and count out ten farm animals and glue them on our pictures.  We had to select and count out 10 animals and then as we glued them on we had to identify the animals and then give the sound for each animal.  This was another way to work on our vocabulary and counting skills.  

.We finished up our day with reading a few more books that our friends brought in.  Below is a picture of all our friends with the books that brought in.  It was so much fun to read such a variety of books with them.  

 I can not say it enough but reading is so important please try and set aside at least 20 minutes this summer to read with your child.  

We had a great day in our classroom we read a lot of books, learned some more about the Farm and started learning about some super heroes.  We also did a lot of counting to 1O and talking about the different colors we have learned about.  We also had to do a lot of reminding of using our walking feet and keeping our hands to ourselves in the classroom.  We are nearing the end of the school year and things will be crazy and fun but we still need to be following the rules of the classroom.  Hope you have enjoyed reading and viewing the pictures from our day.  I look forward to seeing you all next week!