Yellow Yy

Happy Monday!  Today we continued to learn about ponds and the animals that live in or around ponds.  We wrote about our favorite pond animals, such as turtles, ducks, dragonflies, beavers, snakes, and frogs.

Today we talked about ducklings.  We read a silly story about a duckling named Dilly.  In the story, Dilly lost a feather.  She became upset and tried to catch it, but was unable to.  At the end of the story, Dilly learned that it is alright to lose her downy duckling feathers because she will grow new grown-up feathers and look more like her mom.  We talked about how ducklings grow new feathers just like people lose their teeth and grow grown-up teeth.

We also took out our colored feathers and did the song "Take a Feather."

Next we visited centers.  One center cut out a yellow duckling.  Then everyone used a feather to paint.  We turned the duckling into an adult duck!  It was fun to paint.  Then this center group visited Ms. Mader's classroom.

Miss McCabe's center learned the song "Five Little Ducks."  Then we made our own book about five little ducks.  The children practiced writing their numbers, counting the correct number of ducks, pointing to each word with one-to-one correspondence, and some children even worked on identifying some sight words (in, my) in the book!

Mrs. DeKeyser's center played a duck rhyming memory game.

We played after centers were complete.  The dramatic play center was turned into an egg diner.  In the afternoon session, many children chose to make booklets to read to the class during play.

For snack, we ate pretzels.  The children got excited about forming letters with their pretzels.  They made letters like Y, X, and A.  Some children even made words out of the pretzels!

After snack, we learned about letter Yy.  Some letter Yy words we learned were yak, yellow, yarn, yogurt, yam, yard, yummy, yuck, and yo-yo.

We also practiced making the /y/ sound while tracing over yellow y.

Then we worked on vocabulary and visual memory while playing a "What's Missing? Ducklings" game.

Miss McCabe also had a special duck book for us to read.  It was signed by the author!  The book had photographs of real ducks and also rhymed!  Audrey taught us how to make the sound of a mallard duck in the afternoon session.  The book encouraged us to pretend to be ducks.  We had fun pretending to swim with our webbed feet, flap our wings, quack like a duck, and even waddle! It was great fun being a duck!

Our day ended by playing outside.

Have a great evening!