Tues Apr 10th- #10

Our class started with name practice and then they moved over to play with Lincoln logs, puppets and magnets. I pulled the students aside individually to work on the letter X and the number 10- teaching them how to print each one, the sound of the letter X and what the 10 is in Spanish. We also practiced counting to 10 together. Kayden helped us with our colors and shapes and then we counted like pirates looking for the x on the treasure map up to 20. After that, we counted in Spanish to 10 and did blast off counting. It was a fun date because this was the 10th and that was our number of the day! We went over the date and our calendar- we sang our songs for calendar time as well for weather time. Kayden helped us with our weather friend. ABC boogie was next followed by letter time with our new letter X! X is a difficult letter sound to make because it is two sounds blended together. We first started with a “ka” and then added a “sss”- we said them quickly together. I also read some words that start with x- the list was short and then we sang our X song again as we made our arms into the X shape. We wiggled to a song that the star chose and then we had snack. After we ate, we had book time and then show and tell with Kayden. Our class practiced Little Bo Peep- our nursery rhyme of the month and then we got into our theme of the day- #10! First we counted in English and Spanish up to 10 and then we sang “what’s inside the kitten’s jar?” She had crayons but at the table, we added 10 tropical fishes to our jars. After that we came back down to the floor and we did the numeral song. Because it only goes to 10, we did a celebration dance to the end to mark our journey of getting to 10 this year! For story time- I read “10 in the bed”, “Feast for 10” and “10 little doggies” books. These books are the big books so the kids like seeing the big pictures to the stories. We went back to the table to color 10 farmers and then we added 10 hats to help shade their faces. For letter time, we practice the sound for the letter X again and I gave the students an X stamp to help them remember what we had learned and review the sound with each child. We read the story “A Xylophone for X-Ray Fish” next. He was having a birthday party and then at present time we searched all the gifts for the one he wanted the most- a xylophone! His last present was one from his mom and he was so excited because she got him his xylophone. For our last activity, we colored the X practice page that we had printed on earlier in our day.