Friday April 8th- #20

Friday is letter review day so each child printed the upper and lower case “U” and then stamped “U’s” all over the back of the sheet. For play time, we played with cars and trucks, tinker toys and puzzles. During playtime, I practiced counting to 20 with each child as we dot stamped “gumballs” in a gumball machine. Jackson helped me as we got a little wacky with our circle time. I did everything out of order to change our class time up a bit. We still practiced all of our skills we normally do. We wiggled, ate snacks and checked out our book selection. Jackson shared his show and tell and we were on to our number of the day- 20! This is our last number of the year- yippie!! We practiced counting in English and Spanish. We learned that 20 in Spanish Is veinte. The students wanted to know all the numbers in Spanish up to the millions but I am afraid my Spanish skills are not so vast.  For 20 practice, I showed the students how to make the number 20- starting with a 2 and then ending with a 0. I printed these on a white board to show them how we print them then we practiced the number 2 in the air with our numeral song- curve it down and slide to the right. We went to the table for printing practice and then they each had to find the 20 hidden butterflies and count them out as they colored them so that they knew they found all of them.
For a hands-on experiment, I had all the students explore a 20 dollar bill-I usually don’t have these around  but thought it might be nice to count all the 20’s on it. We found 4 on the front and 92? on the back. There are 90 mini gold 20’s on the back- I counted those. We also found the number twenty written on the front and back of the bill. Some of the kids wanted to keep their 20 dollar bill but I had to take them back. 
We practiced our numbers again with the beanbag toss with the remaining numbers we didn’t practice on Wednesday. For letter time, we sang our letter song and then colored and cut out Unger Unicorn. He was upside down again and he had to find all the words that began with “U”. The kids do a wonderful job finding the right words. Once we finished that, we were done for the week!!