Week 6 - Wednesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: F
Theme of the week: Family & Friends

Arts & crafts:
The kids made family trees using photo cutouts of the faces of our immediate family as well as those of extended family members.




Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Just Grandma and Me by Mayer
I'm a Big Sister by Cole/Chambliss
Just a Little Different by Mayer
Arthur's Baby by Brown
Franklin and Otter's Visit by Ross/Jennings/Koren

Cooperative game:
Uppercase and lowercase letters card matching game.

Science experiment:
The themes for this week's science experiments will all begin with the letter F!

Water Filter
The kids tried filtering dirty water using 3 different types of materials, after predicting which one would do a better job and why. They then tried it with all 3 materials combined and peeled away the layers to see what from the dirty water had been filtered by each layer.






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 F word pictures, tracing letter F, tracing F words, completing shape patterns, ordinal numbers, counting and finding numeral, tracing and writing the numeral 3, finding 3 items in larger group, cutting zigzag lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
There were very few games related to our Family & Friends theme on the iPad (only Just Me and My Mom and Play 2 Learn French) so the kids played letter tracing, sound recognition and number games as well.

Music:
None.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced asking "Est-ce que tu peux me laver s'il-vous-plait?" when they are finished eating and want to have their hands and faces washed, and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.