On Thursday we completed our Mother Goose lesson on sorting and measuring in water with more indoor activities...which was perfect because it rained all day!
The kids started out the morning completing a story in their literacy workbook...
Directions: Draw a picture of what you might see in the water. Write a story about it and share it.
"I see a fish in the ocean...."
The kids completed a pattern activity in their math workbook...
The kids cut and pasted pictures in a mini-book from their literacy workbook...
They practiced reading their books with a friend...
Lastly, they cut apart these fish cards from their math workbook and practiced sorting them by their sizes and colors...
During circle time the kids searched the theme poster for items they can use to measure water. I was so thrilled to hear someone say, "You can use a stick to measure water!" I know they learned that yesterday as they explored measuring water with a washer tied onto a piece of string!
The kids demonstrated the words "deep" and "wide" with their arms as we listened to the song "Deep and Wide" from our Nature Detectives CD.
"The Pacific Ocean is deep and wide,
deep and wide, deep and wide.
The Pacific Ocean is deep and wide.
Can you find it?"
...Atlantic...
...Arctic...
...Indian...
We searched for the different oceans on our world map...
The kids also demonstrated "float" and "sink" as they listened to the song, "Sink Down Low" on our Nature Detectives CD....
Next, I read the following book about puddles to the kids...
I set out a ton of pillows and allowed the kids to opportunity to play and explore with them. The kids always LOVE playing with pillows. We first started out imagining the pillows were puddles...the kids had fun jumping on them and over them!
Mother Goose provided us with this "Puddle Jumping" activity.
Directions:
1. Cut out the puddles.
2. Put the "Start" puddle on the ground at your feet.
3. Jump and put down the "Finish" puddle where you landed.
4. Measure how many shoes long the distance is from the "Start" puddle to the "Finish" puddle.
5. Record the number on the chart.
I asked the kids to remember what happened to the ice when we played with it in the backyard the day before. Mother Goose provided us with these story sequence cards. We worked as a group to put them in order and concluded that the last frame might show a cloud raining. I left these out for the kids to play and explore with during our free-play time. These picture cards were a great simple way to review the water cycle!
This was our book for the day. It is a perfect book to explain the water cycle to a group of preschoolers!
In the afternoon I poured water in our sensory table. I asked the kids to play with the toys provided, but also choose various toys from the classroom to see if they sank or floated on the top of the water. I also encouraged them to make waves in the water and observe what happens to the other objects floating nearby.
L and G found it interesting that our toy walrus floated, but our toy shark sunk to the bottom.
Like I said earlier it was a rainy day for us. I took this photo in the afternoon after snack time. Some of the kids were playing so peacefully in the block station with one another. I just love all these kids so much! They are such a great group of kids!
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