Lap booking class Term 1 lesson 1

Literature for the lap book for first term of 2011 is The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

There were 8 tots in the class. Wow class getting bigger. Shirley's lap book class is very hot

We did
1. Sang Good Afternoon song.

2. Shirley showed the book "The Very Busy Spider". She pointed to the picture of the spider at the cover and asked Is this a bird? No. Is this an insect? No. It has 8 legs

3. Shirley read the book with animation eg gallopping action for horse going for a ride, jumping for goat jumping on rock

4. Shirley asked tots "What is your favorite animal?" Png Png's answer is Cow. Shirley said most tot will answer like all the animals or don't like any of the animals. She said by asking this question set tot into thinking. She suggested parents to tell tot what is their favorite animal and why that is their favorite animal. Then ask tot what is their favorite animal and why.

5. As usual, Shirley asked tots to go forward to choose lap book. This is the first time that Png Png was the first to go up to choose lapbook. But he chose yellow color lap book. Oh no, I am so sick of yellow color lapbook

Shirley gave a plastic pocket with 8 rectangle piece of paper. On the paper, there are name of animals - pig, sheep, goat, horse, hen, duck, cow, dog. Shirley wrote the name of the animal one at a time on the white board. Tot has to pick up the animal that Shirley wrote on the white board. Png Png got all the 8 animals correct. Shirley said introduce nounce first to tot in this manner than followed by sight words such as "This is a". It's easier to explain nounce. This is to introduce word recognition

6. Sang "Old McDonald had a farm"

7. Sang Good Bye song