I substituted for miss Chrystal (?) and played an alphabet matching game with Analise. We also visted with the tortoise for a few minutes.

Analise and I made our letter sheets for the letters T and S today! We made a slithering snake for S and Tony the toad for T. Afterward, we walked around the school and searched for words that start with the letters T or S. We found a lot! Then, we used the abcya.com website to do a little reading. We read about Lily the Wild Cat and then read Henry and the Sugarbugs. While we read the story about Henry, we stopped on each page and identified all the T's and S's in the sentences! Finally, we finished the morning with a little math. On the abcya.com website, we played Marble Math up to level 4. We used our fingers to help visualize the addition at first, but after level 2, the numbers were too large to use our fingers (9+4, 16+1, etc), so we used buttons to add the groups. Analise did a great job!

Today we worked on letter Qq. She created a queen for the alphabet book! We sang our phonics song and she knows all of the letter sounds up to Qq! =-) She is so proud of herself! We played a math bingo game on the computer that was timed and she did a great job! We also did a lesson on how to use the mouse and where the letters A N A L I S E are on the keyboard!

Today we worked on letter Nn. Analise created an adorable nest for our alphabet book. She completed a few pages from her Explode the Code book. She had to pick out and circle an object that began with letter Nn. We also worked on matching upper and lowercase letters up to Nn. She loves doing this because she gets to write on the white board and draw pictures that go along with that letter.
We also played math games adding up to 20. She is doing a great job! We also played our Shopping Game using pennies and nickles.
We did a group science experiment today. We made Flubber! She got to measure, mix, and observe the change from a liquid to a solid!

Analise worked very hard today, I am so proud of her!! Today we worked on letters Ll and Mm. She created pages for our alphabet book and we did a bunch of activities focusing on Ll and Mm. We walked all around the school and found objects beginning with those letters, we made a Lion and a picture of her Mom! We also wrote a story using all of the L and M objects we found around the school. It was a fun activity!
We also did a lesson on things that go together. She had to match objects from two different piles. She did a great job!
And for math we started a lesson on money. We are learning the names and values of different coins. I set up a little store and she got to go shopping and used her coins to buy things. She had a lot of fun with this. We will continue to work on money for the next week.
Today was our Pie Day Celebration in honor of 3.14.15
We spent the afternoon working on different large group activities. It was a great way to end a Friday!

Analise began her session playing a cooperative game called Letter Dogs. In this game, children take turns picking cards and matching uppercase letters on cards to lowercase letters on dog collars. Letter Dogs supports the print concepts standard of recognizing all upper- and lowercase letters. Analise did a wonderful job playing this game, identifying both upper and lowercase letter, and practicing letter sounds. She loved talking about her dogs and looking for their breeds on the game board. Next, we read a non-fiction book about penguins. Analise did a picture walk before reading and read the text as she thought it should be. Next, I read the book to her and we discussed the information on penguins at length.

Today we worked on Analise's tiered skirt. We started by using the ruffler foot to ruffle her stripes for her skirt. Next we began attaching them together. Her skirt is coming along nicely.

flower breathing, warm-ups, warriors, down dog and cat poses. Analise remembered all our yoga poses and movements from previous weeks. I introduced the warrior poses today, warrior 1, 2 and 3. She did a super excellent job following instructions and got into the poses beautifully. Analise also hooped today with the adult hoop and did an amazing job! Super class today!

Today there was a pie event following lunch that Analise really wanted to participate in so she joined the others and had a celebration!

Today we worked on the letters Jj and Kk. She has so much fun creating pages for our alphabet book! We read a story from the big story board and she circled all of the letters Jj and Kk and all pictures beginning with letters Jj and Kk. She loved doing this!