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Mrs. Todd’s Weekly Newsletter

Theme: Click Clack Moo & Farm Animals

Dates: May 17-21

 

                                   

Monday, May 17th

Rainbow Room

Morning Meeting:  Pledge, Calendar, Weather and Songs (All Week)

we had to line up in order according to the number on our turkey (1-10) we took turns putting ourselves in order

brainstormed animals on the farm and what they say

read Who Took the Farmers Hat?

Table Centers; On the Farm felt board fun (all week)

finished our class pond (check out our ponds, they are hanging outside the Rainbow Room)

we put tadpoles in our buckets (sponge painted tadpoles) and then we counted them and put the correct number on our buckets

Tree House Room

Rug

played a game:  What is in My Letter Barn *had to guess what was in the k, j or u letter bag and we sang a farm song to go along with the object and letter

read Click Clack Moo

snack

Centers;  finished our Frog Life Cycle booklets

painted black spots on paper to make cows when they dry later on in the week

worked on our numbers (what comes next)

Closing; we had a Hoe Down (it was a lot of fun)

Tuesday, May 18th

Rainbow Room

Morning Meeting;  worked on putting our turkeys in order again (1-10)

read Click Clack Moo again and retold the story using the booklet we will be using to retell during centers

math; numbers paper (what numbers comes between 8       9)

Centers;  our math paper and our Click clack Moo retell booklet (had to tell me and identify the word on a word card that fits in the blank)

Tree House Room

Rug

practiced some of our songs for graduation

did our letter barn game again

read Cockle Doodle Moo

Centers; worked on our Click Clack Moo retells and began tracing and cutting out our cows

Wednesday, May 19th

Went to see Click Clack Moo

Thursday, May 20th

Rainbow Room

Morning Meeting;   brainstormed our favorite part of Click Clack Moo

 read The Little Red Hen

took a vote on whether or not we would share the bread that The Little Red Hen made

Table Centers; finished cutting out our cows and then we did ___ow words an read them back (cow, bow, now, how, etc.)

finished our Click Clack Moo retells

Tree House Room

talked about our Little Red Hen bread project

rehearsed our songs for graduation

snack

centers; worked on Little Red Hen projects and our cows

rehearsed our songs with Mrs. Hartman's class

went to the park (finally nice weather)

Friday, May 21st

Rainbow Room

Morning Meeting;  brainstormed ____en words (hen, ten, ben, den, etc)

read Cook a Doodle Doo 

Table Centers;  finished our loaves of bread (Little Red Hen projects)

we each got a hen with ___en words.  We wrote ___en words and read them back

Tree House Room

Rug

reread Cockle Doodle Moo (a story about farm animals who are confused about what sounds they are supposed to make)

showed the kids how to sketch a farm animal to go with the story

Centers:  we then painted the animal and wrote the wrong sound coming out of its mouth

finished our ___en word family

Reminders:

Tomorrow is our school picnic at Penn Township Park starting between 11:30-11:45

Only 3 more days of school

Graduation is on Thursday, May 27th

Drop your child off in his/her classroom at 11:15 and then head up to the chapel.  We will begin promptly at 11:30.