Monday, May 4

My son at the Star Wars BSO event

Good morning, everyone!

Welcome to another week of Online Preschool.

Happy Star Wars Day!  Big shout-out to all my nerdy parents and kids!  If we were at school, I'd be wearing my Obi Wan Kenobi costume.  That'd be a sight for you.

EVERYONE

In our house, we always had TONS of Star Wars Lego sets.  I mean boxes.  We never made it to the 4,000 piece Death Star set, but we had quite a few.

In honor of the special day today, I'd like you to build me your own spacecraft.  It doesn't have to be Legos.  You can use a cardboard box (Cameron T.), recycling items, paper towel tubes, or draw one!

What will be on your spacecraft and where will you go?  To a galaxy far, far, away?

I'd love to see a picture of your creation!

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2s: Noah's Ark and Rainbows

1.  Story Time

Let's listen to the bible story about Noah and the Ark: Noah's Ark - Genesis 6-9

2.  Rainbows

At the end of the story, God sends Noah a rainbow to remind him of his promise.

Have you ever seen a rainbow?  Most of the time, they come after it rains, but not always.  Sometimes if it's raining far away we can still see one.

In your bag are a special pair of glasses that let you see rainbows everywhere!  Go ahead and put them on!

3.  Ribbon Rainbow

From your bag, you'll need the small 6" paper plate and the ribbons.

Have your child look at the ribbons and at a picture of a rainbow, like the one pictured here.

The order of the colors is always the same: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.  Many people just use purple for indigo/violet and we will too.

Fold the plate in half, so that it makes a semi-circle. You can put a couple of staples in it to hold it together.  But, before you do, you can add a few dried beans, M&Ms, or something to make it rattle!

Have your child put the ribbons lined up at the flat side of the plate.  Attach each of the six ribbons to the plate with a staple.  You may want to run a line of tape over the staples so that your child doesn't catch their fingers.

Encourage your child to dance and move with their rainbow!

4.  An Experiment - Fizzing Rainbows

You can create your own rainbow by doing an experiment.

On our website are instructions for making a Fizzing Rainbow!

You'll need a few household items to do the experiment and the pipette from your bag.  If you don't have that, you can use an eye dropper, an ear or nose cleaning bulb, or a straw with your finger over the top.

Allow your child to do as much of the experiment as possible, like sprinkling the baking soda, but not squeezing the food coloring.

Ask you child these questions:

1. What do you think will happen?  
2. How did we get orange/green/purple when we didn't put down those color drops?  
3. Why does everything fizz?

And the answers are:

1. I'm sure 'I don't know.' 
2. When you mix primary colors together you get those three secondary colors.
3. When you mix vinegar and baking soda it makes fizzing bubbles!  

3s: Noah's Ark and Rainbows

1.  Story Time

Let's listen to the bible story about Noah and the Ark: Noah's Ark - Genesis 6-9

2.  Rainbows

At the end of the story, God sends Noah a rainbow to remind him of his promise.

Have you ever seen a rainbow?  Most of the time, they come after it rains, but not always.  Sometimes if it's raining far away we can still see one.

In your bag are a special pair of glasses that let you see rainbows everywhere!  Go ahead and put them on!


3.  Ribbon Rainbow

From your bag, you'll need the small 6" paper plate with holes and the ribbons.

Have your child look at the ribbons and at a picture of a rainbow, like the one pictured here.

The order of the colors is always the same: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.  Many people just use purple for indigo/violet and we will too.

Fold the plate in half, so that it makes a semi-circle. You can put a couple of staples in it to hold it together.  But, before you do, you can add a few dried beans, M&Ms, or something to make it rattle!

Have your child put the ribbons lined up at the flat side of the plate.  Attach each of the six ribbons to the plate with a staple.  You may want to run a line of tape over the staples so that your child doesn't catch their fingers.

Encourage your child to dance and move with their rainbow!

4.  Noah's Numbers

From our website, print out the Noah's Number Skip activity for your child.

Look at the rows of pictures with your child and ask them if they see anything wrong.  Do they notice that not each animal has a numeral?

Point out the number line at the top of the page.  Have your child point to each number as you say the numbers 1-12.

Now, point to the first animal in line - the turtle with a number 1.  The next is a turtle with a number two and then a seal with NO NUMBER.  Ask your child 'what number do you think should be on this seal?'.  If they're unsure, go back to the number line at the top.

Have your child attempt to write the number, anything resembling a written numeral is great!  If they get frustrated, suggest that they draw 3 dots instead - 'that's just another way to write 3'.

Complete the number line with your child and then have them color the animals.

5.  An Experiment - Fizzing Rainbows

You can create your own rainbow by doing an experiment.

On our website are instructions for making a Fizzing Rainbow!

You'll need a few household items to do the experiment and the pipette from your bag.  If you don't have that, you can use an eye dropper, an ear or nose cleaning bulb, or a straw with your finger over the top.

Allow your child to do as much of the experiment as possible, like sprinkling the baking soda, but not squeezing the food coloring.

Ask you child these questions:

1. What do you think will happen?  
2. How did we get orange/green/purple when we didn't put down those color drops?  
3. Why does everything fizz?

And the answers are:

1. I'm sure 'I don't know.' 
2. When you mix primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) together you get those three secondary colors.
3. A chemical reaction between the baking soda and the vinegar.  The combination releases CO2 which makes the bubbles.

4s: Noah's Ark and Rainbows

1.  Story Time

Let's listen to the bible story about Noah and the Ark: Noah's Ark - Genesis 6-9

2.  Rainbows

At the end of the story, God sends Noah a rainbow to remind him of his promise.

Have you ever seen a rainbow?  Most of the time, they come after it rains, but not always.  Sometimes if it's raining far away we can still see one.

In your bag are a special pair of glasses that let you see rainbows everywhere!  Go ahead and put
them on!

3.  If we were at school, I'm sure Ms. Tammi & Ms. Julie would sing this special song about NRaffi - Who Built the Ark
oah building the ark but we'll have to listen to it together here:

My children loved this album when they were little - Raffi's More Singable Songs.
Amazon link

4.  Missing Raindrops

It rained a lot in the story of Noah!

We're going to do some counting with raindrops.

From the website, print out the Noah's Missing Raindrops activity page.

Look at the page with your child.  Do they notice anything that doesn't seem right?  Are there numbers missing?

Start at 1 and help your child count the raindrops.  There are 20.

Now, start at 1 again and when you get to the first blank raindrop, ask them what number should go there.  Have them fill in that number.  If they're unsure how to write the numeral, write it on a piece of paper and let them copy it.

Continue until all the raindrops are filled!

5. Experiments - Creating Rainbows

We can do two rainbow experiments!  (Shout-out to Emily A. who has already done one!)

On our website are instructions for making a Fizzing Rainbow and a Traveling Rainbow.

For both experiments you'll need a few household items to do the experiments.

For Fizzing Rainbows you'll need the pipette from your bag.  If you don't have that, you can use an eye dropper, an ear or nose cleaning bulb, or a straw with your finger over the top.

Allow your child to do as much of the experiment as possible, like sprinkling the baking soda, but not squeezing the food coloring.

Ask you child these questions:

1. What do you think will happen?  
2. How did we get orange/green/purple when we didn't put down those color drops?  
3. Why does everything fizz?

And the answers are:

1. I'm sure 'I don't know.' 
2. When you mix primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) together you get those three secondary colors.
3. A chemical reaction between the baking soda and the vinegar.  The combination releases CO2 which makes the bubbles.

For Traveling Rainbows you won't need anything elaborate, just household items.

Ask your child the same questions.
The answer to 'why' this time is that the paper towel that connects the glasses acts as a capillary sucking the water up the paper towel.  Because things like to equalize, the water exchanges until the glasses are all level.