Wind and Water Week 1- Jan 2-4

We wish you and your family a wonderful vacation and a happy and healthy new year.   See you on January 2, 2019.  

Wind and Water Week 1- Jan 2-4

When we come back to school

WIND AND WATER THEME

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

Concepts for this unit include:

• Finding water in different forms - as rain (liquid), snow and ice (solid) and as steam (gas).  Temperature affects the form of water.
• Water soaks into, or is absorbed by , some things but is repelled by others.
• Wind - moving air - affects things.  Lighter things are moved a lot by wind. Heavier things are moved less by wind.  The amount of wind changes with the weather.  In storms, wind can blow very hard.
• Plants and animals need water to live.
• Water and wind provide opportunities for recreation.

Books this week

  -Giberto and the Wind by Marie Hall
  -One Dark Night by Hazel Hutchins

Small Groups this week

-Math- Shape Bingo Game

-Memory - Vocabulary pictures from our stories.

Center Activities

              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  white paint)

Writing: blank books with crayons and markers

Sand and Water: playing with sailboats in the water table

Library: Exploring books

Puzzles and Manipulatives: Matching uppercase alphabet arch letters 

Dramatic Play: playing with a clothes line and clothes pins for dramatic play

Blocks: building with blocks


Reminders:  We will be going outside everyday that the weather is above 25 degrees.  Please send your child to school with appropriate clothing to play outside (in the snow - while it lasts).

Stories for week of January 7th

Books this Week:

Gilberto and the Wind
One Dark Night
The Wind Blew

Small Groups
Art - Decorating pinwheels
Writing - What do you like to do on a windy day?
Science - What can air move?
Self Portraits for portfolios
Math - Size Sequencing snowballs to make a snowman

Center Activities -
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 white paint)

Writing: blank books with crayons and markers

Sand and Water: playing with sailboats in the water table

Library: Exploring books

Puzzles and Manipulatives: Matching uppercase alphabet arch letters 

Dramatic Play: playing with a clothes line and clothes pins for dramatic play

Blocks: building with blocks