New month calendar – Discussed Holiday Season – Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve. Introduced advent calendar countdown to Christmas. 100 Chart.
Reviewed sound of /Ll/. Worksheets: circling items with initial/Ll/, Determining if an object began with /a/c/d/g/l/o/s/ and writing upper and lowercase letter. Practiced printing Ss and Ll. One-to-one: read sentence strips – Anna is getting pretty good at this. Quinn still needs to sound out each word. Read them the book, ‘Oh, No Santa’. Listening Center: introduced fables – listened to ‘The Lion and the Mouse” and did comprehension worksheet. Discussed what kindness means and how being kind creates friendships. Created observation sheet for Io caterpillar.
Collected sticks and leaves for the observation tank. Made paper Christmas chains
Session Minutes
180
Minutes Student Attended
180
Lesson Comments
JM told Quinn he would never play with him again because he keeps saying his name over and over every day even though JM has nicely asked him not to do it. Quinn was devastated, then angry. Spent a lot of the afternoon discussing it.
We practiced our colors today. The children had to eat lunch early so I read to them the color story while they were eating. They did a fine job today.
calendar - 100 chart. Reviewed sounds of A/C/D/G/S/O in initial, middle, final placement. Introduced letter /Ll/. Worksheet – finding objects with initial /L/,
Used /l/ to spell new words: log, lad, glad. Reviewed adding /s/ for plural. Worksheet: matching singular and plural words to picture, Reading words and sentences and matching them to illustrations. Identifying numbers 1-16. Introduce 17 and 18 and 19. Counting Puzzles. Science: Researched caterpillar that Julie found outside – Io moth.-toxic. Read the book ‘Jingle Bugs’ to them. They left at
1:15 for doctor.
calendar - 100 chart. Reviewed sounds of A/C/D/G/S/O in initial, middle, final placement. Played letter card game - when I said a word they had to hold up the card that was in the initial or final sound. Reviewed spelling dog, cat, sad, dad,gas. Reviewed printing upper and lowercase /C/A/D/G/S/O. Played Sight Word Hopscotch. Listening worksheets; listen to word and identify initial and final sound -listen to two sounds and determine if they are the same or different. Introduced adding /s/ to make a word plural. Anna 100%. Quinn 90%. Reviewed numbers 1-16. Anna -ok - Quinn confusing 7, 11, 12, 13. Individual work: Printing /s/ and /2/.Worksheet circling head or tail of snake if word had /s/ as initial or final sound. Worksheet matching plural or single words to pictures, Days of Week puzzle, dot-to-dot Christmas tree. One-to-one - reading words and sentences, identifying numbers 1-16. Unpacked ovens - played with boxes as cars and boats, then crawled inside them and looked at books, Science: took cars and trucks out to ramp. Do you think a big car will go faster than a small car? Why or why not? Will large wheels go faster than smaller wheels? Why or why not? Did test runs and graphed the results. Tied strings to cars and took them over the speed bumps for fun. Put garland on tree and read 'Counting Christmas.
Assignment
none - very tired from trip
Session Minutes
180
Minutes Student Attended
180
Lesson Comments
Quinn was wonderful with the younger kids on the playground today - let them play with his cars and was very gentle when he wanted to get them back
Anna and Quinn were out today - cleaned out refrigerator, took down Thanksgiving decor - began Christmas decor - went out to get new lights for the trees.
