Wednesday March 2nd- Seeds

We started our week back to school after a long break with printing our names- once on the dotted practice then once by ourselves. Then each student did their clothespin name practice. Upstairs I had little legos, puzzles and transformers ready for play time. Nya was our star and helped with letter review after we cleaned up and said our Pledge. I was excited to share all the changes we had had in classroom since our last class. All of the decorations were different and our calendar showed us a new month- March! We counted to twenty, to 15 in Spanish and did some blastoff counting. After that we sang the Days of the week and danced along to our Macarena months. I showed them that March is a longer month with 31 days instead of the 28 or 30 days in other months. The class helped with weather time and we started to learn our new sight word: on. This one seemed simpler for the kids to learn and we will be now learning a sight word a week. All of these words are in their folders for review at home. We did a letter review of all of the letters that we have learned so far this year. After we wiggled, we ate our snacks and explored all of our new March books. Nya shared her show and tell and I started to teach our new poem for the month- about a caterpillar. This is also in each student’s folder for review at home.
Our theme for the month is All about nature. I wanted to start with seeds so that we can see the process of the seeds and their growth. To start our lesson, I read the Eric Carle book “The Tiny Seed”. We talked about what seeds need to grow- sunlight, water and soil. We did a role play of a seed growing towards the sun with our bodies- they really grew well! I showed the students some different seeds and then we started growing some seeds ourselves. I had some beans soaking and we made our own planter bags with paper towels, a ziplock bag, spray bottle to get our towel wet and 3 seeds. I taped them to the window so that we can chart our progress. After we planted our beans, I read the book “A sunflower grows up” and we talked about how seeds work and we started one more science project with our seeds. This one required soil so each child helped with adding soil and wheat kernels so we can see wheat grass grow. They can grow above the ground so the students can see the roots and the grass as they grow in class. We practiced and reviewed our sight words again before we left for the day.