Week 14 - Thursday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letters of the week: O and P
Theme of the week: Outer Space and Planets

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids made their own planets by squirting food colouring onto coffee filters and then spraying them with water and letting the colours soak together.




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

Station 1: colouring outer space and planets theme related pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (Spider Man, Kai-Lan, Toy Story puzzles)
Station 3: Play-Doh, Lite Brite, Geoforme game
Station 4: free play with star stackers, Buzz Lightyear doll, alien figurines, deck of alien cards, globe
Station 5: Trio and Imaginarium blocks
Station 6: basket of theme related books





Story time:
Jetsons on the Move by Gave/Marks
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers - Out to Launch by Norman/Mitchell
The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Cole/Degen

Cooperative game:
Poker (seriously!)

Science experiment:
This week's science theme: Outer Space and Planets of course!

Blasting Rockets
Today we practiced trying to send paper rockets attached to stir sticks across the room and into the air by inserting them into straws and blowing as hard as we could. The kids saw how much force it took to send something so small across the room and it made them think hard about how much force must really be needed to send a huge rocket ship into outer space!


Physical activity:
2nd soccer game of the season.

Outing/social time:
2nd soccer game of the season.

Worksheets:
Coloring O and P word pictures, tracing letters O and P, tracing O and P words, matching uppercase to lowercase letters M-P, finding different, counting and finding numeral, writing numerals 3 and 4, cutting small zig-zag lines.

Hands on math:
Today we combined math with our science. Part of the blasting rockets experiment described above included estimating how far our rockets would go, measuring the actual distance, and determining if we overestimated or underestimated and by how much.

Computers:
Outer Space and Planets games on the iPad (Alien Rock Lite, Letter Wars, Space Images, Solar System Lite, Rocket Chimp, 8 Planets).

Music:
Danced and sang to our Outer Space and Planets theme compilation cd.

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