ABC Countdown

This week will be another mixed theme. We will finish out our Spring theme on Monday and Tuesday. Then starting on Wednesday we will start our ABC countdown with the letter A. This theme will continue until the end of the school year. Every day we will focus on a new letter. We will create our own ABC books in both classes. Here are our plans for the week.

Monday:
We will talk more about flowers, plants, and Spring. We will read Fran's Flower. The students will make their own lacers. The students will do some work on matching. There will be no afternoon language lesson.

Tuesday:
We will read the Surprise Garden. We will make umbrellas for Spring. We will also spend some time looking at different seeds you might find in a garden. Both classes will work on numbers 5 and 6. The afternoon class will work on sequencing.

Wednesday:
We will begin the ABC countdown with the letter A. We will make an A page for our Alphabet book. We will also make alligators. The morning class will have a language lesson with Jacki Navarro.

Thursday:
We will work on the letter B. We will do a B page in our ABC book. We will paint pictures using straws. We will do a B project with beans.

Friday:
We will work on the letter C. The students will do a page in their ABC book. Then we will talk about the cactus and their similarities and differences to other plants. Then each child will create their own cactus. Both classes will have gym.

Spring

This week we will be learning about Spring, rain, and flowers. We will continue to observe our caterpillars as they go through their life cycles. Here are the plans for the week.

Monday:
We will read a book about spring. We will talk about rain and clouds. We will make our own clouds. We will also do some work on matching.

Tuesday:
We will learn about sunflowers. We will make our own sunflowers and talk about their seeds. We will also do some activities with numbers 3 and 4.

Wednesday:
We will continue to learn about sunflowers. We will do an activity to measure the student's height and then create sunflowers that are the same height. The morning class will have a language lesson with Jacki Navarro.

Thursday:
We will do an activity to work on the student's tearing and cutting skills. We will use these skills to create a raindrop and a sunflower.

Friday:
We will talk about the different parts that make up flowers and what their purposes are. Both morning and afternoon classes will have gym.

More Butterflies

We are still waiting to receive our caterpillars. Hopefully, we will get them by Tuesday. When the butterflies do arrive we will spend time watching the caterpillars go through their life cycles. For the next two weeks we will have a mixed theme. We will do one more week on butterflies and then transition into a new theme, Spring. We will talk about the season, the weather, rain, flowers, etc. Here are our plans for this week.

Monday:
The students will use watercolors and coffee filters to create their own butterflies. The students and I will discuss whether or not butterflies have any natural enemies. We will also make a shape butterfly. The afternoon class will have a language lesson with Jacki Navarro.

Tuesday:
We will talk about ways that butterflies defend themselves. We will also paint caterpillars and butterflies. We will work on the numbers 0 and 1.

Wednesday:
We will make hand print butterflies. We will talk about the butterfly life cycle again, this time focusing on the Monarch butterfly. The morning class will have a language lesson with Jacki Navarro.

Thursday:
The students will create butterfly magnets. We will work on some patterning and we will play a matching game.

Friday:
We will make butterfly sun catchers. We will also do some sequencing work. Both morning and afternoon classes have gym.

This week we will continue on with our insect theme focusing on caterpillars and butterflies. Our live caterpillars for the classroom should be arriving this Monday. Here are the plans for this week.

Monday:
We will learn about the life cycle and different stages of a butterflies life. The children will make a butterfly life cycle. The afternoon students will have a language lesson with Jacki Navarro.

Tuesday:
We will learn about what caterpillars eat and where they live. We will create caterpillars. The afternoon students will play alphabet bingo to review their letters.

Wednesday:
We will continue to learn about caterpillars. We will spend some time studying our caterpillars if they have arrived. The morning class will have a language lesson with Jacki Navarro.

Thursday:
It will be an inclusion day. Both classes will arrive in the morning to go to Prairieview.

Friday:
We will discuss butterflies and their unique symmetrical wings. The students will make symmetrical butterflies. Both classes will have gym.