This morning's prep work included my gluing these lions onto background papers and cutting up a bunch of teenie pieces of yarn that the kids were going to glue on for the lion's mane Thursday during centers. We're getting into things that I remember doing with last year's students, so I'm more familiar with the activities and starting to recall what things worked/didn't work with the class last year.
I got to read with my focus students during morning routine; watching a child learn to read is seriously one of the most wild things. I mean, I don't remember learning to read, I just know that at one point I couldn't, and now I can. So to actually watch the progress of a student who barely knows the alphabet at the beginning of the school year to a student that can read full sentences...wow. It's so exciting to listen to them sound out each letter and then smush them all together to form a word. They do their little animal symbols for each letter, and then when they say the word they do one big CLAP that symbolizes all the letters coming together into a word.
I didn't get to do anything really fun at centers today - I was monitoring the finishing of the "Shape Books" where they are creating objects out of different shapes. It was just stressful. But I think this was the last day of it, fingers crossed.
The room is all decorated for Dr. Seuss Day! They've spent all week doing related activities, but the actual Dr. Seuss Day is tomorrow (Friday, March 2nd). I didn't go to Room Three today because I wanted to be there tomorrow to read a Dr. Seuss book to them and help them with their crafts (we'll be making Thing 1 and Thing 2 out of handprints). It's also their Special Lessons day - they go to the computer lab and the science lab...so I'll get to go and observe some different activities that I'm not usually a part of; looking forward to it!
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