Tues Mar 13th-Libraries & banks

Our day started with name practice and then the students played with magnetic dolls, duplos and puzzles. Molly was our star and we reviewed our colors with the actual color words- the word red was in red, blue printed in blue. I wanted to allow the students to be familiar with the color words as well. We counted to 15 going up and down like we were on a roller coaster. We also practiced our blastoff counting. We had calendar time where we review the date of the day- repeating Miss Alisha on the date. Afterwards, we sang our Days of the week and months of the year song. Molly and the class helped with singing our weather song and dressing our weather friend- I started working on our new song for spring with the class since winter is almost over! We met our letter friend- umbrella bird and I taught the kids that U is a vowel and is needed in making words. Because it is a vowel, it has two sounds- U as in its name and u as in “up”. I also let the class listen to the vowel song- a pretty funny song all about our vowels. I also read some words that begin with the letter U but that list was very short. Molly picked our wiggle song and we got our wiggles out. We had our snacks and book time and then Molly shared her show and tell. For our lesson, we learned about libraries and banks. For our library portion, we talked about what is at the library and who is there to help us. At the table, we did another printing practice where they had to trace on the sidewalk to get each child to the library. I had created library cards for each child and they traced their names on them. Then I had a big variety of books for them to “check out” just like a library. I was the librarian and they had to check out the book – one at a time- with me and then they would return it and check out another one. I would make the “beep” sound with their cards and book and they thought it was too fun. Who know how exciting a library can be? We did this for 10 minutes and then we closed our Kinder-Tots Library. For banks, we talked about what banks are used for and why we need them. We learned that you can save money at a bank and a bank teller is there to help with either depositing or taking out our money. I tried to emphasize that you have to have money in the bank before you can take it out- but I think that went over their heads. They all colored their own money to play with at home. To review the letter U, we read a story about Umbrellabird’s umbrella. Some of the other birds made fun of him but in the end he helped them and they were all friends. We practiced the sounds and sign again as I gave them their letter stamp on their hands.