Thursday, April 16

Today is National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day - which isn't too much of a stretch for most folks lately...

It's also National High Five Day!  Give everyone in your family a high five!

Does anyone have a dog that can give high fives?  If you do, send me a video and we can post it here.

2s:  Ovals

1.  From our website, print out the Oval or Circle page.  

Say the Oval Poem again with your child:

I am a shape.  Oval is my name.

The circle and I are not the same.

A circle is round, as round as can be.

I'm shaped like an egg, as you can see.

First, help your child name all the objects on the page.  Next, point to each object and ask your child if they think the object is an oval or a circle.  If they get it incorrect, remind them that an oval is a squished circle.  It can be squeezed tall or flat.

2.  For this project, you'll need a toilet paper or paper towel tube squeezed slightly to make it into an oval.  You'll also need paper and paint.

Show your child how to dip the tube into the paint and stamp onto the paper.  Let them stamp as much as they like.

3.  Let's make an oval creature!

You'll need the orange oval from your bag, the blue rectangle legs and the sticker eyes.  Point out the oval's features - like a circle, but squashed.

You can also add any other items your child would like - their creature might need hair, freckles, jewels, who knows.

Allow your child to glue on as many legs and apply as many eyes as they want.  Let them decorate the creature with other features if they like.

3s: Plants and Flowers

1. On our website, watch the Life Cycle of a Plant power point with your child.  Read the information with your child.  When you get to the Higher Order Thinking Questions, be sure to allow your child plenty of time to answer.

2.  Print out the Plant Cutting page from our website.

Remind your child about the proper way to hold scissors - thumb in the thumb hole, fingers in the other, and when cutting the thumb goes on top.

If needed, show your child to hold the paper in their non-dominant hand and the scissors in their dominant.  Open, shut them, open, shut them, open, shut them.

3.  What does a plant need to grow?

Print out the What Does a Sunflower Need to Grow sheet from the website.

Encourage your child to color the sunflower picture and the pictures at the bottom of the page.

Talk about the pictures at the bottom of the page.  Have them cut out the pictures and glue the four items that a sunflower needs to grow.

Are they providing those things for their sunflower that they planted this week?

4s: Letter X, Plants and Gardens

1.  Watch this clip about the Letter X from Sesame Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=sSduK6c8kv0&feature=emb_logo

2.  X marks the spot!

On a treasure map, X always marks where the treasure hides.  Find something you'd like to hide as a treasure.

Get a piece of paper and make a map that your family can follow to find the treasure.  Make sure to mark the hiding a spot with an X!

3. Watch the video Peep Plants a Seed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxs7P7LWzDg

4.  From your bag you'll need the colored flower cutout, the small colored circle, the green leaves and the green length of paper with 9 spaces.  If you did not pick up your bag, you can print the patterns out from the website.

Have your child hold the paper vertically.  Ask them to write their first name, one letter in each square, on the green strip from top to bottom.

Next, have your child glue leaves on the stem and glue the stem to the flower.

5.  How is your bean growing?  Has it sprouted any roots yet?

Print the Bean Growth sheet from our website.

Cut the four pictures out from the bottom of the page.  Can you put the pictures in order?  Circle the one that looks like your bean today.