Week 4 - Thursday

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

Arts & crafts:
The kids made colourful paintings using shoes and boots! They dipped old shoes and boots into paper plates filled with paint and then stamped them onto paper. In retrospect it would have been a better idea to have them paint onto the bottom of the shoes with paintbrushes instead of dipping them, because dipping put on way too much paint and the prints didn't come out very clear. But they had a blast, so I'm not complaining!





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:
Eloise Dresses Up by Thompson/Knight
The Perfect Dress by Lagonegro/Marrucchi
The Case of the Missing Socks by Grand/Severn
Arthur's Underwear by Brown

Cooperative game:
Duck, Duck, Goose and Broken Telephone.

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Data & Documentation

Shirts investigation
The kids first formulated their hypotheses about who in our family had the most shirts 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 shirts!) 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 at the park.




Outing/social time:
Met a new friend while playing at the park.

Worksheets:
Coloring D word pictures, tracing letter D, tracing D words, tracing curved lines, counting and finding numeral, differentiating big and small shapes, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
Represented and solved simple addition and subtraction equations using magnets.

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:
None.

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.