Wed Apr 11th- boats & ships

Our class started with scissor practice- I am getting more difficult pages for them to practice on. Our play time was with wooden blocks, magnetic dolls and little legos. Our star helped with color word cards and then we counted to 30 the way our star wanted to. We also practiced our Spanish to 18. The class sang days of the week and our months song in English and we reviewed our date. Weather time was next with our spring song and then dressing our weather friend and weather song with the other students. ABC boogie and reviewing our letter and sight words of the week were after that. We wiggled, ate snacks and explored our books in the April library. Our star shared their show and tell and then the class and I reviewed our poem of the month. For our lesson, I let each pick out one of the pictures faced down of the different boats and ships that we would be learning about. Tugboats, barges, cruise ships, sailboats, yachts, ferries, cargo ships and fishing boats were the ones we discussed. We talked about working boats and boats/ships for fun. I also explained about harbors and lighthouses. Afterwards, the students completed a worksheet that they had to find various shapes hidden in a picture of a lighthouse, harbor and a few boats. For letter time, 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. For our last activity, I did individual sight word practice along with our new words and then we finished with a dot to dot U page and Unger Unicorn.