THRILLING THURSDAY 5-23-15

ASK ME ABOUT...
...what I did in Spanish.
...what I did in Music.
...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.
...the mistake in the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

 At Math Magic, children can practice their addition skills.
 First, a child chooses an addition problem.

 Next, the child uses small objects and a ten-frame to do the addition problem concretely.

 Then, the child records his/her answer.

 Lianna fills the hexagon tray with trapezoid shapes.

 Elliott creates a butterfly with playdough.

 Rubina draws the Solar System.

 Margo exercises her spatial reasoning skills, building with the magnetic shapes.

 LIFE CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY~

Today we read the popular Eric Carle story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  The children participated in the telling of the story with props.  Be sure to ask your child about the mistake in this story!

CLASS PHOTO DAY!

CLASS PHOTO DAY

Tomorrow (Thursday) we will have a professional photographer take a photo of our class.  If you would like to order a photo, please send in the envelope (pictured below) with your payment tomorrow.

Children should wear dress code clothing tomorrow.

 

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 4-22-15

ASK ME ABOUT...

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...what I did in P.E.

...what I did in Spanish.

...what letter and sound we discussed.

...what we used to decorate our letter "V".

...what I learned about recycling.

LETTER SOUND~

We discussed the letter sound /V/ today and decorated our letter "V" with Columbus Academy VIKINGS!

 EARTH DAY~

Since today is "Earth Day", we read a story about and discussed recycling.  

EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~

Today was a Technology Day.  We played the game, "Race to 100" on the SMARTBoard.

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 4-21-15

ASK ME ABOUT...

...the Dramatic Play Station being a Butterfly Garden.

...the new "have-to" activities at the Work Stations.

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...where we had Music class today.

...what book Mrs. Arner read to us at the library.

...what book I checked out from the library.

NEW WORK STATIONS~

Today we introduced and started new Work Stations! 

At the Alphabet Station, children will do the "Y" page  for their alphabet memory book.  

 

At the Word Work Station, children choose words from the word wall and then rainbow write them.

 At Math Magic, children create a caterpillar pattern.

 At the Fine Motor Station, children exercise their visual discrimination skills by matching the butterflies.

 At the Creation Station, children use the section of an egg carton and paint it like a caterpillar.

 At Games Galore, children can choose from a variety of games to play.  Gabriel and Spencer have chosen "Blast Off".

 At the Lily Pad, children sort pictures according to how many claps (syllables) are in the word.

 Egg has 1 clap (syllable).

 Sandwich has 2 claps (syllables).

 Butterfly has 3 claps (syllables).

 Another language activity children will do at the Lily Pad is identifying beginning, middle, or ending sounds of words.  

Using the picture of a hat, a child needs to identify which vowel sound is in the middle of the word.

 At the Discovery Station, partners work to put together a puzzle of the life cycle of a butterfly.

DRAMATIC PLAY STATION~

We have transformed our Dramatic Play Station into a Butterfly Garden!  While in the Butterfly Garden, children can use binoculars, nets and bug catchers.  They can also record/draw the observations they make while in the Butterfly Garden. 

 

EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~

Today during Extended Day, we played Pattern Block Sudoku.