Wed Feb 15th- taking care of farm animals & growing crops

Our Wednesdays begin with scissor practice- they are getting more intricate in the practice sheets. I had Lincoln logs, Littlest Pet Shop and puzzles. I had each child practice the letter R with me and trace the shapes on the page- it was a rabbit by a river. Garrett helped as we reviewed spelling and identifying our color words. The class and I counted to 29 as we hopped like a rabbit. We sang our days of the week song and reviewed our calendar and weather. We worked on “sit” and “Ann” for our sight words as well as reviewing all of our sight words we have learned so far. We reviewed the letter R and Rodney Raccoon. We practiced the sign and sound of the letter R as well. After our alphabet boogie and wiggle time songs, we had our snack and book time. Garrett shared his show and tell and then we got into our lesson about farm animals. I have a large poster of various farm animals and I had each student come up and pick one out and then I would teach about each one. After animal time, I talked about growing crops and the different kinds of things that are grown on a farm. We read a seed diagram poem with pictures and we learned that seeds need three things to grow- water, soil and sunlight. We talked about the varieties of fruits, vegetables and grains that are grown on farms and we shared which items that we like the most. As a class, we did a counting fruits activity to practice printing our numbers and counting items. We are still working on counting as we touch an item and not rushing through the activity. This will come in time and is a great thing to work on with your child at home. For letter time, they had to use the colors red, green and blue and find the letters that they correspond with. We found out that we were coloring radishes for the letter R. On the back, we colored the letter R and Rodney Raccoon. We practiced our sign and sound again as we got our letter R stamp and we were done for the day.