Here’s today’s video (5/19): Follow-Up Ideas: • Make an “astronaut training course” obstacle course: • Make a telescope to look at the stars! • Make a straw rocket:
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Me and My Place in Space
Here is today’s space-themed Math Monday video (5/18): • Make your own Shape Rocket! (Printable templates include email) • Come to the SME Parade from 3:30-4:30!
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
Here is today’s video (4/14): Follow-Up Ideas: • Make your own clumsy click beetle! Take data on how many times your beetle lands on its feet and back. • Create your own Eric Carle insect. You can create a labeled picture of the insect, or an entire story about it! • Insect, Bug, and Creepy …
Are you a Bee?
I wonder why bees like flowers so much…here’s today’s video to help us find out (4/13): Follow-Up Ideas: • Have your own bee nectar relay! • Make a bee headband and buzz around your yard like a bee! •Use this bee tracing sheet to practice the pre-writing skill of tracing and/or to practice scissor skills …
The Grouchy Ladybug
Here is today’s video (5/12): • Create your own “Swat the Bug” beginning sound game! • Find insects in your own backyard! Look closely at them if you can, and see if you can see their 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennae! • Think and talk about a time when you were grumpy …
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Let’s learn about insects! Here’s today’s video (5/11): Follow-Up Ideas: • Create your own story stones to retell any story you want! Simple fairy tales work well! You can also create story stones without a specific story in mind and you and your child can use them to make up your own stories! • Create …
The Surprise Garden
Here is today’s video (5/7): Follow-Up Ideas: • Make a letter basket like the one in the video! You can use the moveable alphabet letters from your packet. • Plant a seed without knowing what will grow! Make a prediction about what it will be. Keep watching it every day to find out what will …
Over the Garden and Under the Dirt
Here is today’s video (5/4): Follow-Up Ideas: • Create a Counting Basket like the one in the video! • Dig/look in your own garden and see what creatures you find! • Imagine you’re a creature in the garden! Move like a worm in the damp, cool soil. Hop like a grasshopper over the plants. Roll …
The Tiny Seed
Here’s today’s Creative Thursday video (4/30): Follow-Up Ideas: • Make flower stamp paintings and/or trace the shadow of flowers like I did in the video! • Make a flower with all of its parts using a cupcake liner, seeds, and other craft supplies! • Eat all of the parts of a plant for snack! • …
One Bean
I wonder what would happen if I planted one little bean? Let’s find out! Here’s today’s video (4/29): Follow-Up Ideas: • Plant your own bean in a bag (dried Lima beans work well)! • Draw a picture and write about your bean every day. What does it look like? Has anything changed? • Read Jack …
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