Week 18 - Thursday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: W
Theme of the week: Weather

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids completed the wind chimes they began working on yesterday using Styrofoam cups, paint, string, beads, straws, buttons and bells. The end results were fabulous!




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

Station 1: colouring weather themed pictures, drawing and cutting
Station 2: various puzzles (various Dora heart shaped puzzles, Cars, Toy Story, Mickey Mouse, Princesses)
Station 3: Lite Brite, stringing beads, Code de Couleur game
Station 4: free play with theme related toys: dress-up clothes for all seasons!
Station 5: Imaginarium wooden blocks
Station 6: basket of theme related books




Story time:
Let's Look at Weather by Tuxworth
Dumpy and the Big Storm by Edwards/Hamilton/Walton
Groundhog Weather School by Holub/Sorra

Cooperative game:
Poker (at their request!)

Science experiment:
After exploring evaporation earlier in the week, we continued our investigation of the water cycle by recreating the condensation, precipitation and collection phases. To do this the kids first filled a cup with water that they then placed in the freezer. Once it was frozen they put it out in the sun on a rack used for cooling baked goods with a bowl underneath. A little while later we came back and the kids got to see how the cup had begun to "sweat" (condensation) and watched as the "sweat" rolled down the glass, dripped off the bottom (precipitation) and made a puddle in the bowl (collection). We also continued gathering data for the temperature chart we began working on at the beginning of the week.



Physical activity:
Walk on the bicycle path, soccer, and baseball.



Outing/social time:
Walk on the bicycle path, soccer, and baseball.





Worksheets:
Coloring W word pictures, tracing and writing letter W, tracing W words, tracing numeral 9, counting and finding numeral, weather picture matching, weather word to picture matching, matching tall and short shapes, cutting curved lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Weather themed games on the iPad: Kids Juke Box HD - Weather, Snow, Rain HD, Make It Snow, The North Wind and the Sun.

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

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