Week 19 - Thursday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: X
Theme of the week: X Marks the Spot

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids made pirate hats using cardboard, feathers and Jolly Roger cutouts as well as eye patches using craft foam and elastic string.



Free play at stations:
As described in earlier free play post

Station 1: colouring pirate themed pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (various Dora heart shaped puzzles, alphabet boat puzzle)
Station 3: Mr Potato Head, Play Doh, Geoforme game
Station 4: free play with theme related toys: pirate dress up items (swords, hats, eye patches, telescopes, bandanas), pirate ship, compass, play money & jewels for treasure
Station 5: Imaginarium wooden blocks and Lego
Station 6: basket of theme related books



Story time:
Pirates by Clarke/Parker/McKenna
Captain and Matey Set Sail by Laurence/Munoz
Peter Pan Disney Movie Storybook by The Walt Disney Company

Cooperative game:
Today we played a game called "Pirate, Pirate Where's Your Gold?" where one child leaves the room and then one of the remaining children hides a gold coin in his hands and all the kids say the chant. When the first child returns at the end of the chant he has to guess who is hiding the gold!

Science experiment:
Today we continued our big review of all of the concepts we covered so far this year. We did this in a quiz show format with the kids yelling "Arrrrrr!" like pirates to buzz in. Each correct answer earned them a "jewel" for the team and with 10 jewels they are able to buy one piece of a treasure map that I made and cut into 5 pieces. By Friday they will have earned all of the treasure map pieces and will go on a hunt for the treasure that is hidden somewhere in the house!

Physical activity:
Outdoor play in the backyard, soccer and baseball.

Outing/social time:
Soccer and baseball.

Worksheets:
Coloring X word pictures, tracing and writing letter X, tracing X words, counting and finding numeral, writing numbers 2 and 3, pirate dot to dot, cutting zigzag lines.

Hands on math:
The kids practiced counting their "booty" using play money, first by counting out how much was given to them and later by gathering the proper amount of bills and coins to total the amount they were asked to find.


Computers:
Pirate related games on the iPad: L'il Pirates, Treasure Story, My First Find the Differences Game: Pirates, Coin Pirates, Jewel Adventures, Pirate Treasure Hunt, Pirate Tales Books.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our X Marks the Spot theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "Arrête, je n'aime pas ça!" to tell someone to stop bothering them (one of the first sentences Nicki's kindergarten teacher taught the class!) and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.