Week 4 - Friday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: D
Theme of the week: Dressing Myself

Arts & crafts:
The kids dressed paper doll cutouts using scraps of fabric.




Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Arthur's April Fool by Brown
Eloise Dresses Up by Thompson/Knight
The Case of the Missing Socks by Grand/Severn

Cooperative game:
Disney Princess Spinning Wishes game.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Data & Documentation

Underwear investigation
The kids first formulated their hypotheses about who in our family had the most pairs of underwear 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 underwear!) 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:
Sports Skills Development and Gymnastics class at Le Petit Gym.

Outing/social time:
Sports Skills Development and Gymnastics class at Le Petit Gym.

Worksheets:
Tracing uppercase alphabet, tracing lower case alphabet, finding words that begin with D, colouring D word pictures, filling in the missing D, recognizing and writing sight words "in" and "are".

Hands on math:
Today we measured the length and width of some of our clothing items using rulers and measuring tapes.

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, calling out the names of the clothing articles we heard in the songs and saying them in French.

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.