Happy Wednesday

This is our short week here at Zion.  There is no school on Thursday and Friday for PDO- 8th Grade due to parent teacher conferences.  PDO does not hold Parent Teacher conferences.  I have emailed you all at the beginning of the school year to let you know how your child was doing and over the course of the next few weeks I will email all of you to let you know how your child is doing.  It is hard to believe that we are into the second quarter of the school year.  We are continuing our study of the number 3, the shape of a circle, the color orange and the story of Noah.  Our theme of fall and Halloween is talked about through out the day.  This week we are learned about the letter G.  Today the weather was just too gorgeous for us to not take advantage of it, so we played outside extra long today!  

Enjoy our pictures and reading about what we did today! 

Free Choice Time

We had a fabulous free choice time today our best yet on a Wednesday.  It was hard to tell all my friends it was time to clean up because we had such a great time during free choice time.  Play is such an important part of early childhood and playing is how we are learning.  Today we listened to some fall classical music by various classical musicians.  

Puzzles

We love puzzles and they are always offered in the classroom. 

Trains 

We are huge fans of trains in here and we have loved having the train table out and being able to build lots of different tracks with our trains.  It is a great way for us to work on our problem solving skills and creativity skills. 

Orange Play dough

We loved playing with the orange play dough and making all types of Halloween cut outs. 

Imaginative Play

Mr. Potato Heads 

These are a great way to work on our fine motor skills as well as learning about the different parts of our bodies.  

Painting

This morning we painted orange leaves to hang on our tree in our classroom.  They turned out great be sure and check them out on our wall.  

Cutting 

We continue to practice our cutting skills as we cut orange paper to fill our jack o'lantern with orange paper.  This is a great way to get use to holding the scissors, strengthening our fingers and hand muscles by opening and closing the the scissors.  

More Play

Morning Meeting 

Happy Wednesday! 

My Morning Meeting Pictures are all at the end of the blog I apologize for the order my pictures are in today.

Transition

Placing our pumpkins with our names onto our empty pumpkin patch.  

Standing in Line to Head to the bathroom to wash hands and go to the bathroom

Snack Time

Please remember to pack something for your child that they will eat and that have a drink in a sippy cup or thermos that they will drink.  Grapes need to be cut in half or quarters.  

Standing in Line to Head Outside

It is Fall in the STL so please make sure your child is dressed appropriately and has on footwear that will stay on your child's feet.  Please be sure and send a coat or jacket with your child every day they attend school.  We will be going outside as much as we can before really cold weather hits the STL, all children are expected to be outside regardless of their clothing and outerwear.  

Outside Play

We are loving this weather and are taking full advantage of it we played outside for almost and hour and half! 

Center Time

We spent painting a pumpkin orange that is hanging on our bulletin board outside our classroom door.  

Coloring the Tools from Noah's Ark

Tracing Circles with an Orange marker

We traced circles using an orange marker on orange paper.  This was to help us with our pre-writing skills, working on counting to the number 3, and becoming familiar with the color orange and the way the shape of a circle.  

Reading Independently

Reading is highly encouraged, please try and read to your child 20 minutes a day if you can.  

Transition for Lunch

Lunch Time

Please be sure and send things that your child has had to eat at home and knows how to eat on their own. 

Morning Meeting Areas

Learning about the number 3, the shape of a circle and the color orange

Our calendar for today discovered that after a pumpkin comes a spider on a spider web

Mr. Weather Frog

Our October Pattern 

Letter of the week Letter G

Our Color Board--great way to reinforce the color orange and learning new words to help increase our vocabulary. 

Books We Read Today

What a great day.  Our Wednesdays are starting to run smooth and we are doing great with getting into the routine and knowing what is expected of us in the classroom.  Have a wonderful evening and blessings on a great weekend.