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All- While the children played outside they went through the obstacle course. They had to use their whole body to make their way through the course. They used both feet to step on the balance beam to get to the other side. The children placed one foot in front of the other as they tried to keep balanced. Also, they used their arms and held them out at their sides to help them keep their balance. They had to keep their balance while they waited for the children in front of them to step of the beam.

Jaliyah- As the children were waiting for the rest of the class to arrive they started to show their classmates their outfits they had on. Jaliyah said, “I have flowers on my dress. I have white, blue, pink, purple flowers on my shirt, Ms. Romina.”

Yahaira, Ala, Reeham- The children helped me to take all the art activities on the bulletin board. I stood on a chair to take down the bulletin board and we discussed opposites. They said, that I was tall and that they were short. As I stepped off the chair Yahaira said, “Ms. Romina is short and Ms. Rochelle.”

Afternoon group- While the children waited to go home they practiced counting. The listened to the song and counted along counting from one to twenty, twenty to forty and forty to sixty.
FRIDAY APRIL 16TH

ALL- During large group time the children watched an education video were they practiced identifying and learning how to sound out and read three to four letter words. All together they sounded out each individual letter and them tried to put all the letters together. The children then repeated each word.

Yahaira- While Yahaira played in housekeep she picked up an apple and said, “We had apples for lunch today!” I asked her, “What color apples did we have for lunch today?” She said, “Red and green.”

Ala- While the children were play Ala went up to Davian and said, “Davian can I play with you?” He did not answer. Ala asked him again and he did not answer. She asked him one more time if she could play with him and Davian answered, “Yeah.”
TUEDAY APRIL 10TH

Wilmer- Wilmer was playing with the shapes I asked him if he could tell me the name of the shapes he was playing with. He grouped all the same shapes together. Wilmer grouped the triangles, squares, diamonds and rectangles. I asked him if he could tell me how many shapes he had in each group and he counted while pointing to each shape at a time.
FRIDAY APRIL 6TH

Jozef, jail, Iman- Today the children took turns leading circle time. They took turns singing the morning song, they chose a classmate at a time and sang, “Good morning ____ how are you?”

Iman, Jali- The girls took turns dealing group time. They chose the songs Bingo, Abc’s and Twinkle twinkle little start to sing with the class. Also, they reviewed the different parts of the flower. They showed their classmates where the stem, roots, leaves and flowers were located on the flower chart.

Morning children- The children took turns using the pencil sharpeners to sharpen the pencils. They made two piles one for the sharpened pencils and one for the pencils that needed sharpening.

All- While the children played at the tennis court they used the sidewalk chalk. They drew letters; shapes and some children even practiced writing out their names.

Maira, Ob, Ala, wilmer, ree, walid- The children did a art activity using the colored tape. I helped the children to create designs using the tape they cut pieces and laid them all over their paper. They colored their paper with crayons and then peeled back the tape on their papers to reveal the designs it left. When they finished their art activities we talked about the shapes that the tape left behind on their papers. The children said they saw, “Triangles, squares and diamonds.”
THURSDAY APRIL 5TH

WILMER- Wilmer played with the shape sorting game. He sorted all the shapes sorting the triangles, circles, rectangles, diamonds, starts, hearts and squares. When he finished grouping the shapes he pointed to each shape and told me what each shape was called.

Yahaira- While Yahaira played at the playdough table she used her words and asked another child for the toy that she wanted. Yahaira said, “Walid let’s share, can I play with that?” Walid said, “Okay” and handed her the toy.

Yah, Fur, Ala, Maira, O, Zac, Walid- While the children played at the playdough table they engaged in conversation with one another. The asked each other, “What are you making.” They shared with each other what they had made. The children created trees, pizza, T-rex and king Kong.

Joseph, Yah, Joz, Wilmer- The children played with the number peg counters. As they did a numer they read the number on each block and placed that many blocks counting each peg as they placed it in the block. They did the numbers one through twenty. The children called out to each other what number they were working on. Yahaira said, “I got seven” and Jozef said, “I got eight.”

Yahaira- While Yahaira played at the table we worked on letters and the sounds they make. She worked on the letters: P, Y, S, W, A and K. When Yahaira got to the letter Y she said, “Yacht, Yahaira, yo-yo and yellow. She said E was for, “Ears, elephant, eyes, egg, and elbow.” C was for, “Cake, cookies, cars, cats, cane, candy cane, can.

Fur- While Furtuna played at the playdough table she made a birthday cake. She said, “Who wants cake?” The children that wanted some said, “Me” and the children went around the table telling her how many slices of cake they wanted. I asked Furtuna how many pieces she needed to slice and the children helped her to add the numbers so she had enough slices to give to everyone.

Yahaira- Yahaira was talking about her birthday party and she said, “I shared my candy at my birthday party! Because sharing is caring.”

Yahaira- Yahaira was playing the playdough she pulled off some pieces and said, “Here is some cake.” I took some playdough and said, “Since you shared your playdough with me I’m going to share some with you.” Yahaira game me more pieces of her playdough and she counted how many pieces she had all together.

Walid- As Walid was playing on the carpet he came over to me and said, “I don’t have any people.” I told him to ask his classmate if he would share with him.

Walid walked over to the child and said, “Can you share the people?” The other child shared his people with Walid.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 4TH

ALL- During group time the children learned to identify and read tow, three and four letter words. The children learned the words: up, to, two, down, four and we. They reviewed what each word meant and practiced sounding out each word.

Jozef- When Ms. Rochelle pulled out words from the word box. Jozef looked at the word and he slowly sounded out each letter. When she sounded out each letter he put all the letters together and called out each word. He was able to sound out all the letters on his own correctly.

All- During group time the children learned to identify and read the words up and down. They used their fingers to point to where up is and pointed to where down was.
THURSDAY APRIL 5TH

All- During group time the children learned new words. They learned the words, said, we, can and the. Ms. Rochelle used the words in sentences and then the children tried using the words in a sentence. The children were able to come up with: I can tie my shoe, he said, the window and we play in

housekeeping.

All- During group time Ms. Rochelle did a review of all the new words the children have learned thus far. She pulled a word at a time from the box and said, “Who remembers this word?” The children were able to identify and read the words: where, play and can.

Yahaira- During areas Yahaira passed out everyone’s name tag so they could go play. She held up one name tag at a time looked at the name and called out that child’s name. When the children heard their name they came up front and Yahaira handed them their name tag.
Yahaira- As Yahaira was at the art center she could not reach the crayons. She used her words and said, “Jaliyah can you get the crayons.”