Mon Apr 2nd- Seashore

We started the day with our name practice and then they played with nuts & bolts, baby dolls, duplos and rainbow color matching. Rome helped the class review letters we have learned and their sounds and then he picked out our action for counting to 20. We also did blastoff counting and counting by 10s to 100. I introduced the class to our new month-April and talked about all the holidays of the month. I have made April our “unbirthday” month and will be celebrating our summer birthdays this month. We sang our days & months in Spanish. Rome helped with weather time after we sang our spring song. During letter time, we boogied to the ABCs and then sang our ABC song and practiced our signs. Rome picked out wiggle song; we ate snacks & unbirthday cookies from Garrett and looked at our books. For our lesson, I wanted to do an introduction today to the theme this month- All about the sea and sand. We had a class discussion about the beach- the sights, sounds, smells and activities that we can do there. Some of our classmates haven’t ever been to the ocean, so I asked our friends who have what they have done at the beach. We discussed things we need at the beach, safety there and how we need to listen to the lifeguards. Afterwards I read a Clifford’s Puppy Days book- Beach day. I asked them questions throughout the story of the different experiences that Clifford was having at the beach. Once we finished the book, explored some seashells that I had and then used seashell maniputives to practice our counting. For an Easter activity, each student covered their egg shape with tissue paper squares. We went right into our –an word family booklet and the words we learned last week- writing each word on our own. We practiced our names in line and we were done for the day and the week!