calendar - 100 chart. Introduced letter /Ii/. Practiced printing /I/. Worksheet: circle objects that start with /I/.
Worksheet: Identify initial sounds of objects and print upper and lowercase. Reviewed word /is/ and read sentence strips. Read rebus story utilizing /is/ with animals and colors. Number printing chart -1-20 - they both still need a lot of help with printing but their number recognition has improved.
Played "Go Fish' with 11-20 flash cards. Counted groups of plastic fish - 5-20. Science: discussed the arrival of winter coming in December and what winter is like in different parts of the world - why it stays warmer in Florida than Boston - used globe and yellow ball for the sun to demonstrate.
Calendar, 100 chart, Science: What is snow? Where does it come from? Where does it go when it melts. How snowflakes are alike and different. Hung snowflake lights. Drew symmetrical snowflakes. Reviewed initial sound of /i/. Worksheet -initial sounds. Introduced new /i/ words:did, dig, in, lid,is. Played 'Go Fish' with new word flash cards. Printing umbers 2 and 3. Dot-to-dot dreidel with 1-20. Elmer the Elf left Christmas peg board games in stockings - tried to figure out a strategy to win with JM.
Fun Friday with our special guest, Henry. Played Legos with Henry. Showed Henry how to use iPad. Holiday dot-to-dot worksheets. Told them about dreidels, sang song. Played dreidel game with Henry and JM. Calendar, 100 chart - word flashcards - Sorted stuff for the soldiers.
Calendar - 100 chart. Reviewed days of the week and months. Reviewed printing 2 and introduced 3 - they both need a lot of small motor coordination activities. /glad/ and /sad/ worksheet - determining if illustration showed something sad or glad and circling correct word.
Listening worksheet - listened to verses and determined which letter sound they heard repeated in every word and then printed the letter in upper and lowercase. Discussed Hanukkah and the menorah. Hung a menorah on the wall. Played Niango with JM - they are getting along much better now.
Calendar - 100 chart. Worksheet - counting and matching to numbers 1-20. Dot-to-dot Christmas tree 1-20. Initial sound printing worksheet. Played ' Swimming Fish' game - wrote letters on paper fish -Arranged them to spell a word like 'gas' then had the the /g/ and /s/ fish swim to switch places to form a new word like 'sag'. Reviewed /s/ at the end of a word - read plural words on flash cards. Read sentence strips. Built a village with JM. Read them book about
Pranky the Elf. Reviewed German custom of St. Nicholas Day - Introduced German custom of
Christmas tree. Looked at old fashion trees before electricity on Google - this led to a discussion about toys from the past and present-
Assignment
Word Ladder - cut out the picture cards and glue each one to the words on the ladder
