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Monday, August 31, 2009
Germs!
Cut confetti out of various colors of construction paper and stuff in into an uninflated balloon. Blow up the balloon and have a pin ready. Pretend to sneeze and at the same time pop the balloon. The confetti or "germs" will fly all over the room. Explain to the children that it is similar with germs when you sneeze. If you don't cover you mouth and nose with a tissue then the germs go all over everyone and everything. Have the children look at how far the germs went. As a transition to wash their hands, sprinkle glitter or "germs" onto their hands and have them scrub until they are all off. It helps them to understand that germs hide in between their fingers and it sometimes takes a while to wash them all off.
Alphabet Walk
Make binoculars with your children out of toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls. Cover them with construction paper and decorate them with markers, crayons, sticker, etc. Hole punch two holes (one on each side of the binoculars) and tie a string to go around their necks. Then take them on a walk around the neighborhood and look for letters on signs, houses, license plates, cars, etc. Have the children call out the letters they see and try to sound out the words. You could also do this same thing with shapes, colors, or numbers.
Activities for Ocean/Water week
*Play Go Fish (Card Game)
*Play "Let's Go Fishing" (Kids game with plastic fishing poles and fish that open and shut mouths)
*Fish, Fish, Shark (Duck, Duck, Goose)
*Crab Walk Races
*Shark Attack (Play tag and whoever is it is the shark)
*Cut out ocean animals, write gross motor activities on the back and hide them around the room. Have one child at a time find one and do the activity written on the back. For example: swim, skip, walk backwards, crab walk, jumping jacks, hop on one foot, etc.
*Put a beach umbrella in the sand box with buckets, shovels, shells, etc.
*Paint your windows with blue paint and have the kids cut out fish to put "in the ocean"
*Hang blue crepe paper from the ceiling
*Dance with scarves (octopus or jellyfish tenticles) to "Under the Sea"
*Play "Let's Go Fishing" (Kids game with plastic fishing poles and fish that open and shut mouths)
*Fish, Fish, Shark (Duck, Duck, Goose)
*Crab Walk Races
*Shark Attack (Play tag and whoever is it is the shark)
*Cut out ocean animals, write gross motor activities on the back and hide them around the room. Have one child at a time find one and do the activity written on the back. For example: swim, skip, walk backwards, crab walk, jumping jacks, hop on one foot, etc.
*Put a beach umbrella in the sand box with buckets, shovels, shells, etc.
*Paint your windows with blue paint and have the kids cut out fish to put "in the ocean"
*Hang blue crepe paper from the ceiling
*Dance with scarves (octopus or jellyfish tenticles) to "Under the Sea"
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Fun Activity
Silhouette:
You will need:
White construction paper,
Red construction paper,
glue,
scissors,
markers,
pencil,
masking tape,
smooth wall,
and a light source (lamp, overhead projector, etc.)
Directions:
1. Use masking tape to affix White construction paper onto a smooth wall.
2. Turn on light source.
3. Place child in front of white construction paper facing sideways so that their profile creates a shadow that will fit onto white construction paper. Depending on the size of the child's profile you might have to move the light source closer or further back to make it fit on to the white construction paper.
4. Once established, trace the child's profile with a pencil.
5. Re-trace in black marker. Remove from wall.
6. Cut out white construction paper profile with scissors.
7. Glue profile onto Red construction paper and write the child's name, age, and date on it. And there you have a personal silhouette of your child! Note: You can have your child stand or sit (be sure to provide a chair) inside a large box or a ward robe box while posing for their profile. You can use this for anytime of the year too. Traditionally, silhouettes are traced on Black Construction paper (with white chalk) with a White Construction paper background
Silhouette:
You will need:
White construction paper,
Red construction paper,
glue,
scissors,
markers,
pencil,
masking tape,
smooth wall,
and a light source (lamp, overhead projector, etc.)
Directions:
1. Use masking tape to affix White construction paper onto a smooth wall.
2. Turn on light source.
3. Place child in front of white construction paper facing sideways so that their profile creates a shadow that will fit onto white construction paper. Depending on the size of the child's profile you might have to move the light source closer or further back to make it fit on to the white construction paper.
4. Once established, trace the child's profile with a pencil.
5. Re-trace in black marker. Remove from wall.
6. Cut out white construction paper profile with scissors.
7. Glue profile onto Red construction paper and write the child's name, age, and date on it. And there you have a personal silhouette of your child! Note: You can have your child stand or sit (be sure to provide a chair) inside a large box or a ward robe box while posing for their profile. You can use this for anytime of the year too. Traditionally, silhouettes are traced on Black Construction paper (with white chalk) with a White Construction paper background
Insects Around the World
Country or History Activity – Insects Around the World
Talk about the insects you found on the Scavenger Hunt. Explain they are found here in Arizona. Show them a map of the world (Globe) and point out AZ. Proceed to tell them about other insects found around the globe while reading the info below and pointing to the corresponding location on the map. Add any you many know of.
On the land however there isn't anywhere you can go that you can't find some insects, even in the frozen extremes of Arctica and Antartica you will find some insects alive and active during the warmer months.
Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) from South America the males of which can be 9cms long by 5cms wide by 4cms thick
Heaviest insect in the world in the form of the True Wetas from New Zealand.
Longhorn beetles are nearly as large and may look even bigger because of their longer legs i.e. Xixuthrus heros from Fiji.
In Africa swarms of Orthoptera ( Desert Locusts Schistocerca gregaria) may contain as many as 28,000,000,000 individuals. Although each Locust only weighs about 2.5grams when they are all added up together this comes to 70,000 tons of locust.
Ants are social animals and live in colonies, sometimes these colonies may contain only 50 or so individuals, but, one supercolony of Formica yessensis on the coast of Japan is reported to have had 1,080,000 queens and 306,000,000 workers in 45,000 interconnected nests.
In 1943 Profeesor Salt found that an acre of British pastureland near Cambridge supported over 1,000,000,000 Arthropods of which nearly 400,000,000 were Insects and 666,000,000 were Mites the remaining 38,000,000 were Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes).
Talk about the insects you found on the Scavenger Hunt. Explain they are found here in Arizona. Show them a map of the world (Globe) and point out AZ. Proceed to tell them about other insects found around the globe while reading the info below and pointing to the corresponding location on the map. Add any you many know of.
On the land however there isn't anywhere you can go that you can't find some insects, even in the frozen extremes of Arctica and Antartica you will find some insects alive and active during the warmer months.
Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) from South America the males of which can be 9cms long by 5cms wide by 4cms thick
Heaviest insect in the world in the form of the True Wetas from New Zealand.
Longhorn beetles are nearly as large and may look even bigger because of their longer legs i.e. Xixuthrus heros from Fiji.
In Africa swarms of Orthoptera ( Desert Locusts Schistocerca gregaria) may contain as many as 28,000,000,000 individuals. Although each Locust only weighs about 2.5grams when they are all added up together this comes to 70,000 tons of locust.
Ants are social animals and live in colonies, sometimes these colonies may contain only 50 or so individuals, but, one supercolony of Formica yessensis on the coast of Japan is reported to have had 1,080,000 queens and 306,000,000 workers in 45,000 interconnected nests.
In 1943 Profeesor Salt found that an acre of British pastureland near Cambridge supported over 1,000,000,000 Arthropods of which nearly 400,000,000 were Insects and 666,000,000 were Mites the remaining 38,000,000 were Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes).
Insect Scavenger Hunt
Get the kids really excited by talking about the “hunt” and what they will find.
Write on a piece of paper the types of insects you will be looking for.
Example – spiders, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, butterflies, roach, worm, moth, fly (anything you can think of that you’ll really find when going outside.)
You will have the best luck in the early evening around dusk. When you find an insect, have the child checkmark it off your list and count how many of that insect you have found and write the number down. Have fun and be creative – perhaps use a magnifying glass and a flashlight.
Get the kids really excited by talking about the “hunt” and what they will find.
Write on a piece of paper the types of insects you will be looking for.
Example – spiders, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, butterflies, roach, worm, moth, fly (anything you can think of that you’ll really find when going outside.)
You will have the best luck in the early evening around dusk. When you find an insect, have the child checkmark it off your list and count how many of that insect you have found and write the number down. Have fun and be creative – perhaps use a magnifying glass and a flashlight.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Dinosaur activities
Give each child a chocolate chip cookie and a toothpick. Tell the children about how there are people who dig up dinosaur bones and have to get them out of the earth. Have the children try to get the chocolate chips out of the cookie using the toothpicks.
Sequencing Sizes
You can draw and cut out different sizes of bones and/or teeth. Have the children order them from smallest to largest or the other way around. Ask them which is the largest/smallest for younger ones.
Pin the horn on the Triceratops
Sort pictures of dinosaurs by meat eating and plant eating. Have the children try a piece of ham and a bite of lettuce. Have them tell you which they like better and it they would be a meat eater or a plant eater.
Sequencing Sizes
You can draw and cut out different sizes of bones and/or teeth. Have the children order them from smallest to largest or the other way around. Ask them which is the largest/smallest for younger ones.
Pin the horn on the Triceratops
Sort pictures of dinosaurs by meat eating and plant eating. Have the children try a piece of ham and a bite of lettuce. Have them tell you which they like better and it they would be a meat eater or a plant eater.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Becoming Dinosaurs
Give each child a dinosaur name using his/her real name. (For Example: Danny would be Dannyasaurus or Kate would be Katasaurus). Have them move around like dinosaurs. Let them know some lived in the water, others flew in the sky, some stayed on land. Tell them about how some dinosaurs ate meat and others ate leaves and plants. Have them choose which kind of dinosaur they want to be. Sort them into meat eating and plant eating dinosaurs.
Dinosaur footprints find
Before the children arrive, cut out dinosaur footprints (can be any size) and spell out the word dinosaur, one letter on each footprint, and hind them around the room. Have the children find a footprint and bring it back to the circle. Spell out the word dinosaur with the children. It is a great way to introduce the theme.
Find out how big a real T-Rex footprint was (or another dinosaur) and try to recreate it using butcher paper. See how many children fit into the footprint.
Find out how big a real T-Rex footprint was (or another dinosaur) and try to recreate it using butcher paper. See how many children fit into the footprint.
The Farmer in the Dell
The Farmer in the Dell
The Farmer in the Dell
Heigh-ho the derry-O
The Farmer in the Dell.
The Farmer takes a wife.
The Farmer takes a wife.
Heigh-ho the derry-O
The Farmer takes a wife.
The wife takes a child...
The child takes a nurse...
The nurse takes a dog...
The dog takes a cat...
The cat takes a mouse...
The mouse takes the cheese...
The cheese stands alone...
Have everyone in your class stand up and hold hands in a circle. Have someone be the farmer and stand in the middle of the circle. As you sing the song, the class will move in a circle around the child in the middle. Have the "farmer" choose another child to be the wife and have them join him in the middle of the circle. Keep adding children to the middle of the circle with the song. By the end you have a hard time moving around all of the children in the center, but it is really fun.
The Farmer in the Dell
Heigh-ho the derry-O
The Farmer in the Dell.
The Farmer takes a wife.
The Farmer takes a wife.
Heigh-ho the derry-O
The Farmer takes a wife.
The wife takes a child...
The child takes a nurse...
The nurse takes a dog...
The dog takes a cat...
The cat takes a mouse...
The mouse takes the cheese...
The cheese stands alone...
Have everyone in your class stand up and hold hands in a circle. Have someone be the farmer and stand in the middle of the circle. As you sing the song, the class will move in a circle around the child in the middle. Have the "farmer" choose another child to be the wife and have them join him in the middle of the circle. Keep adding children to the middle of the circle with the song. By the end you have a hard time moving around all of the children in the center, but it is really fun.
Dinosaur Stomp
Dinosaur Stomp
Play the bunny hop song and have the children pretend to be dinosaurs stomping around. There is also a book called the Dinosaur Stomp and it has a tape that goes along with it if you can find it. It is SO fun and the kids love it.
Play the bunny hop song and have the children pretend to be dinosaurs stomping around. There is also a book called the Dinosaur Stomp and it has a tape that goes along with it if you can find it. It is SO fun and the kids love it.
Dinosaur Fishing Game
Dinosaur Shape Fishing Game
Tie 3 feet of string to a wooden spoon. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Cut and laminate many different colored dinosaur shapes from construction paper (not too big though). Attach a paper clip to each dinosaur shape. Spread the dinosaur shapes on the floor and let your child try to catch the dinosaur shape. Have them try to catch the biggest dinosaur or the red dinosaur. For a twist, label the dinosaur shapes with letters or numbers.
Tie 3 feet of string to a wooden spoon. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Cut and laminate many different colored dinosaur shapes from construction paper (not too big though). Attach a paper clip to each dinosaur shape. Spread the dinosaur shapes on the floor and let your child try to catch the dinosaur shape. Have them try to catch the biggest dinosaur or the red dinosaur. For a twist, label the dinosaur shapes with letters or numbers.
Ideas for Plastic Dinosaur Figures
--Have the children sort the animals by size.
--Have the children sort the animals by the kind they like the best to least.
--Buy two or more sets and have the children sort the animals by type.
--Supply the children with a balance and let them experiment.
--Have the children count the animals.
--Supply the children with cards with numbers on them. Large playing cards work well. Have the children place the appropriate number of animals on each card. Ie 4 animals on the card that has a 4 (or 4 of diamonds) on it.
--Let the children play with the animals in the sand and water table.
--Put the dinosaurs in the block area, encourage the children to create mountians with the blocks for the animals to live and play on.
--Supply the children with paint and white paper, and give them a figure of a dinosaur. Have them dip the animals feet in the paint press them on the paper to make dinosaur tracks.
--Have the children sort the animals by the kind they like the best to least.
--Buy two or more sets and have the children sort the animals by type.
--Supply the children with a balance and let them experiment.
--Have the children count the animals.
--Supply the children with cards with numbers on them. Large playing cards work well. Have the children place the appropriate number of animals on each card. Ie 4 animals on the card that has a 4 (or 4 of diamonds) on it.
--Let the children play with the animals in the sand and water table.
--Put the dinosaurs in the block area, encourage the children to create mountians with the blocks for the animals to live and play on.
--Supply the children with paint and white paper, and give them a figure of a dinosaur. Have them dip the animals feet in the paint press them on the paper to make dinosaur tracks.
Dinosaurs fingerplay
DINOSAURS
Five enormous dinosaurs Letting out a roar--
One went away, and Then there were four.
Four enormous dinosaurs Crashing down a tree--
One went away, and Then there were three.
Three enormous dinosaurs Eating tiger stew--
One went away, and Then there were two.
Two enormous dinosaurs Trying to run--
One ran away, and then there was one.
One enormous dinosaur, Afraid to be a hero-- He went away, and Then there was zero.
You can use your fingers, or puppets/stuffed/plastic diosaurs. You can also draw the dinosaurs on pellon and make this a flannel board story-letting the children remove one dinosaur at a time.
Five enormous dinosaurs Letting out a roar--
One went away, and Then there were four.
Four enormous dinosaurs Crashing down a tree--
One went away, and Then there were three.
Three enormous dinosaurs Eating tiger stew--
One went away, and Then there were two.
Two enormous dinosaurs Trying to run--
One ran away, and then there was one.
One enormous dinosaur, Afraid to be a hero-- He went away, and Then there was zero.
You can use your fingers, or puppets/stuffed/plastic diosaurs. You can also draw the dinosaurs on pellon and make this a flannel board story-letting the children remove one dinosaur at a time.
Bug Science
Science Activities
1. Get an ant farm and let your kids watch them build their many tunnels.
2. Bury (to the rim) several containers of food in the ground. Put a piece of cardboard on top of the container. In some containers put foods that will attract bugs. In others put foods that won't. Before you put them out ask the children to suggest which foods they think the bugs will like. Check back later and see if the children are right.
3. Get magnifying glasses and look at the bugs in your yard/neighborhood. Have a clipboard and crayons and let your child draw what they see. Keep a bug book.
1. Get an ant farm and let your kids watch them build their many tunnels.
2. Bury (to the rim) several containers of food in the ground. Put a piece of cardboard on top of the container. In some containers put foods that will attract bugs. In others put foods that won't. Before you put them out ask the children to suggest which foods they think the bugs will like. Check back later and see if the children are right.
3. Get magnifying glasses and look at the bugs in your yard/neighborhood. Have a clipboard and crayons and let your child draw what they see. Keep a bug book.
Math Activities involving bugs
· Take a walk a look for bugs. Count them as you go
· Find a picture of a bug and count the legs. Explain to your child that not all bugs have the same amount of legs (ex. Centipeds, spiders…)
· Look at different bugs and compare the shapes and sizes
· Butterfly Match -Create several diferent colored butterflies. Cut them in half and then have your children match the butterfly halves.
Get a box of "Bug Bites" (Keebler) and make patterns out of the bugs. Start with a 2 bug pattern and then when they get the hang of that, do a 3 bug pattern.
Sort the "Bug Bites" bugs and count them. Graph or chart them if you like.
Divide a piece a piece of paper into 9 squares and randomly # them. Have your child put that many "Bug Bites" in that square. You could obviously use goldfish crackers or other snacks if you like. You could also get bug stickers and have your child put that # bug stickers on that square.
Get bug stickers and put one on and index card. Two on another and so forth until #20. Then, depending on age/ability, have your child put them in order. You could write the # on the front or back depending on what you want your child to focus on. I like to put it on the back and have my child focus on counting the bugs and not just # recognition.
Play the Cootie Game
· Find a picture of a bug and count the legs. Explain to your child that not all bugs have the same amount of legs (ex. Centipeds, spiders…)
· Look at different bugs and compare the shapes and sizes
· Butterfly Match -Create several diferent colored butterflies. Cut them in half and then have your children match the butterfly halves.
Get a box of "Bug Bites" (Keebler) and make patterns out of the bugs. Start with a 2 bug pattern and then when they get the hang of that, do a 3 bug pattern.
Sort the "Bug Bites" bugs and count them. Graph or chart them if you like.
Divide a piece a piece of paper into 9 squares and randomly # them. Have your child put that many "Bug Bites" in that square. You could obviously use goldfish crackers or other snacks if you like. You could also get bug stickers and have your child put that # bug stickers on that square.
Get bug stickers and put one on and index card. Two on another and so forth until #20. Then, depending on age/ability, have your child put them in order. You could write the # on the front or back depending on what you want your child to focus on. I like to put it on the back and have my child focus on counting the bugs and not just # recognition.
Play the Cootie Game
Bug Memory Game
Get pictures of different bugs and paste them on index cards. Play like you would the memory game.
You could play bug bingo as well. Have a bingo board with different mix of bugs on every board. Be sure to make individual cards that have every bug in the game on them. Then have the children take turns and draw a card from the pile. If the child has that bug on their board, they could put "Bug Bites" crackers or "Honey Bees" graham crackers on that spot.
You could play bug bingo as well. Have a bingo board with different mix of bugs on every board. Be sure to make individual cards that have every bug in the game on them. Then have the children take turns and draw a card from the pile. If the child has that bug on their board, they could put "Bug Bites" crackers or "Honey Bees" graham crackers on that spot.
Alphabet Book
Make an Alphabet Book. Each page has a different letter on it. Let the children draw pictures that begin with each letter. Example: draw Bugs on the B page of your Alphabet Book.
This could be a good on-going craft and/or activity that would help the children learn their Letters.
This could be a good on-going craft and/or activity that would help the children learn their Letters.
Bumble Bee Dance
Have children pretend they are bumble bees and dance to “The Flight of the Bumble Bee” by Tchacoskiy
This one could be a could starter activity to a good wiggle activity
This one could be a could starter activity to a good wiggle activity
Fun Farm animal activity
Play various animal sounds from a tape and let your children identify what farm animals make that sound. For further reinforcement have them match the sound with a cutout or figurine of the animal -or- Make paper bag puppets
This could be a good activity to reinforce the Farm animals that you children are learning about.
This could be a good activity to reinforce the Farm animals that you children are learning about.
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