Thursday, September 1, 2022

Bouncing Balls

 Transition Song: Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy

Vocabulary and basic concepts: box, guess, ball/s, high/low, big/small, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, bounce/bounces/bouncing/bounced, sitting, standing, turn-taking, My turn, roll/rolls/rolling/rolled, count/counts/counting/counted.

This week, Miss Carrie brought a box.  What is in the box?  It's something that bounces.  Everyone guessed what it could be.  There were balls in the box. How many balls did Carrie have.  She had six balls.  We counted how many kids we have in the class.  Sometimes we had enough balls, and sometimes we had to find more balls.  What can we do with the balls?  We practiced bouncing and catching (this is a skill we mark in the DOT data). We rolled the ball, bounced the ball, and caught the ball.  We talked about what color ball we had.  If we wanted to trade, we could ask a friend.












DO THIS AT HOME:  have a family ball game and talk about high/low, fast/slow, big/small.  Narrate everyone's actions in an 'announcer voice'.

Fun library books about balls:

Froggy Plays Soccer by Jonathon London

Watch Me Throw The Ball by Mo Willems

Rosa Plays Ball by Jessical Spanyol