Week 19 - Monday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: X
Theme of the week: X Marks the Spot

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids coloured and put together a pirate collage using cutouts of a blank pirate and all of his pirate clothes.



Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Little Einstein's Pirate's Treasure by Kelman/Mastrocinque
Peter Pan Disney Movie Storybook by The Walt Disney Company

Cooperative game:
Pirate themed Bingo game.

Science experiment:
Today we began a big review of all of the concepts we covered so far this year. We did this in a quiz show format with the kids yelling "Arrrrrr!" like pirates to buzz in. Each correct answer earned them a "jewel" for the team and with 10 jewels they are able to buy one piece of a treasure map that I made and cut into 5 pieces. By Friday they will have earned all of the treasure map pieces and will go on a hunt for the treasure that is hidden somewhere in the house!

Physical activity:
None.

Outing/social time:
Weekly library visit.
14 of our 15 selections were theme related books:

Scooby-Doo Pirates Ahoy! by McCann/Thomas/Elinoff
Pirates by Cavendish/Garofoli
Pirates by Clarke/Parker/McKenna
Eloise's Pirate Adventure by McClatchy/Lyon
Pirate Power Play by Becker/Sampar
Captain and Matey Set Sail by Laurence/Munoz
The Pigrates Clean Up by Kroll/Bassett
Dora in the Deep Sea by Ricci/Roper
Small Saul by Spires
Pirate Pete's Giant Adventure by Kennedy/Kennedy
Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near that Canoe! by Lawson/Zimmermann
Matthew and the Midnight Pirates by Morgan/Martchenko
Ooey Gooey by Farber/Sansevere
Pirate Girl by Funke/Meyer

Worksheets:
Coloring X word pictures, tracing letter X, tracing X words, writing name, counting and finding numeral, writing numbers 4 and 5, pirate dot to dot, finding different, cutting zigzag lines.

Hands on math:
Play with jewels - estimating, counting, sorting by shape, sorting by colour, easy addition and subtraction, patterns.


Computers:
Pirate related games on the iPad: L'il Pirates, Treasure Story, My First Find the Differences Game: Pirates, Coin Pirates, Jewel Adventures, Pirate Treasure Hunt, Pirate Tales Books.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our X Marks the Spot theme compilation cd.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "Arrête, je n'aime pas ça!" to tell someone to stop bothering them (one of the first sentences Nicki's kindergarten teacher taught the class!) and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.