Review…Review…Review…

We only have a few weeks left before school is out {tears…}, So last week I did some assessment of the kids to see what areas they needed that last little push of knowledge in before school is over on the 26th.

One of the things I noticed through my assessment is that most of the kiddos write their whole name in uppercase letters, so today we practiced writing it in lowercase letters. Habits are a little hard to break, so it has been a little challenging for them to change the way they have done it all year, but they are all doing so well with it, and catching on so quickly!

     

After they completed the name worksheet, it was more review…

Online there are so many resources. I combined two worksheets, the first one they could associate the letter A with apple, alligator, and angel. Then they practiced properly writing the letter A in uppercase and lowercase letters. This was done as a final review of the letters A,B,C,D,E,F,and G.

     

For my Parents: Please continue to work with them on the lowercase b, and d. These are a little confusing for some, and they write them backwards.

There was  a lot of busy work for the kids. And so we had to take a few breaks… 1 was snack. Thanks Emma for the wonderful go-gurts. They were the perfect treat.

Another break was for puzzle time…

     

Each student was given 4 letter puzzle pieces. I like this because they had to work together to create something wonderful. After some great teamwork they were able to put the Alphabet Train together. It is over 10feet long. They were very excited and proud of themselves when it was all finished. What an accomplishment.

We also watched a little bit of our site words movie. The kids were acting out what the letters were doing… I thought it was just too cute not to include.

Here they are stirring the magic potion…with the word “his.”

Here they are being little pigs in a mud bath…with the little “on” pig

For my parents: I sent home with your children a registration form for the Summer Preschool Program. It needs returned with the $25.00 registration fee before Sunday May 15, 2011, if you are interested in enrolling them in the summer program. Thanks for all you do!

Arbor Day

First off, we want to Welcome Grace to class today. We are so glad you could join us today!

So since Friday (April 9, 2011) was Arbor Day I had to do something with planting! The weather wasn’t very good, so we couldn’t do our first project outside,  but we improvised and made it work.

I didn’t tell them what they were painting these cups for. Just told them to make them as pretty as fun as they could…

They did just that…

     

All of them so concentrated on the project. Makes me smile looking at those pictures. We had to make the cups first before we did anything else, so they had time to dry before we needed to fill them later that day.

After cups were all decorated, it was on to our morning routine; the months of the year song, days of the week song, and the Pledge of Allegiance. A review of yesterday, tomorrow and today, and of course the date and weather.

Today we also wrote and reviewed some of the site words we have learned. I am so impressed with the way they are learning them. I am so so proud of them all!!!

     

Deegan had snack today, and he brought mini pancakes! They were a HUGE hit with all of the kids. Look at those smiles.

Oh the temptation of blowing bubbles when you have milk and a straw was just tooooooo big…the girls just couldn’t resist. It was a contest to see who could make the biggest bubble mountain!

 

After we were done with snack it was on to celebrating Arbor Day. Generally Each state's Arbor Day celebration date initiates the signing of an Arbor Day proclamation by local officials and Arbor Day activities related to trees and tree planting. Celebrations are held as early as January and February in some southern states and as late as May in more northern locations. National Arbor Day is observed on the last Friday in April. Because we couldn’t plant trees, I decided it would be fun to plan flowers in the cups the kiddos just decorated!

I am happy to report that after about a week, our flowers began to sprout. Makes me smile! The kids loved to play in the dirt!

A few minuets before class was over Bridger & Addisyn wanted to show and tell about the newest member of the family…”Hop.”

These 3 loved him so much.

  

Another wonderful day, with the most wonderful kids in the world! I am one lucky teacher.

Happy Mother’s Day

I know I am a little late posting this…

I had to have my kids do something to honor one of the most important people in their lives…Their Moms!

I had all of the kids draw a 4x6 picture of something they like to do with their moms. Then while they were doing that, one child at a time got to make some flowers for their mom. These were rice crispy flowers dipped in white chocolate and decorated!

Look at the concentration on their little faces…isn’t it just so adorable.

See how cute the ended up…

    

I also did a fun little Mother’s Day survey. I won’t announce the answers they gave, but here are the questions we asked. It was so much fun, and I got a little chuckle out of some of the answers they gave.

• My Mom likes to go to:
• The funniest thing I ever saw my mom do was:
• I like it when my mom:
• My Mom’s favorite food is:
• If I could give my mommy anything, it would be:
• I think my Mom would like to go:
• The thing I hear my Mom say the most is:
• When my mom wakes up she:
• I Love my Mommy because she:

After we had our Mother’s Day Gifts done, it was time to do a little worksheet. We did another review of our numbers. They can count very well to 20, but for some of the kids they were writing the numbers backwards. So our main focus was to write them properly.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our Moms! I hope your day was filled with lots of love.