We came back this week from Spring Break ready to work! We have been working very hard all week and it has really flown by! Tuesday we had Walk About Puppets come entertain us with the play Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The students really enjoyed watching and we even learned some sign language! Today we had Lunch at the Beach.  We enjoyed seeing all the parents that came to eat with us, and we also celebrated Meredith’s birthday! 

Morning Meeting

These are the Daily Data questions that we answered this week.

* What do you want to play at home living center?

* What is your favorite sport?

* What is your favorite flavor ice cream?

* Have you ever been to the beach?  

Shared Journal

In our journals this week we have been working on thinking of questions that will help us to write a detailed story.  The children are doing a great job of coming up with lots of different questions that help add details to their stories.  Also, in journals the children have been showing how they care about one other.  They congratulate both people who share and try to make the person who didn’t get their story written about feel special.  I am so proud of the community that the children have built in our classroom.  

Theme

We have been very busy researching and learning about acrobats this week.  We learned about the different types of acrobats, where acrobats live in the circus, and about their costumes.  The children have even used some of this information to start thinking about what the acrobats need for our own circus. 

With Miss Syphers, the children have been busy making their monkeys and adding a monkey fact page to their Circus books.  

Shared Reading

This week in Shared Reading we reviewed our short vowels.  We read stories, played games, and learned hand motions to help us remember the sound that each short vowel makes. Here are some books we read this week.

Jen the Hen’s Big Book

Tog the Dog’s Big Book

Pat the Cat’s Big Book

Mig the Pig’s Big Book

Zug the Bug’s Big Book 

We also worked on story comprehension with the book, Meggie Moon. 

Centers

Center time has been busy, busy, busy!!! The children played new games in math center, began researching acrobats and started an ice cream glyph.  Some of our circus performers have even started making their own costumes and practicing their routines for our circus.  In puppet center, the children have been busy writing plays and performing them for the other children.  They even made tickets and held a question and answer session afterwards about their show.  Writing center has been full of aspiring authors this week.  We have had lots of children writing and illustrating their own books to share with the class.  

Important Dates and Notes:

April 9-10: Pre-school Visitation

April 13: Book Orders Due

April 19: Orange Pod Circus 10:30 a.m.

April 20: No School

April 27: Motor Skills Program

This is one of the puppet shows that we were treated to this week at center time.