Fri Apr 13th- #19

All the students worked on the letter U printing as soon as they came in and then moved on to playing with links, counting blocks, cars and trucks and magnetic squares and triangles. I pulled the students aside to teach them about the number 19- how to say it in Spanish and how to print it. They each completed a 19 printing page and then had to count to 19 as they stamped 19 raindrops on an umbrella page. Our star helped us review our colors and shapes and then as a class, we counted to 19 pretending to unzip our jackets. We also practiced our Spanish to 19 as well. To change up calendar time, we sang days of the week in English and months of the year in Spanish. We reviewed the date and the month as well as having weather time. We moved right in to letter time dancing to the ABCs and then practicing the sounds and the sign of the letter U-I gave them their stamp at this time. We also practiced the all the signs that we have learned so far this year. The class and I went over our sight words again and then wiggled to our wiggle song. After that, we had snacks and looked at books. I read a story to the class that the star chose for us and then we got into our theme of the day. For 19 day, we started with counting in English and Spanish up to the special number. I discussed how to make the number- the one first and then the nine. I showed them a few numbers and they had to tell me which one was the number 19. To complete the 19 printing page, we went to the table and the students had to do a dot to dot butterfly counting as they traced. For review, I put the numbers 1-20 on the floor- spread all over the place. To review our numbers and how they are printed, we sang the numeral song. After that, I called on each student to come and find the number that was next in line. We did a pretty good job with this activity. I was also showing them how to spell the number words. For letter time, we sang our U song and the sign. All the students came to the table and we made our U umbrella letter friend. Once they finished that, we came back to the floor and we did a tossing activity with bean bags to review our sight words. I had 3 different words out and they had to toss the bag to the right word. We would sound them out together if they were having any struggles. We did this all the way up to the end of class!