After recently listening to the story Corduroy, by Don Freeman, the Pilots and I made puppets of the main character- Corduroy the bear, and 2 additional minor characters- Lisa and the Night Watchman. Today we used the puppets by putting on a puppet show and retelling the story. In the first video, a student retells the story with a twist- this time Corduroy visits the Eiffel Tower! The second video is quite animated- and funny!

The Pilots have been working hard making an "AT BOOK". It took lots of hard work and listening. We started by stamping out AT family words on rainbow paper. Then we made sentences using these AT words. For example, our first sentence is: The BAT is red. We were sure to add a period at the end of each sentence! Last, we colored AT pictures and glued them after each sentence. Enjoy listening to a Pilot friend read his book- he does a wonderful job!

Hop! Hop! HOP! The Pilots and I hopped out the AT family, changing the beginning sound with carpet squares! We had a good time!

This week the Pilots used ABC chips to sequence their alphabet. Some friends had upppercase letters, and some friends had lowercase letters. This friend finished sequencing in record time! Nice job!

Today the Pilots practiced their upper and lowercase Hh's on the chalkboard with paintbrushes and water.

Here is the official language (in case you'd like to reinforce this at home):

H- Top start, straight down. Top start to the right, straight down. Make a bridge in the middle.

h- Top start, straigh down, up over the hill.

B painting!

Today in Pilot we watercolored uppercase B's in blue, brown, or black paint. We decided to paint the B's one of these colors because all of their names begin with B! As we painted, we were sure to practice outlining the B in the same manner we will later practice it in pencil. Take a look at the pictures and video below!

Later on this week we will add a photo collage of B items to our B-EAUTIFUL Bs...stay tuned!

Pilot Sound Web

My Pilot language class and I built a word web today with yarn. We had a lot of fun! We started the game by isolating the beginning sound of our names, and then thought of a food that paired with this sound. For my name, I chose apples. Then we had to say this sentence: "(Fill in name) likes (fill in food). " I said, "Mrs. Armstrong likes apples." After each child's turn, they passed the yarn to a friend. It built an interesting web!

We will have fun this year playing with letters and sounds. Stay tuned!