--First, I must apologize (and keep my record spotless for blogging ha )because I'm seeing now that the post I posted for yesterday did not show up even though I got an email confirming it worked :( I'll add the pictures I had on it to the bottom today, incase it never showed up on your computer either.
First thing today the boys and girls went and voted. Beforehand in the room, the children could volunteer who they were voting for. I heard lots of Mitt Romneys and Obama's, but my favorite was (and they said it dead serious) "Steve Rogers, Captain America." :) Then we went downstairs where there was 'kids voting' booths set up. They had a ballet and got to pick who they wanted for president. On the back of their ballet they choose if they wanted to school levy to pass, selecting yes or no. We had fun doing this and it was a great opportunity for the boys and girls to see what it is like to vote. "I thought it would be scary, but it wasn't!"
Kids submitting their ballet (We will find out tomorrow who won the kids election :) )
Next we reviewed our sight word to as well as some rhyming words. We did a picture walk of a story, talking about how you can read a story without even reading the words if you just 'read' the pictures! Then Mary read the story for us and we talked about how although you can read the pictures, you hear lots more detail if you read the words too.
The boys and girls picked up where they left off in our station rotations, and we finished that set up for the week. After station work we did a mini lesson on writing. We used the writing frame "I go to my ......" and the boys and girls had to fill in the sentence according to where they go after school. They then drew a picture to accompany their writing.
Monday
Working on 5 groups using money
Making an ABC book using dot paint during station time
I worked one on one with students-they were given a word and then had to swap letters to form a different word (pan...change the n to a t; what do you get? pat!).