Week 1 - Tuesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: A
Theme of the week: Animals

Arts & crafts:
The kids made these binoculars for our animal finding expedition.



Free play at stations:
As described in earlier free play post
Station 1: colouring animal pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: animal puzzles (farm animals, jungle animals, pets, Lion King, animal train, My Little Pony)
Station 3: farm animal lacing toys, peg boards, Geoform game
Station 4: pretend play with stuffed animals, Little People farm, animal puppets, animals pop-up toy, Leap Frog fridge farm, barrel of monkeys
Station 5: Trio blocks & Lincoln Logs
Station 6: basket of theme related books

Story time:
Hippo-NOT-amus by Payne/Parker-Rees
Go, Baby Jaguar! by Larsen/Mawhinney
New Friends for the Saggy Baggy Elephant by Holl/Neely/Alvarado
Puppy Finds a Friend / Le Petit Chien Se Trouve un Ami by Bruzzone/Dillenger/Bendall-Brunello

Cooperative game:
Madagascar dominoes.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Air

Book Drop and Science at Work experiments from Science Play by Hauser
Book Drop: Kids ripped up pieces of newspaper and were asked to predict what would happen to the pieces if they dropped a book onto the pile and explain why. They then tested their predictions and we discussed their findings.
Science at Work: The kids stuffed a paper towel into the bottom of a glass and lowered the glass and were asked to predict what would happen if we lowered the glass into a deep Tupperware filled with water and explain why. They then tested their predictions and we discussed their findings (it stayed dry!) We also tested what would happen if they tilted the cup to let the air escape (air bubbles formed and water took the air's place wetting the paper towel!)

Physical activity:
Long walk around the neighbourhood to see if they could spy any animals with their arts & crafts binoculars - this spawned the idea of predicting which animals we would see the most over the course of the week. We then made a chart which we updated whenever we saw any animals out and about. At the end of the week we tabulated the data and verified whose prediction was right!



Outing/social time:
Neighbourhood walk.

Worksheets:
Coloring A word pictures, tracing letter A, tracing A words, tracing straight lines down to up, counting & finding numeral, finding same.

Hands on math:
Easy counting, addition and subtraction using fishy crackers.

Computers:
Played animals game on iPad - Abby Words for spelling animal names and matching animal words and pictures.

Music:
None.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced answering "Oui, s'il vous plait" and "Non, merci" to various questions and will continue to do so all week.