Birds and Bugs! (O, P, Q and 29)

Our theme this week was "Birds and Bugs" and we focused on the number 29, and reviewed the letters O, P and Q.

We read this week: Duck & Goose by Tad Hills
                              Duck, Duck Goose by Tad Hills
                              Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
                              Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems
                              The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems

Our question of the week was "If you were a bird, where would you fly to?"

For our theme of the week, searched the skies for birds and the ground for bugs!.

Hand-print Bumblebees are the perfect way to celebrate bugs (they are my absolute favorite!). I found this project right here! I modified the project so my kids could draw a background and scenery, but cutting them out and putting them around the classroom would be super cute as well.

How about a hand-print bird as well? We used feathers to make them fancy and even gave them a nest out of ripped up lunch bags!

We wrote in our journals about what kind of bug it would be the best to be!

Our song of the week was "The Itsy Bitsy Spider!". 

For our number,  I made these worksheets that reinforce the one to one concept. The kids practice writing the number and have to color a square for each picture that they see.

The class also worked on their writing of the number and the word for 29.

For our letter activities, we reviewed writing and finding the letters that we are talking about; O, P, and Q. These pages came from Letters for Little Learners.

The kids made a really cute book from  Letters for Little Learners. about the things that an Octopus can sit on. My class enjoys working on projects that they can all do together at tables and at their own pace.

The letter of the week books have pages that you can make into a book. I picked from both to get my "favorites". Each week, we work on some of these pages, and each child at the end will have an alphabet book. I like to do these pages, because not only do they get more practice writing the letter, but they also have to finish the sentence on the page, which is really cool. It gets them thinking!

This week the "O" page came from Letter if the Week: Book 2, the "P" page came from Book 2, and the "Q" page came from Book 1.

From the book Alphabet on Parade I got the idea to give my kids "P Riddles" to solve. I gave them a clue like, "What is black and white and lives where it's cold? A penguin!" This was a lot of fun. They even carried on with this during lunch and tried to make riddles for each other to solve.

Also from Alphabet on Parade We talked about different animals and whether they were "Quick or Quiet". It's so fun to see and hear your class/child really thinking through something, and even defending their opinions!

We also worked more on recognizing our review letters in the tongue twisters from Alphabet and Counting. We used this book to turn our letters into fun animals, but on the pages is also a little tongue twister. I printed it large and made a picture, then laminated them with contact paper. Using wet erase markers, we take turns finding the letters that are hidden!

We kept working on our sight words! Every morning we go over around 10 of them. Once we've mastered them, they will go on our sight word wall! So exciting! We're working our way through the 220 Dolch sight word list.

Here is what we have mastered so far! 

Speaking of sight words, from Confessions of a HomeSchooler, I got these great sight word pages. We continued this week with the word "please".

Colors! (L, M, N and 28)

Our theme this week was "Colors" and we focused on the number 28, and reviewed the letters L, M and N.

We read this week: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
                              Roy G. Biv Is Mad At Me Because I Love Pink by Nancy Guettier
                              The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Dewalt
                              LMNO Peas by Keith Baker
                              Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney

Our question of the week was "What color is your house?"

For our theme of the week, we made our own Rainbow fish!

Coloring outside on the sidewalk with chalk was super fun!

We wrote in journals about our favorite colors.

We played "I have, who has?" with colors. I love this game, because it teaches my kids that they have to pay attention to the question being asked. Then they have to make sure that they are answering the question.

Using a the letter clues in the picture's key, we colored a picture of a clown. This came from the Ultimate Skill Builder.

Using some cups, water and food dye, we also experimented with color mixing. I found this idea on Pinterest here, it was so cool to see how excited the kids were about experimenting. We talked about primary and secondary colors, which they haven't had a lot of exposure to.

(al of our pretty colors mixed together. Yuck.

Our song of the week was "Great Big Rainbow". 

(C) Jean Warren www.preschoolexpress.com

For our number,  I made these worksheets that reinforce the one to one concept. The kids practice writing the number and have to color a square for each picture that they see.

The class also worked on their writing of the number and the word for 28.

For our letter activities, we reviewed writing and finding the letters that we are talking about; L, M, and N. These pages came from Letters for Little Learners.

The letter of the week books have pages that you can make into a book. I picked from both to get my "favorites". Each week, we work on some of these pages, and each child at the end will have an alphabet book. I like to do these pages, because not only do they get more practice writing the letter, but they also have to finish the sentence on the page, which is really cool. It gets them thinking!

This week the "L" page came from Book 1, the "M" page came from Book 1, and the "N" page came from Book 2.

We also worked more on recognizing our review letters in the tongue twisters from Alphabet and Counting. We used this book to turn our letters into fun animals, but on the pages is also a little tongue twister. I printed it large and made a picture, then laminated them with contact paper. Using wet erase markers, we take turns finding the letters that are hidden!

We kept working on our sight words! Every morning we go over around 10 of them. Once we've mastered them, they will go on our sight word wall! So exciting! We're working our way through the 220 Dolch sight word list.

Speaking of sight words, from Confessions of a HomeSchooler, I got these great sight word pages. We continued this week with the words "like" and "me".

Our Moms! (I, J, K, hearts and 27)

Our theme this week was "My Mom" and we focused on the number 27, and reviewed the letters I, J and K, and hearts.

We read this week: Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
                              Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? by Eric Carle
                              I Love My Mommy by David Bedford
                              The Night Before Mother's Day by Natasha Wing
                              Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Our question of the week was "Why do you love Mom?"

For our theme of the week, we drew picture of our moms to hang up in our hallway.

We made gifts for our moms. I found these little 3-packs of clay pots at the Dollar Tree. First we decorated them with dot paint, but the clay just soaked it right up! It looked like there was no paint! So I problem solved and sealed the pots with Mod Podge, then we tried again.. so much brighter! We put these beautifully decorated pots together with an envelope of flower seeds and a tied it up with a short little poem I wrote. Voila!

We also wrote in our journals about why we love our Moms.

We hosted a little breakfast tea for our moms too!

To make our classroom a bit more spring like, I cut up the Truffula trees and sent them home. Then we used water color paint on paper plates to make big flowers. Yay!

Our song of the week was "Mommy, Mommy, I Love you". It's such an adaptable song that it can be totally different each day.

(C) Jean Warren www.preschoolexpress.com

We talked about the shape heart and practiced recognizing them. I created this page based on ones that we had done in the past.

For our number,  I made these worksheets that reinforce the one to one concept. The kids practice writing the number and have to color a square for each picture that they see.

The class also worked on their writing of the number and the word for 27.

For our letter activities, we reviewed writing and finding the letters that we are talking about; I, J, and K. These pages came from Letters for Little Learners.

Made a Jelly Bean Journal full of the things that start with J. This project came from Letter of the Week: Book 2

The letter of the week books have pages that you can make into a book. I picked from both to get my "favorites". Each week, we work on some of these pages, and each child at the end will have an alphabet book. I like to do these pages, because not only do they get more practice writing the letter, but they also have to finish the sentence on the page, which is really cool. It gets them thinking!

This week the "I" page came from Book 1, the "J" page came from Book 2, and the "H" page came from Book 2.

We also worked more on recognizing our review letters in the tongue twisters from Alphabet and Counting. We used this book to turn our letters into fun animals, but on the pages is also a little tongue twister. I printed it large and made a picture, then laminated them with contact paper. Using wet erase markers, we take turns finding the letters that are hidden!

We kept working on our sight words! Every morning we go over around 10 of them. Once we've mastered them, they will go on our sight word wall! So exciting! We're working our way through the 220 Dolch sight word list.

Here is what we have mastered so far! 

Speaking of sight words, from Confessions of a HomeSchooler, I got these great sight word pages. We continued this week with the word "in".

Another Happy Birthday in our class! YUM!

And some donuts for teacher appreciation! Thank you!