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.