Mon Mar 19th- Caterpillars & butterflies

Our week started off with practicing our names- first and last three times and then playing with big blocks, puppets, linking blocks and animal magnets. I pulled the students aside to work on the sight words of the week- a, and & the-printing, sounding them out and stamping them on their hands. Brooklyn was gone today so I was the star. We worked on all the letters we have learned so far and practiced their sounds. For counting, we moved like caterpillars to 31, counted in Spanish to 17 and worked on our tens to 100. For calendar time, we reviewed the date, sang the days of the week in Spanish and then started to work on the months of the year in Spanish. For weather time, we sang the spring song and reviewed the weather. We boogied to the ABCs and practiced our sounds of the letters in our ABC song. After that, we practiced our sight words and then wiggled, ate snacks and looked at books. For our theme of the day, I read a book- A caterpillar grows up and we discussed the life cycle of the butterfly throughout. We did a puzzle together showing the cycles- each child picked out a puzzle piece and they had to put it where it belonged. Once we finished it, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and counted and reviewed the days of the week as we read it. At the table, we colored, cut and pasted the life cycle of the butterfly in order. We reviewed each cycle by pointing to the correct picture. As I cleaned up, I got our caterpillars and cocoons out for the class to observe. For letter time, we went right into sight word practice with our word whammer. I took the two words- and & the and the student each got to pick a letter. I had them come up for each word and they had to put the letter in the right spot- looking at our word if they needed help to know. Once we spelled out the word, the word whammer spells it and sings a song for the word we created. Then I had the students put the right hand up with the correct word on it for review as we lined up for the day.