Week 4 - Wednesday

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 sock puppets using old socks, googly eyes, felt and fur.





Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Dora - All Dressed Up by Beinstein/Savitsky
Eloise Dresses Up by Thompson/Knight
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
Dress Up Time by Arma
The Case of the Missing Socks by Grand/Severn

Cooperative game:
We put on puppet shows using our new sock puppets!

Science experiment:
Theme this week is Data & Documentation

PJ investigation
The kids first formulated their hypotheses about who in our family had the most PJs 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 PJs!) 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:
Running, climbing, sliding and playing with balls and hoops in the YMCA gym with me.

Outing/social time:
1 hour at the YMCA childcare.

Worksheets:
Coloring D word pictures, tracing letter D, tracing D words, tracing straight lines, finding which group has fewer, finding different, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
Addition and subtraction math puzzle.

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.