Wind and Water - Week 5

Due to the many snow days we will extend our unit for one more week. This will be our last week of the Wind and Water unit of our OWL Curriculum.

Books this week:
Little Cloud By Eric Carle
It Looked Like Spilt Milk By Charles G. Shaw
Small Groups: *Because of last week's snow days, we will complete the activities we missed*
Language and literacy - Students will play a letter sound association lotto game. They will talk about how letters have names AND that they make sounds.

Science- Students will talk materials that hold heat or insulate and materials that do not. We will use common items such as mittens and socks (insulating) as well as tin foil and plastic bags (non insulating) to test how cold the ice cubes feel in our hands.
Fine Motor - Students will make create Clay Experiment Books to draw pictures and record the difference between the sculptures left on the shelf and those kept in an airtight bag.
Art - Students will use glue, glitter and Q-Tips to create glistening snowflakes

Art - Students will make individual paper bag mailboxes for the post office
Choice Time -
-Sensory Table- Water, tubes and funnels
- Games table - File folder games; Mitten match and Snowflake numbers
-Easel - Students will spray different colored water onto white paper with cloud shapes form the Little Cloud story.

-Dramatic Play - Students will sort and match different colored felt mittens on the clothesline

-Creation table- Students will use glitter and die cut snowflakes to create their own snowflakes.

**Art table - We will begin learning about a new letter each week! This week we will learn about the letter "M". Students will glue lollipop cut outs to decorate the letter "M." 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 "M." Send it in this week for show and tell!
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
Alphabet Action

Eentsy Weentsy Spider

Down by the Bay

if You're Happy and You Know It

Extra Notes:

1) If the temperature is above 25 degrees we will enjoy playing outside for our gross motor play time. Please check the weather before sending your child to school. We will try to play outside EVERYDAY! On these days, please send your child to school with a warm jacket, snowpants, boots, hats, and mittens/gloves. Please be sure to label everything!