Thursday March 10th- Black

For name practice, we printed our names and then we did clothespin name practice- putting our letters in our names in order. After we got done with that, each child had to tell me the letters of their names. Upstairs, I had beads, foam blocks and puppets ready for play time. The class also explored our new class pets- our caterpillars! We are going to watch them turn into butterflies and what a fun experience it is!!
We sing “rise and shine” and then we go into our Pledge. I had Payten come do color and shape flash cards with the class to review and then we went into calendar time. For calendar time, we review the date and what it was yesterday and tomorrow. Each student repeats the date with me and then we count to 15 in English and then in Spanish to 9. We sing the days of the week and I have the students repeat the months of the year with me. Payten helped with our weather time and we boogied to the alphabet. I had the students follow me and say the letters that we have learned so far this year. We have learned 20 letters and only 6 more to go! We also sang to Hickory, Dickory Dock- out nursery rhyme of the month. Payten picked our wiggle song and we wiggled our bodies. Afterwards, we came to the table to eat. Our pretzels were very entertaining today- we made them into people and they were playing around. After our snack time, the students explored the variety of books we have in our library and then Payten shared her show and tell.
To review our nursery rhyme, we made our Hickory Dickory Dock books. First each child had to write their names and then they colored all the pages one at a time. Then we brought them finished to the floor and we looked at the pictures as we sang to the song again.
For black day, we explored our clothes to see who had dressed for the day and all of us had black on- thanks parents! We talked about different things around our world that are the color black. We read our black poem and then danced to the song. At the table, I had prepared each child’s color black book. They each had to write their names and then cut their black pictures out. I helped them with gluing and then each of them had to draw an item that was black- I got many black ponies drawn :) Then once completed we came down to the floor so that I could prep for our black worksheet that will go into our binders. We explored books and then came back to finish the page- first by writing our names and then coloring with our black crayons. Some of us are speedy artists and some of us are more detail oriented. :) We took so long that we didn’t have any letter time but each child got to pick which black item they wanted to get stamped with – a spider, black cat or bat.