Literacy games

We have been practicing lots of rhyming words  and word patterns this week. We played a rhyming bingo parking lot game and rhyming memory matching. We have also been doing word building each morning, adding one or two new word patterns to our list and practicing old ones. We make a list of words together, such as king, wing, sing, ring, etc and read them to our partners. This is much trickier than it looks! 

Rhyming bingo 

These are the word patterns we have worked on so far. 

Building pyramids

During science lab this week, we made 3 different pyramids with 3 different materials- sugar cubes, pattern blocks, and color tiles. Children could choose to work in partners or individually. Here are some of our creations: 

Dramatizing Ancient Egypt

This week, we have been dramatizing life in Ancient Egypt and our new Magic tree house story. More photos to come! 

The market place- trading fish and food for jewelry and pottery. 

Bread making- adding dates for sweet bread

Building a pyramid using ramps and sleds pulled by oxen

Math games

Here are some of our math games for this week:

I have who has numbers 1-30. This is still tricky for us!

An Egyptian game called senet- the  umber of spaces you move is determined by the number of sticks that land color side up when you drop them. 

Make a train- you and your partner each have a different color of cubes. Roll a die and build a train that is that many cubes tall. Connect it to your partner's train. At the end, count up how many cubes are in your train and draw a card from the magic bag to see who wins - the person with more or the person with less. 

Graphics practice

Level 3 is complete! We finished our last strokes in this level by making a treasure maze and following the path with our fingers, as well as a cookie maze made up of straight lines- this was tricky!

Pottery, jewelry, and hieroglyphics...oh my!

We have now ventured into the times of Ancient Egypt! Here are some of our props for next week:

Fish to trade at the market

Jewelry to sell

Pottery

Market signs and a pyramid

Hieroglyphics

Math centers

Here are some of our math centers this week:

Find the turtle- this game. Yields in self regulation, working memory, and language acquisition. One child hides the small turtle under a shape, and the other children have tot sketch turns asking yes/no questions. Is it under a shape with 4 sides? Is it under a thin shape? None of the shapes get removed, and by the power of deduction children have to guess where the turtle is.

Roll a jack-o-lantern

Build a pyramid

Build a city- children roll a die and build a building with the corresponding number of cubes. Whereall buildings are complete, children stack the buildings together and count how many cubes they have. The final touch is to pick a card out of the magic bag which decides who wins- the person with more cubes or the person with less.