Review Day-2

Friday was another Review Day, and it didn’t quite go as well as Monday. I blame my other two littles for that. They liked to scream. And be held. Making it much more difficult to help the kids, let alone hear what they were saying. However, I stick by my lesson plan and don’t think I would change anything.

I did the same review routine in the morning. Matching letters and making sounds. Doing our blending board. Then forming their own words. I did highlight different sounds though on each day. Monday blending words used the endings – “at” “it” “ad” and “id.” Friday I used words with endings “am” “im” “as” and “is” We also taught the sight word “is” for both days and as you’ll about to see, Friday I also worked a lot with “this” and “that.”

After our blending/spelling Review I sent them to do worksheets. With Halloween around the corner, a lot of our activities included that. They filled in the missing letter of the Halloween picture and I was also doing a lot with numbers that day, so they had to fill in the missing letter of the number as well. I gave them letters to choose from for the picture, but not the number. These girls rocked that worksheet and were so proud they got done so quickly.

After the worksheet we went over the words "this" and "that." I had the words written on a board and set an item under each side. Did they like "This" or "That" better? They each would say if they liked "this" or "that" and I marked it. After we did a few rounds, we graphed our answers.

We talked a little about scary things that you might see at Halloween, but that it is not real and taught them a song that included "this" and that" It is sung to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star-

"Ghosts and goblins, scary bats. I'm not afraid of this or that.

They are only make believe. Costumes made for Halloween.

Ghosts and goblins, scary bats. I''m not afraid of this or that."

I let them hold up some scary pictures while we sang.

It was time to put the kids to work while I took them for one-on-one reading practice. First they got to fill out a "This or That" worksheet. I had pictures of 2 different things and they had to choose if they liked this or that better. Then copy the word "This" or "That" depending on which thing they liked more.

I had another worksheet and they had to count how many of each picture there was, then circle the correct number and fill in the missing blank again 

A lot of the kids got tired of filling in missing letters and opted to just circle the number. When you're not there to help them (since you're working one on one) you just expect things like this and can't let it bother you

I also made up a Color by Number worksheet just finding a simple coloring page online and adding numbers to it. What kid doesn't like Color by Number? :)

After doing one-on-one reading I taught them another Halloween song. This is one I learned as a kid and loved. After singing it with actions a few times I gave them a worksheet. It had missing words to the song they had to fill in. Two of my kids were gone. So I just let them color. They had already had a lot of practice and I didn't want them hating preschool. But a couple still took hold of it and loved it

That took our entire day, but I thought of lots of little witch treats we could have made too. Cookie/kiss hats, pretzel broomsticks, etc. Like I said, Fridays are usually the toughest. Even kids at that age seem to know it's the end of the week and get tired, so try to keep a lot of variation and fun activities mixed in. If preschool was longer, we definitely would have! :)