Monday April 11th- boats and ships

 

 

 

To practice our fine motor skills, we practiced with our scissors and then went upstairs for free play with transformers and littlest pet shop. Don’t tell the dads but LPS is more popular than transformers.  I practiced the letter Y with each child individually and had them finish the tracing and coloring on their own. Nya was my star and she helped with our sign practice. We showed the class all the letters one by one and we had to review the sign for each. After that we had our circle time with calendar (days of the week, date review and months of the year), counting, weather and practicing our sight words. We learned the word “a” and how you would see it in a sentence. I have been trying to give them examples of how we use the word in our language as well as how you would read it in a sentence. I am hoping this practice will help the students recognize the words once they see them in print.
We alphabet boogied and met our letter Y and our friend of the week- Yorkie Yellow jacket who likes to ride on yachts and play with his yo-yo. He also does art projects with yellow yarn. Our little fingers have a hard time with this sign- sticking our thumb and pinkie out keeping all the other fingers down. Y is a vowel- sometimes. It has two sneaky sounds- “Yeh” like in yellow and “I” in the word eye. We sang over the song a few times so that we could get the sounds just right. Afterwards we wiggled, ate our snacks and explored our books.
Nya shared her show and tell with the class and then we proceeded to get into our lesson about boats and ships. The students made their carpet rectangles in to boats for a while as they listened but then they became a distraction. We were talking about all the types of boats and ships that you would see in the ocean or on bodies of water. As I explained each one I drew a picture and talked about their functions. Once we talked about all of them- I showed the class the pictures of each of the boats and ships and how they work.
For review and letter time, the students came to the table and they had to match the right yachts together and then color Yorkie Yellow Jacket on the back of the worksheet. We did two Y review activities today because I knew that Friday would be a busy day with our hunt. We practice the song and each child had to tell me the two sounds of Y then get a stamp if they would like one in yellow.