Wind and Water - Week 1

This week we will begin Unit 3 of our OWL Curriculum. This unit is entitled Wind and Water. "During this unit students will explore wind and water using obervations, experiments and books to learn about such topics as evaporation, weather, teperature, insulation, rain and snow. Through the story time books, children hear about a boy playing on a windy day, rabbits and kittens finding shelter in storms, a child playing in the snow, and a silly hen trying to keep warm in winter. I addition to listening to stories, children increase their listening and speaking vocabulary and continue to learn about rhymes and identify letters and sounds. You can extend what they are learning at school by talking about clouds, rain, wind, temperatures and storms."
Books This Week:
Gilbert and the Wind, By Marie Hall Ets

One Dark Night, By Hazel Hutchins
Small Groups:
Language - Students will play memory using vocabulary words from the UNit 3 stories.
Math - Students will use different shaped buttons to play a shape button lotto game.

Science - Students will blow up balloons and place them in front of a fan to see them blow in the wind like Gilberto.

Art - Students will dip straws into paint and blow into the other end to make straw wind paintings.
Choice Time -
-Sensory Table- Water and sailboats
- Games table - Letter tiles and name cards
-Library- Books about wind and water
-Easel - students will use primary colors to enjoy open ended painting
-Dramatic Play - Students use the kitchen set and pretend food to set the table and play house
-Rug - Garages and cars
**Art table - We will begin learning about a new letter each week! This week we will learn about the letter "H". Students will paint their hands to make hand prints for the letter "H." We will save the picture to create an alphabet book.** Please look around your house with your child to find something that starts with the letter "H." Send it in this week for show and tell!
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Little Monkeys

Come Join in to the Game

Hands Poem

Clap you Hands

Happy and You Know It

Extra Notes:
1) Welcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Vacation! We look forward to the rest of the new year together!

2) Book Packs will be sent home on Thursday! We hope you enjoy them and please remember toreturn them by the following Tuesday.