Circle of time

Last week was all about Days. We talked about:
- the days in a week (we realised that Mr. Week has seven children: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday), and the terms like YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
- the parts of the day like MORNING, AFTERNOON, EVENING and NIGHT (about characteristic signs on the sky: sun, moon, stars, blue and black sky and about what we do during the day: we wake up in the morning, we go home from kindergarten in the afternoon, we eat dinner in the evening, we sleep at night)
- the weather: SUNNY, RAINY, CLOUDY, WINDY, STORMY, SNOWY.
By the way I introduced children to the calendar: everyday we count the days and write a new number on our calendar - so we can practise counting (even to 31!) and we get used to the look of the numbers.
From now on we start every "circle time" with questions: What month and year is now? Let's count the days on our calendar. What is the day today, what day was yesterday, what day will be tomorrow? What is the weather outside? - it's very quick and it brings routine to our circle time, what is good for children to feel safe and focus on the further part of the activities.


We sing a song "Days Of The Week", which I created for our classes. Below you will find a player so you can listen to it :)


Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday
These are the days when I go to kindergarten
Then comes the weekend
Saturday, Sunday
When I stay at home and play on my own.

The other text we learnt is "Mr. Week is exercising" - also created by me, supposed to be just a rhyme (riekanka) but it's very nice to give it some melody, or created by you or the one I recorded :)


On Monday you must jump, jump, jump (children jump)
On Tuesday you must stamp, stamp, stamp (children stamp their feet)
On Wednesday you must clap, clap, clap (children clap their hands)
On Thursday you must touch your lap (children squot and touch their knees)
On Friday you must turn around (children turn around)
On Saturday just touch the ground (children bow down and touch the ground without bending their knees)
On Sunday you must count to ten (children count)
...and you can start again!

What you can do with children is to talk about your plans: "tomorrow we will do this and that", or tell them "it's monday, so we will do that". Indicate what is the day today and use all the expressions like "it's such a nice afternoon" or "it's evening so you should put on your pyjama and go to sleep". You don't have to say it in English, the most important thing is for them to UNDERSTAND the circle of time, that weeks go one by one like on a carousel, that after every Sunday comes another Monday etc. 

Enjoy!


If you would like to get the songs in MP3 version, you can give me your email address and I will send them :)