As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: E
Theme of the week: Eating
Arts & crafts:
The kids made silly fruit people by gluing body parts onto fruit shaped cutouts and colouring them.
Free play at stations:
None.
Story time:
The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake by Cole/Degen
Farmer Donald's Pumpkin Patch by Ring/Loter Inc.
Elmo's Breakfast Bingo by Tabby/Womble
Cooperative game:
Memory Match game with food cards & Go Fish.
Science experiment:
The theme this week is food. All of our experiments, although inedible, will incorporate food in some way.
Making Goo
The kids made green goo by using a mixture of cornstarch, water and food colouring. They then squeezed it between their fingers, talked about how it felt in their hands and discovered that when they were squeezing it felt hard in their hands but when they stop squeezing it just poured out between their fingers. We then discussed how there are typically 3 states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) but that this was a 4th state called a suspension that can act like a liquid or when pressed, like a solid.
Physical activity:
Running, climbing, sliding and playing with balls in the YMCA gym with me.
Outing/social time:
1 hour at the YMCA childcare.
Worksheets:
Coloring E word pictures, tracing letter E, tracing E words, counting and finding numeral, completing shape patterns, matching group to numeral, writing 8, finding 8 in larger group, simple addition, cutting straight lines.
Hands on math:
None.
Computers:
Food games on the iPad in English and French (eFlash French, Play 2 Learn French, Food Festival, Breakfast Bash).
Music:
Danced and sang along to our eating theme compilation cd.
French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced asking "Est-ce que je peux boire de l'eau s'il-vous-plait?" when they are thirsty and continued to reinforce all the notions we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.
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