Happy first/second day of school!!
We had a great first/second day today!! Check out what we did!
But first, a few reminders :)
Please be sure to pack your child a snack labeled with his/her name.
Please be sure to bring any utensils that your child will need for snack/lunch.
Check your child's folder each night for important notes. (Today you will receive a note about purchasing school lunches on-line if you did not receive one yesterday.)
When we arrived at school, we practiced checking in on the SMARTboard.
We then continued playing, creating, and learning all of the fun things to do in our classroom.
As the children play together they are learning valuable social skills!
As the children create they are engaging in creative thinking; creative thinking is a higher level thinking skill and can lead to more cognitive development!
We also met some new friends in our class!!
We poured our own milk and water for snack! Look at those fine motor skills growing! Developing strong fine motor skills is important because those are the muscles that control smaller tasks such as writing!
We had fun dancing to silly songs!
During small group time we not only practiced school routines, we also played a fun I Spy game to help us learn each other's names!
We then practiced each other's names again as we played a Jesus loves you game in which we said a friend's name, said "Jesus loves you (insert name of friend)!" and rolled the ball to said friend.
We created again as we painted with our watercolor paints! Again, because creative thinking is a higher level thinking skill, and engaging in higher level thinking skills can lead to further cognitive development.
During Jesus time, we talked about who made us. God made us! We sang a song that reminds us that God made us and He loves us very much. We read the book Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon, and talked about how God made us each different and special.
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