Stephen absent. Calendar, Printing 1- 5 on primary paper. Anna/Quinn reviewed all sight words, introduced 'of' and 'off'. Sight word worksheet. Oliver blending two letters to form nonsense words, printing initial sound of object, Anna: read SRA booklet - Quinn was too sick to do any work in the afternoon. Math: two-step patterns - used beads, plastic bears. Science - Exploring Matter - observed ducks made from various materials - discussed natural raw material and man-made processed material.
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
