As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: K
Theme of the week: Kingdoms
Arts & crafts:
The kids glued and coloured kingdom collages using cutouts of castles, kings, queens, princesses, knights and jesters. They then began to tell stories about their collages so I got out the video camera and recorded them. Later I transcribed their stories onto paper and hung the printouts on the bottom of their collages.
Free play at stations:
None.
Story time:
Ballerina Princess by Lagonegro/Harding
A Pony for a Princess by Posner-Sanchez/Mateu
The Teapot's Tale by Korman/Emslie/Hunt
The Beauty and the Beast by Bergen
The Prince and the Pauper by Disney Enterprises
Cooperative game:
Clue Jr.
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:
Dance party in the playroom!
Outing/social time:
Library visit.
10 of our 15 selections were theme related books:
Illustrated Stories for Girls by Usborne
Dora's Fairy-Tale Adventure by Ricci/Hall
Dora and the Unicorn King by Seiss/Contreras/Miller
Princess Penelope Takes Charge by Mack/Gran
The Emperor's New Clothes by Andersen/Stevenson
The Paper Bag Princess by Munsch/Martchenko
King Funshine Bear by Ladd/Johnson
Beauty and the Beast by Slater/Gonzalez/Dias
Don't Know Much About the Kings and Queens of England by Davis/Schindler
Disney - The Princess Encyclopedia by Casey/Hester/Saunders
Worksheets:
Coloring K word pictures, tracing letter K, tracing K words, writing name, distinguishing between right and left, matching word to royal item, tracing numeral 1, cutting curved 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:
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?
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