Tuesday January 25th- Rectangles

 

We practiced our scissor skills downstairs and then headed upstairs for Lincoln logs, nuts & bolts, baby dolls and small puzzles. I took each child aside to work on rectangles- they had to practice printing them and then finding them among other shapes. They then colored their worksheet. Shiann was the star and she helped with practicing our shapes and colors. We also did calendar time- counting up to 15 and then up to 6 in Spanish. After weather time, we did our alphabet boogie and then learned about our new letter of the week-O! Our friend was Ollie Otter who works at an office. His friend is an octopus and he likes to eat oatmeal and olives. We practiced the two sounds for O- saying its name with its long sound and then we pretended we were at the doctors saying “aahhh” for its second sound. We also learned the sign of O- curving our fingers to our thumb. We sang our song and then I read some words that start with the letter O.
After wiggle time, we had our snacks and then library time. Shiann brought 10 little ladybugs book to share for show and tell and we read it before our lesson.
For learning about rectangles, I had made a big rectangle on the floor with tape. I wanted the kids to see visually and to touch each of the sides of the rectangle as we counted them. We know that a rectangle has 2 short sides, 2 long sides and four angles or corners. I sang a song about rectangles to the students and we looked & talked about different things that are rectangle shapes-windows, dollar bills, etc. We learned that no matter what direction a rectangle is- horizontal or vertical – it is still a rectangle. At the table, we decorated our rectangle shapes with rectangle foam stickers and I had each student stamp some rectangles on top. We also colored “a window is a rectangle” page and we colored a picture in the window. They are getting so cute and creative with their pictures.
For letter time, we practiced our letter O- its sign and sound. Then we read the story about Olive the Octopus and she wanted to learn how to juggle. Everything she juggled started with “O”. She had an accident and drops it all and then realizes that she wants to play the organ instead  We got our O stamps in orange and we were done for the day!