Week 9 - Tuesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: I
Theme of the week: Instruments & Music

Arts & crafts:
The kids made tambourines using paper plates, paint and jingle bells.




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

Station 1: colouring I word pictures and pictures of houses & homes, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (The Wiggles, Mickey Mouse, Doodle Bops)
Station 3: Mr. Potato Head, Play-Doh, Code Couleur game
Station 4: free play with instruments of all kinds - piano, drums, tambourines, shakers, etc
Station 5: Lego set and Mega Blocks
Station 6: basket of theme related books






Story time:
A Cute Tune by Ring/Bets
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Perkins/Gurney
Melody Moth by Cosgrove/Reasoner
Simon Makes Music by Tibo
Our Global Community - Music by Easterling

Cooperative game:
Drumming game where I drum a beat and they have to copy it. Started off with one drum and simple rhythms and moved up to 4 drums and more complicated rhythms.

Science experiment:
The themes for this week's science experiments will all begin with the letter I!

Insoluble
Today we investigated the meaning of the word insoluble. The kids hypothesized about what would happen if they put sugar into one glass of water and sand into another glass of water and stirred. They then put their theories to the test and discovered that the sugar dissolved while the sand remained and I explained to them the meaning of insoluble.


Physical activity:
None.

Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Coloring I word pictures, tracing letter I, tracing I words, counting and finding numeral, tracing the numeral 6, instrument picture matching, cutting curved lines of various shapes.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Instruments and music games on the iPad (Music House, Virtuoso, The Woodsy Band Jam (story), Discover Musical Instruments, Guitar HD, Drums HD, Xylophone HD, Kids Box, Young Music Genius).

Music:
Danced, sang and played instruments to our Instruments & Music theme compilation cd. I also introduced the kids to the basic hand positioning on the piano and had them practice playing notes with separate fingers rather than just one.




French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "J'ai fini" when they are done doing something and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.