Analise made two yogi figures out of Play-doh today: downward facing dog and warrior 3. We then practiced the poses, including warrior 1 and 2, and mountain/volcano. The last part of class was aerobic hooping practice and cartwheels and round-ups. Analise really enjoyed our class today.

Analise and I used the computer to look up interesting facts about Asia,such as, this continent has 4,164,252,000 people in it, the largest population in the world. The highest point on earth, Mt. Everest, is in Asia as is the lowest point, the Dead Sea. We also looked at pictures and videos of various animals that are native to Asia. It was very interesting!

Today Analise made S'mores bites. We made a delicious graham cracker crust and then baked them for 5 minutes. Next we put the milk chocolate and marshmallow in the cups. We then broiled them till the marshmallows were a nice golden brown.

Phonics - write words with long a sound spelled ay, and ai. Complete pattern __ay...use letters s, p, h, and d to make new words...say the word(s) then write a sentence using one of the words.
Writing - finish writing "My Dream World" and will color pictures tomorrow. Next, copy upper case and lower case B letters and write sentence where all words start with B.
Reading - Read "The Marvelous Mud Machine" then Analise read it back to me. Then I asked questions about the story to check for understanding.

Au Claire De La Lune - right hand melody work in this piece today. A rest - a beat of silence. Counting rests is just as important as counting the note values! Keeping track of the steady beat will help us in our counting. Nice work today!

For today's science lesson, we began talking about our five senses. When I asked Analise about senses she was able to tell me taste, smell, & touch. With a little help she recalled sight and hearing. We wrote all of the senses on the dry erase board and we talked about the fun ways we can test our senses when we continue our lesson on Friday. We also went outside and checked on "Sunny" the sunflower. He is growing very well with 2 leaves now. We decided that when he has 4 leaves we will take him out of the greenhouse.

To continue with yesterday's number sense lesson, Analise worked on a fun worksheet called Roll It, Write It, Tally It, Show It. Analise had to roll a die then write the number onto a chart in the corresponding column. She had a lot of fun with this activity. We also practiced her subtraction skills with a worksheet. Analise used little teddy bears as manipulatives. We made up a story for each problem such as 9 teddy bears went to a dance party and 4 teddy bears became thirsty and left to get water. How many teddy bears were left dancing? We came up with many fun scenarios. She is doing very well with her subtraction skills.

Begin study of Asia - largest continent in the world. Go computer lab (razkids.com) and watch video about China...its location, terrain, people's customs, food, etc. Analise enjoyed the colorful pictures that were included.

Analise started making a seasons handprint tree as our craft today. I traced her hand 4 times in 4 different squares on a piece of paper. Her handprint served as her tree. With finger paints Analise chose which colors should go with which season. For Winter she chose white and made little dots of snow with her finger. Next she did Fall and chose yellow, red, orange, and brown. At that time she seemed a little tired, wanted to take a break and go back to her room. She really wanted to draw on her dry erase board so I taught her how to draw a turtle, butterfly and a snail. She thought that was a lot of fun.

Reading - use computer (Razkids) to read a variety of stories that Analise chooses. She now has over 800 stars!
Writing - have Analise work on booklet "My Dream Life". She decides what she would like, if she could do/be anything. Color the pictures...will continue tomorrow. She was excited working on this exercise. Read story from "Horrible Harry and the Ant Farm".
Writing - write upper and lower case B...write sentences using words that start with B.
Phonics -write words with long a sound to complete sentences.