Mon Apr 9th- taking turns

Name practice- first and last names was our first goal of the day. The students played with Lincoln logs, puppets and magnets. I pulled the students aside to work on the letter “u” and the sight words- mad and we. I also asked them questions about the All about me page for April and took their heights. Gage was the star and he helped us to review some of our letters that we have learned this year. We counted to 20 going up and down, practiced our 10’s to 100 and did blast off counting. Days of the week and months songs were next followed by reviewing our date and holidays of the month. For weather time, we sing our spring song and then the star helps with dressing our weather friend. For letter time, first we alphabet boogied then I taught about the letter “U” and our letter friend for the week was Unger Unicorn. He likes to stand upside down and carry his umbrella. We reviewed that “U” is a vowel and is important in making many words but it doesn’t start many words. I read them many words that start with “un” and how that created new words. We practice the two sounds for “U”- like in its name and “u” as in up or umbrella. The class sang along to the “U” song and we learned the sign- our two fingers up (pointer and middle) and they have to be touching. When they are opened then they make the sign for “V”. Have your child show you what I mean. We also reviewed the words “mad” and “we”. We had our wiggle song, ate our fun snacks, sang to Cole for his unbirthday and then checked out our books. Gage shared his show and tell and then we completed our All about me page for April. After that, we went into lesson time. Today our lesson was on taking turns. We first talked about what places and times that we have taken turns. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is hard to take turns. I read a few stories to demonstrate this skill. The first book was “Share and take turns” which had some great ideas and ways to take turns and share with our friends. I also read “Bear in the Big Blue House-Two can share, too” book. This book was creative in the ways the friends took turns with their toys that are special to them. We discussed the books and realized the importance of taking turns with others- this class is really good at taking turns but it always good to review these skills. For letter time, we practiced our sounds and sign for the letter U and then colored the U page that we had practiced printing on earlier. For sight word time, we reviewed our new words as well as doing a practice of all the words with the class.