Happy Friday! If you are looking for a place to worship this weekend, you are always welcome here at Zion! Our worship schedule is:
Saturday at 5:00 pm
Sunday at 8:00 am, 9:30 am, and 11:00 am.
See you there!
There are many fun things coming up in the next few weeks!
October 11th Trunk or Treat
Saturday at 5:00 pm
Sunday at 8:00 am, 9:30 am, and 11:00 am.
See you there!
There are many fun things coming up in the next few weeks!
October 11th Trunk or Treat
October 16th and 17th Picture Retake Day
October 17th (evening) and October 18th (morning and afternoon) Parent Teacher Conferences
October 19 Bobcat Shuffle 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run
October 23 – 25 LEA Convocation – No School
Today we exercised our fine motor skills with some real tools. We screwed the parts of the tools together. Some of us used wrenches to help too.
Thanks again to Bruce over at Gray's Automotive in Richmond Heights, MO who donated these items for us! If you want to know more about Gray's Automotive, click HERE.
We were busy during small group time today!
We started off small group time by brainstorming what we still need in our car shop. The children made their own list (again, practicing those writing skills!) of what we still needed.
Even if your child is scribbling, scribbling and attaching meaning is a large part of learning to write.
Learning that print has meaning is a foundational reading and writing skill! More formed lines and letters will come with time and practice.
We were very excited about the boxes Ms. Derrington brought.
"Let's use the boxes as the car!"
Capitalizing on the children's interests and ideas is one way to foster the love of learning!
Today we exercised our fine motor skills with some real tools. We screwed the parts of the tools together. Some of us used wrenches to help too.
Thanks again to Bruce over at Gray's Automotive in Richmond Heights, MO who donated these items for us! If you want to know more about Gray's Automotive, click HERE.
We practiced writing in a child-initiated and meaningful way as they played check-in for the car shop. Meaningful writing opportunities help children become skilled and enthusiastic writers.
Look at the tall towers Hunter and Drew built!
Alma and Devereux strengthened their spatial relationship skills; this will lay a strong foundation on which to build future math learning.
We started off small group time by brainstorming what we still need in our car shop. The children made their own list (again, practicing those writing skills!) of what we still needed.
Even if your child is scribbling, scribbling and attaching meaning is a large part of learning to write.
Learning that print has meaning is a foundational reading and writing skill! More formed lines and letters will come with time and practice.
One of the friends said, "Let's put the tire in the car shop!"
The problem was we didn't want to get our white carpet dirty.
"I know! Let's see if there is a table we can put it on!"
So we did.
We went to ask Ms. Keane if they have a table we could use for the car shop. (I reminded the friends to take notes as we were asking. Again-writing skills!)
Well Ms. Keane did not have a table. One of the friends said, "Let's ask Ms. Derrington!"
Ms. Derrington was outside with her class, but we stopped in and asked Mrs. Schneck if she had a table we could use.
(Look at the note taking!)
Mrs. Schneck did! She said we could borrow this green table. I wondered out loud, "Will our tire fit on the table?" We took the table back to the classroom to find out.
We put them side by side and made our predictions.
We voted whether it would fit on the table or not. We graphed our votes to see which one had more. We discussed less, more, and equal too!
Bella decided to make her own graph on her paper too!
Well it turns our that the tire does fit on the table!
The table also has cool nuts and bolts underneath, just like the ones we were using this morning.
As Devereux was investigating the bottom side of the table, one of our friends said, "Hey! That's like a fixer!"
We then decided that the green table should turn into a car, but how would we do that? What do we need?
"Muffler!"
"Wheels!
"Oil!"
We started with the wheels first. We traced the tire four times- once for each wheel.
We then used teamwork to cut out and color the tires.
During the second small group time, I again asked the friends what we still need for the car shop.
"Windows!"
"Doors!
Of course we each made a list of what we needed!
We wondered what we could use to make windows and doors.
One of the friends said, "I know! Boxes!"
I asked where we could get boxes.
"Let's ask Ms. Derrington!" (She must have everything over there in PDO. :) )
We predicted if Ms. Derrington would have boxes or not. We graphed our predictions and discussed less, more, and equal.
We asked Ms. Derrington if she had any boxes we could have.
She did!
We were very excited about the boxes Ms. Derrington brought.
"Let's use the boxes as the car!"
Capitalizing on the children's interests and ideas is one way to foster the love of learning!
We decided that we would use these boxes to make cars throughout the week next week!
Ethan brought his Favorite Book in the Favorite Book Bag today. Thanks Ethan!
During Jesus time, we reviewed the story of Abraham and Sarah. We remembered three very important things:
1. Jesus always listens when we pray.
2. Jesus always answers when we pray.
3. God always keeps His promises!
We sang a new "I Love Jesus" echo song. I included the lyrics below:
I love Jesus (echo)
Yes I do (echo)
I love Jesus (echo)
How about you? (echo)
(all together)
I love Jesus, yes I do!
I love Jesus, how about you?
No comments:
Post a Comment