Week 15 - Thursday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letters of the week: Q and R
Theme of the week: Questions and Rhymes

Arts & crafts:
Because Daddy is celebrating his birthday next week and Father's Day is this weekend, we decided to stray from our usual weekly theme related crafts and secretly make him gifts all week long! Today the kids made pen holders using old soup cans. Earlier in the week I had them each come up with ideas for finishing the sentence "I love you Daddy because..." I typed up all of their answers, printed them out and cut them into little strips. Today they glued the strips onto their favourite coloured paper and we then covered the cans with the paper. Now Daddy can smile every time he reaches for a pen at work!




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

Station 1: colouring pairs of rhyming pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (Chip 'n' Dale, Mickey Mouse, Donald and Daisy, alphabet puzzle)
Station 3: Play-Doh, peg board, Code de Couleur game
Station 4: free play toys that rhyme together (i.e. a hat and a cat, a bear and a pear, etc - we made a game out of finding the matching pairs!)
Station 5: Imaginarium Deluxe Marble Racing set
Station 6: basket of theme related books

Story time:
The Sneeches by Dr. Seuss
The Zax by Dr. Seuss
Too Many Daves by Dr. Seuss
What Was I Scared Of? by Dr. Seuss
What's a Fraggle? by Gikow/McClintok
Why Don't Things Fall Up? by Bently/Devaney


Cooperative game:
Bingo using rhyming words.

Science experiment:

R is for Reaction Time!
Today the kids tested how quick their reaction times were by trying to catch a ruler between their thumb and forefinger.

Physical activity:
Outdoor play in the kiddie pool, 4th soccer game of the season.




Outing/social time:
4th soccer game of the season.

Worksheets:
Coloring Q and R word pictures, tracing letters Q and R, tracing Q and R words, counting and finding numeral, tracing the numeral 4, matching rhyming pictures, matching rhyming words, cutting straight lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Questions and Rhymes games on the iPad (Bluster, Fun Rhyming Lite, Fun Phonics Lite, Green Eggs and Ham Lite, What Am I Riddles For Kids).

Music:
Danced and sang along to our Questions and Rhymes theme compilation cd.

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