Diamond Thursday (10/14/10)

We started with playdough again til everyone arrived. We missed Alema today. The kids kept looking out the window and at the door to see if Alema came. It's so cute because they know when someones missing. They also see Kaiona's picture on the chart and can't wait til she joins us and we pray that they're doing fine in Canada with Siona's family.

We did circle time & Kuulei held the flag as we said the pledge. Alema was assigned the weather helper so they all helped do the weather. Kailia was our singing helper and did a great job as we sang the days of the week song. We sang it about 5 times so we could practice holding up 7 fingers.

Diamond was the focus for today. I showed them a diamond cut out of construction paper then got chenille stems (pipe cleaners) out for them to make diamonds on the floor. They all did great making their own diamonds with the stems. They each had a different color so after making their diamonds, I asked who had the black diamond and so forth and they all knew what color they had. I was impressed :) Next I poured out a bunch of shape cutouts on the floor and they each took turns picking out the diamonds. After all the diamonds were picked up. I contiued to see if they knew the other shapes. I'd say, "Kuulei can you give aunty a square/circle/triangle?" and they all did so well. We did this til all the shapes were picked up. We then had art time & made diamonds out of toothpicks, straws & chenille stems and glued them onto paper. I had alot of helpers today because my kids were out of school for fall break. They each needed individual help with this and i'm glad i had it.

                                        

We then had a BLOCKS HUNT. Keisha hid diamond, square & triangle blocks around the living room. They had fun running around looking for all the blocks. We put them in a pile in the middle of the floor and i had them pick out all the diamonds. Then they played with the blocks. They had fun making houses out of the square & triangle blocks. I showed them how to make a flower using the diamond blocks.

                                



                       

Malachi was our snack helper. He & Keisha made diamond cut cheese & tuna quesadillas, apple slices & crackers.



After snack, all they really wanted to do was play with the toys but I was able to squeeze in some math with the number 4. I showed them what the number 4 looked like. Then I gave them little 4 piece puzzles of different diamond shaped things and they had to put them together. That didn't last very long so I decided to pull out the last activity of the day. CANDY math lol. As soon as they saw candy, i got their attention again lol. We played a number game where i had 8 index cards with the numbers 1 to 4 & the domino dots 1 to 4 on them. They each drew a card and placed it on the floor. Whatever number or number dots they had on their card,  they had to put that many m&ms onto their card. Then they got to eat the candy. We played this only a couple of times b/c it was already time to go home. We didn't have time to do show & tell i'm sorry if you brought stuff to show.

My assistant teacher for the day took some other pics so I guess I'll post those, too. Aisa & I had a fun week and look forward to many more.