BUgs in YouR BackYarD!

Today we started with puzzles and learning folders. This is a great way to start our morning!
LBQ? What is your favorite bug? Why?
Most of the kids said that ladybugs were their favorite. Why? Because they were pretty and crawled on you and tickled your arm!! I wonder if I had brought in a pill bug if that would have been the number one answer.

Pledge/Weather/Calendar

We next went in and marched to the tune, Ants Go Marching One by One! It was such a cute song and they all marched with so much energy and excitement!! The pictures posted here are great and show some of their great expressions.

Next we read a short, sight word reader book called Bugs in Your Backyard. The author is Rozanne Lancaaz Williams and the illustrator is Bernard Adnet. This is a great book to also practice counting. The pages were filled with cute drawings of different bugs you might find in a backyard.

After reading a book we went and did page 5 in our Butterfly books. We also reviewed our two colors for the month, pink and orange. A great way we review our colors is to do our Is it Orange? Is it Pink? worksheet. We have four objects on the paper, two that are one color and two that are the other. We discuss the colors that match the object and then color them in accordingly.

Snack

Fundamentals-

• Abc's(recognition and letter sound)
• Shape
• AABB(pattern)
• #9

After counting to nine and recognizing the number we played Is It 9? This is first done on the white board together and then we have a worksheet that we do as a class. The sheet is great practice for cutting, counting, following directions, gluing.

Playtime!!!!!

LadyBuGs Are CraWLinG On Me!!

Our morning class started our day coloring our letter Ss from Tuesday. The afternoon class was able to finish that already. The afternoon class did puzzles and matching games while waiting until class started.

LBQ- Have you ever held a ladybug? How did it feel?

Most all the children said that they had held a ladybug at least once and some even like fifty!!!! They said that ladybugs make your arms tickle, they are soft, and pretty. Next we all took turns holding a REAL ladybug. I caught one at my house right before school and was hoping that I could find more. But one seemed to be just enough after all. We also pretended to "play dead" just like ladybugs do when a predator is coming!!!!

Pledge/Weather/ Calendar

Ladybugs Facts

• ladybugs are beetles
• 4,000 different kinds of ladybugs around the world
• active in Spring and Summer
• not fast flyers
• protect themselves by "playing dead"
• eat aphids that could destroy the crops that we eat

After learning a few fun facts we sang a song as we passed along our paper ladybug we had made on Tuesday. We pretended our ladybug was a girl ladybug flying from each of us to one another.

Ladybugs Fly

Ladybugs fly, fly, fly

They fly over here, they fly over there,

They fly up high and they fly down low,

Around, and around, and around they go,

They fly really fast, and they fly really slow,

Ladybugs fly, fly, fly!

Next we read a great book called Red, Fiery, and Bright by Mia Posada. This is another fabulous book I have purchased through Scholastic books. After reading the book and discussing it we did our bug worksheet.This sheet was to help teach recognition and matching same items together. The directions were to circle and color the matching three items in a row.

After snack we went back to the pre-school room to review our fundamentals. Today was a good review for the colors pink and orange. This review helped us prepare for our Is it pink/orange? worksheet that we will do on Tuesday. We reviewed our letters and their sounds. Also reviewed today was colors and shapes.

The last project today before playtime was page four of our butterfly books. We are almost done with these and they will making their way home soon!!