Learn about Chinese New Year that was celebrated yesterday.

MAP Testing

Libby and I practiced butterfly, table, reverse table, cow and cat, plow, head roll and shoulder roll.

We played some rhythms on some of the different percussion instruments, and we sang some songs while playing the ukelele.

Libby continued to work on the unit assessment on understanding addition. Questions included how to show numbers in different ways, represent addition as adding to or putting together, write equations to show addition, and find the sum of two numbers. Then, within 2 minutes she completed 10 addition within 5 problems and we finished with a game on number recognition.

Prepare pan seared lamb chops basted with garlic butter and rice.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed calendar talk, read and discussed her new vocabulary words, and she discussed how plants, animals and people change their environment.

Session 1: Play letter bingo to reinforce letter recognition and sounds. Review sight words in sight word book.

Session 2: MAP Testing

Today, Libby and Teddy started with a run on the perimeter of the field.
We then played a variety of different tag games .
We finished with a complete cool down.

I began with a one-minute phonological awareness exercise (Level D1 #1, delete one syllable from a two-syllable word). Phonological awareness is the ability to hearing and manipulate sounds within a word and is highly predictive of reading and spelling success. Next, we worked on alphabetic awareness. With help, Libby sequenced the alphabet and identified the vowels and consonants. I introduced the definition of a syllable (a word or a part of a word with one vowel sound). I conducted visual, auditory and blending drills with all 26 letters. We played a game of Phonics Dice to reinforced Libby's identification of the sounds of the letters. To conclude, I read a Mo Willem's book, "Today I Will Fly."