Room A
Thursday, January 30, 2014
This Week Studies:
Jesus Time: This week during Jesus time we are learning about John the Baptist and his baptism of Jesus. We talked about how we are baptized in church, but Jesus was baptized in the Jordan river. With water and God's word our sins are washed away.
Shape: Star--, making a snowman book with the snowman wearing different shape hats.
Color: White--gluing cotton balls on a sheep.
Number: 6--used a bingo dauber to trace number six
Letter: P-- Practicing saying the p sound and thinking of words that begin with P, doing a painting with pink paint to make our alphabet book that will come home in May and coloring a pineapple that should be in your child's backpack.
Fine Motor: Cutting with scissors on a straight line of different heights and stopping at the lollipop, tracing a dotted lines with a marker. Using the bingo daubers to decorate a number 6, working with shape boxes and putting the shapes in the right place, working on building with blocks, puzzles and stringing beads
Pattern Work : We used stamps today to make a snowflake, snowman pattern. Students were then asked what would come next
Music and Movement: Clap, Clap your Hands, Head shoulders knees and toes, Baby Bumblebee, Row Row Row your Boat, If your Happy and you Know it
Reminders
As a reminder our classroom begins at 8:00 and it is best if your child can be here between 8:00-8:15. This makes the transition for all the students much easier if everyone is arriving at the same time and for those who may have a hard time with separation as everyone is coming in and putting their things away for the day and greeting and playing with their friends. It also allows for less disruption as the morning progress if all our students are arriving at the same time, not to mention students who arrive late miss out on a lot of the fun activities that we do during the 8:00-9:00 hour.
Food Reminders
Remember that we are a peanut free facility and that your child needs to have peanut free food for snack and lunch. Also, it is important that if your child is bringing Grapes, hot dogs that they are cut into quarters or they will not be allowed to have them during the school day. These foods pose as a chocking hazard for children of this age group.
We will have supplies out for you to make valentines with your child(ren) along with other Valentine’s Day activities, including making a “sweet” snack to eat!
Who: PDO families (siblings ages 6 and under are welcome to attend)
When: Saturday, February 8th from 9-10:30 a.m.
Where: Zion’s Sonshine Center; all 4 classrooms in the Sonshine Center will have activities for your family. Some of the activities will be messy (paint, glue, etc.) so please dress accordingly!
No R.S.V.P is needed! Just come and stay as long as you would like! Zion’s PDO staff is looking forward to seeing you then!
--RE-ENROLLMENT--
Re-enrollment is currently taking place here at Zion for current students. Current Zion families have first priority for re-enrollment until the end of January. Starting February 1st, enrollment is opened up to the community. In the past few years, the PDO and Preschool enrollment has filled up very quickly, so I encourage you to re-enroll as soon as possible, especially if you are needing specific days.
Zion will be hosting an Open House on Sunday, February 09, 2014 from 1:00-3:00. Please invite your family and friends to come! You are more than welcome to come too, especially if you would like to meet Zion's Preschool staff.
If you have any questions about re-enrollment or Zion's preschool program, please feel free to talk to your child's teacher or Sara Kuhlmann.
Enjoy our day through pictures we did go outside today for a very short time. I forgot to take the camera with me. We were busy today so I forgot on occasions to take pictures I apologize. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me at hhorn@zionharvester.org
Using our bingo daubers to make the outline of the number 6
We are continuing to work on going up and down and not pressing down to hard
Bingo daubers are a great way to work on self control.
This activity allowed the students to become familiar with the number 6 and how to make it
As the students did this activity they chose a color and I asked them to telling me what color they were using
We had fun using cotton balls today to make the "wool" on a sheep
Mrs. Burke spent a lot of time on the floor with the students today reading to them and helping them with how to handle our books
Kaleb working on his sheep
The students had to pull the cotton balls apart some before placing them on their sheep
We colored a picture of a pineapple today for the letter of the week which is P
As we were coloring we talked about different P words
Mrs. Linneman helped them make the "p"sound
Working with cotton balls allowed us to work on learning what soft feels like and looks like
We also talked about how sheeps wool helps make a lot of the sweaters that we wear
Scarlett working on getting her cotton balls to stick
Nicholas finished coloring his pineapple but decided to color the back as well
Coloring is a great pre-writing skill
It also allows us to work on color identification
Sophia working on pulling her cotton balls apar
Gwen carefully placing her cotton balls on her sheep
Sarah making a very fluffy sheep
Addison choose to pull hers apart first and then glue them on her sheep
Rose decided to pull them apart one at a time.
We worked on our pre-writing skills with tracing different dotted lines
We traced horizontal lines
vertical lines
We had lots of fun with block building today!
Rose trying to keep her structure from falling over
Isaac working hard at building a tower.
Amelija and Korrinne working on putting the shapes in the box
Success!
Evan taking some time to gently look at a book
Scarlett proud of her sculpture!
Nicholas working on a project we started last week making a snowman this week we added eyes and his buttons
we had a great time cutting lines to a lollipop
Our friends are doing great with their cutting skills
Many of them are starting to be able to cut with minimal help
Remember it does not need to be perfect we are just exposing them to what they will be doing in preschool next year!
P is for a Pink Painting
We made a snowman book that had different shape hats in it.
We did a great job painting a pink picture
We have had a lot of fun playing with different toys this month!
Evan working on his snowman shape book
Lots of pink painting taking place!
We spent some time using our problem solving skills to finish some puzzles
Sarah painting a pink picture
Kaleb and Rose working on their snowman shape book.
Old McDonald had a farm......
Puzzel time!
Jacob working on his writing skills
Nicholas working on the grip of his marker
Stomp stomp stomp your feet
Shake Shake Shake your head
Here is the snowman we did to help identify our colors, shapes and work on our counting and pattern skills.
Our Number board full of 6 snowmen
Our January White board
Mr. Weather Frog would really like to not have to wear his hat and gloves but not yet!
Here are the books we read today
As I said above we did go outside today which was great considering we have not been outside since before Thanksgiving. We are really working on using our listening ears, using our walking feet inside and using our indoor voices. These are things that you can always work on at home with your little ones. I pray that you all have a safe and warm weekend, and if you are looking for a place to worship we would love for you to join us at Zion. We have a 5:00 Saturday service, a 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 services. Look forward to seeing everyone next week when we will start new color, new number, new shape, a new letter and new Bible stories and some new toys to play with in our classroom.
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