Teddy began a Mother’s Day project today: constructing a jewelry box. He watched an origami tutorial to fold a base structure using green paper. We attempted to cover it with blue clay, but when supplies ran short, we rolled multiple colors into thin coils, sliced them into discs, and pressed them onto the box’s surface to simulate paint strokes. He ended class with five minutes of free time playing Poki games.
Introduce the Wiggle Bot kit and electronic concepts
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Teddy was very interested in the Wiggle Bots kit. He enjoyed creating his bot named Bob! Teddy explored weight and balance with his wiggle bot as he created different designs and ways to make the Bob wiggle and move.
Interactive Calendar Vocabulary Calendar Talk Calendar Writing Phonics Daily Sentence Puzzle Mother’s Day Gift
Lesson Outline
Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, finished his calendar talk and calendar writing, put together his daily sentence puzzle, worked on his phonics activities, and made his Mother’s Day gift.
Letter recognition, word decoding, sight words, reading, writing
Lesson Outline
Build words with the digraphs. Practice making words as I say the sounds and then decoding the words. Select a book from the library and read it together, sounding out words and pointing out sight words. Write the word families down to practice letter formation and word spacing.
Prepare a classic strawberry shortcake topped with whipped cream
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Teddy has been asking to make strawberry shortcake for a while now, so he was very excited to finally get his chance! He did an excellent job preparing the shortbread for the oven and chopping the strawberries, and very much enjoyed the end result! He excitedly packed up the remaining shortbread and strawberries to bring home and share with his family.
Teddy used the map of The Batt School to navigate himself around to the different locations in the school. He observed the symbols on the map and their real life location in the school. We also read the book "A Book About Overdoing It" which discusses how we overdo it (eating too much, watching too much TV, etc.) and how to moderate our behavior.
Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, finished his calendar talk and calendar writing, worked on his phonics activities, put together his daily sentence puzzle, and read and discussed his Scholastic News Magazine about jellyfish.
