Today Chippy, the Chipmunk helped us welcome in the first day of FALL! We added like as our new everyday word and shared: I like.... and most of us still like the word green so we wrote I like green...grass, leaves, and other stuff. We keep finding out more about each other everyday. We are really good at our ABCs and played a letter search game where we all found all the capitals and small letters. We like our I Spy game where one person spies some picture on a card and the kids find it on lotto boards. They were quick to realize that the picture was found on the square with the letter that made the first sound.
We learned about the penny today-Abraham Lincoln is on it and it says In God We Trust on it. It is worth 1 cent so we counted up to 8 cents in our piggy bank poster. We could visualize what 8 looks like by seeing 4 cents and 4 cents next to each other. The more numbers we can 'read' by just seeing the number of objects in our head the easier later adding and other math will be.
The funniest picture I missed today was all the kids crowding around the sound studio waiting for the tape to get to undershirt, undershirt u u u which comes up each time one of the kids plays the ABC tape. They think that is hilarious. They are so much fun.
We started talking about listening to sounds today in science and are making our own instrument. Next on my agenda is to get them more interested in listening to me than to each other. They are really a talkative class so I guess I will start using my own apple instrument to key them into immediately listening when I need to talk to them.
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