Mon Apr 16th- driving under the sea

This week started with name practice- first and last and after that, play time with little people, shape puzzles and tweezers with puffs or sea shells. I pulled each child aside to work on the letter Y- our last letter of the year! We also learned two new sight words- yes and you. Your child practiced printing them in their folders and then I stamped them on their hand. Garrett was sick so Miss Alisha was the star today. Our class started with sign language letter review and then we yelled to 25 and practiced our 10s to 100 and Spanish to 19. In calendar time, we learned the date and then sang the days of the week in Spanish and the months in English. Weather time with our spring song and the class helping with the weather was next. ABC time was full of dance and working on the letter Y- we met 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. Because there was no show and tell, I read about Little Critter visiting the sea park. I also worked on the April poem with the class since no one has passed it off yet. 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. 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. For letter time, we continue to work on the letter Y- its sounds and tricky sign. As our fingers get strong, this sign will be easier to do. I also talked to the students about our sight words and reading. We learned about when two vowels are together the first one says its name. I used the students’ names to show them how this works. I also touched on the silent “e” and how it makes other vowels say their name. I used other students’ names to show how this works as well. We might watch a video all about this in a few weeks. We were finished with our day after that!