11-3-08
9:35am, Opening Circle: We sang our opening circle song "Good Morning". Said the Pledge of Allegiance. Figured out the date. Went over letter of the week, J, word of the day, Journey, Spanish word of the day, Jugetes (which means toys). We also found a lot of J words to write on the J poster.
9:50am, History: We also talked about the first President of the United States, George Washington. Then we talked about the Election that would happen the next day. Darius was very quick to let us know that Barak Obama and John McCain were the candidates. They both had heard a lot about Prop 8 and were hoping it would pass as well, since their Mommies and Daddies had been talking so much about it.
10:05am, Reading and Writing: Since it had been raining so much we decided to stay inside and do our coloring on the kitchen table. They drew their letter J's and colored their pictures. Then I gave them the following words to read and write: Jab, Jam, Jar, Jay, Jazz, Jeep. Darius did very well reading his words. Lorien spent a little more time trying to get the right sounds. Lorien wrote her words very neatly.
10:30am, Free Craft: They didn't want to do any of the other crafting things I had out, so I had them do the project I prepared for them. They made a rainy day picture.
They sprinkled water on their papers to be the rain. They were supposed to outline the drops with ink, but the ink just kept running into the water. It looked really cool! They used fabric and sticks to make their own special scene. Darius made a garden with flowers (the stems were popcicle sticks) and sparkly green grass and gold grass. Lorien made grass and a bridge made out of popcicle sticks. They had so much fun.
11:00am, Science: Since there were so many clouds in the sky we classified the clouds. I told them about all 4 types. They they drew pictures of them. Cirrus were feathery, and the highest clouds. Cumulus were the big puffy white cotton ball clouds. Stratus are just flat wide drizzly clouds, and Nimbus were the very dark grey rain clouds! We saw three of the 4 cloud types. It was great to see them draw what they saw.
11:10am, Reading: Just Another Morning by Linda Ashman illustrated by Claudio Munoz, and An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Aston illustrated by Julie Maren.
11:30am, Snack Time: Wash hands, eat, free play time.
12:00pm, Closing Circle: We did as many things as we could that started with J.
We jumped, jogged, went on a journey, found junk (in our lunch boxes!), played with a jump rope, and last of all made jingle bell braclets and sang jingle bells. We also sang Jack and Jill. Darius was Jack and Lorien was Jill. They ran around the room while I sang. I kept telling them to try to sing, but they were having too much fun! I reminded them to bring something that started with J for show and tell on Wednesday.
9:35am, Opening Circle: We sang our opening circle song "Good Morning". Said the Pledge of Allegiance. Figured out the date. Went over letter of the week, J, word of the day, Journey, Spanish word of the day, Jugetes (which means toys). We also found a lot of J words to write on the J poster.
9:50am, History: We also talked about the first President of the United States, George Washington. Then we talked about the Election that would happen the next day. Darius was very quick to let us know that Barak Obama and John McCain were the candidates. They both had heard a lot about Prop 8 and were hoping it would pass as well, since their Mommies and Daddies had been talking so much about it.
10:05am, Reading and Writing: Since it had been raining so much we decided to stay inside and do our coloring on the kitchen table. They drew their letter J's and colored their pictures. Then I gave them the following words to read and write: Jab, Jam, Jar, Jay, Jazz, Jeep. Darius did very well reading his words. Lorien spent a little more time trying to get the right sounds. Lorien wrote her words very neatly.
10:30am, Free Craft: They didn't want to do any of the other crafting things I had out, so I had them do the project I prepared for them. They made a rainy day picture.
They sprinkled water on their papers to be the rain. They were supposed to outline the drops with ink, but the ink just kept running into the water. It looked really cool! They used fabric and sticks to make their own special scene. Darius made a garden with flowers (the stems were popcicle sticks) and sparkly green grass and gold grass. Lorien made grass and a bridge made out of popcicle sticks. They had so much fun.11:00am, Science: Since there were so many clouds in the sky we classified the clouds. I told them about all 4 types. They they drew pictures of them. Cirrus were feathery, and the highest clouds. Cumulus were the big puffy white cotton ball clouds. Stratus are just flat wide drizzly clouds, and Nimbus were the very dark grey rain clouds! We saw three of the 4 cloud types. It was great to see them draw what they saw.
11:10am, Reading: Just Another Morning by Linda Ashman illustrated by Claudio Munoz, and An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Aston illustrated by Julie Maren.
11:30am, Snack Time: Wash hands, eat, free play time.
12:00pm, Closing Circle: We did as many things as we could that started with J.
We jumped, jogged, went on a journey, found junk (in our lunch boxes!), played with a jump rope, and last of all made jingle bell braclets and sang jingle bells. We also sang Jack and Jill. Darius was Jack and Lorien was Jill. They ran around the room while I sang. I kept telling them to try to sing, but they were having too much fun! I reminded them to bring something that started with J for show and tell on Wednesday.
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They are so cute!
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