Pond Life

This week we talked about Pond Life critters like frogs, turtles, ducks, geese, insects, crayfish/crawdads, and fish.  We even got to see a few real crayfish, fish, and tadpoles in jars!  We also started practicing some of our graduation songs, so we're starting to feel pretty grown up as we prepare for the end of the year. :)  We also enjoyed some great time outside with a little extra playtime in the sunshine this week.  We had to make the most of it while it lasted!!  Hope you enjoy the pics and the videos of our fun-filled week!

Letter X by ABC Mouse Song

Alphabet Sound Song - "Alphardy"

Letter X Song by Storybots

 

 Getting our day started with table top centers

Practicing our alphabet sounds by singing our daily song in our reading folders

 

We point and read the letter and say the sound after..."the B says buh"...

 We worked in independent groups to find the patterns and then cut and glued the missing pictures from the patterns.  I was so proud of how well they did this on their own without teacher help!

They turned out great!  Well done kiddos!

 We also worked on our cutting skills by cutting on various lines.  We're definitely making some progress!

We colored our frogs based on the color that the sentence said below each frog.

 

 We worked on counting our teen numbers by using a ten frame to create the number of marks to show the number.

 

We cut apart our frog puzzles with 11-20 and then we glued it back together in the right order.  We still have a lot of kiddos who struggle to recognize the teen numbers and struggle to get them in the right order, so keep working on this at home whenever possible.

We had our feet painted yellow to make little ducks.

 We also used ribbons to create a little "X" on our ducks too.  Can you find it?

Look for our little duck feet at the end of the hallway on display!

 We made cards for some of our friends at Slate Run who are getting ready to take ISTEP Testing.  We wrote, "You can do it!"  Then, we drew some pictures and added some stickers. 

We also cut out pictures of a frog jumping through a hoop, but we had to sequence the events according to what happen 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th in the order of events.  They did pretty well with this concept. :)

Our Ten Frame Show and Tell

 We had 4 X-Rays.

 We had 2 X-Men.

 

 We had 1 foX.

 We had 1 mailboX.

 We had 1 eXpress book.

 We had 1 piece of waX.

 

 We had 1 magnetic letter X and a taXi.

We had 1 xerox copy of a hand.

Playtime with our friends inside the classroom

Playtime with friends outside :) 

So thankful for some sunshine this week!

 We took a look at some crayfish, tadpoles, and fish in the jar.

 This little guy was our Student of the Week and shared all kind of goodies in the red basket.

 

 We practiced our graduation songs.

We're getting excited about upcoming graduation with our friends on Wednesday, May 9th!