It is so hard to believe that the Thanksgiving Holiday is a little over a week away! Time is going really really fast and we are moving right along in our room. Just a reminder that there is NO SCHOOL ALL NEXT WEEK, THE ENTIRE SCHOOL CAMPUS IS OUT FOR THANKSGIVING BREAK. As a reminder we have changed how we are doing things in our classroom. So if you do not see a picture of your child doing some of the center activities they will be doing them on another day when they attend school. We had a really great day in our classroom today and we were super busy. This is our last week to for our studies on the number 4, the shape of a cross, the color brown. We finished up talking about all the things that we are thankful for during our Jesus time and are spending this week learning about the letter L. When we return to school after the Thanksgiving Break we will be turning our studies to the numbe 5, the shape of a triangle, the color green and learning about the Christmas Story.
Enjoy view our day in pictures and reading about all we are working on this week and a reminder for what we are truly thankful for this time of year. I am so thankful to be a part of all of your families lives and to work in the presence of your beautiful children. I am thankful for the smiles, laughter and amazement they bring to me each and every day. So thank you for allowing me into your child's world and letting me be the first step in a lifetime of education!
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesistate to contact me at hhorn@zionharvester.org. God's Blessings to you all this Thanksgiving Holiday.
Free Choice/First Round of Centers
Today our music selection was that of Ya Ya a man who is a violinist. All of my friends were busy and engaged for the majority of the day. We did not have any play dough out today which was a little different for some of my friends, but it was a great way to encourage us to branch out and work about the classroom.
Donations!
I had a grandmother of a former student donate a few new toys to our classroom last week and so we were able to try them out today! We had a lot of fun playing with this ELMO that we were able to dress up in funny different clothes. I love donations if you are starting to think of cleaning out some of your child's old toys or things they don't play with any more before the holiday season. We will gladly take them off your hands just ask us!
Sensory Table
We continue to work on our scooping and pouring skills as we play with the white beans in our sensory table. This is a skill that we work on all year and we really enjoy playing in the sensory table.
Letter L
Today we worked in our alphabet books on the Letter L. We talked about different words that begin with the letter L, our picture in our book was of a Ladybug today.
Pre-Writing Thanksgiving Page
Today we worked on tracing lines from end of the paper to the other. We used a crayon so we could apply more pressure to the paper and to work on better hand control. This activity is to help students get ready to enter preschool where they will work the Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum.
Thanksgiving Words
Today we worked on identifying and saying some of the words we have learned over the course of October and November. A series of different pictures were out in front of my friends and I would ask them to find the "Pilgrim Hat" and they would have to find the picture of the hat and then repeat the word to me and then we glued it on a piece of paper. This helped us with our learning of new words as well as our speech.
Turkey Pattern
Today we worked on a pattern of red and orange to decorate a Turkey to help with our patterning skills. We also were able to work on color matching as we had to match the red dot to the red sticker and same for the color orange. We also were able to work on our fine motor skills as we had to peel the sticker of the paper and put it on the circle of the turkey feather. Some of us did not like the sticky feeling the stickers had but it was a great way to also incorporate our sensory skills into our center.
Counting 4 Turkeys
Today we made a counting book of 4 turkeys. Each page had a number on it and after we identified the number we counted and glued on that number of turkeys. These book will becoming home over the course of the week as well.
Jesus Center
This month we talked about all the things that we are truly thankful for and we made a book to help us remember, we are thankful for our family and friends, our church and pastors and our home and food. Each page we did something different on and they will becoming home over the course of the week. We were able to today to work on our coloring and pre-writing skills as we colored the outside of our book. On the inside we got to use all different types of stamps to help us remember what we are thankful for.
Morning Meeting
Happy Wednesday!
Mr. Weather Frog was dressed for a windy chilly damp day in the STL
The review of our studies is happening this week in our classroom
Our review of the color brown with our brown board
Our pattern for the month
The letter of the week we are concentrating on is the Letter L. Some L words we talked about were Lion, LadyBug, Lollipop, Lady, Lucky. We also practiced saying the L sound.
.We read this story to help us learn and remember some of the words we have learned about Thanksgiving
Transition & Snack Time
This week is the last week for us to put our feathers on Mr. Turkey. When my friends names were called they put their feather on Mr. Turkey and helped identify the color of their feather. When your child's last day of attendance takes place this week they will bring home their feather they made along with their cubby name tag.
Practice standing in a line to go wash our hands
Snack Time
As a reminder please send a snack that your child will eat and something that does not take to long to eat. We only spend about 10 minutes at snack time. Also your child needs to have a sippy cup, thermos or jucie box for snack.
Jesus Time
We concluded our study of what we are thankful for today as we talked about we are thankful for our family, friends, homes with a roof to keep us warm and dry, our warm beds to sleep in and food to eat that is in our refrigerator. We also talked about how we are thankful for our church where we can go and pray to God and hear God speak to us and to hear the word of God from our pastors that we are so thankful for.
Circle Time.
Our Flannel Board Story for this month has been about 5 little Turkeys. It has helped us with our counting skills of counting to 5 and also taking away so there are no turkeys left on Thanksgiving Day!
!We read this story during circle time about all the things we are thankful for at this time of year and all year long!
Music and Movement Part 1
We could not go outside today because it was so wet outside from all the rain we had yesterday so we had time to do music and movement today early! We did Hands are for Clapping, Silly Dance Contest, The Washing Machine, The Dance Song.
Center Time #2
During our Center time we listened to the soundtrack from Rio 1 and Rio 2.
Decorating A Gift Bag
Each child last week made a special Thanksgiving gift for their family. Today we decorated a bag for them to go home in. These will becoming home over the course of the week. We worked really hard on these gifts and I hope you enjoy them. Some of you that have had another child in my class may have one of these from your other child. I hope you enjoy them and if you are with us next year we will do something different to bless and thank our families with.
I See Thanksgiving Book…
These books are coming home over the course of the week as well. This little book helped us with some more of the words we learned over the course of the month about Thanksgiving. I would read the sentence and then your child would have to find that picture and glue it on the page. It was and is a great way to work on increasing our vocabulary, pre-reading skills, speech and language and following directions. Take time this week and look at your chld's book with them and talk about the different things that are on each page. I feel these little take home books are a great way to help a child feel like they are reading and they are able to look at them on their own and helps them learn how to turn the pages the correct way and to see the letters on the page.
Coloring
We had fun coloring pictures of some a corncouipa. Not everyone colored some of my friends really like to color so we worked really hard on those coloring skills today.
November Cutting Activity
Today some of my friends practiced their cutting skills as they cut for different colors of paper and we matched them to the right feather to make a beautiful turkey. We were able to work on our cutting skills, fine motor skills as we had to pick up the pieces we had cut and glue them onto the right feather which helped us with our matching skills and color identification. We used Red, Orange, Yellow and Green paper. Be sure and check the hallway out this week for this fantastic looking turkeys!
Music and Movement Part 2
We had time for a little more music and movement after center time. We enjoyed signing, 5 little Ducks the wheels on the bus.
We ended our circle time together with a book about all the different leaves falling to the ground.
After we prayed for lunch we had to wait for our name to be called and we took of our turkey feathers and found a Mickey Mouse to stand on. After our lunch time we found a place on the reading rug until it was time for us sing our goodbye song and get packed up to head home or to rest time. A great day was had by all in our class we worked and played hard. Have a wonderful evening.
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