Room A 

Thursday, March 06, 2014

This Week Studies:

Jesus Time:  

The Wedding at Cana

 

2 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.[a] 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers[b] and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

What the children will learn (keeping it VERY basic):

Jesus fixed the problem at the wedding.

Children will learn about Jesus’ power through exploration of the story of Jesus turning water to wine.

Jesus turning water to wine at the wedding in Cana, tells of the first of Jesus’ miracles (not magic), and is significant because it shows how Jesus revealed his power to the people. Jesus is truly all we need.

Song:

Running Over

Running over, running over

My cup is full and running over

Since the Lord made me

I’m as happy as can be

My cup is full and running over

verse 2 since the Lord saved me

verse 3 since the Lord loves me

Shape: Rectangle-- today we stamped red and blue rectangles that we are going to make firetrucks and police cars out of next week.  

Color:  Yellow--we painted a yellow lion and put new items on our yellow board 

Number:  8--practice counting to the number 8 and making the number 8 with our fingers, we glued St. Patrick's Day pictures on the number 8 

Letter:U- Practicing saying the u sound and thinking of words that begin with u like unicorn, umbrella, under, under the sea, up, Uncle, Unicycle.  We colored a picture of an umbrella and a little boy that should be in your child's folder.  We also colored a picture of an upside down  umbrella that will be added to our alphabet book that will becoming home in May. 

Fine Motor:  puzzles, we practiced lacing, zipping, snapping and buttoning we also practiced putting dry noodles into spice containers.  

Pattern Work :  we made a train using rectangle stamps and the colors green and yellow, we also worked on a pattern of green and yellow shamrocks on our morning pattern/number board 

Pre-Writing: we used green and purple markers to trace lines from a shamrock and a pot of gold 

Music and Movement:  We had fun doing lots of songs today, we incorporated some new songs that we are learning to love like Shake your Body Down, Five Little Ducks and This Little Light of Mine, Where is Thumbkin  as well as some oldies but goodies like Animal Action during our center time  we listened to the Nemo Soundtrack which the children really enjoyed listening to. 

IMPORTANT DATES TO KEEP IN MIND 

Friday, March 14,2014 --Early release day there is no extended care or after school care

Monday, March 17, -21 Spring Break 

FOLDERS 

In your child's folder is a take home project for the month of March came home last week please return these by next week so we may complete our ABC Quilt.  Your Child's February work is in their folder.   Your child's alphabet coloring page should be in their folder today. 

Enjoy our day below and as always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at hhorn@zionharvester.org

A new month brings new and exciting things to our classroom like new puzzles 

New Books that we love to read and look at the pictures 

Today we practiced finding the first letter of our name with a yellow bingo dauber. 

We had fun coloring a picture of a little boy with and Umbrella that goes along with our letter of the week the letter U 

R is for Rose 

While we colored our alphabet sheet we thought about words that could begin with the letter U. This was a tricky one! 

K is for Korrinne 

W is for Will 

At the top of the paper was the letter the students name started with.  We then worked together to find that letter. 

More coloring going on for the letter U 

Looking for the letter I for Isaac 

We had fun searching for the letter S for Sarah and the letter A for Amelija 

Will and Gwen working on tracing the line from the shamrock to the gold coin 

This was a prewriting activity that is to help the students become familiar with holding a writing tool. 

It is also helping students become familiar with working top to bottom 

It was fun we got to pick what color we wanted to write with 

Green or purple? 

Addison brought over her plate of yummy food she made with her.  

Friends helping friends 

We also practiced saying the word shamrock.  Some of the students had heard it before others had not it is a hard word to say. 

Our Mr. Weather Frog wearing his winter gear and our new boards for the month of March 

We read a book today at our morning circle about sharing with with our friends.

This month our color identification board during our mid-day circle centers around St. Patricks Day and a Leprechaun another hard word to say! 

We had fun saying our alphabet sounds, think of words that begin with the letter U and helping with the animal sounds in the book Say What?

We had fun painting a yellow lion 

And making the lion sound that roars!!!!!!

We spent time today looking at the new books in our room. 

Nicholas enjoying finding the pictures in the Diego book 

Gwen was reading out loud the book she was looking at 

Amelija searching for the pictures in the Dora book 

Isaac looking at an animal book 

Will was very interested in the book about bicycles 

We had fun today working buckling 

Tying 

and buttoning all great skills to help us get prepared for the big world 

We had fun playing with the new yellow play dough 

Smashing it in our hands to flatten it out 

To rolling it out to cut a shape out with it 

Mrs. Burke helped the children use the different spring cooking cutters. 

Julija gluing on her 8 St. Patricks Day pictures on the number 8 

We did a lot of counting to 8 today 

First we said the number eight 

Then we counted out 8 pictures 

Glued 8 dots onto the number 8 

and then glued our 8 pictures onto the number 8 

We also talked about some St. Patricks Day words like rainbow, pot of gold, shamrock, clover leprechaun 

Just exposing the children to these words and seeing the pictures helps expand their vocabulary 

We had lots of fun playing with the new toys in our classroom like the Dora House 

Gwen practicing her buttoning skills 

We played a new game today a matching game we were all given different types of cookies and we had to find our friend who had the match 

I would call a student up to the front and they would hold up their cookie and the rest of our friends had to see if they had the matching cookie 

It was a great way to work on waiting patiently, listening and observing 

Addie had a pink one 

Jacob was her match 

Gwen and Noah had matching cookies 

Evan and Korrinne matched 

Sarah waited patiently for a friend to have her matching cookie 

Mrs. Linneman and Sarah matched 

Scarlett and Sophia discovered they had matching cookies 

We had fun during music and movement clapping and shaking our hands and head 

We love the Dinosaur Chomp Song 

Chomp Chomp Chomp 

We also did another new activity the students were each given an animal 

When there animal was called they were able to bring it up and place it on our board 

This gave the students a chance to again listen, wait their turn and learn about new animals 

It also helped us work on our fine motor skills as we had to figure out where to place it on the board 

We had all types of animals on our board 

A lot of the students also were able to tell me the sound the animal made 

We had fun looking at all the different animals we had 

Addison had a tiger 

Sophia had a seal 

Kaleb had a panda bear 

Evan had a brown bear 

Scarlett had a shark 

Our animal board was complete and we were ready for Lunch 

The children really were captivated by this book about Froggy getting on his clothes to go outside and play 

We heard a Shamrock Poem at the end of the day and we reviewed the shape, a pattern our number and letter as well as worked on the different emotions we may have through out the day 

and of course we Shook our body Down 

and Jumped Higher and Higher 

We read a really cute book about baby animals in the alphabet.  

We had a really great day we are hoping that we will be able to return to our outside play soon.  I pray you all have a wonderful weekend and if you are looking for a place to worship we would love for you to join us at Zion to hear the word of God we have services on Saturday at 5:00 Sunday at 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00.  I look forward to seeing you all next week and pray many blessings on your weekend.