Mon Apr 23rd-creatures that live under the sea

We started off our week with name practice. I will start having them write it all on their own starting next week. For play time, they played with the food, tinker toys and magnetic shapes. I had some work to do with my absent students and then I pulled each child aside to stamp their sight words but I didn’t tell them what they were. After we cleaned up, our star picked letters out of a bag and the students had to tell them what it was and its sounds. Then we counted to 30 –star’s choice of action- Swinging like monkeys in the AM and swimming- forward and backwards in PM. We also practiced our blast off counting and 10s to 100. Calendar time was next and we reviewed the date and sang our songs. For weather time, we sang the spring song and then listened to the summer song that we will be learning next week. Our star dressed our weather friend and then the class helped with figuring out what the weather was. ABC boogie helped us get ready for letter time. After we finished that, we sang the ABC song without the visuals. We worked on our new sight words and we sounded them out to find out that they are “will” and “with”. We also noticed they started with the same first two letters. Once we reviewed them a few times, we wiggled, ate snacks and explored our books. Our star shared their show and tell and then we were on with the lesson- creatures of the sea! We met a scuba diver the other day and all the beautiful things that they saw while they swam under the sea- seaweed, coral, lobster, sea urchin, swordfish, shark, manta ray and giant squid. Today I reintroduced the scuba diver and we talked about the first four things the diver saw- seaweed, coral, lobster and sea urchin. 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. Once they completed that activity, we came back to the squares to talk about lobsters and sea urchins. I concluded with reading half of the Magic School Bus- On the ocean floor book. We will finish reading it on Wednesday. For letter time, we worked on our sight words- “will” and “with”. Then I had the students come over to the table and they printed the words in their folders. To finish class, we practiced our April poem since we don’t have much more time to pass it off. Some of us are just getting confused on a few of the words so please help review this poem with your child. Thanks!