Tues Mar 20th- Caterpillars & butterflies

Our week started off with practicing our names and then playing with big blocks, puppets, linking blocks and animal magnets. I pulled the students aside to work on printing the letter V and saying its sound. Logan was sick all week so Miss Alisha was the star. The class worked on the names of the colors. We counted to 20 vooming in our “cars”, practiced our Spanish up to 9 and blastoff counting. The class reviewed the calendar with songs and practicing saying the date. We boogied to the ABCs and worked on the letter V’s sound. I introduced the students to Vera Viper who like to play her violin and we read a story about her later in class. After we reviewed some words that began with V, we practiced the sound again and then we did our wiggle song. We ate our snack, read some books and got right into our class theme for the day. I read a book- Caterpillar to Butterfly 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. I had prepared the life cycle coloring page for the children and the students colored each cycle- some faster than others.  Once everyone finished, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and counted and reviewed the days of the week as we read it. Our caterpillars have turned into cocoons so we had some time to observe how they have changed and await their change! For fun, we finished our time with a song about what caterpillars eat and the students got to each fill in the blank. For letter time, we practiced our sound for the letter V and we read our story Vera Viper’s Valentine and reviewed the different pictures that started with the letter V. Afterwards, I stamped each child’s hand with the capital letter V and we were done!