Elephant day

1. We started with an elephant hunt. I hunted the sized elephants from http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html . This was the introduction for our theme week. And after that we stuck it on our learning poster.

2. Then, we saw our computer links for elephants: a) Some links about real elephants: one of elephants playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuXAlVLB_9M and another for the elephant noise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M7bcz9M5Yg&feature=related . b) Our song of the week was Elli the elephant we sang and applied actions she loved it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vipNmaCdbPM and I also found a chant that Noarai liked to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyIbP9DmuYw&feature=related . 3. We worked the elephant pattern of http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html we only made the first pattern of two because she’s starting in patterns. I sang the colors (green G- pink E)and she did it great. I sang G-E-G-E with the name of the color and for the last ones I only sang without word and she completed with the word and looked for the colors to fill in the gaps. This way you are practicing patterns, words memory and music.

4. We worked color matching with the materials in http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html She had trouble matching the puzzle as you can see in the picture but she did perfect with color matching.

5. I made this size elephant matching for Noarai with the elephants size sort of http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html . As she’s young we are only working three sizes, and the rest of the elephants were used for the first activity and for the learning poster. I stuck it on a sheet and printed two more pages for size sorting.

6. Elephant craft: first we painted blue crayon our blue elephant (the lacing card from http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html ), then we finger painted a blue tissue paper and finally we stuck it all together to a blue cardboard.

We had a really good learning time!