We had a great second day of preschool B today. We started off the same and kept the activities very similar to day one to focus on the routine and expectations in the classroom. After playing on the SmartBoard we reviewed our class expectations and then read a book called "The Way I Act". I LOVE this book because it highlights good qualities in a high quality poem like format. It helped us talk about the type of people we want to be. Then we reviewed what centers was supposed to look like and got to work.
During centers I met with the small guided reading groups. We had so much fun. We were learning about blending letters for the first time, blending the beginning into the middle sound, and were practicing our early readers with sight words and CVC phonics.
After we cleaned up (which they did phenomenally well) we read a book about drawing pictures and writing words to match. We talked again about how we draw in the empty space and write on the lines. We discussed the lines and how we use them with our letters. We also had a mini lesson about how to draw people. We talked about using circles for the head, eyes and body and using lines for the mouth, arms and legs. Some kids drew a person for the very first time today and it was adorable!
After writing we got to play some math games. We warmed up with our staircases game and then moved to building towers. They loved building towers and the math language that came out of it was amazing. I love that I caught the two girls comparing their towers of 6 to make sure they were the same length. They cooperatively worked on building all the towers they could on their sheet until they ran out of blocks. Then they started again. I love how great they worked together! The environment in our classroom is wonderful, there is so much compassion and desire to learn. Keep up the great work!
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