January 19th

We had a great day, but unfortunately I wasn't able to capture a lot of it on film!  

We started off with gym.  It has been a few weeks since we have been here and it was great to be back!  Today we worked on kicking skills.  The children enjoyed using soft soccer balls!  I tried to take pictures, but they were kicking too fast! :)

 Then for Jesus Time, we went on a trip!  We went to God's House, just like Jesus did in the story we have been focusing on these past few weeks.  We sat up in the front of church and looked at all of the beautiful things in God's house.  Then we explored the stain glass windows and made some of our own.

 We used color pencils to try and make our paper look like stain glass windows.

 This was our inspiration window!

 Someone noticed that the altar cloth and pulpit and lectern cloth had been changed to white!  We enjoyed looking at the pictures that were on the cloth!

 On the way back from church, we worked on how we go up and down stairs correctly.  We practiced walking up the right side and going down the other side.  An important skill that we will practice the next time we have chapel!
Back in the classroom, we worked on a new letter during writing time and then we enjoyed Music Time together.  We have been singing nursery rhyme songs together this week and we will do them again next week.  Then we worked on our rhythm skills by doing patterns to music.

 Each child got 2 blocks and tried to repeat patterns (ABAB) using their blocks, then the rest of us had to repeat that pattern.  We had fun trying to come up with new patterns.  Then I turned on the music and we did the patterns to the beat in the music; very tricky for some of us! :)       We enjoyed doing patterns this way and I am sure that we will be trying this again!

 During snacktime, it was exciting to watch the independence that is occurring in the classroom.  We are now pouring our milk from a pitcher all by ourselves and knowing how to clean up a spill when it occurs-we have come a long way! :)     We also did a nice job of raising our hands when we wanted seconds and working together to set the table for snack.  It was great to watch!

 During our Project Time, we looked at our web that we did last week about what you can buy in a store.  Today I asked them to come up with what kind of store would we want to make in our classroom.  We chose 2 ideas and next week we will set up a voting booth so that each child can vote to decide!  I will let you know the outcome on Tuesday! :)

Since we are not able to visit a store as a class, I brought a store to the students.  We watched a video on YouTube that showed a tour of Target.  We talked about what items we saw and I kept hearing, "I have seen that before."  "My store has that too!"
I think the excitement is there to make this a fun project for us to do together!

I am looking forward to the fun things we will do next week!