Zoe Albert visited today so we did not accomplish as much individual instruction. Calendar, Everyone practiced printing names with upper and lowercase, completed Leprechaun stories and hung them on the wall. Quinn/Stephen star fall.com initial and final sounds. Anna/Zoe illustrated and wrote stories on the board - we took pictures, laminated and will create books later. Walk down dirt road. Practiced climbing pole on playground. Cleaned up garden. picked the lettuce. Played on phones and iPads.
Read Leap Frog books. Dress-up box - made up stories about who we were.
Everyone is competing to see who will earn the most points on Wed to get the prize. Warm up is a run outside. Each student will lead the class in a exercise.
Assignment
Practise Block Routine 1
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Quinn felt bad because he lost his space in the line. He was playing around to much. Everyone else was great
Calendar - Dr. Seuss' birthday. Read Dr. Seuss books and made up our own silly rhymes. Added days to 100 chart to make Dr. Seuss' age. Looked at green eggs - do you think they will taste different -everyone but Anna tasted them and all agreed that they were disgusting - put on blindfold and tasted plain and green eggs -nobody could taste the difference - why? Food coloring did not change taste but our eyes tricked us into thinking the eggs would be disgusting - discussed why we should try new foods even if our eyes tell us not to do it. Watched Cat in the Hat. Stephen/Oliver looked for words with c and o in the book. Anna/Stephen/Gwen made word lists with medial 'a' 'o' and 'i' from the book. Played circle game 'Cat int Hat'.
Calendar - Introduced March and March dress-up box. Discussed saying "March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb' its meaning if you live up north or down south. Made March Lion and March Lamb puppets and learned a short skit - everyone took a turn performing it. Stephen/Oliver - printing C/O on worksheet choosing correct initial sound. Gwendolyn - SRA Workbook pages reading words and sentences and matching them to illustrations. Anna/Quinn -sight word review worksheet with phrases, Quinn read sentence strips - Anna Leap Frog story.
Math - measuring and comparing two or more lengths. Walked in conservation area and looked for new plants, bugs, etc. Noticed that there was more clay -why? rain. Saw many caterpillars - so what will we see more of next month - butterflies and moths? Found a new wildflower. Sat quietly and closed eyes - what sense are we using the most now? hearing - made a list of what we heard.
Wed Feb 29
Calendar. Discussed leap year. Played with Feb. dress-up box for the last time. Gwen and Anna – Starfall.stories. Quinn- new sentence strips. Oliver/Stephen – C/O worksheet, C/O maze. Measuring using blocks, string, paper clips, cars etc. as standards. Listened to ‘Rapunzel’s Folly’ and did comprehension worksheet. Played Bingo with 20-39.
