Journal Entry: make your own animal To start off our zoo week, we created our own animals in our journals. Speaking of journals--everyone loves them! We have been using our journals every day as one of our literacy centers. The kids also like using free time to write in their journal. We have been encouraging them to label each page with the date so that we can track their progress. We read a silly book called, Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo! by Karma Wilson. We will definitely not shout in the zoo on Friday after reading what happened in the story!! For art we made kangaroos. Did you know that a baby kangaroo is called a joey?
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To prepare for our zoo trip next friday, this week's theme will be zoo animals!
Click Here for tentative plans. We concluded our short weather unit today with the book On The Same Day in March... by Marilyn Singer, which visits some of the world's countries and shows how different the weather can be in different places on the same day. For art, we did "water painting," which is using a big paint brush and water to paint anything in the yard!
We have also been learning about the water cycle. Photo Credit: http://water.nationalacademies.org/images/water_cycle.jpg
We spent this rainy day inside learning all about rain and the water cycle! We even painted with rain drops! We also watched this Magic School House video after we talked about the water cycle. Ask your student to see if they can remember the cycle!!
ABC centers this week have been going well so far. We are working on word family wheels, letter sounds, sight words, and journal entries. Quite a few of our students are getting the hang of s t r e t c h i n g words out to hear the sounds and then putting them back together to form a word. We play a game called "Mystery Word" where the teacher stretches out a word and the kids have to guess which word is being said. Then we practice stretching it out all together. This week we'll be learning about weather!! Click here for the plans.
Thursday we went back to one of our favorite themes- Prince and Princesses! There are so many princesses stories that we all know and love, but we decided to choose something new and read a story called The Kiss that Missed by David Melling. It was about a prince and a goodnight kiss! During literacy centers, we had the students draw what they thought a prince or princess looked like, or cut one out from a magazine. Princes and Princesses are usually very sparkly! We played jeweler during craft time today and designed our own glittery bracelets! And everyone in the land lived Happily Ever After! The End.
Today we learned all about money! We started with a money journey by reading the book Follow the Money by Loreen Leady. We learned how money is made and all the different places it goes. We practiced using money to buy things at our pretend toy store station, counted money into piggy banks, and made our own piggy banks!
Today's student-chosen theme was Penguins! After our literacy centers, we read the fiction story Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and thought about what it would be like to be a penguin. To help us put ourselves in their (webbed) shoes, we watched a really cool National Geographic video clip on penguin families. Then we went to the zoo with Mr. Rogers and watched while a Daddy penguin held an egg while his baby hatched. Click here to watch penguins with Mr. Rogers! Then we tried to "hatch" our own eggs the way penguins do... with their feet! For our craft we painted penguins. Our preschoolers are getting very good at using scissors to cut out irregular shapes. Using sponges, we added white bellies and snow to our antarctic friends.
Today we read Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea by Marcus Pfister. Then we used our hand prints to make our very own rainbow fish! Our literacy centers this week are letter sound search, journal entries, listening station, and letter logs. Our students LOVE their new literacy journals (that we bought with the money we raised with our can drive). In our math stations we are working with number order, number words, recognizing numbers 1-20 and learning how to play UNO. Last week we learned how to play Top-It (think war) and the kids really enjoyed it. We're currently try to save up more cans to buy more educational games for our room. |
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