Preschool 3 - 2018: January 2017

Language

The Letter was Ww.

Identify: This week we identified sounds and words that starts with Ww.

Group activity: We read letter Ww book. We did letter Ww worksheet and whiteboard tracings.

Hands on activity: We also made "Walrus” craft.

Inquiry

After the winter vacation, we started to focus on "How we express ourselves". Subtopics of this theme are music, dance, art, drama and different cultures' celebration. During study of these topics, we also prepared year end performance with these subtopics. We decided first choice of drama for year end performance, the story is "We are going on a bear hunt". Last week, we decided how we will perform the story. In this manner, children are singing the story as group and they are playing various instruments.

We decided some instruments such as xylophone, castanet, triangle, maracas, snare drum and large drum. We checked their sounds and tones. We discussed placement of instruments in story respect to how they conveyed feelings to us. Everybody chose their instrument and we started our rehearsals.

Snow play

After snowfall, we met with sunny weather and played with snow at outside. We had so much fun.

Center time

We prepared various centers such as play-doh, kinetic sand, rice and chickpeas, feel the cups, alphabet, art and creative centers.Students played at these centers together for collaborative working, sharing and team work skills.

Links that we loved to use:

Letter Ww songs:

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yCg2dZaaD0

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUIYnDZZ-M

3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZ-c3_EDj4

Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-w/load.htm?filter=abc

We are going on a bear hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL36gMrHJaI&t=28s

Have a nice week!

Language

The Letter was Vv.
Identify: This week we identified sounds and words that starts with Vv.
Group activity: We read letter Vv book. We did letter Vv worksheet and whiteboard tracings.
Hands on activity: We also made "Volcano" science experiment which we made model from clay and jar then we add vinegar, food coloring and baking soda. Mixture came out as lava shape. We had so much fun, it was a nice experiment.