Hello!  Happy First Day of May!  It is hard for me to believe that we are starting our last month of school.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming Up: 

 

Jesus Calling:  We will read Saul and Peter and the Angel.

 

Reading/Handwriting:  We will continue to review letters and sounds and work on reading some sight words. 

 

Math:  Time - Calendar Skills

 

Theme: Farm Animals 

 

See you on Tuesday!  :)

 

 

Hello!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.  Thank you to Rachel Stankus and Brad Scott for a special Easter celebration.  

 

Recap:  

Jesus Calling:  We read Easter Sunday.

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Y y - We read the poems from The Zigzag Zebra and Lizard Lou, played "Thumbs Up/Down," and "What Am I Thinking."  We did a couple of yoga poses and played Yeti in My Spaghetti.  We used a little line and a big line to make a Y into a yak and did our journal page.  For language, we played "Finish the Word" with Ziggy, which focuses on isolating the ending sound.  

 

Math:  Numbers to 30 - I placed number cards 1-20 on the board and gave them 21-29 and they had to place them in the correct order and then we added 30.  Then they worked with a partner to place numbers 1-30 in order.  We also worked on counting to 30 by ones and by tens. 

 

Theme:  We read It's Not Easy Being a Bunny and did a bunny painting.  We read The Tale of Peter Rabbit and did a sequencing activity.  We also used watercolors to paint Easter eggs.  

 

Coming Up:

Jesus Calling: We will read Doubting Thomas and Jesus Goes to Heaven. 

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Z z

 

Math: Time - For the next three weeks, we will be working on time.  First, we will work on time order words, ordinal numbers, and sequencing.  We will then work on telling time and calendar skills.  

 

Theme:  Our Green Earth

 

See you all on Tuesday! :)

Hello!  I hope everyone is having a great weekend. We will celebrate Easter this week, and our party will be on Thursday.  

 

Recap: 

 

Jesus Calling:  We read Good Friday. 

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - X x - Since there are not many words that begin with the /ks/ sound, we also talked about words ending with this sound.  We read the poems from The Zigzag Zebra and Lizard Lou and A Xylophone for X-Ray Fish.  We did Thumbs Up/Down while listening for the /ks/ sound at the end of the word.  To practice writing the X, they each took turns playing Tic Tac Toe with me on the board.  We also used two big lines to make an X into a fox and did a couple of X coloring sheets.  For language, we played "Silly Sentences" with Ziggy.  I would read a sentence with all of the words beginning with the same sound, and they had to tell me the sound.  

 

Math:  Numbers to 30 - We started by estimating different amounts of Hershey's Kisses up to 30.  When counting them, we placed them on tens frames.  We also used our tens' friends/ones' friends to practice making numbers from 10-30.  On Thursday, they played "Musical Numbers" to practice recognizing the numbers 20-30 and did a couple of sheets to practice writing the numbers.  

 

Theme:  Fins and Feathers - We read a nonfiction book and learned some interesting facts about birds.  They practiced hopping in a straight line like birds do on a tree branch.  We also dipped craft feathers into paint and wrote our names. On Thursday, they read Clown Fish and a book about a momma and baby bird and did some dot-to-dot pages.  

 

Coming Up:  

 

Jesus Calling:  We will read Easter Sunday.

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Y y

 

Math:  We will continue working on numbers to 30. 

 

Theme:  Easter 

 

See you all on Tuesday! :)

Hello!  I apologize for posting a little later than usual.  My computer was not cooperating today.  I thought I would try one more time tonight, and it finally worked.  Somehow, I was a day off last week.  We will have Show-and-Tell on Thursday of this week.  

 

 

 

Recap:  

Jesus Calling:  We read Jesus is Arrested and Peter Denies Jesus. 

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - W w - We read poems from The Zigzag Zebra and Lizard Lou and a book titled The Windy Day. To practice the sound, I read a list of words, and they stood up and wiggled if the word I said made the /w/ sound at the beginning of the word.  We also played What Am I Thinking."  We practiced reading the sight word "we."  We also added a verb to the word to make short sentences like, We play. We read books. We sing. We eat lunch.  They each took turns making up a sentence.  We played a game called "Get Out of the Wagon."  I placed three pictures of objects in a wagon, two beginning with the same sound and one that did not.  They had to determine which one did not belong and told it to "get out of the wagon."  To practice forming W w, we traced in the air, used our fingers to make Vs into Ws, and used popsicle sticks.  We used four big lines to make a W into a worm and completed our journal page. 

 

Math:  Subtraction - On Tuesday, we played a game that I called Sharky Subtraction.  I drew several fish on the board and they took turns being Sharky and ate/erased a certain number of fish based on the subtraction sentence that I gave them, and then we counted how many were left.  Then, I gave them some goldfish to practice subtraction sentences.  They counted out a certain amount, and then I gave them a number to take away/eat and counted how many were left.  On Thursday, I drew pictures on the board and they made up subtraction stories to go along with my pictures.  They illustrated subtraction stories of their own and did a subtraction sheet.  

 

Theme: Weather - First, we discussed everything that we already knew about weather.  I read a poem called "Outside," and they listened for all of the weather words.  I read a nonfiction book about weather and seasons.  We demonstrated how the Earth tilts and rotates around the sun to cause the seasons.  We read It's Sunny and It's Rainy.  We discussed words like plop, splash, swish, and squish and that these words are called onomatopoeia words.  We made weather wheels and played "Guess the Weather."  I placed several pictures of different types of weather in a bag.  They took turns picking a picture and describing it for the class to guess. We read Little Cloud by Eric Carle.  We squirted white paint onto blue paper and then folded it to make a cloud picture.  Most of them looked like butterflies or x-rays.  :)  We learned about the water cycle and did a water cycle coloring sheet.  

 

Coming Up:

Jesus Calling:  The next two stories are Good Friday and Easter Sunday, so I am going to save those for next week.  This week, I will read devotions from a book called Jesus Wants All of Me. 

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - X x

 

Math:  Recognizing numbers to 30

 

Theme: Fins and Feathers

 

See you all on Tuesday! :)

 

Hello!  Here is a look at some of what we did last week and the skills we will be working on this week.  

 

 

 

Recap:  

Jesus Calling:  We read Palm Sunday and The Last Supper. 

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Vv - We practiced the sight word "very" and read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  We sequenced the order of food in which the caterpillar ate.  To practice the sound, we played What Am I Thinking and Thumbs Up/Down.  We listened for the /V/ sound at the beginning and end of the word.  We also read our poems from The Zigzag Zebra and Lizard Lou.  We practiced making V v by tracing in the air and making the V with our fingers.  We also used two big lines to make a V into a vase and practiced V in our journal.  

 

Math:  Subtraction - We learned that the symbol for subtraction is a minus sign, and it means to take away.  I showed them examples of subtraction sentences on the board, and we acted out some subtraction situations.  For example, we had six bunnies and two hopped away.  We did this several times with different animals, so they all had a chance to act out a couple of different situations.  We then played a game called "Subtraction Smash."  They each had six balls of Play Doh and a subtraction mat.  We each rolled a number cube and smashed that number of balls and then counted how many were left.  We also took turns working out a subtraction problem on the board and did a subtraction sheet.  

 

Theme:  Spring/Plants - We discussed that we started a new season called spring and talked about all of the signs of spring that we could think of.  We read a poem called Plants and some short little booklets about the parts of a plant and what the parts do.  We also read one about the life cycle of a plant.  We read The Tiny Seed and planted our own tiny sunflower seed.  We used watercolors to paint flowers.  We also made a little booklet called "My Parts of a Plant Booklet," and then they read it to me.  

 

Coming Up:

Jesus Calling:  We will read Jesus is Arrested and Peter Denies Jesus. 

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Ww

 

Math:  Subtraction

 

Theme:  Weather

 

See you all on Tuesday! :)

 

Hello!  I hope everyone enjoyed this beautiful weekend.  Here's a look at what we did in class this week and the skills we will be working on next week.  

 

Recap:  

Jesus Calling:  We read Zacchaeus Meets Jesus and Jesus Loves You.

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Tt - We read Tiger Can't Sleep and the poems from The Zigzag Zebra and Lizard Lou.  We played "Ziggy Takes a Trip," where he only wanted to place objects in his backpack beginning with the /T/ sound.  We also played "What Am I Thinking?" and " Thumbs Up/Down" to practice the sound.  We also practiced reading words in the "at" family.  We used a big line and little line to make a T into a tiger and did our journal page.  

 

Math:  We played a bowling game to practice number bonds that equal 10.  We also read One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and played an addition fishing game.  They took turns catching a red fish and blue fish with a number on it.  We used goldfish counters to add the numbers together.  We learned the names and meanings of "+ and =" and did a sheet where they had to illustrate a number sentence.  

 

Theme:  Dr. Seuss - We read The Cat and the Hat and played "Pin the Hat on the Cat."  We reviewed AB patterns and colored a Dr. Seuss hat in any pattern that they wanted to.  We also read Put Me in the Zoo.  

 

 

Coming Up:

Jesus Calling:  We will read The Widow's Gift and The Glory of Jesus.

 

Reading/Handwriting:  Letter of the Week - Uu

Math:  Addition

Theme: St. Patrick's Day

 

See you on Tuesday! :)