Week 6: Sorting Ourselves

On a four day week, the kids can be a bit squirmish.  Plus, there was a supply teacher in on Wednesday afternoon. so we moved away from the organized centres format this time around and tried a few different things here and there.

Books We Read
Chicka Chicka 1 2 3

Song of the Week
And When You're 1

And when you're one, one, one,
Show me your thumb, thumb, thumb.
And when you're two, two, two,
Tap with your shoe, shoe, shoe.
(repeat)

And when you're three, three, three,
Bend at your knee, knee, knee.
And when you're four, four, four,
Stomp on the floor, floor, floor.
(repeat)

And when you're five, five, five,
You do the jive, jive, jive.
And when you're six, six, six,
You do the mix, mix, mix.
(repeat)

And when you're seven, seven, seven,
Jump up to heaven, heaven, heaven.
And when you're eight, eight, eight,
Stand well and wait, wait, wait.
(repeat)

And when you're nine, nine, nine,
Ya ya ya, nine, nine, nine.
And when you're ten, ten, ten,
Start it again.....
(repeat)

Activities

Printing and Letters
We worked on making our letter "P" and also did some work with magnets on the sight words "to" and "and"

Math

We sorted ourselves as a class by who ate turkey at Thanksgiving and who didn't.  Then we had to guess a different sorting rule every day when Mr. McCullough sorted us.  We came up with sorting rules like boy/girl, colour of clothes, types of shoes and who was wearing a sweater.

We also started working on our own number lines, using a Promethean Board to organized the numbers first, and then gluing the numbers onto long pieces of cardstock.

Children also were able to use the castle centre, playdough centre and sand centre in a variety of activities.