Monday Was Fun

Another jam-packed day on Monday. This post is a day late ...

On Monday we celebrated the letter W with a Big Event involving whales. The kids were asked to Wash the Whale With a Washlcloth then Wave a Wand and make a Wish. They had fun ... as silly as it was.

We read the book, Snowmen At Night. They really enjoyed this story. Some mentioned they had it at home or had gotten it at the library.

Mrs. E. conducted a science lesson using magnets. This was really fun. Involved a lot of stuff we need to be working on ... like writing numbers. She reminded them how magnets work. Then the kids each got a magnet (all were different shapes and sizes) and a pencil and a sheet to record their findings. When invited, they took their magnet to the rug and collected as many paperclips as their magnet would hold. They then counted and wrote that number on their record sheet. Finally, they drew a picture of their magnet. They really seemed to have fun with this. After it was said and done, each child reported on their findings! They did a super job reporting.

We also worked on beginning sounds with a Winter Wear book. The kids were to look at the pictures (we reviewed together on the rug) independently then write the letter for the beginning sound on the page to name the object on the page. We mentioned at conferences that this was a "next steps" so we weren't too concerned but some got it and other had difficulty. No worries though ... we have lots more planned where beginning sounds are concerned.

We had an indoor snowball fight of sorts. The kids received a piece of scrap, white paper with a letter written on it. We went around the circle. They identified the letter. Then crumpled it up and we had a snowball fight. They tossed the scrap paper around a bit. Then they stopped. Picked up one. Went back to the circle. And one by one, we "opened" our snowballs and identified the new letter we had.

Since the sun had popped out a bit, we thought we should go outside for a Walk on our W day. So we Waved to passersby on our Walk and Wobbled like penguins. They kept saying what a fun Windy Walk on a Winter day that we were having!

At the close of the day, we worked on Scholastic and then said our goodbyes! Hope you had a nice Tuesday off. See you Wednesday!