Week 17 - Tuesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letters of the week: U and V
Theme of the week: Under the sea and Vacation

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids each made an aquarium by colouring and gluing sea creature cutouts onto a paper plate and then covering it with a second paper plate with the middle cut out.






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

Station 1: colouring under the sea and vacation themed pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (Dora map of Canada, alphabet boat, Ariel, Franklin)
Station 3: Play-Doh, lacing, Geoforme game
Station 4: free play with theme related toys: all types of sea creature toys, Polly Pocket water slide, Leap Frog globe, dress-up clothes for vacation role play
Station 5: Trio blocks and Lincoln Logs
Station 6: basket of theme related books





Story time:
The Sandcastle Contest by Munsch/Martchenko
A Humpback Whale Tale by Spelvin/Zalme
D.W. All Wet by Brown

Cooperative game:
Mille Bornes.

Science experiment:

Why doesn't the ocean freeze?
Today the kids tested out the theory that ocean water doesn't freeze in main part because it is so salty. They filled 2 cups with tap water and then added sea salt to one of the cups, stirring until it dissolved. They then labeled the cups and placed them in the freezer. When they came back to check on the cups later in the day they found that the regular water had indeed frozen while the salt water had not!

Physical activity:
Soccer, baseball and play at the park.

Outing/social time:
Soccer, baseball and play at the park.

Worksheets:
Coloring U and V word pictures, tracing & writing letters U and V, tracing U and V words, tracing numeral 3, counting and finding numeral, finding different, finding biggest, cutting straight lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Under the Sea themed games on the iPad: Flick Fishing, Fish Tales, Memory Cards, Crazy Submarine: Extreme Push, Fish Food Frenzy, Peekaboo Ocean, Aquarium Coloring for Kids Lite, What Has Changed?, The Little Mermaid's Surprise.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our Under the Sea and Vacation theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "C'est facile" and "C'est difficile" to describe when something is easy or hard to do and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.