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Thursday, March 27, 2014 

This Weeks Studies:

Jesus Time:  

This week we will introduce the children to the Palm Sunday story-

The Triumphal Entry

Matthew 21

English Standard Version (ESV)

The Triumphal Entry

21 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your king is coming to you,

    humble, and mounted on a donkey,

    on a colt,[a] the foal of a beast of burden.’”

6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” 10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.

This story can also be found in Mark 11, Luke 19 and John 12.

Palm Sunday is an occasion for reflecting on the final week of Jesus' life. It is a time to prepare our hearts for the agony of His Passion and the joy of His Resurrection. 

Concepts Children Learn:

Palm Sunday is a special day because it was told long before it happened how Jesus 

would ride a little donkey into Jerusalem. The people welcomed Jesus.

Jesus loves to hear our praise!

We can praise Jesus with our words and actions.

Shape: Rectangle-- we talked about different things that could be the shape of a rectangle and made a rectangle collage 

Color:  Yellow--we painted a yellow star

Number:  8--practice counting to the number 8 and making the number 8 with our fingers, we put 8 apple stickers on our apple tree for a number book that will becoming home in May, used 8 rectangles to make a collage and used a yellow bingo dauber to identify the number 8 

Letter: W- Practicing saying the W sound and thinking of words that begin with W like water, whale, wheel, wonderful, wagon, watermelon.  We colored a picture of a watermelon that should be in your child's folder.  

Fine Motor:  stringing different foam shapes onto a pipe cleaner and playing with yellow play dough we used the bingo daubers to identify the number 8.  We practiced Where is Thumbkin to work on finger muscles and we also learned a new song that will help us with our finger muscles.  

Pattern Work :  we also worked on a pattern of green and yellow shamrocks on our morning pattern/number board 

Pre-Writing: we used yellow markers to trace the lines to make a sun 

Music and Movement:  We got to play outside today!  We also sang some songs had fun doing the dinosaur chomp, doing Five Little Ducks and Shaking our Bodies Down! 

IMPORTANT DATES TO KEEP IN MIND 

Thursday, April 17--Early Release Day school will be let out at 12:00 NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE or Rest time will take place this day 

Friday, April 18-Good Friday -No SCHOOL IN SESSION 

Monday, April 20--Easter Monday--NO SCHOOL IN SESSION 

OUTSIDE WEAR & CLOTHING

  It is extremely important in the months to come that your child is dressed appropriately for outdoor weather.  Your child will need a hat and coat for outside play.  It is also important that your child has a COMPLETE CHANGE OF CLOTHES (shirt, pants, underwear (if potty trained) socks and extra pair of shoes.)  It is going to be wet and muddy so please make sure your child is prepared.  EXTRA SHOES ARE A MUST!  Thank you for your cooperation and understanding as we get ready for warmer weather and being able to get outside and play!

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

Sarah had a great time making different spring shapes with our yellow play dough 

Scarlett excited to share the duck she made with the play dough. 

Isaac working is arm and hand muscles by rolling out the play dough 

Nicholas enjoyed playing with the cars and lining them up

We practiced our fine motor skills by stringing foam shape pieces onto a pipe cleaner 

This took some practice and time as the pieces were small and the hole to fit them into the pipe cleaner was small. 

Each child had their own technique of getting the shapes onto the pipe cleaner 

Sarah counting out her 8 apple stickers for her apple book that will becoming home in May 

Counting out 8 apples as well as working our fine motor and sensory skills as we work with the stickers 

We made a rectangle collage today using different colors of paper cut into rectangles. 

We practiced counting to eight and then glued them onto our paper 

We not only were we working on our counting skills but we were also familiarizing ourselves with the shape of a rectangle 

The students also worked on identifying the colors of their rectangles.

Addison and Noah in deep concentration stringing their foam shapes 

Sarah counting her rectangles 

This activity also provided an opportunity for us to work with using glue and our hands getting a little sticky.  

Kaleb making his rectangle collage

Isaac and Evan had counted out their 8 rectangles and gluing them on their paper 

Addison and Nicholas working with rectangles 

Sophia identifying the colors oft he rectangles 

We practiced tracing a yellow sun today for our pre writing activity 

We had to trace the rays and the circle for the sun 

This activity was designed for the student to become familiar with the shape of the sun a circle and the rays which were a straight line 

As we worked on this activity it gave us the opportunity to talk about what color the sun is, and if it is close or far away from us and is it hot or cold?

This activity also helped us with holding a writing tool a yellow marker 

We colored a picture of a watermelon for the letter W.  Be sure to check your child's folder for this paper. 

Amelija working on her sun 

Will decided to trace the circle first and then trace the rays to the sun 

Sophia and Rose started with the rays and then the circle for the sun. 

This activity also allowed the students the opportunity to work from top to bottom and left to right 

We ended our study of the number 8 by finding the number 8 on our number 8 chart 

We used yellow bingo daubers to find the number 8 and each time we found a number 8 we said 8

This activity allowed the students to become familiar with the number 8. 

It also allowed us to work with the bingo daubers and to have some self control with the dauber 

Gwen and Will discovered that the whole page was full of the number 8 

Exposing the students to the number is the first step in helping them recognize the number 

Many of the students were able to tell me what number they were working with when they came over to start their activity. 

Just by saying it over and over helps the students to be familiar with the number 

WE finished our month with reviewing the number 8, identifying the color yellow and reading a story about Palm Sunday and a story about a Monster in a little Girls house 

Mr. Weather Frog is ready for the rainy weather that we had this morning. 

We did a new song today that helped us with strengthening our finger and hand muscles and to help us clap in time to the music of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 

Today we painted a bright yellow star 

We worked on painting just the star. 

We had book time were we sat and looked at a book. 

Looking at books is a great way for us to begin the pre-reading process 

Holding a book the correct way 

Moving the pages left to right 

We worked our pre-math skills by building with blocks 

This was a center that the child was given a card and they were to match the color of blocks.

Will has his blocks and was getting ready to match the blocks up with the color 

We practiced the first letter of our name today by cutting a strip of yellow paper and then gluing the pieces on our first letter 

Each child was asked what their name started with and the majority of them were able to tell me. 

We were able to incorporate our cutting skills and the color of the month with this activity as well. 

Most of the students are able to pick up the scissors and begin cut a strip of paper on their own. 

Noah getting ready to cut! 

We got to go outside today which we were very excited about! 

Playing in the rock pit that got replenished over spring break 

Practicing our climbing skills 

It is great to get outside and get fresh air 

We had fun climbing and jumping in the new mulch that was delivered over the break as well 

We had fun playing with our friends 

Scooping and digging 

Playing with the new trucks 

It was great to be outside.

We came in and Mrs. Linneman read a book about Grover and Elmo to us 

We practiced our letter sounds, talked about the letter W, read book about sea animals and did a five finger play about Leperchauns 

We had fun with our leprechaun color identification board and a poem about 5 green shamrocks

Clap Clap your hands

We had fun listening for our animal and putting it on our animal board.  Sarah started us out with a brown bear 

Amelija had an octopus 

Will had a sheep 

Evan was excited he got the tiger today 

Rose had a panda bear 

Nicholas had a jelly fish like from one of the stories we read 

Korrinne had a chicken 

Kaleb had a horse 

Noah was happy with a zebra 

Isaac had a crab

Addison had a lion 

Scarlett had a rooster 

Gwen had a shark 

Sophia waited patiently and was last to put up her pig. 

Our completed animal board 

We read a funny book about a farmer and his animals who wanted him to get up 

We ended up our day with reviewing our emotions here is our mad faces 

Our happy faces 

Our sad faces 

and our scared faces 

Shake your body down 

Jump Jump Jump!

We love to dance 

Our review board 

and our final book for the day.  

We had fun playing outside one more time 

Please be sure to send your child with proper foot wear 

and coats! 

We had a fabulous day in PDO we had fun playing, learning, exploring, reading and singing. Next week we will begin a new color (purple) a new shape (oval) and new number (9) and continue on our journey to the death and Resurrection of Jesus.  Have a wonderful weekends hope you are able to find time to worship Jesus and count your many blessings that you have had bestowed upon you.  If you are looking for a place to worship Zion would love to have you join us at one of our worship services.  I look forward to seeing you all next week!  

Mrs. Horn