Tues Apr 24th- White day & Molly's unbirthday

Our class worked on printing our names today. They also had to print it on their own under the practice. The students played with food, magnetic shapes and tinker toys. I pulled the students aside to work on scissor cutting and their name on their white booklet. After clean up, we had circle time. Chelsea helped us review the color words and we talked about how to make secondary colors. We counted to 24 (the date) by jumping then we practiced our Spanish to 10. We worked on calendar time- the date and what was yesterday, today and tomorrow. The class and I talked about how we will not have class on Thursday but I will see them next month- May! We sang days of the week and months of the year then we talked about our seasons. We will be learning our summer song next month for our presentation so we sang our spring song and listened to the summer song. Chelsea helped dress our weather friend Bob and then the students all sang along with our weather song. ABC boogie was next and the students and I worked with letter flashcards to review letters we have learned this year as well as their sounds. The kids wiggled and ate snacks. We celebrated Molly’s unbirthday and sang to her. Chelsea picked out a book for her show and tell and I read it to the class. For class time, we talked about all the colors and the color of the day-white! We discussed things in our world that are the color white- clouds, snow, horses, balloons, beluga whales, and milk. Some animals have white on them like cows and zebras and other animals. We came to the table and the kids colored the word WHITE with a white crayon. They learned that this was futile since you can’t see white crayon on white paper but they had a great go of it and you can see the white coloring on the black outline of the word WHITE. They always want to use the color white but we can only use it in special times- on dark paper so we can see it. After they finished, I pulled out their white booklets and they each colored something that was the color white (with a pencil because white crayons don’t work on white paper) and then they cut out the pictures of the white things on the books. The items were a cloud and a little lamb and then they glued the pictures in the right part of their books. They came back to their carpets and we practiced our nursery rhyme- Little Bo Peep. Because today is our last class of the month, I had the students sing the song to me. If they all sang and did the actions, I let them pick out a prize. They all did a great job- only one more nursery rhyme to go for the year! The students and I collected our things and walked over to the park for play time. Molly’s snack was twizzlers and noise makers- I hope they had a fun time.