Week 15 - Tuesday

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 frames by gluing Popsicle sticks into the shape of a square and then decorating them with stickers. They then went through our photo albums and chose their favourite photos of themselves with their Daddy and we taped the photos to the back of the frames.


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:
What Good Are Bugs? by Bently/Devaney
What's A Fraggle? by Gikow/McClintock
What Am I? by Crozon/Lanchais

Cooperative game:
Bingo using rhyming words.

Science experiment:

R is for Rocks!
Today the kids collected rocks from around the yard and then examined them using their magnifying glasses. They made observations relating to size, colour, shape and texture.


Physical activity:
Walk on the bicycle path, outdoor play in the back yard, 3rd soccer game of the season.





Outing/social time:
3rd 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 2, 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.