Week 11 - Wednesday

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

Arts & crafts:
The kids decorated cardboard swords and shields using silver and gold glitter paint.


Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Ballerina Princess by Lagonegro/Harding
Dora's Fairy-Tale Adventure by Ricci/Hall
Pretty Please - A Book of Manners by Disney Enterprises

Cooperative game:
Disney Princess Spinning Wishes board game.



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 word to royal item, matching beginning letter to picture, tracing numeral 3, dot-to-dot, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
Play with jewels - counting, patterns, estimating who has most, estimating total, sorting by colour, sorting by shape.


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?