Spring has Sprung!

This week we are talking about Spring! We're all glad it is here :) We're loving the warmer weather!!

This afternoon we did a lesson that incorporated Math, Science, Music, and Art. Basically... Everything!

We started out discussing what season we are in and what the different seasons were and the order, etc... Then we sang a song, "The Seasons Song" that described each of the four seasons and then had the chorus:

"Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
I like ____________ Best of All
Winter, Fall, Summer, Spring
_________is the one that makes me sing"

After we listened to the song in pieces and discussing each different season and the differences in each one (for example: In Summer you put on your sandals, in Spring you put on your rain boots), we listened and sang the whole thing. We talked about how each season had cool things that we could enjoy and brainstormed some of those.

Then I gave each child the chorus of the song in a poem and they had to choose which season was their favorite (it was hard for some of them because there are such good things in all the seasons!) and write the word in the blanks and make a picture of their favorite season inside the seasons border--They were illustrating the poem.
They did a fantastic job with these! (They will be sent home at the end of the year in their poetry books we've been working on).

We are going to continue talking about Spring this week with a Spring mini dictionary and then talking about the story When Will It Be Spring using a retelling cube. We tried out the retelling cubes last week and really liked them. This activity helps the children not only retell the stories, but also with their language and higher order thinking skills.



This Week's Centers:

ABC: Hatch-a-word. In this center the children are pairing up and reading eggs put together with different word families. For example, an egg might have "at" on it and then you turn the egg to make "Cat, Bat, Rat".

Math: Hatch-a-number. Similar to hatch-a-word. Eggs with the number families 1's-90's are in the bucket for the children to sit and read the numbers to each other.

Writing: Students complete the writing prompt "I wish I could grow". They copy this and then use inventive spelling to finish the sentence. I did not help the group today with any of their spelling and they all did a fantastic job! I'm going to try not to help the other two groups either
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