Thurs Mar 1st- Opposites: big/little

Our class started with scissor time and then the class played with magnetic shapes, shape puzzles and cars and trucks. Aspen was ill so Miss Alisha was the star. We reviewed our colors by looking at their name cards. After that we counted to 15 with our new March calendar marching all the way. The class counted in Spanish and did blastoff counting. I reviewed our new calendar and the holidays and special days coming up in March. We sang our calendar and weather song and then talked about the weather. We boogied to the ABCs and reviewed our letter T. We tapped out together and then had our wiggle song to get ready for snack time. After snacks, we explored our new library of March books. We practiced our new nursery rhyme – Hickory Dickory Dock. I showed them actions as we listened to the song the first time. Then we went over to the table to color our nursery rhyme booklet as we listened to the song again. After everyone finished coloring, we listened to the song as we looked at our books. I think this will be an easy rhyme for them to remember. For our class topic, we talked about the opposites big and little. On opposites day, we sing the opposites song before we begin. Then I read the book “Big and Little” to the class. I showed the students a variety of different items that they had to tell me which was the big one and the little one. Then we practiced making our bodies big and little. For our art time, we painted with big and little paintbrushes with the paints. Each student made a beautiful piece of art! For T time, we practiced our sound for the letter T and I stamped each child’s hand with the lowercase t. After that I read a few stories that started with T- first we learned about tadpoles turning into toads and then I read the story “Touch that!” which taught about the sense of touch. We reviewed our sound of the letter T again and we were finished for the day.