Shadows and Reflections Week 4

Unit 5 Week 4 Shadows and Reflections


WELCOME BACK! WE HOPE YOU ALL HAD A WONDERFUL VACATION WEEK! :)


This week we will continue our unit, Shadows and Reflections! During this unit students will explore shadows and reflections using observations, experiments, and books to learn what makes a shadow and a reflection. Through story time books, children hear about a puppy who thinks he's a kitten, a crocodile collecting reflections in a pail, and a sleepy boy who sees a shadow save a cat. Children continue to learn about letters, and sounds and counting concrete objects. They will participate in many other mathematics, science, music, poetry and art activities.


Books this week:
Dreams By Ezra Jack Keats
Kitten For A Day By Ezra Jack Keats
The Puddle Pail By Elisa Kleven


Small Groups:
Literacy- Students will explore the beginning sounds of familiar words and match words by initial sounds.

Mathematics- Students will continue to look at patterns by creating their own from reflections seen in The Puddle Pail
Science– Students will make “stained glass” panels to see what happens when a light shines through it.
Literacy and Art- Students will draw a picture and tell about what they dream about at night and what they think a dream might be.
Art- Students will decorate the letters S and T for their alphabet books


Choice Time:
Sensory Table- Making collections of things that are the same in the sand.
Easel - Painting pictures of starry nights
Table - Play dough
Manipulatives- Building structures and using flashlights to cast shadows
Rug – pegboards
Dramatic Play – Tool shop


Songs, Word Play, and Letters:
If You're Happy and You Know It
Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes
Good Morning Mrs. Hen
Old MacDonald



***We will be doing 2 letters this week. The letters S & T. Students will decorate the letter S like a snake and building off of our stained glass activity, will use tissue paper to cover the letter T.