Friday, April 3, 2020, EDS at HOME
Miss Carissa had a baby girl at 10 AM on April 1st! We received word late in the evening that mother and baby were doing well! Congratulations to the family!
STORY OF THE WEEK
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
STORYLINE This is a great website that features virtual story times.
LETTER OF THE WEEK: Vv
Write the letter V. We verbally say, "Start your letter at the top, make a long diagonal line down and then make a long diagonal line up and stop." Draw a picture of something that begins with Vv; or for tactile learning, shape the letter V in play dough or a small plate of salt or flour.
Please practice name writing (or reciting the letters of your name while touching each letter with your pointer finger) every day. Listed below in our bonus material is a fun name puzzle activity that is fun for prewriters.
Make a Bubble Letter V on paper. Use it as a placemat and fill it in with play food vegetables or other item that begins with V; OR make a V shaped car track and use a matchbox car to drive on the letter V track.
Make a homemade vegetable stamp out of a potato or other carvable vegetable. Stamp the letter V on paper using an ink stamp, or by coloring the vegetable with a marker.
Learn the word Victory. (The act of defeating an opponent in a game or competition. Winning.) Journal a picture of a time you felt like you won or succeeded at doing something. Trace or write V for Victory!
MATH
Count how many different kinds of snacks did the caterpillar eat in our story of the week. Do not forget to add the leaf! Practice writing or tracing that number.
Line 10 blocks or toys together.
Here is the story we read together with an activity below:
Cut a piece of 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper in half. Make a picture coloring 10 black dots. You may cut out 10 black dots and form them into a picture if you choose. ** Please retain this project to add to our portfolio number book. Write or trace the number 10 on the bottom of the paper.
Practice counting backwards from 10 to blast off! Write or trace the numbers 1 through 10 down the edge of a piece of paper and point to each number before blastoff!
CREATIVE ART
Make a thumbprint caterpillar. If you do not have an ink pad, you can color your pointer finger or thumb with a washable marker! We wonder what color your caterpillar will be!
Eric Carle was an artist as well as an author. His storybooks are filled with color and texture. He would paint with brushes and interesting objects, such as brooms, sponges and forks! What a fun artist to conclude our art study! To make an" Eric Carle-style" apple: color a white piece of paper with a red crayon or marker. Draw a circle on that colored piece of paper and cut it out. Make a stem and tape or glue it onto the red circle.
Take a piece of paper outside and, make a fun caterpillar house on the paper by using natural items you find in your back yard. You could make a grass house, or a stick bed for your caterpillar to sleep on!
Using recyclable materials, make a pretend violin. Cut a hole in the body and wrap 3 rubber bands around the whole to mimic strings. A pencil, stick or even a straw could be used for the bow to play your pretend violin!
Make a beautiful butterfly by coloring a coffee filter or round piece of paper. Squish it together in the center and wrap it with a pipe cleaner or twist tie to shape a butterfly. You can use a clothes pin too.
MUSIC or MOTOR
Do the inchworm dance to your favorite song.
Make a V with your body, first with just your fingers, then just your legs, just your arms...try your whole body.
Move to the music and practice counting backwards!
Play Balloon Volleyball, batting a balloon in the air and not letting it drop! It is a challenge! Nerf balls are safe to use, too.
SCIENCE
Make a salt volcano. Use a jar, pour in one cup of room temperature water (you may add coloring to the water to make it exciting. Food coloring works well, but it does stain). Add a 1/4 cup of oil. Do not mix. Take notice of how the oil does not mix right into the water. Next add a teaspoon of salt at a time and watch what happens. Rock salt works best, but table salt is fine to use. Note that water and oil do not mix. When you sprinkle the salt into the water oil mixture, the salt sinks to the bottom. As it sinks, the oil clings to it. When the salt reaches the bottom, it will begin to dissolve and as it does so, the oil that was on the salt rises to the top, creating a volcano-like appearance.
Look for bugs while you are outside playing. Bugs become active in the spring.
Make a Vinegar and baking soda volcano. Use a small empty water bottle. Pour in 3 tablespoons of vinegar. Put 3 tablespoons or more of baking soda into a small measuring cup. Use a funnel (you can make one out of paper if you do not own a funnel) and pour the baking soda all at once into the bottle. Watch the foam erupt out of the bottle. This is fun if you add red food coloring to the vinegar, keeping in mind that it stains. A fun activity to do over and over in a wash tub or a sink. Make a brown bag volcano mountain to wrap around the water bottle to make it look like a real volcano mountain.
Name as many desert animals as you can. We named 5 during our ZOOM meeting on Thursday.
Start an at-home mini greenhouse! You will need a small zip lock bag, wet paper towel, and a seed. A bean or pea seed works very well. Fold the seed in the wet towel (the towel acts as the soil) and place it in the zip lock bag. Zip the bag closed to form its own ecosystem. Tape it on a window that catches the most sunlight. Soon you will see the seed begin to sprout!
Miss Terri's Bean seeds.
EDS HOME SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY
Caterpillar drawing! Love to see that look of pride!
Stirring up something delicious!
Yoga time!
10!
V for Violet.
Paint stamping a caterpillar with a vegetable!
V for violin and volcano!
Yoga time.
BONUS MATERIAL
Make your own NAME puzzle. Use cardboard, card stock or regular paper. Block print your first name on the paper leaving cutting space between the letters. Cut the letters apart. Scramble the letters and then put them in order. For those just learning the letter order, it is fun to provide a key of their printed name to match the cut out letters to underneath. Once the first name is mastered, try the last name! Store in a zip lock bag for later use!
Make a salt volcano. Use a jar, pour in one cup of room temperature water (you may add coloring to the water to make it exciting. Food coloring works well, but it does stain). Add a 1/4 cup of oil. Do not mix. Take notice of how the oil does not mix right into the water. Next add a teaspoon of salt at a time and watch what happens. Rock salt works best, but table salt is fine to use. Note that water and oil do not mix. When you sprinkle the salt into the water oil mixture, the salt sinks to the bottom. As it sinks, the oil clings to it. When the salt reaches the bottom, it will begin to dissolve and as it does so, the oil that was on the salt rises to the top, creating a volcano-like appearance.
Look for bugs while you are outside playing. Bugs become active in the spring.
Make a Vinegar and baking soda volcano. Use a small empty water bottle. Pour in 3 tablespoons of vinegar. Put 3 tablespoons or more of baking soda into a small measuring cup. Use a funnel (you can make one out of paper if you do not own a funnel) and pour the baking soda all at once into the bottle. Watch the foam erupt out of the bottle. This is fun if you add red food coloring to the vinegar, keeping in mind that it stains. A fun activity to do over and over in a wash tub or a sink. Make a brown bag volcano mountain to wrap around the water bottle to make it look like a real volcano mountain.
Name as many desert animals as you can. We named 5 during our ZOOM meeting on Thursday.
Start an at-home mini greenhouse! You will need a small zip lock bag, wet paper towel, and a seed. A bean or pea seed works very well. Fold the seed in the wet towel (the towel acts as the soil) and place it in the zip lock bag. Zip the bag closed to form its own ecosystem. Tape it on a window that catches the most sunlight. Soon you will see the seed begin to sprout!
Miss Terri's Bean seeds.
EDS HOME SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY
Yoga time!
Yoga time.
BONUS MATERIAL
Make your own NAME puzzle. Use cardboard, card stock or regular paper. Block print your first name on the paper leaving cutting space between the letters. Cut the letters apart. Scramble the letters and then put them in order. For those just learning the letter order, it is fun to provide a key of their printed name to match the cut out letters to underneath. Once the first name is mastered, try the last name! Store in a zip lock bag for later use!
ADDITIONAL ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES
StarFall
ABC Mouse
PBS Kids
Cool Math
National Geographic Kids
Scholastic Learn at Home
ABC Ya!
Switch Zoo Animal Games
Seussville
Fun Brain Jr.
Highlights Kids
StarFall
ABC Mouse
PBS Kids
Cool Math
National Geographic Kids
Scholastic Learn at Home
ABC Ya!
Switch Zoo Animal Games
Seussville
Fun Brain Jr.
Highlights Kids
