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:

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!

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 Crawler Yoga and Movement:

• Build a bug using paper shapes and glue!

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 by cutting along the lines:

• Watch this great Wild Kratts clip about bees and pollination!

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 like the Grumpy Ladybug. How did you act? What did your face look like? What did your body feel like? How did you help yourself feel less grumpy? What could you do next time to feel less grumpy?

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 a insect out of play doh! Make sure your insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennae (and maybe wings)!

• Make this C is for Caterpillar craft using pieces of tissue paper like Eric Carle:

• Work on fine motor skills by “eating” holes in paper fruit like the very hungry caterpillar.

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 grow!

• Pick something else from your packet!

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 your body up into a ball like a pill bug. Fly and land gently on a flower like a butterfly. What other creatures could you move like? What would it look and feel like to be that creature?

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!

• Practice cutting, fine motor skills, sorting, and plant part identification by sorting the parts of a flower into labeled cups.

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 and the Beanstalk and think, talk, write, and/or draw about your own beanstalk! What would be at the top of it? Would you find a giant or something else? Here are some examples of student work from last year!