Tuesday February 22nd- Number 8

Today we started with our scissor practice. I gave them a harder curve to cut and they tried their best! Upstairs, I had foam blocks, animals, transformers and sewing cards to play with. I sat down with each child to practice the number 8. They learned the letter of the week (S) as we made it. The little song we sang is “make an S and close the gate”. Garrett was our star today and he helped to point to all the colors and shapes. Today was the BEST I have ever heard the class with these- they are doing great! We went into calendar time learning that we would be having a break this week from class on Thursday but next week we get to come for 3 days!! We counted to 20 today and marched all the way. We also learned the number 8 in Spanish- ocho- and then counted up to 8 in Spanish. We practiced our “days of the week” song and we reviewed our months going all the way to July this week. Everyone gets to help during weather time as Garrett dresses our weather friend in clothes for the weather. We did our alphabet boogie song and then we learned about silly Sally Seal who lives near the South Pole. We all made silly faces and practiced being snakes while making the S sound. The sign is simple- making a fist. My sweet three year olds could handle this sign :) We wiggled our bodies and then had a great snack of S and the number 8- thanks Regina! After snacks, we looked at books and then we had our show and tell from Garrett. We sang Hey Diddle, Diddle once and then we made up our own Hey Diddle, Diddle rhyme by adding funny pictures to the poem. Each child shared their poem with the class. They did a great job!
For our lesson, we counted our friends in class including me and we had 8. We also reviewed eight in Spanish and counted up to it. After that, we read a poem about an octopus with 8 legs and all the things he can do with his legs. Up at the table, we counted our star stickers that were going in our number jar. We learned that 4 and 4 equal 8- we showed our fingers and counted them. We also saw that 5 fingers and 3 fingers make 8 too. Then we added our stickers to our number jar. After that, we colored 8 hikers and we added 8 walking sticks to help them up the hill.
We finished our day with reading our story about Silly Seal’s sandwich and all the things he put into it that don’t usually belong in a sandwich. We practiced our sound again as we got our stamp and we were done for the day!