Calendar-100 chart. Printing 2 - counting cards 1-15. Introduced creating groups of a given number...difficult for both of them. Read ‘Ten Apples Up On Top’. Experimented to see what things are easier to stack than others – Quinn discovered flat surfaces. Tried to carry books on our heads. Practiced stacking groups of a given number of books. Reviewed printing coga and introduced /d/. Individual Work: Listened to story 'A Bad Case of Stripes' and did comprehension worksheet. Printing /d/. Counting worksheet. One-to-one: blending cvc words, identifying 11-15. Introduced Wampanoag Indians. Finished drawing details on our scarecrows. Discussed what it means to be scared –why are birds afraid of scarecrows?
What scares each of us- real and imaginary things?
Lego creations with John Michael. Calendar. 100 chart. Played with Georgia's tortoise- observed how he finds food. Reviewed COGAD sounds. Practiced blending - Introduced printing uppercase /D/. Individual work: practiced printing 2 and D.
One on One: blending sounds to read /CVC/ words with medial /a/ and /o/. JM joined us for lunch and recess and Social Studies. Watched timeline video of Pilgrim voyage to America. Art: traced bodies to begin scarecrows.
calendar, 100 chart. Reviewed sound of /d/. Introduced blending of three letters /CVC/ with medial vowel. Made up nonsense words. Practiced listening to nonsense words and determining first, middle and end letter. Explained that this is called 'spelling' a word. Reviewed printing /2/,
Filled both white boards with twos, Individual work: initial sound worksheet, printing COGA, Counting game cards for 10-14. One-to-one: reading /cvc/ nonsense words, printing two, days of week, months,identifying 10-14. Anna can pick 11 out of a group but has difficulty recalling its name when asked..Quinn still struggling with 7 and 11 . Mixed media free art time -Quinn is still hesitant about doing art on his own but Anna is beginning to apply her ability to create, discussed where the Pilgrims came from and why and how - googled the Mayflower and read about it, hung some Thanksgiving decorations
calendar - 100 chart. Introduced letter /Dd/ sound. Identified words that begin with /d/, Played 'Dachshund' to identify if they heard /d/ at beginning or end of a word. If at the beginning, they put /d/ by the dog's head and by his tail if the /d/ was at the end of the word. Added 'do, od, ad, da, to our list of nonsense words. Practiced blending them. Reviewed how to print '2'. Individual work: Initial /d/ worksheet. Worksheet- cutting pictures and placing them under the object's initial letter of /C<O<G<A<D/. (Their cutting skills are improving a bit), Listening Center: Listening to Mother Goose Rhymes and comprehension worksheet. One-to-one: blending three letters together and printing /2/. Social Studies: Discussed why we celebrate Thanksgiving. Math: 10-14 hopscotch. Tempera painting.
Calendar -introduced November and its holiday and symbols we might use to decorate the room, Sang Months song. Began printing numbers today -1 & 2-two is very difficult for both of them.
Created Princess and Corvette karate incentive sheets. Individual work: month train puzzle, printing /c/o/g/a/, initial and final sound worksheet. one-to-one:blending sounds and printing two. Free time: Anna played Dora number game on Nickjr.com, Quinn did Cars2 on iPad. Drew vein lines on paper feathers and then used them to lay out patterns. Chose a pattern and placed it on the tent for turkey feathers. Researched parts of turkey's head - cap, snood, beak, eye, ear, wattle.
