Ww is for wind - January 30 - February 3, 2012

As you all saw, I posted the upcoming field trips on my door.  I will send those files to you as the field trips come up.  The first one to Sensory Time on Friday, February 17th is on our day off.  They have a $3 special on Fridays, so the price is no longer $7!  I hope you can join us.

This week's theme was wind and the letter was Ww.  The art project where they blew bubbles colored with food coloring onto paper did not work very well.  After they blew a few bubbles, we stood back and flung the colored bubble solution on to the paper.  The second art project was to color a diamond shaped paper, to make kites that you put on display.  We used oil pastels, which are really nice to work with, because they are so smooth.

For centers, they blew leaves across water, blew cotton balls across the table, blew up balloons and let them go, and played with toys.  Blowing up the balloons was difficult.  The pre-k'ers seemed to be able to blow up the balloons after many tries and the preschoolers struggled.

I read a very long book called, The Girl Who Loved the Wind, by Jane Yolen.  It is pretty advanced and has a lot of big words.  I gave them pillows to lay on and I asked them to listen to the story without talking, like they would at the movies.  They did a really good job following these instructions.  Despite the level of the book being at a 4th grade level, the children understood the main idea of the book!

I'm almost done testing the children.  I will be e-mailing each of you about your child, instead of doing conferences.  If you want a conference after you receive the e-mail, then let me know.

Enjoy this week's photos:

Flung the colored bubble solution, instead

coloring the kite

Coloring the bow

Some of our kites on display

blowing the cotton ball across the table

Trying to blow up the balloons

Letting the balloons go!

Tracing the letter Ww

Practicing

They wanted me to take a picture of their joint effort structure.  It looks amazing!

Here are the words we put together on Fridays.  This week we reviewed the letter Jj and made the word jet and we learned about the letter Vv and made the word vet.