Monday April 25th- Driving under the sea & ocean plant life

Downstairs was scissor practice and then we played with little legos, babies and beads. Zach was our star and helped during circle time. I introduced the new sight word during sight word practice-man. I gave examples of how we use the word man in our daily language. I also taught them about the word woman. We practiced saying it and ways we use it in sentences.
We started practicing our alphabet in sign language since we will be doing the abc’s in sign language at our graduation. After we practiced, we wiggled, ate snack (fun kinds of fishes) and then had some book time. Zach shared his show and tell (pillow pets and his favorite book) and we had a relaxing story time with that.
For our lesson, we talked about submarines and traveling under the sea. We met a scuba diver and all the beautiful things that they saw while they swam under the sea- seaweed, coral, lobster, sea urchin, swordfish, shark, manta ray and a giant squid. We discussed each thing during the next two days of class. For table time, we went to the table and colored our scuba diver, ocean and surroundings. The scuba diver became a puppet and we let him/her swim all over the ocean.
We talked about the coral and seaweed today and where we find it in the ocean. I showed the children in the Magic School Bus book many types of coral and how they are shaped. After we looked at all the different kinds we went to the table to practice matching types of coral together.
After that we practiced printing our word- man in our folders on the practice stickers and then we were finished with our day!