Week 3 - Monday

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

Arts & crafts:
The kids made rainbow caterpillars using construction paper circles, googly eyes and pipe cleaners.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Blue Ramone by Carson/Gracey/Phillipson
Blue's Lost Backpack by Smith/Wilder/Johnson/Pontillo
Pinkalicious by Kann/Kann
Les Couleurs by L'imagerie des Bébés
The Chameleon Colors Book by Yates

Cooperative game:
Candyland.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Colours

Water Rainbow
The kids practiced making all the colours of the rainbow using cups filled with water and food colouring. We talked about the primary colours (red, blue and yellow) and the kids took turns predicting what secondary colours would be produced by mixing the various primary colours together in different combinations. They then tested their predictions and we talked about their results.





Flower Power
Once they were done we then took 6 cups of coloured water (red, yellow, blue, purple, green and orange) and put 1 white carnation in each of them. We also cut the stems of 2 other carnations in half and put each half into a different colour. The kids made predictions about what would happen to the flower petals as they absorbed the coloured water through their stems and we will be watching all week long for the results!



Physical activity:
A high energy game of tag!

Outing/social time:
Library visit. 5 of our 15 selections were theme related books:
My First Book of Colours by Park/Patilla
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Martin Jr/Carle
Red Tractor by Robert
Purple Pickle Juice by Farber/Sansevere
Rouge, Vert, Gris, Qui Est Qui? by Davis

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

Hands on math:
Play with buttons - counting, easy addition & subtraction, patterns, estimating who has most, estimating total, sorting by colour, sorting by shape.

Computers:
None.

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.