Wind and Water - Week 3

This week we will continue Unit 3 of our OWL Curriculum. This unit is entitled Wind and Water. "During this unit students will explore wind and water using observations, experiments and books to learn about such topics as evaporation, weather, temperature, 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. In 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:
The Snowy Day, By Ezra Jack Keats

Rabbits and Raindrops, By Jim Arnosky
One Dark Night, By Hazel Hutchins
Small Groups: *Because of last week's snow days, we will complete the activities we missed*
Language and literacy - Students will play alphabet Go Fish. They will ask each other for a letter and search for the matching letter.
Math - Students will use different shaped wood pieces, called tangrams, to create a picture.
Science - Students will conduct an experiment using a fan and an assortment of materials with different weights. They will ask and answer the question, "What can air move?"
Art - Students will use eye droppers to paint a butterfly
Choice Time -
-Sensory Table- Snow with shovels and containers

- Games table - Animal puzzles

-Library- Books about wind and water
-Easel - Students will use markers to draw pictures from the stories on laminate. They will then spray the picture with a squirt bottle and see the colors drip and blend.
-Dramatic Play - Students will play with stuffed animals such as kittens, bunnies and dogs. They will reenact scenes from the stories we are reading.
-Rug - Legos
**Art table - We will begin learning about a new letter each week! This week we will learn about the letter "J". Students will color pictures of jelly beans to paint the letter "J." 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 "J." Send it in this week for show and tell!
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Little Monkeys

Raindrops and snowflakes
Come Join in to the Game
Hands Poem
Clap you Hands
Happy and You Know It
Extra Notes:
1) Starting next week, we will begin to enjoy playing outside for our gross motor play time. We will try to play outside EVERYDAY! Please send your child to school with a warm jacket, snowpants, boots, hats, and mittens/gloves. Please be sure to label everything!