March 21-25

 

After a full week of break, we jumped right back into our routine here at DBP.  My big girls, Baylee and Devynn, were still were on their Spring Break and often helped us during the week. The little ones LOVED having the one on one attention. And I loved having them here with us.

Letter: Review Rr

Number: 4

Sight Word: the 

Whole Group Lessons:

Rr handwriting practice

Day dreaming of her own rainbows!

Hard at work...

... and hard at not wanting to do work! Prestton was saying vRRRRoommm...

Counting and identifying "more" and "less"

Baylee helping Trynnity with her math

The kids had to identify the number and count out the clips to match. The clips also help their fine motor skills.

Making our Cat in the Hat hats.

This week we worked with floam and our cut out letters.

Color identification with Twister Hopscotch  (not sure why my pictures are not rotating!)

 

We later used the rings for sorting our color cards

Upper and lower case match up

"It goes here Bi-bef" Prestton.

Centers:

ABC sound match

 

Shape sorting

See and spell puzzles

Gabe looking for the P

Elizabeth practicing with the See and Spell; she is saying "Cow goes moo!"

Catch a Fish: color sorting and ordering numbers 1-5

Devynn working on colors with Israel

ABC bus that says the letter and the sound

Tracing letters

Free Choice:

Not exactly free choice, but they REALLY love their snack time!

Hot Wheels Town

 This week, the floam was a FAVORITE free choice pick! If you would like to get some for your DBP little one, the cheapest I have found it was on Amazon. Click here for details.

Reading Groups:

Cutting practice; Rr pictures

Working on sounds

Rr stamping

 Ms. Jaymee's Picture of the Week:

Elizabeth at nap time

Desert Museum Field Trip

We had a lot of fun at the Desert Museum last week! The kids did an amazing job of keeping up, staying with their partner and listening. It was PERFECT weather for our trip!

Our Class (minus 1 Israel), Ms. Jaymee and Junior Chaperones Baylee and Devynn

We started off going through the Desert Grasslands and continued our way through the Mountain Woodland. 

Prairie Dog Watching

The View!

Gabe- Looking at the Black Bear... and sun in his poor eyes

Billy and Prestton

Our friend Jace (age1)  also joined us on our trip.

Feeling what a bear's coat is like.

Walking, walking and more walking

A much needed snack break!

THANK YOU to these girls for helping keep the little one's safe and having fun with us. 

Prestton loving his snack

A number one favorite during our visit: the fossil dig!

Chris with his safety goggles

Elizabeth WAITED for these pink ones

Excited to be getting dirty

Working hard to get out his fossil

"Finding" larger bones

"Look Elizabeth! It's a dinosaur, let's get him!"

Mineral exploration

Trynnity finding her treasure

In the "mine"

Junior Chaperone Rylee modeling the bat ears in the cave.

Junior Chaperone Devynn had to try too!

Listening and learning about meteorites

We took LOTS

And LOTS

of THIS pose to try and get EVERYONE to look at the camera!

Hmmmmmm.... well we tried!

Jace in the Hummingbird exhibit

A momma hummingbird on her eggs!!!!!!

 And finally our picnic lunch!

 ALL of the little ones fell asleep in the car on the way back to DBP. We really enjoyed our day and are looking forward to our next outing!