Room A 

Tuesday, March 04, 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 yellow and green rectangles to make a train.  

Color:  Yellow--we painted a bunch of bananas used yellow bingo daubers to decorate a paper with the color yellow written on the inside 

Number:  8--practice counting to the number 8 and making the number 8 with our fingers, we used St. Patricks Day Stickers to place 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 a Unicorn that should be in your child's folder.  We also stamped sea creatures that live under the sea 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 yellow markers to trace some curved lines from the star to the circle 

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 Frozen 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.  Some of the students will be bringing home their February work today if your child's work is not in their folder it will be in there on Thursday.  Your child's alphabet coloring page should be in their folder today. 

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!

POTTY TRAINERS

We are entering that time of year when many parents will begin potty training their soon to be preschooler.  Please let us know when you have started this process at home and how you would like for us to help here at school.  Let us know your routine at home and we will do our best to do the same at school.  We are here to help when your child begins potty training it is important that you send plenty of clothing,underwear and shoes with your child.  If they have an accident we will change them and send home the clothes in a plastic bag.  

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

We had some new puzzles out today so we were excited to do them! 

Gwen picking up some dry spaghetti noodles to drop in our spice containers

The princess puzzle was a favorite with the girls in the class today

So was the puzzle where you had to unlock the doors 

Isaac working with the noodles 

Noah was getting some help from Mrs. Burke and a fellow dinosaur!

Once we dropped the noodles into our container it was fun to shake them to hear them 

We started a new color today the color yellow  

So for our bingo dauber page today we daubed the boarder of our picture that had the word yellow written in the middle 

While we worked on our fine motor skills we talked about things that were yellow

We came up with a pretty good list of things Max told me the sun, Evan told me a John Deere Tractor

Kaleb said a dog

Sophia and Natalia hard at work getting their dauber in the right spot! 

Today we also started a new letter the letter U.  We had a coloring page of a Unicorn that came home with your child today

Thinking of words that begin with the letter U was a little tricky. 

Sisters coloring their unicorns

We had new books in our room today.  Evan and Kaleb were looking at a Dora Seek and Find book and did a great job at finding the pictures on the pages 

New toys were out too.  A hot item was the Dora the Explorer House.  I heard a lot Swiping no Swiping! 

I love to see friends in this case sisters helping each other out.  

The number eight is our number of the month and we practiced peeling 8 St. Patricks Day Stickers off on our sticker sheet and putting them on the number 8 

These stickers could be a little tricky getting them off the sticker sheet it was a great way to work on our pincer grasp

As we were putting our stickers on our number 8 we practiced counting to 8.  

Working hard at peeling the stickers off 

Our stickers were all representative of St. Patricks Day 

We had rainbows, shamrocks, pots of gold, and leprechauns

Kaleb working at peeling his stickers 

Today was Rose's Birthday and she brought in a yummy treat Fruit Roll-ups

A new month same attire for Mr. Weather Frog, but with March brought a new color board and a new number/pattern boar.  We practiced saying the word Shamrock and Leprechaun today. 

We practiced counting to eight and we talked about The Wedding in Canna and saw how Jesus turned water into Wine as his first miracle.  

We had fun painting a bunch of yellow bananas and talking about how yummy bananas are and other things that are yellow 

Someone did mention that sometimes bananas can be green which is so true. 

Noah finishing his painting. 

Book Time  we enjoyed a time of looking at all the new books that we have this month. 

Noah checking out the Dora Seek and Find book 

Gwen enjoying a book about a birthday party 

Mrs. Burke and a group of students enjoyed reading some of our new books together 

Scarlett practiced snapping and buttoning at want of our centers today 

We practiced tracing a curvy line from a star to an Octagon with a yellow marker.  

We talked about working left to right. 

Amelija and Korrinne zipping and snapping 

Addison and Max drawing their curvy lines 

Will working on buttoning 

Buckling 

Gwen concentrating on her lines 

We stamped Under the Sea creatures for our alphabet book coming home in May 

Lots of friends playing together with the Dora House.  

Isaac working on tying 

We started a project of making a train out of rectangles today 

Today we made the base of the train with four rectangles 

Our train had a pattern of yellow green yellow green, next week we will add the wheels and smoke 

We had fun doing Head Shoulders Knees and Toes 

Today we started a new activity before lunch.  

Each child was given a foot or hand in a different color 

When their foot or hand in the color they were given they got a chance to come up and place it on my board 

This activity was to help the children identify if it was a foot or hand 

what color was their foot or hand 

To use their listening skills to hear when their color was called 

To practice patience ins waiting for their turn to put it on our board 

Once the child had placed their object on the board they were able to find their seat for lunch 

The letter U we practiced saying the "U" sound, saying different words that start with U, we did our entire alphabet sounds, read a book about a Yellow School Bus and a counting book about cars 

Here is our color identification board for March.  We talked about what a leprechaun is and other things that are associated with the month of March and St. Patricks Day.  Mrs. Horn as you can see is not that great of an artist. 

All of our hands and feet 

We finished our day with a little more music and movement 

Shake your Body down 

Jump Jump Jump as High as you can! 

We had a great day in Room A today we had lots of new toys, books and studies to explore and learn about.  We had fun playing, sharing and caring about our friends.  We are hoping that this is the last of the snow and that our weather starts to warm up so we are able to get outside and run and play.  Wednesday is the start of our Lenten season here at Zion and if you are looking for a place to worship I encourage you to join us at our 3:30 or 7:00 Lenten service on Wednesdays.  Have a blessed evening and see you all on Thursday.