This is a little late! Here is what we did--
Circle Time
Question of the day-- How many brothers and sisters do you have? The kids loved answering this one and talking about their brothers and sisters.
Songs-- Shake your Sillies Out, Days of the Week
Calendar-- We talked about how we are now in a new month NOVEMBER. November is in the fall and all the leaves change color and fall to the ground. November also has Thanksgiving! Then we colored our calendar. I had them find the box with a one in it and cross it out, then a two, three, etc until we got to the sixth. They found most of the numbers pretty easily which I was excited about.
Number Order (Math/Numbers)
We started with flashcards of 1-5 (the numbers they have learned so far). I put them out on the floor in the wrong order and asked them if it was right? They all knew right away that it wasn't right and were very good at helping me get them in the right order. We talked about how numbers have to go in the right order (as well as ABC's etc). Then we split into two groups and I gave each group a set of flash cards and they had to work together to get them back in the right order. They did well working in little groups and we played this a couple of times.
Then I got out the big flashcards of 0-10. I layed them out in order and we counted each one to make sure that they were in the right order. Then I randomly picked up 6 numbers (Kade joined us so there were six students) and gave a number to each child. The kids took turns telling us what number they had and then put it in the right spot with the remaining numbers. This was a little confusing at first especially if there were two numbers in a row missing (ie 0 1 2 _ _ 5) but they caught on very quickly. They definetly recognized 0-5 with no problems, ten was good for all of them and 7 and 8 were so so, 6 and 9 got mixed up a few times. I was very impressed though because most of the time they would get the number right and they almost always knew where to put it.
Then we did a dot to dot. I first did a dot to dot on the white board so they could see how to do it. How you have to draw a line IN ORDER from one number to the next to make a big picture. Then I showed them what would happen to the picture if you went 3, 7, 4, 9, 5, 1, etc. They thought that was pretty funny! Then they got to do their own fall dot to dot. Israel and Finn got through the whole thing with out help. Alyssa, Jade, and London got to 7 or 8 and then they needed a little help. Great Job Kiddos.
Play Time/Snack Time---one of their faves although we had to do it inside since the grass is growing!
Story Time
We read 3 chapters of Mummies in the Morning. They were loving it. Jack and Annie met a Ghost Queen named Hutepi who was looking for a book. Jack and Annie wanted to help her but they were trying to read the hyroglyphics on the wall to find out where the book was.
Number Walk
We played number walk to wrap up the day. See post below of last Preschool at Briana's for game details. The kids really like this game and are doing an excellent job at recognizing their numbers.
