Week 8 - Monday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: H
Theme of the week: House & Home

Arts & crafts:
The kids made the outlines of houses using Popsicle sticks and then filled them in with 5 toothpick windows - one for a photo of each member of our family!






Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Franklin Runs Away by Bourgeois/Clark
Arthur's Teacher Moves In by Brown
I Want to Go Home! by Roberts/Mathieu
The Sandcastle Contest by Munsch/Martchenko


Cooperative game:
Household item BINGO.

Science experiment:
This week's science theme: H is for Heat.

Black Heat
The kids covered two clear plastic drinking cups with paper - one white, one black. They then filled them with the same amount of water and took turns saying which one they thought would get warmer when left out in the sun and why. We then put the cups outside in a sunny spot of the yard and left them there for the rest of the day. Later in the afternoon we brought the cups in and the kids discovered that the water in the black cup was indeed warmer than the water in the white cup. I explained to them that this was because darker colours absorb more light (and therefore heat) whereas lighter colours reflect it, and gave some everyday examples that they could relate to (i.e. hotter when you wear a black shirt in summer, hotter inside Daddy's black car).


Physical activity:
None.

Outing/social time:
Library visit.

8 of our 15 selections were theme related books:
Montre-Moi La Maison by Pichette/Rousseau
The House that Jack Built by Mother Goose/Miller
The Berenstain Bears and the Haunted House by Berenstain/Berenstain
Houses Around Our World by Frakes/Connelly
Our Global Community - Homes by Mayer
World Show-and-Tell - Homes by Petty
Curious George Builds a Home by Perez/Fallon
Let's Go Home - The Wonderful Things About a House by Rylant/Halperin

Worksheets:
Coloring H word pictures, tracing letter H, tracing H words, writing name, differentiating full vs empty, matching animals to their homes, counting and finding numeral, tracing the numeral 1, cutting zig-zag 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:
House & Home games on the iPad (Play 2 Learn French, First Words @ Home, My Home, iCreate Home Edition, Kids and Home).

Music:
None.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced being polite and saying "Excuse moi" after passing gas (something the kids in this house seem to do an awful lot of!) and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.