Calendar, 100 chart, President's Day - discussed the meaning of 'president'. Looked at picture of current president and read Time for Kids article about his family. Looked at Time article about G. Washington's life over 200 yrs. ago - why is he on a horse and not a car? Why do you think Mount Vernon is a museum now? Reviewed Martin Luther King - Quinn remembered everything.
Discussed the way African Americans were owned as slaves during Lincoln's Life. Read them the book 'Honest Abe'. Drew a timeline from Washington to Lincoln to Obama. Discussed the way their lives were the same and different. Anna/Quinn - medial and final sound review. Gwen- review of medial 'a' and 'e'. Stephen - Initial sound worksheet. Oliver: alphabet review - recognizes most letters and knows many sounds - has bad habit of adding a vowel sound after a consonant - for example 'l' is 'lu'. Quiet book time - books on the presidents and early reader books - Anna/Gwen read a Wright book to me, Quinn read Hooked on Phonics, Stephen and Oliver played with Starfall.com. Fun Friday Free Time: Candy Land, racetrack building, dress-ups. Spent 20 minutes on the playground with Ashley.
Today the students learned vocabulary for clothing. We talked about taking an imaginary trip and packing our suitcases. We colored our suitcases and got ready to go. The new student, Oliver added a new dynamic to the class. He had difficulty making the transitions in the class as well as not screaming. We will be working on this unit for 6 weeks.
Calendar/100 chart. Sang Valentine songs. Quinn/Anna printing number 2. Stephen printing uppercase ‘C’. Gwen – printing name with upper and lowercase on lined paper. Shihan came in and showed them a 30 minute video. Gwen-three SRA Level A workbook pages on her own. Read first story in Level I - – some difficulty because she wants to guess instead of decoding. Reviewed medial sounds of ‘a’ ‘e’ and ‘i’ and played a,e,i hopscotch. Then reread word list from story and she showed improvement. Quinn/Anna – initial, medial, final sound worksheet. Anna phrase worksheet. Quinn- word and phrase flash cards. Stephen – Leapfrog initial sound letters and letter ‘c’ and ‘o’ worksheet. Played parachute games and did yoga stretches with them in dojo. Jenny was out so we played Spanish Bingo with colors, numbers, and animals. Read the book ‘Perfect Valentine’ – comprehension worksheet 100%
calendar 100 chart. Found a caterpillar on the floor. Observed it - made a list of 'seeing' observations. Went for walk and collected leaves and grasses to discover what it eats. Reviewed senses. Worked with sense of 'touch'. Gwendolyn:SRA Level B word list, read story 'Kim Gets a Wig'
She still guesses a lot instead of using her decoding skills - needs a lot of review work with medial vowels,worksheet Stephen/Anna/Quinn reviewed Ll, initial sound worksheet. Quinn/Anna read sentence strips. Stephen-starfall.com
calendar - 100 chart - 100th day of school is next week! Reviewed senses - observed objects they brought in their bags. Made a list of what we saw - looked at objects in dark room - could we see the same characteristics of each? What was harder to see? dark colors and small details. Gwen - three SRA Level 1 worksheets -100% on two and 90% on one. Created given addition problems with plastic links. Quinn/Anna/Gwen - counting plastic links 20-30 and identifying written number. Introduced letter Ll initial sound.
Calendar, month song, Valentine songs, decorated valentine cookies, Queen of Heart seek and find worksheet, heart counting worksheet- Gwen heart addition worksheet, Read them "The Mystery of the Stolen Heart'. Valentine Party.
Calendar - 100 chart - Sang our Valentine songs- Discussed meaning of chemical reaction - measured and mixed ingredients for sugar cookie dough - baked one cookie- tasted it -is it good? Yes!. Added some baking soda to the cookie dough - baked one cookie-what is different? It is fatter - why? Does it taste good? Yes!. Cut out heart cookies and baked them. Read "Who Loves You?" Counted hearts buy 1, 55'5, and 10''s. Gwen wrote the addition problem for each. Gwendolyn - 'it','in','ig' word families -worksheet - 90% . Read the 'The Pig Can Dig' and 'The Pig is It'. Quinn/Anna- word flash cards, printing 1 and 2 review and introduced 3. reading word worksheet - 80%. Anna read wright book. Stephen - printing 'c' and 'o' and initial sound Leapfrog, initial sound worksheet - 95%. Reviewed five senses and worked with 'seeing' today.
