Calendar -printing 1-4 and names on primary paper. Anna/Quinn-spelling quiz on iPads. Listening Center - 'April Showers' and comprehension worksheet. Oliver/Stephen: blending sounds - Oliver is beginning to read nonsense words-Stephen still having some difficulty blending the sounds in order. Anna read Starfall story number 4. Quinn read phrases and short sentences and new word list. Made Ninja headbands and set up a 'Ninjas to the Rescue' Center.
Reviewed all spatial concepts - Stephen still having some difficulty with 'middle' and 'between'.
Reviewed dozen and half-dozen-Read 'Red Hens Eggs'.
Gwendolyn cried this morning and refused to go to class with her teacher - Bob Morris left her in my room. Tried to follow our usual routine but Ellen kept trying to get Gwen to go with her. Finally, I told Gwen and Anna that they could play Candy Land while I worked with the boys. Ellen kept insisting that Gwen should go to read with her. I gave up and just put all the kids together for snack. Ellen kept insisting all through snack that Gwen and her would go to the pink room after snack to do a special project - Gwen kept looking at me pleadingly so I asked Gwen if she would like Anna to go with her, no. So, at last I asked Ellen if she could do the project with all the kids - she spent the next 70 minutes at the table doing a bar graph with them -then she read to them for 15 minutes. I took them outside to play for a few minutes. They were all tired after lunch but I was able to get them to practice printing numbers 1-3 on primary paper. Then we all did a 50 piece puzzle together and built a village for Anna's stuffed rabbit.
Stephen absent - calendar, Read book 'April's Spring', printing numbers 1-3 and names on primary paper, Quinn/Anna-reading lists of cvc words, spelling cvc words, worksheet - filling in missing letter of a word. Quinn-Lippincott storybook #3. Anna - SRA workbook - read sentences and matched to illustration. Oliver: initial letter worksheet, blending sounds on Kidsheart.com and with flashcards. Cutting dotted line designs. Maze. MacArthur Park online turtle presentation. Turtle comprehension questions
Warm up and stretch, Story about the King and his 300 member Band,
Review Block Routine 1, Add new movements for Block routine 2 for Gwen. Kicking drills
Assignment
Practise
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
It took a while for Oliver to settle down, but he managed to respond by the end of class.
Calendar, Sang Easter and Passover songs. Solved riddles to find the stuffed bunnies the Easter bunny left. Watched online Lego story of Passover. Decorated Elijah Goblets and had a snack of chocolate-covered Matzo and macaroons and grape juice. Solved alphabet puzzles to discover where Easter Bunny had hidden several toys and played with them. Learned how to do the 'Bunny Hop' and danced around the floor-maze to reach bunny bubbles for our baskets. Discovered pinwheels the bunny hid and took them outside to determine the wind direction. Had an egg hunt on the playground.
Calendar, Passover 'Seder Plate Song' , made Seder plates. Observed raw and boiled eggs - how can you tell which is boiled? Spin them - what happens? Why? Counted how many eggs in a dozen, half-dozen, Played store and bought cookies, eggs, etc. by dozen and half-dozen. Dyed eggs: German block eggs, British Pace eggs, Polish pysanky, Austrian leaf, good old American, and Greek Red eggs and played the Greek egg cracking game. Made see-through posters with egg shape on one side and drew animals that hatch from eggs on the back of the page so when you hold it up to the light , you can see what animals are inside. Read ' How Fletcher Hatched',
