Daily Question: Have you seen an elephant at the circus?
Toys: Dress ups, Circus Tents, ABC Wooden Puzzles, Colored
foam blocks.
I love how creative the children are. This morning Eleanor was "Lyndsay the Animal Tamer." She had two animals, "Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer" (Dade--camera shy) and the "Sleep Tight, Sleep Bite" Bear (Theo).
Brody, Ethan, and Kayson saw a picture of E the Elephant lifting weights and made barbells out of foam blocks!
We also had several princesses, fairies, and tight rope walkers.
Snacks: Buttered bread, fruit leather, vanilla pudding ghosts, mandarin orange Jack O'Lanterns and Circus Animal Cookies.
Elephant Activity: During snack time we reviewed A-D with the songs/stories
and actions. Then introduce letter E. E the Elephant
exercises in the evening lifting 80 pound weights and says "e e e"
(eh, eh, eh). E also says it's own name (long e sound).
Recess: We are loving this sunny Fall weather! (Sorry no pictures). The children drew lines on the sidewalk and practiced tight rope walking. Eleanor was our trapeze artist! The students enjoyed flying on the teeter totter to a circus or Egypt or to a Saharan plain to see an elephant. Kayson was the Police-man Trainer and called out commands to his fellow circus members on the teeter totter, "Okay--now be animals!"
Circle Time (after recess): Ee Show N’ Teach:
Before class a student came up to me and said, "I brought a special Show N' Teach today! It is invisible, and small, can you guess what it is?! It's me! E-leanor!"
Kayson: Blue Elephant
Ethan: Baby Elephant
Seth: Toy airplane
Eva: Empty Easter Egg
Brody: Tranformer toy named "Ed"
Dade: Pumpkin!
Eleanor: Herself and her embroidered jacket.
I Spy E words: Encyclopedia, Explorers Book, Eggs, eelephant toy, Eva, Ethan, Eleanor, excited (for Halloween)?!
Circus Books: Sidewalk Circus and Olivia Saves the Circus.
The Art Reinforcement Activity has been an ABC dot-to-dot (a new skill for most of
the students). It was fun to sing the ABC song while doing the activity several
times. I hold children’s pencil
and we sing the ABC song over and over as I help each child and then they color
E the Elephant.
We reviewed some words that can be made with three letters, as well as, "Ee" words on the dry erase board. Parents, this is a fun time to begin to point out words that are one, two, or three letters long (A-E) throughout the day. Examples of words you child might read at this point are: a, add, cab, dab, bed, etc.
