Week 20 - Monday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letters of the week: Y and Z
Theme of the week: Yikes and Zoinks! (Scooby Doo)

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids made and decorated picture frames using craft foam and buttons of various colours, shapes and sizes. These frames will hold photos of them meeting Scrappy Doo during our vacation to The Great Escape Lodge.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Scooby Doo! Baseball Blackout by Guidone/del Sur

Cooperative game:
Mille Bornes.

Science experiment:
As this is our final week of homeschooling, for science this week we will be revisiting each of the kids' favourite experiments and recreating them all over again! For her favourite experiment, Nicki chose the Bouncing Light experiment from our L is for Light week. We therefore took our science activity into a dark closet and the kids experimented with bouncing light off a mirror. They made predictions about where the light would shine if they moved the mirror in various directions and also tried to move the mirror so that the light would shine on specific objects. Even though this was the second time around, they still got a big kick out of it!

Physical activity:
Outdoor play in the backyard.

Outing/social time:
Weekly library visit.
6 of our 15 selections were theme related books:

Scooby Doo! The Essential Guide by Dakin
Scooby Doo! And the Phony Fortune Teller by Gelsey
Scooby Doo! The Haunted Road Trip by Herman/del Sur
Chill Out Scooby Doo! by Massen/del Sur
Scooby Doo! And the Scary Snowman by Balaban/Massen/del Sur
Scooby Doo! Look n' Find by Animagination Inc/Caveman Productions

Worksheets:
Coloring Y and Z word pictures, tracing letters Y and Z, tracing Y and Z words, writing name, finding Scooby Doo imposter, Scooby Doo shadow matching, Scooby Doo maze, cutting various shaped curved lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Various reading, spelling, number and matching games on the iPad.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our Scooby Doo and The Alien Invaders CD.


French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "J'ai hâte!" when they are looking forward to something and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.