Week 16 - Friday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letters of the week: S and T
Theme of the week: Shapes and Transportation

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids made name trains by gluing cutouts of train cars together onto a strip of cardboard. They wrote the letters of their names in the train cars and even decided to draw in a conductor and some passengers too!





Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
The Three Railway Engines by Awdry/Dalby
Get to Work Trucks! by Carter
Race Team by RH Disney

Cooperative game:
Both shapes and transportation theme bingo games.


Science experiment:

S is for Static!
Today we created static by rubbing a Styrofoam plate on our hair, then dropping an aluminum pie plate onto it (by a handle) and then touching the pie plate with our finger. We first did this in the light and got to feel and hear the static in action. We then did the experiment again in a dark closet and got to see the tiny sparks as well. Very cool!

Physical activity:
None.

Outing/social time:
None.

Worksheets:
Finding words that begin with S and T, finding pictures that begin with S and T, colouring S and T word pictures, filling in the missing S and T, tracing and colouring shapes, vehicle riddle, writing uppercase and lowercase letters P-T.

Hands on math:
Play with buttons - counting, easy addition & subtraction, multiplication concepts, patterns, estimating who has most, estimating total, sorting by colour, sorting by shape, concepts of "more than", "less than" and "equal to".

Computers:
Shapes and Transportation games on the iPad.
Shapes: Toddler Shapes, Tulli Shapes HD, Learn Shapes, Make Shapes, Shapes Free.
Transportation: Road Vehicle, EducaVroom, Vehicle Spot, Love Drawing Vehicles, Vehicle Trace, Vehicles HD, Vehicles, Kids Combo, Vehicle Match, Letter Race, Talking Car Free, Disney Cars Puzzle Book.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our Shapes and Transportation theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "Bonne Fête Papa!" as well as singing the happy birthday song in French, and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.