Week 8 - Wednesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: H
Theme of the week: House & Home

Arts & crafts:
The kids made pictures of houses by gluing various shapes and sizes of craft foam cutouts onto construction paper.




Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Moving Day in Feather Town by Martin/Martin
Blue's Lost Backpack by Smith/Wilder/Johnson/Pontillo

Cooperative game:
Household item dominoes.

Science experiment:
This week's science theme: H is for Heat.

Heavy Air
The kids discovered first hand that warm air takes up more space than cool air by stretching a balloon over the mouth of an empty bottle and placing it into a container of hot water. As the air inside the bottle warmed up it began to expand and move into the balloon, which inflated the balloon right before their eyes!


Physical activity:
Running, climbing, sliding and playing with balls in the YMCA gym with me.

Outing/social time:
1 hour at the YMCA childcare.

Worksheets:
Coloring H word pictures, tracing letter H, tracing H words, identifying words that begin with the letter H, differentiating full vs empty, counting and finding numeral, tracing the numeral 3, cutting zig-zag lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
House & Home games on the iPad (Play 2 Learn French, First Words @ Home, My Home, iCreate Home Edition, Kids and Home).

Music:
Danced and sang along to our House & Home theme compilation cd .

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced being polite and saying "Excuse moi" after passing gas (something the kids in this house seem to do an awful lot of!) and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.