Each student was allowed to lead the class in an exercise, dragons tail run, Review of Block Routine 1 and Block Routine 2.Finish with Individual Attention to students
Calendar. Reviewed names of nickel, dime, penny. Played coin Bingo. Addition worksheets with blocks. Turned Chia Pet around to see if plants will change direction toward sun-checked three hours later. Reviewed all sight words - introduced 'said'. Played board game 'He said, She said'. Crayon/Water color resist painting.
Today was an unusual day. Henry came to visit, Oliver was 45 minutes late and Quinn went to the doctor from 10:00 to 11:30. The lesson plans went out the window. They played with legos and built a city. We designed a flag for the city and voted for rules. We popped popcorn and counted the pops. Took the leftover popcorn outside for the birds and went for a walk. Spelled words on iPads. Reviewed the sight word 'said' and read phrases with 'said', Built a parking garage with Magnetix and did addition and subtraction problems with toy cars going in and out of the garage. Played the new version of Candy Land,
OLIVER ABSENT Calendar. Reviewed days of week/months. Reviewed geometric figures. Individual work folders. Introduced names of penny, nickel, dime. Played toss the coin into wishing well. Addition equation worksheet. Stephen: introduce letter 's' as initial sound. Blended nonsense words with initial 's'. Anna/Quinn read word lists and the story 'Tag'. Made a list of Chia Pet and butterfly habitat observations. Reviewed 'right/left' with 'Hokey Pokey' and "Looby Loo'. Went for walk and used toy cars on all the ramps we could find - which is steepest - how do we know? Assembled 24 piece puzzles.
calendar - reviewed Earth Day topics - discussed Chimpanzee movie, Discussed the need to take care of other habitants of the planet -introduced 'endangered' and 'extinct'. Time For Kids:Save the Rhino. Time For Kids: Looking for Endangered Ladybugs. Played 'Animal Rights' board game. Had a 'Caretaker of the Planet' initiation ceremony. Math: addition equations. Quiz on equation terms and symbols:plus, minus,equal, not equal. Quinn/Anna/Oliver: initial and final sound of 't' - filling blanks to spell 't' words worksheet. Stephen: Reviewed initial sounds of c, o,g,d,a. worksheets, practiced blending sounds.
