Rock Project

Zion elementary students meet monthly with mixed age groups as "Faith Families" to do different activities and grow in their faith.  This week they learned about being Living Stones.  They learned that we are a living stone alive in the Lord and together we make a spiritual house dedicated to the worship of our Lord.  Each child decorated a stone to be used as an outdoor art reminder that we are living stones and we stand in Christ. 

Though Early Childhood classes are not yet part of the Faith Families, we did get the opportunity to each decorate and contribute a rock. :-)

Week Three

A new math material: linking cubes! Great for
counting, sorting, and patterning!

Memory Art 

Independent Reading: We read words, pictures, or
retell a story we already know.

Sensory Activities

Sight

Building blindfolded

I SPY books

Taking a closer look at objects...

...and drawing what we see.

Hearing

Cup and String phone

 Smell

Identifying common aromas

Drawing with scented markers.

Week Two

Morning Greeting: Each morning at circle time we greet

one another with the words, "Good Morning, (name)

I'm glad you're here." 

Math Time

Exploring pattern blocks and teddy bear counters...

and one-to-one correspondence

 Rice Babies!

First Step - weighing the rice

Reading to our babies

Photo time!

First Week of Kindergarten

In Christ I Stand!

Mm,,, lunch!

Fun in the 'kitchen'

Reading!

More fun in the 'kitchen'.

Wow! Lots of cool scissors!

Books are so fun!

Practicing our letters by "swatting the flies"

Art Cart fun

Oh, the concentration!

Sharing a book. :-)

Math time. Exploring Teddy Bear Counters.

Last Week of Kindergarten

We got to see a few more vehicles this week. :-)

Yesterday's fun!

Mrs. Helmkamp came in to teach us how to use the Beebot.

We are programming!

We also worked on our solid shapes:

cones

spheres

and cylinders.

Finally, we made "peanut butter and jelly" compound words.

For a little added excitement, a medical helicopter landed right outside our door! The good news is no one was injured or ill, it was simply a career being shared in Mrs. Reed's class! Very exciting for us to watch!

And our last time saying the pledges as kindergarteners!

Now we are...