Week 11 - Thursday

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

Arts & crafts:
The kids decorated castle cutouts using salt that I coloured beforehand using food colouring.




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

Station 1: colouring kingdom theme related pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (all princess puzzles this week!)
Station 3: because we had so many theme related puzzles this week we set aside our fine motor toys to make a giant puzzle station instead!
Station 4: free play with various castles and king, queen, prince and princess figurines as well as royal dress-up clothes and paper and magnetic doll dress-up
Station 5: Imaginarium building blocks
Station 6: basket of theme related books



Story time:
Cinderella's Countdown to the Ball by Kilgras/Harchy
Friends for a Princess by Lagonegro/Harchy
A Pony for a Princess by Posner-Sanchez/Mateu
Surprise for a Princess by Weinberg/Emslie/Marrucchi
A Pet for a Princess by Lagonegro/Harchy
Paper Bag Princess by Munsch/Martchenko

Cooperative game:
Clue Jr. (yet again!)

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:
None. (Roxy sick & weather bad!)

Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Coloring K word pictures, tracing letter K, tracing K words, distinguishing between right and left, matching beginning letter to picture, tracing numeral 4, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
Play with magnets - introduced the concepts of odd and even numbers, reviewed "less than", "more than" and "equal to" and reading numbers larger than 100.

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?