May 20th

We started off with our Hello song and the Pledge of Allegiance. Then we did the calendar. Talked about weather a little bit. Then we talked about the TH sounds some more and thought of more words to write on the big TH poster. I gave them a packet to complete. It was mainly about Vowels. We had talked about them on Monday and I was surprized at how well they remembered the letters. They worked on the short sounds of A, E, I , and O. The last page was assigned as homework. Then we looked at the egg. It was awesome! The kids held it in their hands. The egg shell was completely gone. It was all rubbery. We wanted to see how far this rubbery surface went, so I asked Darius to break it. So he put it on the ground and stomped on it. It squirted everywhere! So it was a very thin "cooked" part. The science/cooking part of preschool was to learn about solar cooking. We got a bowl, covered it with Aluminum foil and put marshmallows in it. While they were cooking, Lorien and Darius wrote the steps of solar cooking down on paper. Their handwritting has certainly improved since the beginning. For snack time we got our food out. (Lorien shared with Darius since his mom was with Cyrus.) They got 1/2 an apple each, one cheese stick. We talked about fractions. I instructed them to cut the cheese in half. Then in 4ths, then in 8ths and then in 16ths. They had a lot of fun cutting. I think Darius even cut his in to 32nds. I helped them cut their apples into 4ths and then 8ths.