Week 5 Day 2 Mrs. Horn's Class

Week 5 Day 2 of Mrs. Horn’s Class

So it is official summer is over and I believe cooler temps are on the way! Which means we are starting to gear up for the season of Fall.  We will continue learning about apples and other things that happen during the Fall.  I feel that it is important for little ones to have a sense of time and talking about holidays and seasons allows our little ones to be able to follow what goes on during what time of year.  We will be doing lots of fall like activities over the next couple of weeks and months.  Please read below what we were busy doing today.  We added some more centers this week and will continue to do so as the month progresses

Jesus Time:  Today we practiced singing our Bible song that we start Jesus Time with and we learned about the second day of creation. We talked about how God on the second day created the water and the sky and after his creation he said this is good.  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 sky and the water in your name we pray. Amen. During our center time we worked on the second day of creation.  We had to glue two clouds for the sky (this also helped us with the number we are studying about this month as well) and then we used a blue crayon to color the water.   Our creation books will come home at the end our study of the Bible Story Creation.  Some of my friends did this on Tuesday so they didn’t do this today.  When we study the other Bible Stories this year we will have a different activity each day for the story. 

Number:  We continued our study of the number two. We worked on holding up two fingers that will help us build our finger and hand muscles. We practiced counting 1-2 and found 2 red apples to count today. We also spotted 2 butterflies on our number 2 that we look at as we are learning about it.  During our center time we used scissors to cut strips of red paper that we then used to create the number 2 with. 

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 continued our letter journey with the letter B.  We looked at different pictures of the letter B and the sounds the letter B makes.  During center time we colored a picture of a Baseball Bat and Baseball with the letter B on it.  We also worked on the first two pages in our Alphabet books.  The letter A and B were done today.  These alphabet books will be coming home at the end of the school year.

Color:  We are studying about the color red this month. We had fun identifying different objects on our RED Color Board.  During our Center time we painted Red balloons that we will be adding to our scene on the wall in our classroom.  Be sure and check out all the fun things we have been painting and working on for our wall.  We also used the bingo daubers to decorate red apples that will be added to our wall with a basket of red apples.

Music and Movement:  We had fun today doing a variety of different songs during music and movement.  We did Bringing Home   A Baby Bumble Bee, The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Five Days Old.  Along with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 

Outside Time:  We did not go outside today because of the rain earlier today so we had fun in the commons today with our other PDO friends and then we went for a walk around the main school building.  Ask your child what they saw in the main school building today. 

We were super active today and we had to work really hard at sitting down during Morning Meeting, Jesus Time and Circle Time.  We also had to have lots of reminders that we sit on our bottoms and stay in our chairs when we are having snack and lunch. 

Enjoy the pictures below of our fun day in Room C!   

When I came in this morning and flipped my daily devotion to a new page this was the devotion for today and thought I would share it with you all.  Last year Zion experienced lots of ups and downs with families and faculty and we learned the true power of prayer and it is amazing what happens when we pray and listen to GOD!  I pray daily for each of students and their families.  You are truly all a blessing and we are thankful and blessed to have you all part of Zion! 

Free Choice Time

Today with it being wet and dreary outside made it feel like a Michael Buble type of morning!  So that was our music selection today.  We had a lot of fun exploring around the classroom.  Some of my friends had a hard time sharing so we spent a lot of time talking about sharing our toys and not taking them from our friends if they are still playing with them.  

Puzzles

We always have puzzles available for our friends to solve and play with.  Puzzles are a great way to work on our problem solving skills and spatial awareness. 

Kate was super excited that she found two red cars that were a match! 

Ella really enjoyed looking at the different books in the reading center today.  

The play house was a hot toy item today and it was fun to watch my friends make families and see what they like to do.  

The art easel was another popular place today that we had to work on sharing and taking turns at. 

Kate was busy exercising with a Jump Rope! 

The sensory table still has sand in it and makes us still feel like we are at the beach! 

Painting a Red Balloon 

Morning Meeting 

Happy Wednesday

We decided Mr. Weather Frog needed his umbrella and rain shoes today. 

Our pattern for the month of September is red apples, green apples.  Next week a new center will be added and we will be making our own patterns with apples.  

An Alphabet book that had a Bear eating an Apple Pie Yummy! 

Transition Time 

Snack Time 

Heading to the Commons

We are doing great at working on standing in line

Waiting to enter the Commons we had to count to make sure we had our "magic number" for the day which was 6! 

Commons Time

Getting ready for a Walk around the School

We found some of our favorite cereals that we like to eat at home on our walk.  

We found some "B" pictures we found Bears! 

Standing in the hallway counting our "magic number 6"

Walking in the hallway 

Entering the Early Childhood Wing

We were invited into Miss Kirby's Classroom today to see the caterpillars in her room.  Miss Kirby use to work down in the Sonshine Center last year as the new preschool teacher.  She has moved to the main building and we miss seeing her smiling face so we stopped for a visit and we found some really neat caterpillars!  We were invited to come back when they have become butterflies.  This is one of the other very unique aspects of our amazing school, we are able to visit other classrooms and expose our young ones to all that Zion has to offer.  

Heading back to our Classroom 

One more count of our "magic number"

Jesus Time 

We played a matching creation game 

Our schedule was a little different today since we went to the commons to play so we finished our Jesus Time and then read a silly book about Waking Up in the morning.  

Center Time 

Coloring The Letter "B"

Jesus Activity 

Alphabet Books 

Apple Decorating with Bingo Daubers

Cutting with Scissors to make the Number 2 

Music and Movement 

Final Story of the Day about all the funny things the duck and animals do on the Farm 

Transition Time

Even though we were super active and had a hard time sitting and listening today we had a great day playing and exploring.  Have a wonderful evening and I look forward to seeing you all soon.  God's Blessings.