Week 4 - Tuesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: D
Theme of the week: Dressing Myself

Arts & crafts:
The kids painted cutouts of articles of clothing and we then used clothes pegs to hang them from a piece of yarn as a clothesline.






Free play at stations:
As described in earlier free play post
Station 1: colouring D word pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (Dora puzzle, teddy bear clothing puzzle, alphabet puzzle)
Station 3: peg board, Play-Doh, Code de Couleur game
Station 4: pretend play with dress-up clothes, dolly dress-up, Disney Princess paper doll dress-up, Disney Princess magnetic dress-up
Station 5: Trio blocks and Lincoln Logs
Station 6: basket of theme related books





Story time:
No Clean Clothes by Munsch/Martchenko
Ready for Spring by Jocelyn
Barney's Hats by Dudko/Larsen
Mokey's Birthday Present by Weiss/Miles
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss

Cooperative game:
Uno.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Data & Documentation

Pants investigation
The kids first formulated their hypotheses about who in our family had the most pairs of pants and who had the least. Using ideas about charting and graphing from the websites linked to above, they then set about testing their predictions by gathering data (i.e. counting pants!) and then represented their findings using bar graphs. We then discussed how easy it is to view and analyze data findings when they are presented in the form of a graph and checked to see whose hypotheses were correct!



Physical activity:
Played outside in the snow.




Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Coloring D word pictures, tracing letter D, tracing D words, tracing curved lines, counting and finding numeral, differentiating big and small, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Dress-up & clothing games on the iPad in English and French (Learn French & Play, Play 2 Learn French, Dress-up Baby, 4 Dress Up, Swapsies)


Music:
Danced and sang along to our dressing myself theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced asking "Est-ce que tu peux m'aider s'il-vous-plait?" when they needed help and continued to reinforce all the notions we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.

Week 4 - Monday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: D
Theme of the week: Dressing Myself

Arts & crafts:
The kids made a clothing collage using pictures of clothing items cut from store circulars, glue and construction paper.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
No Clean Clothes by Munsch/Martchenko
The Perfect Dress by Lagonegro/Marrucchi
Barney's Hats by Dudko/Larsen
Mokey's Birthday Present by Weiss/Miles


Cooperative game:
Winnie the Pooh dominoes and Hide & Seek

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Data & Documentation

Sock investigation
The kids first formulated their hypotheses about who in our family had the most socks and who had the least. Using ideas about charting and graphing from the websites linked to above, they then set about testing their predictions by gathering data (i.e. counting socks!) and then represented their findings using bar graphs. We then discussed how easy it is to view and analyze data findings when they are presented in the form of a graph and checked to see whose hypotheses were correct!


Physical activity:
None.

Outing/social time:
Library visit. 7 of our 15 selections were theme related books:
Caillou - Mes Vêtements by Bringnaud/Depratto
Clothes/Les Vêtements by Beaton
The Scarecrow's New Clothes by Theising
Thomas' Snowsuit by Munsch/Martchenko
Socks by Gill/Lambson
Je M'habille by Orlando
The Emperor's New Clothes by Andersen/Davidson/Gordon

Worksheets:
Coloring D word pictures, tracing letter D, tracing D words, tracing straight lines, writing name, finding which group has more, finding same, picture matching, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
Play with buttons - counting, easy addition & subtraction, patterns, estimating who has most, estimating total, sorting by colour, sorting by shape. The kids each took turns coming up with a game idea for the rest of us this time around.

Computers:
Dress-up & clothing games on the iPad in English and French (Learn French & Play, Play 2 Learn French, Dress-up Baby, 4 Dress Up, Swapsies)

Music:
Danced and sang along to our dressing myself theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced asking "Est-ce que tu peux m'aider s'il-vous-plait?" when they needed help and continued to reinforce all the notions we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.

Week 4 - Dressing Myself theme compilation CD

Here are the tracks that I put on our Week 4 Dressing Myself theme compilation CD:

1. My Favorite Hat - The Music Class Monkey Collection
2. I Love My Boots! - Dora the Explorer
3. I've Got the Shoes - The Music Class Monkey Collection
4. Sneakers - Dog Train
5. Buckle My Shoe - The Music Class Elephant Collection
6. Captain's Magic Buttons - The Wiggles (Shane's Faves)
7. The Fiddling Cobbler - The Music Class Lion Collection
8. Pajama Time - Philadelphia Chickens

Week 3 - Friday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: C
Theme of the week: Colours

Arts & crafts:
The kids made colourful sunglasses using cardboard, cellophane paper, markers and glue.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Les Couleurs by L'imagerie des Bébés
Blue's Lost Backpack by Smith/Wilder/Johnson/Pontillo
Rainbow Brite and the Brook Meadow Deer by Leslie/Wilson
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
The Chameleon Colors Book by Yates
Dora and the Rainbow Kite Festival by Ricci/Roper

Cooperative game:
We played a variation of the CanDoRoo game using only the colour tiles. We each took turns choosing a tile and then hopping to something of that colour in the room.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Colours

We checked in on our white carnations from the beginning of the week to see how much they had changed after being in coloured water for 5 days. The results were great - all the flowers took on the colour of the water they were placed in and those that had their stems split into 2 different colours were half one colour and half the other. Beautiful! The photos don't do them justice at all...





Physical activity:
Sports Skills Development and Gymnastics class at Le Petit Gym.

Outing/social time:
Sports Skills Development and Gymnastics class at Le Petit Gym.

Worksheets:
Circling words that begin with the letter C, circling pictures of words that begin with the letter C, writing the missing C in words, colouring shapes in indicated colour, matching colour name to colour.

Hands on math:
Sorted everyday household items by colour.

Computers:
Played colour related games in both English and French on the iPad.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our colours theme compilation cd, calling out the colours we heard in the songs and saying them in French.

French:
French is always emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced using "S'il vous plait" when making a request and "Merci" when that requested in granted. We also continued working on answering "Je ne comprends pas" when they don't understand something said to them in French and "Je ne sais pas" when they understand but don't know the answer. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.

Week 3 - Thursday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: C
Theme of the week: Colours


Arts & crafts:
The kids made colourful paintings using marbles. We first stuck a sheet of paper to the bottom of a large Tupperware container. Then the kids squirted small splodges of various colour paints all over the page. They then plopped different size marbles on top, closed the Tupperware lid and shook the whole thing up. The result was great!





Free play at stations:
As described in earlier free play post
Station 1: colouring C word pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (alphabet, Spiderman, Doodle Bops and Cars)
Station 3: lacing toys, Lite Brite, Geoform game
Station 4: pretend play with our most colourful stuffed animals, colourful stacking and nesting toys, coloured alphabet foam letters, etc
Station 5: small Legos and bucket of Imaginarium wooden blocks
Station 6: basket of theme related books




Story time:
Adventures in Colors and Shapes by Walt Disney Productions
Rainbow Brite and the Brook Meadow Deer by Leslie/Wilson
No Red Monsters Allowed by Alexander/Prebenna
Big Bird's Red Book by Cerf
Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton

Cooperative game:
We played a game I called "Going to Colourland" where each of us took turns saying which Colourland we were going to (i.e. Purpleland, Redland) and then we all had 1 minute to pack as many objects of that colour into our bags for the trip. When the minute was up we each took turns showing and describing what we had packed, and then it was the next person's turn to choose the Colourland we were going to visit!


Science experiment:
Theme this week is Colours

Milk Rainbow
The kids put red, blue and yellow food colouring in different areas of a pan filled with milk. They then put a tiny squirt of dish soap in the center of the pan and watched as the primary colours slowly mixed together to form secondary colours in the pan. We then talked about the results and how they compared to what we had learned earlier in the week about mixing primary colours and filled in a colour wheel to graphically depict our results.


Physical activity:
Played outside in the snow.

Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Coloring C word pictures, tracing letter C, tracing C words, tracing zig zag lines, finding yellow items in larger group, finding brown items in larger group, finding black & white items in larger group, cutting straight lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Played colour related games in both English and French on the iPad.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our colours theme compilation cd, calling out the colours we heard in the songs and saying them in French.

French:
French is always emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced using "S'il vous plait" when making a request and "Merci" when that requested in granted. We also continued working on answering "Je ne comprends pas" when they don't understand something said to them in French and "Je ne sais pas" when they understand but don't know the answer. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.

Week 3 - Wednesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: C
Theme of the week: Colours

Arts & crafts:
The kids made Froot Loops rainbows.




Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Blue Ramone by Carson/Gracey/Phillipson
Blue's Lost Backpack by Smith/Wilder/Johnson/Pontillo
Rainbow Brite and the Brook Meadow Deer by Leslie/Wilson
Little Critter Colours by Mayer
Big Red Car by The Wiggles/Berry
No Red Monsters Allowed by Alexander/Prebenna

Cooperative game:
None.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Colours

The kids made rainbow cupcakes by dividing white cake mix batter into 6 bowls and using food colouring to make them into the 6 colours of the rainbow. Yum!







Physical activity:
Played in the snow in the backyard.





Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Coloring C word pictures, tracing letter C, tracing C words, tracing curved lines, reading colour name and colouring in correct colour, finding green items in larger group, finding pink items in larger group, matching colour name with item of that colour, colouring shapes in indicated colour, cutting straight lines.



Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
None.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our colours theme compilation cd.

French:
French is always emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced using "S'il vous plait" when making a request and "Merci" when that requested in granted. We also continued working on answering "Je ne comprends pas" when they don't understand something said to them in French and "Je ne sais pas" when they understand but don't know the answer. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.

Week 3 - Tuesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: C
Theme of the week: Colours

Arts & crafts:
The kids did this Colour Magic craft using primary colour finger paints. They then made their own creations using the paints on another sheet of paper.






Free play at stations:
As described in earlier free play post
Station 1: colouring C word pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (alphabet, Spiderman, Doodle Bops and Cars)
Station 3: lacing toys, Lite Brite, Geoform game
Station 4: pretend play with our most colourful stuffed animals, colourful stacking and nesting toys, coloured alphabet foam letters, etc
Station 5: small Legos and bucket of Imaginarium wooden blocks
Station 6: basket of theme related books



Story time:
Polar Bear and the Rainbow by Rescek/Butterfield
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Pinkalicious by Kann/Kann
Dumbo's Book of Colors by First Little Golden Book
Dora and the Rainbow Kite Festival by Ricci/Roper

Cooperative game:
We played a game where each kid was showed a colour and then had to race to another room to find an item of that colour and bring it back. We also played a game where the kids were given a certain coloured marker and then had to race to a different room where black and white pictures were laid out, find a picture of an item that should be their given colour and then colour it in!

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Colours

Coloured Snow
The kids mixed water and food colouring into 4 spray bottles and we took them outside and sprayed the snow!




Physical activity:
Played outside in the snow.


Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Coloring C word pictures, tracing letter C, tracing C words, tracing zig zag lines, finding blue items in larger group, finding orange items in larger group, matching colour name with item of that colour, cutting straight lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Played colour related games in both English and French on the iPad.

Music:
None.

French:
French is always emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced using "S'il vous plait" when making a request and "Merci" when that requested in granted. We also continued working on answering "Je ne comprends pas" when they don't understand something said to them in French and "Je ne sais pas" when they understand but don't know the answer. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.