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.
