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

Wednesday Fun!

Wednesday was a little crazy and different and my little friends just rolled with what was going on and we had a lot of fun. Mrs. Wegener's little girl was sick and they had to leave early for a doctors appointment so Mrs. Linneman came in to take over for her and we enjoyed having her in our classroom. We were not able to go outside because of the weather so we headed to the commons today to play with our other friends in the PDO Class. I had a meeting while we were in the commons so Mrs. Wegener and Mrs. Linneman were there to play, but I forgot to leave the IPOD with them so there aren't any pictures from our time in the commons. When we were done in the commons and my meeting was over we headed back to the classroom.

Enjoy reading and viewing the pictures from our fabulous day

Free Choice and Centers

We enjoyed viewing different butterflies, flowers and nature scenes while listening to a variety of classical music this morning on our television in our room as we moved about the classroom exploring and learning.

Painting with Legos

Last week we painted a rectangular Lego that is displayed in our hallway currently. So today we painted with rectangle Lego's. We made our own creations with the pain and Lego's. they all turned out great and at the same time they were able to work identifying the shape of a rectangle. We are busy in the classroom learning about flowers, butterflies and caterpillars. We spent the week reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and next week we will do some more activities revolving around The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Sorting Colored Bears

Sorting is a beginning math skill. By sorting, children understand that things are alike and different as well as that they can belong and be organized into certain groups. Getting practice with sorting at an early age is important for numerical concepts and grouping numbers and sets when they're older. This type of thinking starts them on the path of applying logical thinking to objects, mathematical concepts and every day life in general.

Painting

Today we painted with tempera paints and small paint brushes. We had a variety of colors to chose from and they really all turned out quite colorful and unique. This activity was different from when we have painted before because we were using tempera paints and lots of different colors to chose from.

Cutting with Scissors

Today we cut different colored paper to create some beautiful butterflies that we are displaying on our wall in the classroom.

Patterning

Today we used yellow and pink stickers to make a flower pattern on our paper. We were working on learning the pattern, as well our fine motor skills as we had to peel the stickers of the sheet and place them on top of our flowers.

Music and Movement

We had fun dancing and singing with our friends we did a wide variety of songs today.

Imaginative Play

It is great to see our friends working and playing together.

Bingo Dauber Art

This week we were given a spring picture with a butterfly, flower and sunshine on it that we were able to use the bingo daubers to create a beautiful picture. The students were able to use different colors to make their spring picture unique and their own. These are displayed in our hallway be sure and check them out.

Writing our Name

We have been practicing for the month or so writing our first name by tracing the dots that make up the letters. We are working on recognizing the letters in our names and working on holding a marker to trace the letters in our names. A small name portfolio will becoming home at the end of the year with the different things we have done with our a names this semester.

Pre-Writing Activity

We worked on holding a crayon and tracing a line from a butterfly to a flower working left to right. When we were done tracing our lines we were able to color the flower that was at the end of the page.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We first had to color the head of our caterpillar with a red crayon. After we were done coloring our head we had to glue it on the paper and then we stamped 9 green circles to make our caterpillars bodies. When we were done stamping our bodies of our caterpillars we glued on two pom poms for the antennas. To help work on holding a writing utensils we then used a black marker to make legs on our caterpillar.

Stamping

We had fun stamping the first letter of our name on our paper today to add to our name portfolios. As we were stamping the letter to our name we practiced saying that letter as well.