Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Week 5 Day 3

Week 5 Day 3 of Mrs. Horn’s Class

We are into the full swing of the school year. 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. We also counted 2 RED Elmos we had in our class.

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 Butterfly 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 cars 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 worked our Fine Motor skills today cutting red paper and gluing it on black paper.

Music and Movement: It was a sad day today because we didn’t have time for music and movement my little friends had a very hard time cleaning up and following directions so it took a long time for us to clean up and we ran out of time for Music and Movement.

Outside Time: We did play outside today for about 25 minutes it was very humid outside so we limited our outside time a bit today

We are working really really hard right now when we hear the clean up songs that everyone is helping to clean up the classroom.

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

Devotion for Thursday

I have a special calendar that gives me a daily devotion and I thought I would share them with you all each day.

Free Choice Time

Today are music selection was the soundtrack from the movie Cars 1 and 2. That was and still is a favorite movie and soundtrack at our house and I was surprised how many of my friends knew so much about CARS!

Joseph had fun putting up the apple magnet letters.

Play Dough Fun!

Enjoying the Books in our Classroom.

Reading to your child 20 minutes a day is highly recommended. The children always have access to books in our classroom and it is highly encouraged that they look at them.

Naomi checking out the sand table eventually there will be something new and different in the table.

More Play Dough Fun!

Working on our drawing and writing skills at the Art Easel.

ZION IS FAMILY

Our "family" wall is starting to come together so nicely. If you have not brought in your child's decorated picture frame with a picture of their family in it I encourage you to do so soon. It has been quite the conversation piece already and it is so neat to look at all the beautiful famiies we have in our class!

Painting a Red Car

Morning Meeting

Happy Thursday!

Our calendar this month is a pattern and today we talked out the pattern and figured out that we needed a yellow apple next on our calendar.

Mr. Weather Frog pulled out the summer gear again today!

Our Studies Board

Our Red Color Board

Two Elmos' and we discovered and octagon on the school bus thanks to our very observant friend Emma.

We read this great book about Johnny Appleseed.

Transition Time

Snack Time

Jesus Time

Praying and singing the Bible Song

Playing the Creation Matching Game

Getting Ready to Head Outside

Outside Play

Circle Time

This book was great to go along with us working on sharing and being good friends to those in our classroom

Apple Sizing Game

Each child was given an apple, Big, Medium and Small. The child had to place in in the right category. A great way for us to work that Small Medium and Big concept.