Hello all!
Hope everyone has a relaxing weekend lined up!!
We have been so busy this week, so I apologize for not updating the blog as often this week!
I wanted to share with everyone the amazing experience we had today. One of our Dragonflies dads, Brian Gannon brought in for us quite a treat!
He brought in a virtual reality technology that allowed the children to travel around the world and to space in 360 degrees!!
We went to Egypt, The Great barrier Reaf in Australia, the Moon, Everest and more!!
Thank you so much Brian and watch for quite the updates next week with the amount of work we.are going to do :)
Ms. Jordin
Friday, February 17, 2017
Monday, February 13, 2017
It's Monday February 13th!!
Today was a great way to start off the week!
We had free play for the morning. After going through last week, I noticed that the children really missed having their Monday morning free time, and noticing that they are only four... :) they deserve to have some time that is just for their imagination.
After lunch and nap we did the following:
Scholastic Magazine: Today for our scholastic magazine we learned all about our very first president! This was a great opportunity to introduce money in coins and dollar bills. The children completed a worksheet in which they predicted whether facts were true or not about George Washington. For example, was George Washington one of the heads on Mount Rushmore? We then completed our magazine, and then came back to the worksheet and filled in the true answers. The children found it very fun to see if they were right or wrong. They then completed a worksheet where they determined which image did not belong, this was done independently.
Reading: The children really pushed themselves today, reading for 15 minuted independently! I was very proud to see them being so studious and reading using the voice in their heads! We then went on to learn our new sight word for the week: not. We sang our songs and reviewed our other sight words as well. We then did our sight word poke page, which had a large emphasis on our fine motor skills. We then worked on forming the letter Zz. While the children colored in their letter Zz books I walked around reading our third chapter of Jack and Annie: Sunset of the Saber tooth!
Word Study: Our new interactive sight word for the week is down.
We had free play for the morning. After going through last week, I noticed that the children really missed having their Monday morning free time, and noticing that they are only four... :) they deserve to have some time that is just for their imagination.
After lunch and nap we did the following:
Scholastic Magazine: Today for our scholastic magazine we learned all about our very first president! This was a great opportunity to introduce money in coins and dollar bills. The children completed a worksheet in which they predicted whether facts were true or not about George Washington. For example, was George Washington one of the heads on Mount Rushmore? We then completed our magazine, and then came back to the worksheet and filled in the true answers. The children found it very fun to see if they were right or wrong. They then completed a worksheet where they determined which image did not belong, this was done independently.
Reading: The children really pushed themselves today, reading for 15 minuted independently! I was very proud to see them being so studious and reading using the voice in their heads! We then went on to learn our new sight word for the week: not. We sang our songs and reviewed our other sight words as well. We then did our sight word poke page, which had a large emphasis on our fine motor skills. We then worked on forming the letter Zz. While the children colored in their letter Zz books I walked around reading our third chapter of Jack and Annie: Sunset of the Saber tooth!
Word Study: Our new interactive sight word for the week is down.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
It's Wednesday!
Science: We had quite a busy science day today! Our focus was on the sun and the moon. We started by talking about why the sun seems to disappear in the night! We acted out our Earth rotating around the sun. The children were in a lot of shock when they learned that the Sun actually was not the one that moved, WE ARE! We acted out the Earth spinning in a circle and then rotating around the sun. To demonstrate the orange sky in the early morning and early evening, and the blue sky of the day we put water and milk into a clear jar. We then turned out all of the lights, and shone a flashlight throw the jar. When we shined the light on the side of the jar the liquid turned blue, and when we shone it on the bottom the water turned orangish yellow. This showed us that when the sun is farther away from us the sky is lighter, but when it is close to us it creates dark orange colors.
We then talked about the moon. Using oreos (gluten free of course :) ) we made the different phases of the moon pictured below. We then of course ate a few of our oreos, but we had quite a few so we will be bringing the rest home!
Gym: It was a yoga day!
Reading / Literacy: In literacy today, we did more practice with sight word is. We did our sight word maze. Our tracing page helped us to focus on our small motor skills. We worked on taking our time, and training our hand to create the shapes that we found.
Writing: In writing today, we did our interactive alphabet page for letter Cc. On this page we worked on tracing upper and lower case c, as well as writing upper and lower case c. We then colored in an assortment of pictures, that we then cut out and sorted for words starting with c and the words that do not start with c.
Word Study: Our word study focus today, was consonant letter Tt. We are working on deciding which letters are vowels: A, E, I, O, U (the letters that sometimes say their names in words) and consonants. We looked at our picture, and everything in the tub that started with t we put an X on.
Math: In math we learned our song: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star which we learned hand motions to as well. I will be posting a video of that tomorrow. We then made out stars books, where we worked on taking our time counting to 5 using one to one correspondence.
We then talked about the moon. Using oreos (gluten free of course :) ) we made the different phases of the moon pictured below. We then of course ate a few of our oreos, but we had quite a few so we will be bringing the rest home!
Gym: It was a yoga day!
Reading / Literacy: In literacy today, we did more practice with sight word is. We did our sight word maze. Our tracing page helped us to focus on our small motor skills. We worked on taking our time, and training our hand to create the shapes that we found.
Writing: In writing today, we did our interactive alphabet page for letter Cc. On this page we worked on tracing upper and lower case c, as well as writing upper and lower case c. We then colored in an assortment of pictures, that we then cut out and sorted for words starting with c and the words that do not start with c.
Word Study: Our word study focus today, was consonant letter Tt. We are working on deciding which letters are vowels: A, E, I, O, U (the letters that sometimes say their names in words) and consonants. We looked at our picture, and everything in the tub that started with t we put an X on.
Math: In math we learned our song: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star which we learned hand motions to as well. I will be posting a video of that tomorrow. We then made out stars books, where we worked on taking our time counting to 5 using one to one correspondence.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Happy Febraury 7th!
We had a very fun Tuesday!
Reading: In reading today we introduced our new sight word: is. We sang our new song, and learned the letters that we use to spell it. We colored in our letter book (N) while Ms. Jordin read from our new Jack and Annie Book:
We worked on our poke page for sight word is, which helped us on our small motor hand muscles! We then completed our comprehension story titled The Race, where we worked on recalling information from a story read to us. We then worked on tracing letter N, while focusing on starting our writing at the top of the line and working our way down.
Word Study: For word study today, we worked in our interactive notebook, with a word the children enjoyed: funny. We worked on building it, coloring it, and reading it. We also focused very hard today when cutting out our materials on staying on the line, and making our strokes fluid and relaxed.
Writing: We revisited letter Cc in our writing today, and I have to say that I am very pleased with how neat our handwriting has become. Remember, never hesitate to ask to see examples of their handwriting. I keep them here for records, and to see progress over time. However I would always love to share their hard work with you!
Gym: In gym today we did a brand new cosmic kids yoga! The video is below :)
Reading: In reading today we introduced our new sight word: is. We sang our new song, and learned the letters that we use to spell it. We colored in our letter book (N) while Ms. Jordin read from our new Jack and Annie Book:
Word Study: For word study today, we worked in our interactive notebook, with a word the children enjoyed: funny. We worked on building it, coloring it, and reading it. We also focused very hard today when cutting out our materials on staying on the line, and making our strokes fluid and relaxed.
Writing: We revisited letter Cc in our writing today, and I have to say that I am very pleased with how neat our handwriting has become. Remember, never hesitate to ask to see examples of their handwriting. I keep them here for records, and to see progress over time. However I would always love to share their hard work with you!
Gym: In gym today we did a brand new cosmic kids yoga! The video is below :)
We then enjoyed a very fun pizza party today, we watched Charlotte's Web brought in by Abigail. For lunch we had cheese pizza, Jell-O cups with whipped cream from Kendall, blue berries from Abby, cantaloupe from Megan, and juice pouches from Harrison.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
February is here!
Welcome to February! We welcomed in February with many fun activities!
Reading / Literacy: In reading today, we continued to practice reading for 3 minutes independently using the voice inside of our heads. We then worked on syllable counting and matching games with our partners. We sang our sight word songs, reviewing all 14 of our sight words! To then practice our sight word me we completed our sight word maze. While the children worked on illustrating their letter Kk books, I read to them from our sixth Jack and Annie book. In this book we are in the Amazon rain forest in search of the second magical item that will free librarian Morgan La Fey. We found the moonstone first, what will come next?
Word Study: In word study today we worked in our interactive notebooks with interactive sight word for. We worked on tracing the word, writing ourselves, rainbow writing the word: for, and looking at the shape of the letters, talking about their height specifically. This helps us to differentiate between letters that reach up tall and letters that are short.
Writing: In writing today we started the first day of our alphabet cook book. From now on when we introduce a new letter that we are going to work on writing we are going to make a treat that starts with that letter. As we are working on reviewing letter Bb today, we made a Beautiful Butterfly snack. Pictures are below:
The children followed the recipe and then completed it. They really enjoyed getting their hands in the food and taking on the role as Alphabet Chefs!
Gym: In Gym today we worked on finding our center through doing yoga. We love cosmic kids yoga! As we are going to be talking about water and Earth in science in the afternoon, we did the cosmic kids yoga Squish the Fish!
Reading / Literacy: In reading today, we continued to practice reading for 3 minutes independently using the voice inside of our heads. We then worked on syllable counting and matching games with our partners. We sang our sight word songs, reviewing all 14 of our sight words! To then practice our sight word me we completed our sight word maze. While the children worked on illustrating their letter Kk books, I read to them from our sixth Jack and Annie book. In this book we are in the Amazon rain forest in search of the second magical item that will free librarian Morgan La Fey. We found the moonstone first, what will come next?
Word Study: In word study today we worked in our interactive notebooks with interactive sight word for. We worked on tracing the word, writing ourselves, rainbow writing the word: for, and looking at the shape of the letters, talking about their height specifically. This helps us to differentiate between letters that reach up tall and letters that are short.
Writing: In writing today we started the first day of our alphabet cook book. From now on when we introduce a new letter that we are going to work on writing we are going to make a treat that starts with that letter. As we are working on reviewing letter Bb today, we made a Beautiful Butterfly snack. Pictures are below:
The children followed the recipe and then completed it. They really enjoyed getting their hands in the food and taking on the role as Alphabet Chefs!
Gym: In Gym today we worked on finding our center through doing yoga. We love cosmic kids yoga! As we are going to be talking about water and Earth in science in the afternoon, we did the cosmic kids yoga Squish the Fish!
Math: In math today we continued our sheep song, counting one to one up to number 20! The children really enjoy the songs, and they allow for a very creative way for us to learn math. Our worksheet focused today on identifying number three and counting and cutting our three sheep wool bags and gluing them to our truck.
Science: We had a very busy science day today! We talked all about Earth and what makes it up. To help us we made two kinds of visual presentations: one out of paper to hang on the walls in the basement and then one that is edible for eating fun!
The poster was made in layers. The children cut out mountains, hills, valleys, plains, and the ocean and glued them to paper. This project was a really creative way for us to practicing cutting in zig zag lines, curved lines, straight lines and snipping. We then labeled each land form and added a sparkly river and waves to our water.
Our edible representation included the ocean, grass, mountains, hills, fish, and a river! Below are many pictures! (Vanilla Wafer- island, small chocolate chips- hills, large chocolate chips- mountains, light blue- ocean, dark blue- river, green- grass)
Music: In our first music class today, we learned about music notes! We learned that musicians learn to read music by notes. We created our own notes and then created our own song with each one of us adding notes to our songs. Stars were chair hits, squares were table pounds, triangles were snaps, and hearts were claps. Below are videos of our songs that we made. It was A LOT OF FUN!!!
Have a wonderful Wednesday night!
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
Here is what we did today:
Calendar: In calendar today, like everyday, we checked the weather. We came to the conclusion that it was snowy out, as snow covered the ground. We then clapped out the syllables for the word penguin. We came the conclusion that the penguin had 2 syllables in it. In our shape search today we searched for circles. For alphabet matching, we had to match capital E,F,G,H with little, e,f,g,h.
Reading: In reading today, I introduced our new sight word: me. We worked on our sight word poke page, which has a heavy emphasis on fine motor skills as the children are encouraged to make purposeful pokes and keep them tight and neat. We then worked on tracing letter K, as this week letter K is our reading letter. We worked on coloring our letter Kk book, while we focused on our letter Kk words, we also worked on coloring realistically. The children independently read for 3 minutes straight today. By independent I mean sitting with their reading rug with their book bin, reading their books using the voice in their heads. Once their independent reading was done, the children either played their 20 grid game which helped them practice counting to 20, syllable counting, or pattern making.
Word Study: In word study we focused consonant Bb's sound. Our worksheet had a variety of pictures, that we talked about together. For each picture we determined it's starting letter, and if it started with letter Bb we colored it in. I also introduced the idea of a consonant and what our five vowels are: A,E,I,O,U.
Writing: We finished up letter A in our interactive alphabet notebook today. To continue our practice with letter A, we practiced writing capital A and lowercase a. The children then colored a variety of pictures, and we sorted through the ones that start with a and the ones that do not. The pictures that started with A were glued into our notebooks.
Gym: For gym today we got to go outside! Pictures below:
Here is what we did today:
Calendar: In calendar today, like everyday, we checked the weather. We came to the conclusion that it was snowy out, as snow covered the ground. We then clapped out the syllables for the word penguin. We came the conclusion that the penguin had 2 syllables in it. In our shape search today we searched for circles. For alphabet matching, we had to match capital E,F,G,H with little, e,f,g,h.
Reading: In reading today, I introduced our new sight word: me. We worked on our sight word poke page, which has a heavy emphasis on fine motor skills as the children are encouraged to make purposeful pokes and keep them tight and neat. We then worked on tracing letter K, as this week letter K is our reading letter. We worked on coloring our letter Kk book, while we focused on our letter Kk words, we also worked on coloring realistically. The children independently read for 3 minutes straight today. By independent I mean sitting with their reading rug with their book bin, reading their books using the voice in their heads. Once their independent reading was done, the children either played their 20 grid game which helped them practice counting to 20, syllable counting, or pattern making.
Word Study: In word study we focused consonant Bb's sound. Our worksheet had a variety of pictures, that we talked about together. For each picture we determined it's starting letter, and if it started with letter Bb we colored it in. I also introduced the idea of a consonant and what our five vowels are: A,E,I,O,U.
Writing: We finished up letter A in our interactive alphabet notebook today. To continue our practice with letter A, we practiced writing capital A and lowercase a. The children then colored a variety of pictures, and we sorted through the ones that start with a and the ones that do not. The pictures that started with A were glued into our notebooks.
Gym: For gym today we got to go outside! Pictures below:
We even got to have a snowball fight, and Abby managed to peg me right in the face! We all fell in the snow laughing!
Math: We continued to work with the song that we learned about the sheep yesterday to play our math game today. Our objective today was to count one to one up to 10 as well as develop beginning addition and subtraction skills. We played a sheep shearing game (we did talk about what sheering was, and many of the children said "Like when dad cuts his hair?"). Each child had a sheep cut out with ten circles drawn on it. We spun a spinner with numbers up to four and would put that many cotton balls on our sheep. Once our sheep was full, we then began to take the cotton balls off. Whoever filled up and then cleared off their sheep first won! The children had a lot of fun, and it was a really great time for me to see their counting abilities.
Geography Jumpers: Another day in Egypt today! The children completed their selfies! We drew ourselves with the camels of Egypt, on the Nile River, next to a mummy, and us in the desert. I think the selfies are adorable! We then talked more about Africa, and what it means to be a continent.
Spanish: The children started their Spanish curriculum today. This curriculum will help your child to communicate in Spanish. Here are the phrases we learned today. The children made posters to be used for practice at home:
Hola: Hello
Adios: Good Bye
Como estas?: How are you?
Bien: good
mal: bad
Asi Asi: So So
Come te llamas?: What is your name"
Me llamo____: My name is _________
We will continue with basic conversation and greetings on Thursday!
Art: Our art project today was to make Egyptian Headdresses. The children used crayons, sequins, and gold paint to make beautiful headdresses!
Homework: Color by Sight Word due Wednesday February 1st.
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