Fri Apr 20th- #20

Our class reviewed their last letter of the year- Y! We will continue to practice and review all the letters from now on. The students played with puzzles, littlest pet shop and patterning cards during play time. I pulled the students aside to work on the number 20- how to say it in Spanish and how to print it. They each completed a 20 printing page and then they found the 20 hidden butterflies on the page and count them out as they colored them so that they knew they found all of them. We counted in our singing voices up to 30 as well as practicing our Spanish to 20. Garrett 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. Garrett 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. For 20 practice, I reviewed 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. I also gave each of the students their own boards and they had to practice until they got the number 20 down. At the table, we counted to 20 as they stamped 20 colorful “gumballs” into a gumball machine. 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 95 on the back. There are 91 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. For letter time, we reviewed our three sounds of Y and we practiced our sign as well. At the table, we made our Y letter friend- the Y with a ball of “yarn” around it. They also glued some actual yarn on the ball. Afterwards, we practiced all the signs- the whole alphabet and reviewed all of our sight words that we have learned so far. I stamped their hands and they were set for the week!