Nov. 13

Morning Meeting-We played a counting by 5's game. We passed the sharing frog as we counted by 5's up to 40. We stopped at 40 and whoever was holding the frog had to sit down. It was a great way to practice our skip counting skills. We shared the letter bucket. We had started using an alphabet book daily to say the letter, a picture that starts with that letter and the sound that letter starts with. We also make the letter in sign language.
Specials-We had music today.
Read Aloud-We read "Me Too". It was a story about a little sister and a big brother. The little sister always said "me too" to everything the brother did. Afterward we made a venn diagram with hula hoops. One circle was brothers, one circle was sisters, and the middle was both brothers and sisters. We had another hula hoop for no brothers or sisters. We put our check in sticks in the appropriate circle. We found we have 3 kids with no brothers or sisters, 5 kids with only sisters, 7 kids with both and 8 kids with just brothers.
Shared Reading-We read a story called "This is my School." We practiced our reading skills of stretching words and using beginning sounds and picture clues.
Stations-We had 4 stations today. The yellow station was working on two pages of our abc art book. We worked on Xx and Ww. The blue station was making our Tiggy Tiger page for our Alpha Friend book. The red station was printing our letters Ss and Mm. The white station was beginning letter sounds activity and reading the book "This is my School.
Rest Time-We read chapters 2 and 3 in "Stanley, Flat Again." Stanley was the sail on a sailboat. He helped to win a sailboat race.
Math-We did calendar. We illustrated numbers from 1-10. They had to draw the correct number of circles to match the number. We talked about diamonds/rhombus. We made a kite that was symmetrical. We used triangles to make diamonds.
Day 5 Alive-We went to watch Day 5 Alive. We saw some 5th grade students doing a step routine. We saw some 4th grade students with their hat inventions. A few 3rd grade students read poetry.
*Please send snowpants if it is wet out. Our playground is very muddy and wet.