Mrs. Horn's ELP Classroom Ministering to families in Jesus' love while embracing and enhacing each : Happy Wednesday!

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!

We had a few friends not with us today and we pray that they feel better and are able to join us back in the classroom next week. Today we finished up our studies on the number 9, the color yellow, the shape of rectangle, reviewing the Easter Story and wrapping our time learning about flower, butterflies and the season of Spring. We enjoyed playing with a few new additions to our classroom and doing some new music and movement songs. We are really working hard on Wednesday with cleaning up our toys when it is clean up time. Many of my friends will be heading to preschool in the fall and will be expected to do their part with cleaning up the classroom when it is clean up time. This is something we have worked on all year long and will continue to work on till the end of the school year.

Reminder that next Wednesday is dress like your favorite Sports Character to help us celebrate National Lutherans Schools Week. Please be sure and check your child's folder for important papers this week coming home. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at hhorn@zionharvester.org.

THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IS ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2016!

Caterpillar Patterns

Today we used purple and yellow bingo daubers to make a caterpillars body making a pattern. The body was made up of nine circles and numbered 1-9 we had to match the color to the correct bingo dauber. We were working on our counting skills, matching skills, color recognition and patterning

Working on the first letter of a our name using a bingo dauber

Writing our Name

We have been working on writing our name for the past month and half. A small name portfolio will becoming home the last week of school. I have seen some great progress in each student learning the letter in their names.

NUMBER 9

Today we were given the number 9 with nine rectangles of with different colors. Mrs. Wegner would ask the children to find a color and then they placed a sticker on that color. We were able to work on following directions, identification of colors and counting to the number nine

Our Sensory Table currently has some fake flowers in it that we are exploring and playing with.

Stamping Spring Words

Today we had 9 different Spring stamps that we stamped on our paper to help us work on reviewing new words we have learned over the month of April.

Putting Star Stickers on the shape of a cross

Morning Meeting

Happy Wednesday!

Working on Standing in line

Working on our Gross Motor Skills

Walking on our tippy toes

Good Bye to the month of April

Well we had a combo of weather happening on Mr. Weather Frog!

Review of our studies board

We practiced counting 9 flowers on our wipe off board and talking about the yellow sun to help with a review of the color yellow

Yellow color board

Flower and butterfly pattern

Life Cycle Book of a Caterpillar

We read a book about a Rhino growing a plant

Jesus Time

We spent today reviewing the Easter Story and reviewing a few of our Jesus Time songs.

Music and Movement

Watching the Very Hungry Caterpillar

Circle Time

We read a book about liking bugs!

We did a flannel board story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar

MAKING A FLOWER

Today we made a flower out of a paper plate and craft stick.

We used a green bingo dauber to make our craft stick green, we then cut small slits in our paper plate to make the petals to work on our scissor skills, we then decorated our flower using blue and orange paint. We made some great looking flowers that are going to be displayed in our classroom.

Painting a Cross

Today we painted with q-tips to decorate a cross. We have spent the month of April learning about the shape of a Rectangle and how a cross can be made out of two rectangles. Using the q-tips gave us a way to work on our fine motor skills and a different way for us to work with paint.

Building with Blocks

"Reading Books"

Sorting Bears

Imaginative Play

Bingo Dauber a Cross

BUTTERFLY BOOKS

We spent this past month learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. We had fun learning a cute little song to remember the life cycle of a butterfly to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb. Today we made a book to go along with the song we have been learning. Ask your child if they can "read" (or sing) about the life cycle of a butterfly.