Analise and Morgan recorded the names of parts of the body for our power point presentation. They recorded all the words together: head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, nose. It was great fun and a great learning time.

Analise began her session discussing Read Across America Week which honors Dr. Seuss' birthday. We looked a several Dr. Seuss books and discussed his job as an author and illustrator. Next, Analise watched a Brainpop Jr. video about the life and accomplishments of Dr. Seuss. In the video, Annie & Moby talked about Dr. Seuss' characters, writing style, and his life in general. Next, we read Green Eggs and Ham. I would save the last rhyming word of the paragraph for Analise to say and she loved being involved in the reading process. She especially liked saying Sam-I-Am's name and "I will not eat them anywhere!" After reading and discussing the story, Analise completed a beginning letter sound activity. She had green egg yolks with lowercase letters written on them and egg whites with pictures. Analise went through the yolks, identified the letter and letter sounds, and then hunted for the matching egg white picture that began with that sound. For example, she would say the name of the letter, b, the sound it makes, "buh," and then locate the picture that began with "buh" like butterfly. She did an outstanding job identifying the beginning letter sounds and locating the pictures. Analise ended the session listening to another Dr. Seuss favorite, Ten Apples Up On Top.

Today we did some work in The Explode The Code, Book A. One of the things she had to do was to identify a picture in a group that was different. Some of them were quite tricky, she got the majority of them correct on her own and was also able to explain to me in detail why it was different! We also did a lesson where I read direction aloud and she had to use the clues to find the correct picture and circle it. She was able to find the correct picture every time before I was finished reading the clues. I reminded her that she should always listen to the entire clue/direction before making her choice! We continued our lesson on classifying and worked on a big puzzle classifying different things. It was very challenging and there were a lot of pieces but she did exceptionally well! The highlight of her day was our outdoor exploring. We visited the school's garden and observed the growth of the plants, then we collected several different leaves of different sizes and shapes. After measuring and placing them in order from smallest to largest we did a leaf rubbing! We also logged onto Brain Pop jr. and did a few reading lessons. Analise had a great day!

Analise had another great day today!! We worked on a FUN project that was filled with lots of lessons! We made an life size Analise! We traced her on a big piece of paper and had fun decorating it but also used it to do math, handwriting, critical thinking, fine motor and language skills! We measured her, she's a big 41in. She was then able to find the number 41 on our number chart without any help! :-) We also measured her hair and she gave her picture a hair cut! (It was really cute and a lot of fun!!) We thought about things we could write on the paper that would tell everyone interesting things about her! She came up with most of the ideas on her own! She cut out different shapes and she labeled them with their colors!
We read a story and she was able to retell and comprehend what we had read!
We used a set of magnetic letters and matched the upper and lowercase letters.
She is doing an awesome job!

Analise did a great job following directions and staying on task today! We started out the day doing our Morning Work; The calendar, weather, ABC's, counting to 100 and counting by 10s! She did really well transitioning from 39-40, 49-50. 59-60 and so on.. If she gets stuck transitioning from 39 to 40, Ill ask her what's the first number she sees in 40, (4)then she is able to get it right away, realizing that it's 40! We also played a game using logical reasoning to sort and classify! We used cards with pictures of four different types of animals. Each animal had a different color and there were baby and adult animals. Together we came up with different ideas to sort them.
We also learned about George Washington and the Cherry Tree. We read a story about it and then played a math game using the cherries on the tree. We identified the symbols (+plus and -minus). She did an amazing job adding and subtracting up to 3!
We worked on letters B,C&D, Upper and lowercase and learned a song to help remember the letter sounds! She completed pages A-D for her alphabet book and they are adorable!
We will also be practicing writing her first and last name in her handwriting book every day!
I am very proud of her for working so hard today!

Analise and I baked Mini Chocolate Cupcakes today. We sifted the dry ingredients together and then mixed in the eggs and melted chocolate. Once it was all mixed together Analise filled the mini cupcake tray and then we baked them. Well the cupcakes were in the oven Analise and I mixed together the frosting. Once the cupcake were finished Analise was very excited to try the finished cupcake. Analise's cupcakes turned out delicious.

Today was Anelise's first piano lesson with me! What a sweet little musician! We worked on left hand vs. right hand. We traced her little hands and numbered the fingers 1 through 5. We played a game to remember the finger numbers. Then we began to play those finger numbers on the piano. Finding "Middle C" on the piano and noticing the patterns of the black keys and the white keys was a primary focus today. We began her first solo today "Au Claire De La Lune", a simple folksong about the moon. We ended our lesson with a teacher-student duet. I accompanied her while I sung finger numbers to her. She mimicked my voice by playing those finger numbers with great success!

Analise and I took turns reading several Clifford books. She read some books to me and I read some to her. When Analise was reading to me, she was making up stories based on the pictures. Her stories were very accurate and also hilarious. After this, we played two rounds of Candy Land. This game was great practice for her counting skills. She won both games!

We started our class with "flower breathing" using stuffed flowers. This is a way to teach young students yoga breathing for calming. We then took out the "Little Yoga" book and did all the poses in the book. I had picture cut-outs of poses on foam board and we also practiced these basic poses: down dog, cat, tree, mountain to volcano, and child's pose. The last 10 minutes of class, Analise showed me her favorite gymnastic movements (cartwheels and roundups), and she did some hula hooping. Analise seemed to really enjoy class today.

Today we had a very full day! We got lots done and Analise did a great job! We started the day with our days of the week song, the calendar (We will do this every morning) we will go over the month, day, day of the week (yesterday, today & tomorrow) and do our weather chart! I got her a pointer and she loves loves loves using it!
Using her pointer she pointed and counted to 100. She needed help transitioning from 29-30, 39-40 & so on.. We also started counting by 10s.
We reviewed the concepts of biggest, smallest, over, under, inside and outside.
We also did a lesson on measuring up to 12in. We measured all different things around the classroom! She had so much fun doing this!
We also started our Alphabet book. We began with letter A. She cut out an apple and glued it onto her page and practiced writing both upper and lowercase A's! We also looked at eye spy pictures and she was able to pick out all of the pictures beginning with the letter A! We ended the day with a shape matching game!