Mon Apr 30th- Opposites: sink/float

Our morning started with name practice and then went into playing with nuts and bolts, babies and duplo blocks. I pulled the students aside to work on the sight word “fell”. After clean up, our star helped with letter review by pulling letters out of a jar. I had them working with lowercase letters. Once we finished, we counted like robots to 30 and did blast off counting. I also started to teach the kids about counting by 5s. For calendar time, we reviewed the class day of the month and the new month that would be coming- May! Then we sang days of the week in Spanish and months of the year in English. I taught them the new summer song so that we can sing it at graduation. Then we talked about the weather. For letter time, we did the ABC boogie and practiced our sign language. I reviewed the sight word “fell” and then we learned about all the other words that we can make with the –ell ending. Each student came and picked a letter and added it to the –ell ending and then they had to sound it out. Bell, tell, sell, well, yell, dell, smell and then I taught them the blend “sh” so that we could make the word shell. Once we completed that activity, we wiggled, ate our snack and then explored the new May books that I had put out for the class. Our star shared their show and tell and then we got right into our lesson. For class time, we were learning about the opposites: sink and float. We sang our opposites song and I read them the opposites book. To review, I talked about the boats that we saw during our ships and boats day. We talked about what makes a boat float and what kind of materials do float instead of sinking to the bottom. At the table we got together and did a science experience of our own with things that sink and float. I had found numerous times around the house that could either sink or float. Each child had three picks of different items. First they had to make a guess of whether the item would sink or float and then they would put it into the box of water. Many of our guesses were right on but some were complete surprises! Each child was able to try three different things in the water and then I reviewed again about what items sank and float and how they are opposites because they are completely different. To end our day, we review our sight word and other words in the –ell word family. Once we completed that, our day was complete!