Week of The Young Child--Show us your Stripes!

Thursday, May 07, 2015

This week we are celebrating the Week of the Young Child and National Children’s Book Week.  We had fun today seeing everyone’s favorite stripes and 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 hallway for the 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.  We enjoyed learning about the farm the past few weeks but it is time for us to explore something new and so next week there will be new toys and fun things to do in our classroom to help us finish up the end of the school year.

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!  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 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!!   

During Center time we picked our favorite color and used a bingo dauber to help us trace the outline of the 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 also sang the Wheels on the Bus and Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee.

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 45 minutes after we had snack and circle time.  We had a yummy treat outside when we went out the second time today. 

Patterning:  We were introduced to a new pattern of Spiderman 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

We had fun playing with all the things today. Many of the puzzles and toys and sensory table will be switched out come Tuesday Morning.  

Some of us were not happy to take a break from the fun to work with Mrs. Horn!  I love working with this age and their faces and expressions sometimes just make me chuckle!  

Outside Play 

Free Choice Play 

We worked for a while on a new floor Puzzle we never got it done, so we will try again next week. 

Farm Project

Some of us still needed to paint the sky so we could glue on all of our farm animals and barn.  These are displayed in the lobby and in the hallway.  

Morning Meeting

First of Many books we read today. 

Transition Time and Snack

Circle Time 

 Flower Matching Game 

On the magnet board we had fun learning new names for flowers and matching them up! 

We read another book and then we headed outside!

Putting more food in our bird feeders I will keep you updated on what they look like! 

Yummy treats for our friends who are so important to us and all hold such a special spot in my hearts.  My world is better for having each and everyone of them in my classroom this year and it has been an honor to be there "first" teacher! 

We headed back inside and played a penguin color matching game. 

Centers

We worked with Mrs. Wegener to trace the outline of a diamond using bingo daubers.  

Counting to Ten

We used our fine motor skills to peel and count 10 Mickey Mouse Stickers. 

Farm Project

We finished up our Farm Project Today by counting out 10 animals and saying their name and identifying their sounds.  

Here are all the books we read today and the friends who brought them in!  

We had a busy fun filled day and we read some really great books I think over the past 3 days I read 20 books or more.  Remember to take time to read with your child 20 minutes each day.  

Have a great weekend and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS!