Phoneme: /h/
Transition Song: Wake Up! Daily Routines by Dream English Kids
Vocabulary and Concepts: tall/small, high/low, body parts, stretch, animals, What questions, slow/fast, breathe in/breathe out, quiet voices, giving and following directions.
Materials: Laminated Letter H, Pandora Spa Radio
Pre-Literacy: Let's draw the Letter H
Start at the top and draw down
saying Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Go to the right and do the same
saying Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey
Now in the middle, left to right
saying Hee-hee-hee-hee just like me.
Discussion: We're still talking about Healthy bodies. We're revisiting yoga since the kids enjoyed it so much. This time, instead of reading the book and following directions, each of the children picked an animal and taught us how they thought the animal would pose. We stretched our paws like lions, stretched our backs like cats, stood tall and stuck our our tongues like giraffes, lay still with our heads and shoulders up like snakes, and stretched our arms wide like eagle wings. The children really enjoyed choosing animals and teaching their classmates. We had spa music playing in the background and sat in criss-cross-applesauce position while we practiced breathing through our noses and out our mouths.
We also talked more about our daily routines. Did we wake up this morning? Did we brush our teeth? Wash our faces? Comb our hair? Did anyone eat breakfast? Did you come to school? Yes, you did!
