Hiding Phil

 Transition Song: H-E-A-R-T by The Kiboomers

(Just first verse and clap all of the letters.)

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts:  hide/hiding, elephant, up/down, over/under, in front/behind, next to, big/small, bigger, biggest, bus, look, play, jump, slide, teeter-totter, bath, wet, whisper/shout, quiet/loud, paint, sneeze, suitcase, tree, Where-questions, Who-questions, He/She/We/They, His/Hers, locations around the classroom, peer names.

(This can be found at the library.  It is a kid favorite.)

This week we read the book Hiding Phil by Eric Barclay.  Phil is an elephant who is new in town.  They kids play with him. But when they worry that Mom and Dad won't love him, they try to hide him.

We talked about where Phil was hiding.  Did it work?  Where did they hide him next?  What happened?

Then we played Hide-and-Seek.  We hid around the room while Miss Carrie counted to 10.  Then, when she found us, she took our picture with her iPad.  We went back to the rug and Miss Carrie put the pictures on our Apple TV and asked "Who is it?" and "Where are they hiding?"  This game was so much fun, that we played it several times.

DO THIS AT HOME:  Easiest and most fun game!  Play hide and seek at home as a family.  When you find someone, take their picture of where they are hiding.  Then everyone get together and talk about Who it is and Where they are hiding.  Emphasize under, behind, next to, on top, in front.  Go for a few rounds and end with a fun treat.  This is one of the most popular activities we do all year.  Kids will be requesting to play hide and seek this way for the rest of the year.

March Week 2: Plan A Pose

Phoneme: /p/

Transition Song: Wake up - Daily Routines by Dream English

(We're learning how to beat patterns - knees clap, knees clap.  We've also been learning  fun actions while we sing about their plan in the morning to get ready for the day. The best part of that plan is coming to school!)

Materials: Laminated letter P, You Are A Lion book, yoga music

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts:  Poses, lion, heels, hands, knees, roar, feet, toes, legs, butterfly, wings, stand, bend, touch, dog, stretch, stomach, shoulders, push, snake, hiss, squat, hop, frog, kneel, head, back, cat, palms, high/low, quiet, mountain.

Pre-literacy: Draw the letter P.  This week we pretended to be race cars and then dinosaurs as we drew the letter P.

Miss Carrie asked again (referring to the Wake Up-Daily Routines song) WHO woke up this morning, WHO washed their face, WHO brushed their teeth, WHO ate breakfast, WHO came to school.  We talked about how this was part of our morning plan.

Miss Carrie's morning plan includes exercise.  Usually, she goes to Orange Theory, but sometimes she does yoga.  We read a book called Roar Like A Lion and Other Fun Yoga Poses by Taeeun Yoo.  (Her illustrations are wonderful!) Miss Carrie turned on soft yoga music and we did yoga.

In the book we did yoga poses that looked like lions, cats, dogs, frogs, snakes, and mountains. Some poses were easier than others.  Miss Carrie asked "What does a lion say?" We roared (but quietly) like lions.  We hissed like snakes, making sure our teeth were together and hiding our tongues.  We meowed and woofed and ribbited. Butterflies don't  make sounds but we fluttered our legs like butterfly wings. We tried to predict what animal would be on the next page.

DO THIS AT HOME:  Do yoga together.  No special equipment, just go for it.  You can find children's yoga videos on Youtube or find this book at the library.

Other happenings:

We played outside this week!