Oceans and Ponds, Planting in the Garden, Making Books, Choice Time, and Outside Time!

• For the past two weeks we've been reading books about Oceans, Ponds, and Aquatic Life.

• At Large Group: 
• We retold stories like "Commotion in the Ocean" using props and masks. 

• We worked on clapping out syllables of words and counting the sounds. 
• We sang rhyming songs like “Down By The Bay” and learned new finger plays. 

• We used pictures of things from ocean and pond habitats and a Venn diagram to see what is different and what is the same with oceans & ponds. 

• We used our exercise cards to get our wiggles out and help our minds get ready for the day.

• We studied the Letter Z, also. 

 

 

• We enjoyed several videos of animals in aquariums. We watched a dolphin show, a whale show, and a video of the Ocean Voyager Exhibit at the Atlanta Aquarium (where I went over spring break).  

• At Small Group: 
• We used buttons of varying shapes and colors to sort, classify, and pattern. 
• We used our name folders to practice writing our names, shapes, and letters. 
• After reading each nursery rhyme, we illustrated a picture for it in our Mother Goose mini books. 

• We painted and decorated mini bird houses. 

 

• We did small group outside twice this week. We spent time digging in our planter boxes. We took out roots, checked out all the bugs, and planted and watered our plants. 

• We wrote books! The kiddos have really been into writing stories lately. We have a bunch of pre-stapled blank pages in the writing and art areas for them to use. After writing a story, they love to read them to their friends. 
•  At Choice Time: 

Reading the Lorax - One of our favorites. It never ceases to surprise me that they will sit through the whole thing over and over again.

 

• We took a trip down the hallway to check on our plants. They are growing quite tall and are almost ready to plant.
• We went outside for choice time twice this week. We got some more new things to do outside: stilts (buckets & ropes), scooters, gardening tools, jumping/balancing pods, and more balls. 

Bubble Painting!

 

• At Quiet Time: 
• During quiet time this week each child had the opportunity to read me a story using the pictures. They chose from several familiar stories: