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.