Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Week 4 Day 3

Week 4 Day 3 of Mrs. Horn’s Class

We are into the third day of September and we are going strong with all our new concepts and themes. A new month means that our toys have been switched out and we are starting our first theme “APPLES” over the course of the next month we will do different activities about apples. Today was an introduction to apples. As we move into the month of September this means new things will be introduced and we will be adding more centers. This year we are taking more of play approach we will still focus on our centers but we will be spending time developing our social skills and how to interact with others and respect each other’s space and toys.

Jesus Time: Today we practiced singing our Bible song that we start Jesus Time with and we learned about the first two days of creation. We talked about how God created the light and the dark on the first day and on the second day he created the water and the sky. After we read our Bible Story we practiced singing the song THE BIBLE and Jesus Loves Me. We ended our Jesus time in prayer. When we get ready to pray we talk about how we need to fold our hands, bow our heads and listen. These are things you can practice with your child at home. Here is this week’s special prayer. Dear God, Thank you for creating the light and the dark and for sky and water. Please help Joseph feel better. In your name we pray. Amen During our center time we worked on the first day in our creation book as we cut yellow and black paper to signify the light and the dark. This was some of our friends first time to use scissors and we all did a great job using them. Our creation books will come home at the end our study of the Bible Story Creation. Some of my friends completed this activity earlier this week.

Number: We started our study of the number 2. Today we looked at the number two and practiced holding up two fingers. We practiced counting 1-2 and clapping our hands two times, stomping our feet two times, turning around two times and waving our hands two times. We also practiced counting two red apples. We also spotted 2 butterflies on our number 2 that we look at as we are learning about it.

Shape: Our shape for the month of September is the OCTAGON. This is a hard shape but we talked about how it looks like a stop sign and when we see this shape we need to STOP! We talked about how it has eight sides and how we can see this shape when we are driving in our cars with our moms and dads. Help your child this week when you are driving look for an OCTAGON!

Letter: We continue to work on learning the ABC song and today we started our letter journey with the letter A. We looked at different pictures of the letter A and the sounds the letter A makes. We also discovered some of our friends names start with the letter A! This year we will make an Alphabet book that will come home at the end of the school year. During center time we colored a picture of the letter A with apples all over it. We also put animal stickers on the letter A poster in our room.

Color: Red is the color we will be learning and studying about during the month of September. Today we took a little time finding the color red in our room and identifying different objects on our RED Color Board. When we were done learning about the color red we spent some time during center time painting a butterfly that will be added to our scene on the wall.

Music and Movement: Our Music and Movement was a little shorter today we had a hard time cleaning up our toys and centers today so that went into our Music and Movement time. We did sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Jumping and Counting and Five Days Old.

Outside Time: Well the St. Louis Heat has returned so our outside time was shortened we did not go to the commons today due to it being an early release day. With the extreme heat we do not want to take any chances of our little ones becoming over heated, sunburned or dehydrated. Please be sure your child is dressed for the weather appropriately and that they have plenty of fluids to drink.

We had a small group today and our day was not quite as long, but we packed a lot in and had a lot of fun.

I am really looking forward to getting to know all of my little friends and have already seen so many changes in them and I am excited to see where the rest of the year leads us.

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