Monday March 7th- gardens

Downstairs we started the week with scissor practice- we are gradually getting harder worksheets to cut. Upstairs I had cars, trucks and tinker toys to play with. I practiced the letter G with each child individually and they finished their shape tracing and coloring of G worksheet. Zach was our star and he helped the students to review half of the letters we have learned so far. For calendar time, we counted in grumpy voices up to 31 and in Spanish to 15. Blastoff counting was followed with singing the days of the week and Macarena months. They are so cute when they do the dance- you should have them show you it. Zach helped us in weather time and we reviewed our sight words. We learned the sight words-Nan. She is a bird in some of the stories. We did our alphabet boogie to get ready for letter time. On Friday I had introduced the letter G since our class was shortened this week because of the field trip. We continued to practice the letter G and its two sounds and its sign as well. After letter time, we wiggled, ate our snack of teddy grahams and cheese sticks and then we had some book time. Zach shared his show and tell and then we started to discuss gardens. We talked about different plants that can be grown in a garden from flowers to fruits and vegetables. I had a song about gardeners and all the kind of protection they have to use in the garden. From gloves, hat and sunglasses to help them stay protected in the sun. I had a variety of different seeds of different vegetables and we explored them. After our floor time, we went up to the table and counted flowers in a garden.
For G time, I read our G story and we completed coloring a G worksheet with Gilbert Goat. Each student got the lowercase g stamp on their hand if they wanted it and we reviewed the two sounds of G.