Wednesday March 9th- Number 16

For our practice time, we traced and wrote the letter G in upper and lower case then stamped some G’s on the back of our worksheet in green. Upstairs we played with food, babies and beads. After play time, we had Zach help us with the remainder of letters we have learned. We counted up to 31 in our ghostly voices and then to 16 in Spanish as I taught them 16 prior to counting. We blasted off into unchartered areas of space- you should hear some of these places that they land after we do our blastoff counting- too funny and creative! Our class helped with weather time and then sight words were reviewed. We boogied to the alphabet and then we sang our G song while making our sign for the letter.
We wiggled, ate, explored books and checked out all of Zach’s Lego Star Wars characters.
For #16, I explained that the number 16 is made with a 1 and a 6 not a 6 and a 1. We reviewed how to make each number in the air and then we counted up to 16 in English and Spanish. At table time, each child practiced the number 16 and then had to finds 16 hidden socks in a picture. I had each child count them and point to each one as they did. This is an area that can we worked on at home. For the next activity, I worked with 3 children at a time as the others explored our library. Each child had to put 16 candles on a birthday cake. They all first colored it and then I worked with them one candle at a time. I have a few students who are more anxious with doing their own work then others so I wanted to do smaller groups so that I could keep an eye on them. After we all finished our 16 candles we went straight into our G practice which was growing G words in Gilbert’s goofy garden. We child had to cut out 6 pictures and the title then pick out the 4 “G” words then “plant” them on the brown paper. Downstairs in line, we practiced counting in English and Spanish and our G sounds.