This week we will continue our unit called Shadows and Reflections! During this unit students will explore shadows and reflections using observations, experiments, and books to learn what makes a shadow and a reflection. Through story time books, children hear about a girl playing by astill pond, a puppy who thinks he's a kitten, a crocodile collectiong reflections in a pain, a sleepy boy who sees a shadow save a cat, and racoon who has an adventure with his own reflection. Children continue to learn about letters, and sounds and conuting concrete objects. They will participate in many other mathematics, science, music, poetry and art activities.
Books this week:
Guess Whose Shadow? By Stephen R. Swinburne
Play With Me, By Marie Hall Etts
Raccoon on His Own, By Jim Arnosky
Small Groups: Math - Students will talk about some of the animals from the stories read, and develop one to one corresspondence skills as they graph animal figures.
Science - Students will explore the concept of reflection as they discuss what are good reflectors and what aren't. They will look at mirror panels and see how refections can bounce.
Literacy and science- Students will create a Guess Whose Shadow? book.
Choice Time:
-Sensory Table- Water, reflective paper and boats
- Dramatic Play - Students will sit in a tent, use flashlights and create stick puppet shows with shadows. -Easel - Students will paint clouds on blue paper as they discuss how clouds cast shadows on the ground.
-Creation table- Play dough and animal cookie cutters **Art table - This week we will learn about the letter "T". Students will use tutle cutouts to decorate the letter "T." 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 "T." Send it in this week for show and tell! -Rug - Large colored lego blocks - Yellow table - Reflection collages
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
Raccoon Song
Whose reflection is in the pool?
Open Shut them
Wheels on the Bus
SNAKE - sung to the tune of Bingo
Little Turtle Poem
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