God Created the World in 7 Days

The last two weeks have been full of excitement. I am including pictures from the last two weeks since last week's blog was the News Reporter's Blog. Each week, I will do two blogs, our class blog along with our News Reporter's Blog. 

Learning Our Classroom Jobs:

 Learning how to be the News Reporter

Calendar Helpers

Lunchtime Helper

Prayer Helper

Enjoying the green space and loving the outdoors

Taking care of the school playground

by collecting the large twigs and leaves. Learning more about God's incredible creation.

Strengthening our pincher fingers by sorting the fruit.

Checking out the letter tracers and stampers.

 

 Building! Building! Building!

The following top 10 list is for both LEGO and block building.

REASONS WHY PLAY WITH LEGO IS ESSENTIAL

1.Children have the opportunities to learn colors when building with LEGO.

  2.Children learn strategizing skills and prE-planning when building with LEGO.

  3.Children learn cause and affect when building with LEGO.

4.Children learn math skills when building with LEGO.

  5.Children strengthen fine motor skills when building with LEGO.

 6.LEGO provides tools that develop lateral thinking in a fun environment.

7.LEGO teaches children to think in three dimensions

 8.LEGO DEVELOPS problem-solving, organization and planning by construction.

9.LEGO improves creativity.

10.LEGO enhances communication and critical thinking.

The importance of play with LEGO goes on and on........

Resources: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/02/the-7-skills-kids-can-develop-from.html

http://chaoticallycreative.com/the-importance-of-play-with-legos/

     Building with wooden spools

               

    

 

Chapel with Mrs. Schultz:

Learning about helping others

Sorting out our snack:

How many are in each group?

How many different groups can you make?

Which animals will you eat first?

Shake! Shake! Marble Paint!

Go Noodle! Our favorite way to exercise! 

Dancing, stretching and moving our bodies!

The more we exercise the more points we earn, and our character grows stronger.

Chicken Dance with Maximo

Popping Popcorn!

Washing the LEGO for our class

Tennis Balls!

What do you do with a whole bucket of tennis balls cut in-half? You make our own Pac-Man course. 

Puzzles help with brain growth! 

Making some dinner in the kitchen!

Writing Center!

September Photo Journals

Exploring with the Magnets

 

Number Writing

Preschool version of "Kick the Can"

Gym time!

Chapel with Pastor Larson:

Can we measure God's love?

More building!

TEAMWORK!

Morning Writing/Drawing Journals

and Weather Journals

 

Practicing a Tornado Drill

A big THANK YOU to the Checkered Cottage in Kirkwood.

They donated so many treasures to our class.

The class sorted out the stickers, stamps and other treasures. We are getting our Creation Station set up. More to come on this adventure! 

Trying out the new stamps!

Crafting with the new paper!

 Writing with the new stencils.

Figuring out the game of UNO!

Drawing Winter the Dolphin

 Creation Books:

Putting together the 7 Days of  Creation.

 A visitor from Kirkwood Public Library!

Mrs. Mickie brought in books and songs about baking!

Last moments of SUMMER! 

(Sad Faces, kind of hard to make!)

First moments of FALL

 (Happy Faces)

BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEK!!