Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Week of Jan.2-3 and Jan.6-10


During the month of January the focus of our activities will be wind and water. This theme allows children explore wind and water using observations, experiments, and books to learn more about topics such as evaporation, weather, temperature, insulation, rain, and snow.

 

Books this week

·         Giberto and the Wind by Marie Hall

·         One Dark Night by Hazel Hutchins

·         Amy’s Letters

 

Small Groups this week

·         Shape Bingo Game

·         Decorating pinwheels and boxes and cutting them out

·         Picture Card memory game using words from unit 3 storybooks

·         Inflating balloons and observing their movement in wind

·         Predicting Which objects will move

Center Activities this week

·         Art: Painting with straws (moving paint on paper blowing into straws)

·         Easel: Painting with colors from the book Gilberto and the Wind (black, brown and and white paint)

·         Writing: blank books with crayons, colored pencils and markers

·         Sand and Water: water and student and teacher created sailboats

·         Library: Exploring books

·         Puzzles and Manipulatives: Matching uppercase alphabet arch letters

·         Dramatic Play: playing house, clothes line and clothes pins for dramatic play

·         Blocks: building with blocks

Songs, Word Play, Letters

·         Songs: Come On and Join in the Game; Clap Your Hands; Wheels on the Bus

·         Poems: Hands; Stand Up; My Big Balloon; Mix a Pancake; Five Little Owls in an Old Elm Tree

·         Literacy Skills: Naming sound game and rhyming word game

 

Please send in an extra pair of shoes/sneakers for your child to wear during the day.





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