Week 16 - Monday

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 dipped toy cars with various sized tires and treads into paper plates filled with paint and then rolled them across a sheet of paper to make a tire track painting.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Up, Up and Away! by Higginson/Andaluz
Al's Sky-High Adventure by Paulson/Boelke/di Genova/Kim

Cooperative game:
Transportation theme bingo.

Science experiment:

S is for Soil and Seeds!
Today the kids planted flower seeds into little cups of soil and then watered them. Our first attempt at doing this earlier in the year was unsuccessful, so we decided to give it another try! We made predictions as to how long it would take for us to see sprouts emerge from the soil as well as how long it would take for the flowers to bloom. If we are successful this time around, we will transfer the flowers to the front yard to add some colour to our home!


Physical activity:
Today we were invited to participate in an end of year celebration at Nicki's school. The festivities took place outside and the kids got to play on the various structures and participate in various games and challenges that were set up around the school yard.





Outing/social time:
Nicki's end of school year celebration and our weekly library visit.
12 of our 15 selections were theme related books:

Shapes theme:
Guess Who? by Boyer
There's a Square by Serfozo/Carter
Shapes & Patterns by Play Bac Publishing
What Shape? by MacKinnon/Sieveking

Transportation theme:
My Truck Book by Smithsonian Institution
Whoo! Whoo! Goes the Train by Rockwell
Truck Driver Tom by Wellington
The Berenstain Bears and the Green-Eyed Monster by Berenstain/Berenstain
My Car by Byron Barton
Melvin Might? by Scieszka/Shannon/Long/Gordon
Things That Go by Ganeri/Bergin
The Great Big Book of Mighty Machines by Coppendale/Graham

Worksheets:
Coloring S and T word pictures, tracing letters S and T, tracing S and T words, writing name, tracing and colouring shapes, matching shape with name, tracing zig zag lines, finding different, above and below, dot to dot, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
None.

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.