Week 12 - Thursday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: L
Theme of the week: Love and Emotions

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids painted while listening to both fast and slow classical music. This exercise was to see if they would paint with different colours and at different tempos depending on what emotions the music made them feel.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Guess How Much I Love You by McBratney/Jeram
How Is Baby? by Jenner/Jordan
Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad by Allen/Brannon

Cooperative game:
Today we played "emotions charades" where we each took turns acting out a different emotion while the others tried to guess what it was.

Science experiment:
This week's science theme: L is for Light.

Bending Light
Today the kids placed markers into half full glasses of water and took a look at them from all angles. They were surprised to see that the markers looked like they were bent when looking at them from the side! We then discussed the speed of light and how it actually travels faster through air than through water, thus playing tricks on our eyes.


Physical activity:
None.

Outing/social time:
Library visit.
8 of our 15 selections were theme related books:

Why Do I Feel Scared? by Thomas/Harker
The Way I Feel by Cain
Feel Good - Understand Your Emotions by Feeny
It's Not Fair by Hautzig/Leigh
Franklin's Bad Day by Bourgeois/Clark
The Berenstain Bears and the Green Eyed Monster by Berenstain/Berenstain
Feeling Shy by Althea/Best/Jude
I Was So Mad by Simon/Leader

Worksheets:
Coloring L word pictures, tracing letter L, tracing L words, writing name, finding between, matching picture to beginning letter, matching uppercase to lowercase letters I-L, matching items that go together, tracing numerals 1 to 10, 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, concepts of "more than", "less than" and "equal to".

Computers:
Emotions and feelings stories and games on the iPad (Dusty D. Dawg Has Feelings Too, Feeling Frenzy, Moody Monsters).

Music:
Danced and sang to our Love and Emotions theme compilation cd and acted out the various emotions that we heard in the songs.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "Je t'aime" to tell someone they love them and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.