Week 7 - Monday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: G
Theme of the week: Games & Sports

Arts & crafts:
The kids made sports wreaths using paper plates and cutouts of various types of sports balls.




Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop/Schlichting/Dashow/Webster
Let's Play Sports by Inches/Aikins
Franklin's Canoe Trip by Jennings/Jeffery/Koren/Sisic
Scooby-Doo Baseball Blackout by Guidone/del Sur
I Can Be Fair! by Parker/Johnson

Cooperative game:
Took turns hiding & hunting for plastic Easter eggs.

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

Gravity
I first explained the basic concept of gravity by reading them a Winnie the Pooh book called "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" The kids then experimented with the laws of gravity by throwing balls up in the air and then watching them come back down. They then hypothesized what would happen if we dropped 2 objects of different weights (i.e. which would hit the ground first) and tested their ideas. We then discussed their results and I explained how Galileo discovered that gravity pulls all objects downward at the same speed, regardless of weight.



Physical activity:
An evening game of both baseball and football with Daddy.

Outing/social time:
Library visit.
6 of our 15 selections were theme related books:
Nobody Wants to Play with a Ball Hog by Gassman/Santillan
Brady Brady and the B Team by Shaw/Temple
The Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team by Berenstain/Berenstain
Let's Talk Swimming by Miller
Let's Talk Baseball by Behrens
Let's Talk Soccer by Falk

Worksheets:
Coloring G word pictures, tracing letter G, tracing G words, writing name, tracing curved lines, matching uppercase to lowercase, finding different, counting and finding numeral, tracing and writing the numeral 5, finding 5 items in larger group, cutting straight lines.

Hands on math:
Play with buttons - counting, easy addition & subtraction, multiplication concepts, patterns, estimating who has most, estimating total, sorting by colour, sorting by shape.

Computers:
Sports games on the iPad (Play 2 Learn French, Wood Puzzle Soocer, World of Sports, Hit Tennis 2, Flick Football, The Berenstain Bears Play a Good Game).

Music:
Danced and sang along to our Games & Sports theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced asking "Est-ce que je peux avoir un mouchoir s'il-vous-plait?" since Gabe had a runny nose, and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.