January at Ella's School

Week 1 Dinosaurs!
Discovery Time- investigating skulls and bones, dinosaur number/numeral word game, dinosaur sticker pictures, stegasaurus hats, Ticeratops puppets

Circle Time- What we know and want to know about dinosaurs, classifying dinosaurs by eating habits, habitats, and hip bones, graphing toy dinosaurs brought from home

Small Group Time- phonics workbooks (phonmeic awareness and letter formation of Qq and Rr) and journals

Story- Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Bones, Dinosaur Babies, How Big is a Brachiosaurus?, Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking

Week 2 More About Dinosaurs
Discovery Time-making Boxosaurs, dinosaur paper skeleton, play dough dinosaurs, dinosaur dig in rice, dinosaur floor puzzles, easel painted dinosaurs for large bulletin board.

Circle Time-What happened to the dinosaurs?, Sizing up dinosaurs, "Annie Apatosaurus", "Our Dinosaur Friends" video and songs.

Small Group Time- adding using a number line, math workbookds. phonics workbooks-Uu and Vv, journals

Story- What Happend to the Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters of Long Ago, The Horned Dinosaur, Flying Dinosaur, Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs

Week 3 Quilting
Art and Discovery-color by number quilt blocks, exploring and arranging quilt squares with paper cut-outs, pattern blocks and geoboard quilts, paper quilts, quilting "sandwiches" with yarn (paper quilt front and back with batting in the middle)

Circle Time-The history of quilts, how quilts are made, counting and nameing the colors and shapes in quilts

Smalll Group Time-addition review, math workbooks, phonics workbooks Ww and Xx, journals.
Story- The Quilting Bee, The Seasons Sewn; A Year in Patchwork, Eight Hands Round, A Patchwork Alphabet, The Keeping Quilt, The Patchwork Quilt

Week 4 More Quilts
Art and Discovery- Story quilts with borders, wallpaper crazy quilts, lacing cards, triangle symetry

Circle-differnent quilt tyes and patterns, matching quilt block patterns to their names, explring various ways to make shapes (how many ways can you cover this shape?)

Small Group-subtracting using the number line, subtracting by counting backwards, math workbooks, phonics workbooks (YyZz), Journals

Story- My Grandmother's Patchwork Quilt, The Pumpkin Blanket, The Patchwork Lady, The Quilt Story, The Boy and the Quilt