This week was fish week! We started off the week by discussing the difference between an ocean and a lake. In a lake, we can find algae, sunfish, walleye, lily pads, and leeches. In the ocean, you can find jellyfish, sharks, whales, sea horses, and dolphins. We talked about the fact that an ocean has salt water and a lake has fresh water. We also learned some fish facts. Fish are cold-blooded, have backbones, and breathe through gills. They have scales on the outside to protect their bodies and they swim by moving their fins. We used our fish knowledge to create a fish bowl full of fish facts. We also wrote a descriptive story which we turned into a class book. We started out by drawing a picture of a make-believe fish. Then we wrote sentences that told what our fish looked like. We also created a fish bowl with fish. We ended the week at church with a Lenten Retreat. We spent the day focusing on Lent and getting ready for Easter.
Monday:
Discovery Day - Enjoyed a magic show with some preschoolers from around town.
Reading
Introduced to our new sight words, there, up & down
Looked through our new emergent reader for “Secrets”
Read through our emergent reader, Down in the Ocean
Explored the different between ponds & oceans
Sorted animals into different habitats
Drew different designs on a fish
Started our writing project describing the fish we drew
Math
Calendar
Tried to figure out if we were tall enough to ride the big rides
Discovered the proper way to measure items
Religion
Prayed the Stations of the Cross
Colored the 7th Station of the Cross: Jesus Falls for the Second Time
Tuesday:
Reading
Watched two different videos about fish
Identified different fish facts by completing a can, have, are chart together as a class
Finished our descriptive writing project about our fish
Completed a -ug Secret Word worksheet
Math
Calendar
Reviewed 3D shapes
Introduced to the subtraction symbol
Religion
Colored the 8th Station of the Cross: Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem
Wednesday:
Scheduled Early Release Day
Reading
Completed a fish bowl project
Wrote different can/have/are fish facts
Labeled the different parts of a fish
Drew a items in a fish bowl
Math
Calendar
Reviewed 3D shapes
Thursday:
Reading:
s blend sorting worksheet
Reviewed fish facts
Created a see through fish bowl art project
Math
Calendar
Disappeared Train Game
Religion
Colored the 9th Station of the Cross: Jesus Falls for the Third Time
One-on-One End of the Quarter Testing: letters, letter sounds, rhyming, segmenting, blending
Friday:
Lenten Retreat