Ms. Salouma's class schedule

 WEEK OF MAY 7-11

 Monday    We did not finish our ant activities on Friday, so we’ll finish them on this day.  (students can bring in sharing on any day)

Letter Q- queen    The queen ant can ______________.   Literacy

-ant word family

math:  Penny match       Number 10

art:  Ant colony

science:  Ant farm in a jar

Books:  Two Bad Ants     by Chris Van Allsburg     Amazing Ants

Tuesday:  OCEAN UNIT

Letter R - rainbow   One day I saw a rainbow  _______________.   Literacy

-ain word family

math:  ocean animal thumbprint measurement    Number 11

art:  ocean scenery

science:  tidepools , saltwater evaporation  (making salt)

books:  The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor

Wednesday: 

Letter S – Shell   Look at my beautiful  shell.

-ell family

math:  seashell sort and counting    Number 12

art:  Shell candle

science:  The science of shells  (looking at bivalves )  and make sand

books:  I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell              What Lives in a Shell   Kathleen Zoehfeld        

Thursday:

Letter T- Treasure  There are ____things in my treasure box.

-ox word family

math:  How Many Barnacles on the Whales Back  (dice rolling game)    Number 13

Shell pattern block

art: hermit crab and shell necklaces

science:  hermit crab habitats, examining shells

Book:  A House for Hermit Crab 

Friday:

Letter U- up   If I could fly, I would fly up to ____________.

-up word family

math:  jellybean math                       number 14

science:  jellyfish, squid, cuttlefish

Book:  Discovering jellyfish / Lorijo Metz.

 WEEK OF APRIL 30-MAY 4

Monday: Bugs with Wings

Review Letter L:  ladybug/ thumbprint book

Review A sounds

Math:  Dots on a ladybug using dice

Science:  Observe picture cards and pretend bugs with wings. 

Art:  Ladybug rock painting

Book: Very Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Song: Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me

Tuesday: Bugs with Wings

Review Letter M:  mom / Mini book the Most Important Thing About Mom

Review E sounds

Math:  Bug Addition/ Bug counting

Science: glowing insects, glowing objects

Art: Firefly scratch art

Book: The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown  and Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman

Song: Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me

Wednesday:  Bugs With Wings

Review Letter N:  Net/ A day with my bug net….

Review I sounds

Math:  Pollinating Flowers

Science: Bug anatomy

Art:  Bug creation

Book:  Bugs by Nancy Parker and The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle

Thursday: Bugs with Wings

Letter O:  old/  I have an old ______ in my house.

Review O sounds

Math: Building shapes with Fiori Pasta

Science: Honeybees (How and why bees make honey)  Tasting honey and observing honeycombs

Art: Beehive with bees

Book: The Honeybee and the Robber by Eric Carle  and Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth

Song:  Recreation of Baby Bumblebee and Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me

Friday: Bugs Without Wings

Letter P:  penny/ I wish I had ______pennies! I would buy a _______!

Review U sounds

Math: Counting with pennies/ bug sort

Science: Ants /building an ant farm

Art: Ant colony

Book:   Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg and Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells

Song: The Ants Go Marching

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

For the next 2 weeks we will be studying bugs!

Monday: caterpillar

Letter: F
Number: 13
Story: The Crunching Munching Caterpillar
Art: name caterpillar
Math: caterpillar patterns
Science: life cycle

Tuesday: butterfly
Letter: G
Number: 13
Story:  The Very Hungry Caterpillar/Waiting for Wings
Art: coffee filter butterfly
Math: butterfly pasta scenery
Science: butterflies species

Wednesday: beetle

Letter: H
Number: 13
Story: The Very Clumsy Click Beetle/ Beetle Bop
Art: egg carton painting beetle
Math:  rock counting
Science: bug classification
Fine Motor: ripping paper/cutting for grass

Thursday: dragonfly

Letter: I
Number: 13
Story: Dancing Dragons
Art: doily painted
Math: pattern block bugs
Science: characteristics of dragonflies

Friday: fly

Letter: J
Number: 13
Story: I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
Art: fly swatter painting
Math: bug patterns
Science: color and label fly

Fun with Gardening

We have had a fun two weeks with our gardening theme!  We love to integrate math, science, literacy, art, music and drama.  We have counted flower petals and compared our amounts, looked at plant parts under a microscope and watch seeds sprout!  The children sampled a variety of vegetables for a school survey, examined and painted with vegetables and planted vegetable seeds for our garden.  We will finish up tomorrow by observing sunflowers, arranging flowers and creating our own seed story. 

Gardening Continued

Monday

·         Letter: A

·         Art: Contact Paper Tulip

·         Math: count the petals on flowers and graph

·         Science: compare contrast flowers

·         Number: 12

Tuesday

·         Letter: B

·         Art: Vegetable Print

·         Math: weighing vegetables

·         Science: vegetable parts

·         Number: 12

Wednesday

·         Letter: C

·         Art: Painting a Rainbow art project (flowers)

·         Book: Painting a Rainbow by Lois Elhert

·         Math: sunflower seed counting/adding

·         Science: observing seeds (compare/contrast seed qualities)

·          Number: 12

 Thursday

·         Letter: D

·         Art: create own garden

·         Book: My Garden by Kevin Henkes

·         Math: flower arranging based on size and color

·         Science: examining roots

·         Number: 12

Friday

·         Letter: E

·         Art: Flower w/ seeds

·         Book: The Tiny Seed

·         Science: mini-book of seed traveling (journey of a seed)

·         Number: 12

We have gone through all of the letters of the alphabet! We now will be reviewing the letters.

Gardening!

Monday: seeds
Letter: X-ray
Number: 11
Math: seed matching
Science: bean soak (dry vs. soaked)
Art: seed art

Tuesday: plant life cycle

Letter: xylophone
Number: 11
Math: favorite flower graph
Science: plant bean seed in baggie and pin to bulletin board & one in small pot for recording
Art: plant life cycle wheel

Wednesday:
Letter X: boX
Number: 11
Math: counting flowers (Lindsay’s class) & flower adding/one-to-one
Science: measure & describe plant growth
Art: plant system art project

Thursday

Letter: x marks the spot
Number: 11
Math: favorite vegetable graph
Science: planting in pots and vegetable tasting
Art: painting pots

Friday
Letter: tic-tac-toe with x’s
Number: 11
Math: seed matching
Science: observe plant
Art: Handprint flowers and daffodils

Songs for this week:

I'm a little Daisy
Sung to: "I'm a Little Teapot"

I'm a little daisy
Tall and slim (Stand on tiptoes)
Here are my petals (Place hands on side of head & wiggle fingers)
Here is my stem (Hold arms down at sides of legs)
When the sun comes up (Make sun with arms)
And the rain comes down (Flutter hands to floor like rain-end in crouching position)
I grow, grow, grow- up from the ground! (slowly raise up bring hand over head)

Plants

Sung to: "The Farmer In The Dell"

The farmer plants the seeds
The farmer plants the seeds
Hi, Ho and Cherry O
The farmer plants the seeds

(Other verses):
The rain begins to fall
The sun begins to shine
The plants begin to grow
The buds all open up
The flowers smile at me

Spring!

This week we will be doing spring activities!

Monday: Blooming Flowers (intro of theme)
Letter Y: Yarn
Number 10
Math: Flower pattern blocks/shape sort
Art: Flower garden
Science: what plants need to grow

Tuesday
Letter Y: yak
Number 10
Math: which is more: sunrays or raindrop activity
Art: April showers bring May flowers mural
Science: benefits of rain/characteristics of rain

Wednesday

Letter: yellow
Number 10
Math: carrot sorting with number matching
Art: bunny tear art
Science: bunny habitat

Thursday:

Letter Y: Yoga
Number 10
Math: Egg probability
Art: Chick hatching out of egg
Science: Dye Eggs

Friday:

Letter Y: yo-yo
Number 10
Math: Egg sort/hunt
Art: Bunny Bag

Farm Theme Pictures

Here are some pictures of activities of our farm theme from the last 2 weeks!

Painting our barns to display at school that we hung our farm art from

    The finished barn

                                                                                   Pigs!

 Making worms in mud. (Because pigs roll in mud to stay coolJ)

 Enjoying the treat!

                                               Horses were the favorite farm animal on Monday

                                                                                    Chicks

                                                                                     Goats