April is National Frog Month…

Did you know April is National Frog Month. In honor of the little amphibians, I decided it would be good to take a moment to learn more about them. Did you know that they are one of the earth’s oldest living creatures.

Before we learned and honored our little amphibian friends, we did some rhyming, and phonics.

    

I taught them “5Little Speckled Frogs.” I had to take pictures of them doing the actions. Especially “yum, yum.” They all smiled big when it was time to sing that.

“5 little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log…”

“eating the most delicious bugs. Yum, Yum”

“one jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool…”

We read a cute little story about Fredrick the Frog. He is a very handsome amphibian who lived in Lily Pad Pond. He liked to to be noticed, so he would fill his throat with air until it looked like a balloon and make the deepest, froggiest croak of all of the male frogs.  We learned that he is a vertebrate because he has a backbone. We learned about the life cycle of a frog, and how they go through many changes called metamorphosis. They start out as an egg, then become a tadpole. At this point they grow legs, and loose the tail. Then they are a Frog. We also learned that Frederick hibernated in Lily Pad Pond for the winter, and will wake in the spring. A sure sign that spring has sprung is when we hear the croaking of the frogs. It was a very cute little story.

Look how cute they all turned out…

    

Then it was upstairs for a treat. Little Miss Emma had snack today, and she brought Capri Sun’s, and a bad full of all sorts of goodies. Everyone really enjoyed them. THANKS Emma.

While they ate, we did our site word flash cards. The current words we are working on are; are, as, but, go, had, here, his, like, my, on, see, she, they, was, we and with. I am so impressed with these 5 kids. They truly make my heart smile. I am so proud of them and there desire to learn. Makes my job so much easier.

TO MY PARENTS: I am sending home the remainder of your flash cards. Please continue to review the words with your kids. I am confident that with your help, they will know over 40 words before preschool is over.

ALSO, if weather permits us to, we will have a field trip to MD Nursery on Thursday. Arbor Day is Friday, so I wanted to explore trees with them. Please dress them appropriately. If the weather is yuck that day, then we will reschedule the field trip.

Alphabet Review, Site Words, and more…

Today I decided that I would do and uppercase/lowercase letter matching activity. What I did was print out all of the uppercase letters on a single paper. Then I cut out all of the lowercase letters and they had to glue the lowercase letters next to the proper uppercase letters. They all did pretty well for the most part. There are some of these “tricky” letters that they struggled with a little bit. Like p,b,q, d or u,n, l,or t. to name a few. So this might be a good activity to do with them, or let them do when they are board at home. If you want me to email you a PDF format of this simple activity, then let me know and I will be glad to {leave a comment, or email me at parkfamily@live.com}.

They all light up when they get it right. Makes me smile from ear to ear!!!

     

Then it was on to site words. We did a review/lesson of the words that we have been practicing; of, play, it, he, you, in, I, to, have, and, a, said, is, the, for and that. For the most part your child knows these words.They may need a little encouragement from time to time, or sounding out words like “that.” I will continue to review these. We will start doing some reading in the next coming weeks using these words. Simple sentences like  “I have a jump rope,” he said, are some examples. This sentence is made up 5 site words. For “jump” and “rope” we will sound these words out.

After all of the learning they were just “starving,” so it was time for another snack! Ham & cheese sandwiches hit the spot.

It really was a great day! Thanks for having such smart little kiddos!