Week 20 - Wednesday

Circle time:
As described in earlier circle time post
Letter of the week: Y and Z
Theme of the week: Yikes and Zoinks! (Scooby Doo)

Arts & crafts:
Today the kids glued together some Scooby Doo masks.





Free play at stations:
None.

Story time:
Scooby Doo! And the Phony Fortune Teller by Gelsey - Chapters 3-4

Cooperative game:
Go Fish.

Science experiment:
As this is our final week of homeschooling, for science this week we will be revisiting each of the kids' favourite experiments and recreating them all over again! For his favourite experiment, Gabe chose the Day & Night experiment from our Outer Space and Planets week. First I read the kids a Winnie the Pooh book called "Where Does the Sun Go at Night?" and then we all went into the closet for a quick and easy demonstration of how day turns into night and vice versa. First we stuck a sticker onto a balloon "earth" to show where we live. Then we turned on a flashlight to use as the sun. I demonstrated how when our part of the world faces the sun it is bright and daytime and then rotated the balloon around to show that when our part of the world faces away from the sun it is dark and nighttime. I also reminded them that it takes a full day of 24 hours for the earth to rotate completely around its axis and they all took turns manipulating both the balloon "earth" and the flashlight "sun".

Physical activity:
Running, climbing, sliding and playing with balls in the YMCA gym with me.

Outing/social time:
1 hour at the YMCA childcare.

Worksheets:
Coloring Y and Z word pictures, tracing letters Y and Z, tracing Y and Z words, Scooby Doo head matching game, Scooby Doo maze, cutting various shaped curved lines.

Hands on math:
None.

Computers:
Various reading, spelling, number and matching games on the iPad.

Music:
Danced and sang along to our Scooby Doo and The Alien Invaders CD.

French:
French is emphasized throughout the entire day; especially theme related words. Today we practiced saying "J'ai hâte!" when they are looking forward to something and also continued to reinforce all of the notions that we covered in previous weeks. We will continue to practice these sentences all week.