Week 11 - Friday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: K
Theme of the week: Kingdoms

Arts & crafts:
The kids decorated "magic mirrors" like the one the queen has in Snow White, using jewels and stickers.





Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Cinderella by Bergen
Tiana's New Dream by Disney Enterprises
The Prince and the Pauper by Disney Enterprises
The Princess and the Magic Locket by Ellsworth/Vasylenko

Cooperative game:
Today we played a make-believe prince and princesses game where we played out the roles of what we thought the life of a royal is really like.

Science experiment:
The weather this week was forecasted as being rainy all week long so I decided to make a week long project out of having the kids tabulate the rainfall using a bar graph. First we put together a rain gauge using an empty mayonnaise jar with a ruler attached to the side using rubber bands. Next I showed the kids the weather forecast on the computer and we noted the predicted rainfall amounts for each day on our bar graph. Then we put our rain gauge out on the patio and let it fill up! At the end of each day the kids measured the amount of rain in the jar using the ruler and filled in the appropriate number of units on our graph. We also compared our results to the weather network's forecast to see how close the forecast was to reality!



Physical activity:
Sports Skills Development and Gymnastics class at Le Petit Gym.

Outing/social time:
Sports Skills Development and Gymnastics class at Le Petit Gym.

Worksheets:
Finding words that begin with K, finding pictures that begin with K, colouring K word pictures, filling in the missing K, matching beginning letter to picture, filling in missing letters from theme related words, joining syllables of theme related words.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Kingdom and royalty stories and games on the iPad (Stories: The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Pea, The King's Decision - Games: Princess Ph.D., Princess Stickers Lite, My Kingdom for the Princess).

Music:
Danced, sang and played instruments to our Kingdoms theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. This week we will review all of the sentences we have covered so far:
1. Oui, s'il-vous plait.
2. Non, merci.
3. Je ne comprends pas
4. Je ne sais pas.
5. Est-ce que tu peux m'aider s'il-vous-plait?
6. Est-ce que je peux boire de l'eau s'il-vous-plait?
7. Est-ce que tu peux me laver s'il-vous-plait?
8. Excuse-moi.
9. J'ai fini.
10. Est-ce que je peux aller dehors s'il-vous-plait?