Week 2 - Tuesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: B
Theme of the week: The Body

Arts & crafts:
The kids made colourful posters by dipping their hands and feet into paper plates filled with paint and then making hand and foot prints all over the page.




Free play at stations:
As described in earlier free play post
Station 1: colouring body part pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (alphabet, human skeleton, Ariel and The Wiggles)
Station 3: Play-Doh, stringing beads, Code de Couleur game
Station 4: pretend play with unclothed dolls, bathtub and doctor's kit (to target body theme), Mr Potato Head
Station 5: Mega Blocks and Sesame Street K'nex (Bert & Ernie bodies)
Station 6: basket of theme related books






Story time:
The Ear Book by Perkins/Payne
Arthur's Tooth by Brown
Hear This! by Hewitt
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Hurry Up Molly/Dépêche-toi Molly by Morton/Dillinger/Scriven

Cooperative game:
Used our sense of hearing and played whistle hide & seek - the hider softly blows a whistle as the seekers try to find them based on where the sound is coming from.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is the 5 Senses

Sound Garden experiment from Sid the Science Kid
We gathered items made from 3 different materials: metal, wood and plastic. The kids then made "music" within each of the groups by banging on the items. We then discussed and tried to label the sounds that each of the materials made and practiced making soft and loud sounds. Afterward I sent them to a different room and had them try to guess what material I was banging on/with. They enjoyed that a lot so I expanded it to playing actual instruments (tambourine, keyboard, egg shaker, drum, etc) and had them try to guess those as well.


Physical activity:
Played in the snow at the park.






Outing/social time:
Made friends with another little boy that was at the park as well.

Worksheets:
Coloring B word pictures, tracing letter B, tracing B words, tracing diagonal lines up left to right, completing patterns, counting & finding numeral, finding different, matching word to picture, maze, cutting straight lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
None.

Music:
None.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced 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.