Wind and Water Week 3- Jan14-18

Unit Concepts
-We find water in different forms (liquid as rain, solid as snow, and gas as steam.
-Water can be absorbed and repelled by different materials (ie. sponge, plastic film)
-Wind affects things.  Wind cannot move heavy things. Wind can make light objects move fast.
-Water comes to us in forms of rain or snow.
-Water evaporates from puddles and from things that are wet.
-Plants and animals need water to live.
-Water and wind provide opportunities for recreation.

Books this week

One Dark Night
The Snowy Day
Rabbits and Raindrops

Small Groups
Continued from last week:
-Exploring Tangrams- Using tangrams we will create picture scenes and discuss shapes.
-Science- Absorbancy of Materials- We will put drops of water on various object to discover if the water absorbs on the material or if it "repels" and rolls off the material.
-Engineering- We will construct tin foil boats using tin foil. Then we will try to put bears in the boats and discover if how different boat designs may hold more bears.
New:
-Water Sound Exploration- We will investigate in the sensory table how water creates sounds.  First listening to the sound of water in streams and ocean tides on the Ipad. Then we will create sounds by droping objects into the water in the sensory table.  We will notice how the weight or shape of objects affect the sound it creates.
-Writing- We will be writing animal names from our unit book Rabbits and Raindrops to create a book.
-Phonemic Awareness- We will color, cut, then glue to create a rhyming book to our class song"Down by the Bay".

Center
Blocks-Click Blocks
Sensory Table-Water Movement (Tunnels, Tubes, Cups, etc)
Dramatic Play- Pet Vet with real stethoscopes and "x-ray" machines
Library- A variety of books about weather
Art Table-Sponge Painting
Easel- Paints in colors from Rabbits and Raindrops
Puzzles- Puzzles
Manipulatives-  Make Icebergs with white legos. We will watch them float in water see if they can hold an animal
Writing Center- Writing Animal words

Song, Word Play and Letters
Poems- Boom, Bang, Raindrops
Songs-Down by the Bay, Windy was the weather
Literacy Skills- Frog Jump Letters, Diving Letters
Handwriting
-We will be working on Big Line Letters that need a "frog jump" such as F, E, H... (A big line down, frog jump up, then little line at the top, and little line in the middle).

Preschool Life Skills
We are continuing to review our previous skills 1-6.
1-When a teacher calls your name, stop, look and say, "Yes".
2-When a teacher tells you to do something, do it "Right Away".
3-When a teacher tells you to do 2 things, do it "Right Away".
4-When something is too hard, first try then say,"Can you help me please?"
5-When you something from a teacher or a friend and they are doing something, say, "Excuse me" to get them to look at you.
(6and 7 are join together)
New skill:
7-When someone is in your way or has something that you want, say "Excuse me" to get their attention, and then say"May I_____?" to get what you want.