FEBRUARY FUN!

Thursday, February 04, 2016

The first week of February is almost over and it seems like time is just flying by!   We are busy in the classroom learning about the number 7, the shape of a heart, the color pink.  Our pattern for the month is all about cupcakes and hearts and we will focus our time on learning about the holiday Valentine’s Day.  This week we worked on learning the letter “T” and our Bible story was focused on Jesus being baptized by John The Baptist.  We had some visitors in our classroom today, Mrs. Haun, Mr. Debrick and Mrs. Kaindy (the new admissions director) they all came through with tours of our classroom and school.  It is always an interesting day when we have visitors and all my friends did a great job with the visitors in our room.  We continue to work on sharing, caring and loving our friends as well as keeping our hands to ourselves and cleaning up the classroom. 

COUPLE OF REMINDERS

Valentines

We will pass out valentines to our friends at school on Tuesday, February 9, Wednesday February 10 and Thursday February 11.  Emails went out last week with the names of the students for each day.  We will be making Valentine boxes for our valentines to be placed in.   Please do not send in any candy on the valentines you may attach stickers or pencils but NO CANDY! 

WHERE IS YOUR CHILD ATTENDING SCHOOL NEXT YEAR?

AS I MENTIONED ABOVE WE DID HAVE SOME TOURS COME THROUGH OUR CLASSROOM TODAY.  ENROLLMENT CURRENTLY IS FULL FOR OUR HALF AND FULL DAY PRESCHOOL.  IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED FOR PRESCHOOL YET AND WANT TO OR HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE TALK ME SO THAT WE CAN GET YOU IN CONTACT WITH SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP YOU.  IF YOUR CHILD IS ATTENDING ELP (FORMERLY PDO) NEXT YEAR I URGE YOU SIGN UP NOW SO THAT YOUR CHILD HAS A PLACE IN OUR WONDERFUL PROGRAM.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY VIEWING THE BLOG TODAY AND SEEING ALL THE EXCITING THINGS WE DID!  AS ALWAYS YOU MAY EMAIL ME AT HHORN@ZIONHARVESTER.ORG WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS. 

FREE CHOICE/CENTERS

We enjoyed listening to classical music today and exploring and playing with new toys in the classroom.  This class plays so well together and we are really working on communicating our needs with one another or when we are happy or sad.  

Expressing our artistic side as we use the markers and chalk on the dry erase board.  

Building 

Today we had the opportunity to build with linking pieces to make different designs.  This allows us to work on our problem solving skills, as to figure out how to link the pieces together, we are also working on our counting skills and color identification skills.  We had some pretty tall towers being built for today.  Using our fine motor skills to put them together also came into play when working with the pieces.  

Sensory Table Fun

 We have been enjoying the rice in the table the past few weeks.We are able to work on our pouring and scooping skills as we play and learn. 

Is there a Dr. in the house?

We have a doctor kit currently in our classroom to play with and we have enjoyed playing with it and learning what the different pieces in the doctor kit are.  

Play Dough has Returned

We were excited to have Pink play dough in our classroom this week that we were able to play with.  We had fun rolling it out and making different heart shapes with it.  We are working on building our hand and finger muscles when we are playing with the play dough.  

Painting a Pink Heart

Today we got to paint a pink heart to help us learn about the color pink and the shape of a heart this month.  

Watercolor Painting

We were all really wanting to paint to day so we voted and picked a Puppy Clifford page to paint today.  We all had a lot of fun painting our Clifford holding three heart balloons.  

Imaginative Play 

Morning Meeting 

Happy Thursday!  

We are starting to know the days of the week from us say Happy "________" each day we are at school.  It is so wonderful to see how much all of my little friends have already learned this year.  

We saw that there was pink paper on our Calendar board today as we talked about it being the 4th day in February.  

It was sunny outside today but we made sure that Mr. Weather Frog was dressed for the cold weather.  

Our studies board 

Our Pink Board 

Ask your child if they can identify any of the objects on our boards.  We do this board to help reinforce the color of the month as well as increase our vocabulary and language skills 

Our February Pattern 

Cupcake and Heart 

Letter T is for Tinkerbell and truck that we did in our alphabet book today.  We are doing great at singing our ABC's 

We read a book about a little girl and her special valentine she got from a friend.

JESUS TIME

Today we talked about Jesus being baptized and becoming part of God's family.  We sang Jesus Loves Me, The B-I-B-L-E and prayed to God.  

Music and Movement 

We had fun being 5 Days Old, kicking our legs, clapping our hands and jumping all around.  We had fun identifying different parts of our body withe Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes and being different types of animals with the animal action song.  

Circle Time 

We read a book that talks about when God Smiles.  It was a great way to help us remember to be kind and loving to our friends, family members and teachers.  It also helped us to see how we could be good helpers and cleaners and how that makes God happy and smile.  

We had a new Flannel Board Story about 6 Little Valentines

This particular flannel board story helps us with rhymes and animal identification and counting two the number 6.  

Valentine Matching Game 

Each Friend was given a heart with a picture on it.  Then a friend was called up to stand next to me they had to show their friend their heart and our other friends had to see if they made a match.  When they had a match we took their picture.  This was a great cooperative game that worked on listening, following directions and observation.  

We had an odd number today so Joseph and I made a match together!  

Free Choice/Centers 

We continued to listen to classical music during our free choice time.  We had fun playing and moving about the classroom.  

Julija was busy with the magnet shapes and handing them out to friends to put on the magnet board.  It is always fun to watch creativity and imaginations hard at work in our classroom. 

Chef Joseph was very busy in the kitchen today

Heart Bingo Dauber Page

today we worked with different colored bingo daubers and we had to match the correct color to the correct bingo dauber.  We did a great job with this activity 

Number 7 Stickers

Playing and Learning

Pattern Activity 

using two different stamps today a valentine puppy dog and a heart we made our own patterns that came home in our folders. 

Lots of learning and playing today

Naomi worked really hard on this number puzzle today and was able to identify some of the numbers she was doing on the puzzle 

Building a very long path! 

Playing with friends

Olivia working on a letter puzzle

More Patterning

Jesus Craft

Today we traced our hand on white paper to look like a Dove.  We then used gold glitter to look like Heaven shining down on us.  As we did this craft we talked about how the dove came when Jesus was baptized and how God was happy and pleased.  

Working with the Shapes on the Magnet Board

 Final Circle of the Day 

We read a story and prayed for our Lunch 

Lunch Time 

We were very chatty during lunch time so some friends ran out of time to finish their lunch because they talked so much.  

What a great first week in February we had we learned a lot and played a lot.  Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing all of my friends next week as we celebrate Valentines Day!