Mon Feb 27th- seeds

Our Mondays start with name practice and then the students played with duplos, babies and magnetic letters. I pulled the students aside to work on the sight word on and is by printing them and getting them stamped on their hands. After clean up, Sally helped the students review their letters. We counted to 29 doing karate chops which were Sally’s request as well as counting to 100 by 10s. We reviewed our date on the calendar and we started to learn our days of the week in Spanish. Sally helped with weather time and we alphabet boogied. Because we were reviewing our letters, we sang our ABC song. I also introduced our sight words and we practiced sounding them out and saying them together. We wiggled to get ready for snack time and then after we ate, the class had book time and Sally shared her show and tell. Our theme for the month is All about nature. I wanted to start with seeds so that we can see the process of the seeds and their growth. To start our lesson, I read the Eric Carle book “The Tiny Seed”. We talked about what seeds need to grow- sunlight, water and soil. We did a role play of a seed growing towards the sun with our bodies- they really grew well! I showed the students some different seeds and then we started growing some seeds ourselves. I had some beans soaking and we made our own planter bags with paper towels, a ziplock bag, spray bottle to get our towel wet and 3 seeds. I taped them to the window so that we can chart our progress. I had a variety of different seeds of different vegetables and fruits. For fun, I cut up many to let the students see where they are located. Some fun ones were the avocado seed and the mango pit. After we explored the seeds, I read the book “A sunflower grows up” and we talked about how seeds work and we started one more science project with our seeds. This one required soil so each child helped with adding soil and wheat kernels so we can see wheat grass grow. They can grow above the ground so the students can see the roots and the grass as they grow in class. For letter time, we sang the ABCs and then reviewed our sight words since our seed science projects took up the majority of the class.