Here is today’s Nature Tuesday video (4/28): Follow-Up Ideas: • Go on a seed scavenger hunt of your own! See what seeds you can find outside and/or inside (in your food)! • Graph your seeds to show how many of each type of seed you found on your scavenger hunt! (Children will need support with …
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Flower Garden
Happy Math Monday! Here’s today’s video (4/27): Follow-Up Ideas: • Flower Counting and Patterning (from video – document in email): if your child is ready to count to 20 and is interested enough in the activity, there are 20 flowers on the document. If your child is only ready to get to 5, that’s fine …
Earth Day 🌎
Happy Earth Day! Here’s today’s video (4/22): Follow-Up Ideas: • Make your own recycled bottle planter! You can decorate it any way you like! • Make something out of a recycled box! Big boxes can become forts, cars, or rocket ships! Smaller boxes can be helmets, houses for toys, or car garages! Use your imagination …
Planting a Rainbow
Here is today’s video (4/21): Follow-Up Ideas: • Make your own rainbow garden artwork! You can use Pom-poms like I did in the video, or you can use one of these ideas: • If your family has a garden, think about the colors that will grow in it. Will your garden have all of the …
Over and Under the Pond
Here is today’s video (4/15): Over and Under the Pond Video Follow-Up Ideas: • Make a pond sensory bin like the one in the video! • Lily Pad Number Hop: Lily Pad Number Hop Link • This link has so many great pond life ideas! You can pick any that work for you and your …
From Tadpole to Frog
Here is today’s video (4/14): From Tadpole to Frog Video Follow-Up Ideas: • Find frog eggs in a pond near you! • Make lily pad slime: https://thekindergartenconnection.com/lily-pad-frog-slime/ • Uppercase and lowercase letter matching cards: https://thekindergartenconnection.com/frog-uppercase-lowercase-letter-activities/ • Recycled material frog life cycle craft: http://www.stillplayingschool.com/2015/03/frog-life-cycle-recycled-craft.html?m=1
Pancakes, Pancakes!
Let’s get creative with a recipe today! Here’s the video (4/9): Pancakes, Pancakes! Video Follow-Up Ideas: • Make some pancakes! You’ll need 1 cup of milk, 1 egg, 1 cup of flour, and some butter (or non-stick spray). • Get CREATIVE with your pancakes! 😁 • P is for pancakes coloring page: https://www.kidsparkz.com/uploads/5/2/3/4/52340669/pancakes_p_is_for_pancakes.pdf
Water is Water
I wonder why it rains? Here is today’s video to help us answer that question (4/8): Water is Water video Follow-Up Ideas: • Make the rain cloud in a jar from the end of the video! • Make a water cycle in a bag (or do one of the other experiments from this link) https://lessons4littleones.com/2015/04/15/water-cycle-rain-cycle-science-experiments/amp/ …
Wonderful Worms
Happy Nature Tuesday! Let’s learn about wiggly, squiggly worms! Here’s today’s video (4/7): Wonderful Worms video Bonus picture: Look at this beautiful blue jay feather that I found on my walk today! Follow-Up Ideas: • Find worms in your own backyard! Look under rocks and logs or go outside right after it rains! Don’t forget …
One Duck Stuck
Happy Math Monday! Here’s today’s video (4/6): One Duck Stuck Video Follow-Up Ideas: • Print the book (PDF sent via email) and make your own One Duck Stuck book! • Play a rhyming game! You can sing a song like “Down By The Bay” or “Willaby Wallaby Woo” together, play “I Spy Something That Rhymes …