Digging for Dinos

Circle Time:
We always review letters, shapes & numbers in circle time, but today we started working on a HIGH FREQUENCY word list. These are words that are common in the English vocabulary, but are difficult to sound out. Memorizing these can be VERY useful as a child begins to learn to read. We will be working on reading some of these words throughout the next few months. 

Dinosaur Races:

Delicious Snack:

Digging for Dinosaur Bones:

 Dinosaur Song with Instruments:

 Making Dinosaur Eggs with Dough:

 Journal: We drew our favorite Dinosaur

D is for Dinosaur

Our theme this week is DINOSAURS!
Gathering: Table Activities, including books, puzzles & rubber band design boards...

We had a lot of fun, making our very own Dino Visors...

For Outdoor Play today, we played Duck, Duck...Dinosaur!:)

We had fun drawing DINOSAURS on the sidewalk with Chalk...

We played a fun listening game, which included passing the dinosaur around in the circle & STOPPING on cue.

For Reading today, I read, "Oh say can you say Dinosaur?" out loud


We colored a picture of a DOG, practicing to stay inside the lines & then practiced writing letter Dd's...

Treasure box goodies for those with 4 stickers!

We watched Dinosaur Train after reading our book and tried to pick out the different dinos!

We sang a FUN song in Music Time, called
"Oh, Dinosaurs!"

Dinosaur - sung to "Oh, Christmas Tree"

Oh, Dinosaurs
Oh, Dinosaurs
How big you are to me.
Oh, Dinosaurs
Oh, Dinosaurs
What a wonder you are to me.
So heavy,
So tall
As you lived long ago.
Oh, Dinosaurs
Oh, Dinosaurs
How wonderful you are to me.

C c

Gathering:
Activities at Tables

Music: 

a couple of "monkeys" jumping on the bed!

Arts & Crafts:

Making their own "Red Light, Green Light" so they can play at home!

Colored Popsicles during Outdoor Play!

Choosing a Coloring Page to Water Color...

 Watercoloring!

 

Coloring on the sidewalk with Chalk...

 We had a great day focusing on Colors! 

Each child got to take home Color Cards(thank you Home Depot!) to practice their colors.

We also played a SPEED game, where I would say a COLOR and they would find it as fast as they could and hold it in the air. They loved making a game out of it!

At Home Activity: 

point out things that start with C...make sure they aren't all the "k" sound, like CAT...include the words that have the "s" sound, like CIRCUS!

C is for COLORS!

Handwriting & Coloring: 

They added 5 Cookies to their cookie plate & practiced writing C's on the bottom of their paper.

Music Time: 

The Wheels on the Bus

Physical Fitness:

Red Light Green Light

We learned a new song today, sung to the tune,
"Do you know the muffin man?"

"Do you know my friend _______?

my friend_________. 

my friend___________.

Do you know my friend ____________?

He/She is wearing__(color)___ today!"

The kids LOVE to shout out the COLOR they are wearing in the last line!

B is for BEACH

Circle Time:
Daily we do CALENDAR, WEATHER, SHAPES & NUMBERS & then we also talked about all of the different things you see at the BEACH!

Then we went outside to make our very own beaches...

Outdoor Activity: 

Duck Duck Goose with a BEACH BALL!

BALLOON races...

If your kids came home tired, now you know WHY :)

We had several physical fitness activities today!

Music Time was a little different today!

We played MUSICAL CHAIRS...and there was one piece of candy hiding under a chair each round, so the kids were VERY EXCITED to find the "right" chair to sit in when the music stopped.

 Show & Tell: 

Free Play: B for Blocks

We laid out a blanket for story time today & read to "B" books...

At Home Activity Idea: 

Set a timer and have your child go around the house finding things that start with the letter B & see how many items they can bring you in a set amount of time! Talk about each item & whether or not they actually start with the letter B. If they brought back an item that does not start with B, tell them what letter it starts with & the sound that it makes!

B is for Bumblebee

Gathering: Puzzles

Circle Time: 

Weather, Calendar, Numbers, Shapes, Letters

& we practiced TRACING the letter B on the whiteboard...

Then they practiced writing the letter B in their journals & drew a picture of something that started with the letter B! 

Music Time:

Singing with Bells!

Coloring & Handwriting Worksheet:

Bubbles, Bubbles, everywhere!

Physical Fitness: 

We played Baseball!

Today everyone got their 4th sticker & got to pick out of the treasure box!

Closing Activity:
Follow the Leader

At Home Activity Idea:

Finish the worksheet with your child, if he/she did not finish writing B's or coloring their Bumblebee picture in class