March 26th, 2009

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast, drew pictures of ourselves and robots on whiteboards, created Mat Man with our Handwriting Without Tears sticks, and counted to different amounts with airplanes! Ms. Miller brought in some really cool Monsters vs. Aliens cards and the backs of the cards can be put together like a puzzle to form the movie's poster! Each of us put the puzzle together and then we created a card trading game and took turns trading cards! During circle time, we decided that it was really cloudy outside, and we put the big white cloud and the dark grey cloud over our classroom tree. During calendar time, we counted to the number 26 and read our pattern to find out that today's number should be green. Instead of having a question of the day today, we each got an egg shaker, and when I called a student's name, I asked them to put the egg under, on top of, behind, to the side of, below or above the green chair. If the rest of the class agreed that we placed the egg in the correct spot, they gave us a thumbs up! Then we sang and danced to "Ride That Pony," and shook our egg shaker to go along with our moves. For story time, we read the story, "Who Has More?" with Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and Little Miss Muppet. During centers, Ms. McGuire came in for speech, and we played in the big blocks center and hid our egg shakers in the towers we built. We had a lot of fun building a tower around the eggs! We also painted a huge egg with glue paint! We went to lunch with Pre-K and went outside on the playground with them. This afternoon, we will go over to the Pre-K classroom to put different sized pigs in order from smallest to largest, and make eggs with our fingerprints to count and add!
Have a great night!
Lauren Avots