Terrific Tuesday, April 7, 2020

TUESDAY, April 7, 2020, EDS at HOME

TUNE INTO OUR ZOOM MORNING MEETING TODAY TO COUNT OUR EGGS AS THEY GO INTO THE INCUBATOR TODAY!

The video below is an introduction to Casey Farm located in Saunderstown, RI.  Casey Farm runs Project Chick which is where we get our chicken eggs from.  They provide us with materials to hatch eggs.  The children typically get to witness the miracle of birth while watching the chicks emerge from their eggs.  We enjoy the chicks for a week and then return them to the farm (usually together).

SHOW AND SHARE LETTER X TODAY!  X IS A CHALLENGING LETTER.  YOU MAY SHARE SOMETHING THAT ENDS OR BEGINS WITH  X, SOMETHING THAT IS OVAL OR SOMETHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH OUR NEW LIFE CYCLE UNIT.

STORIES OF THE WEEK 

 STORYLINE This is a great website that features virtual story times. 

This week please view ...

What did you think of these 2 stories?  If you were the Little Red Hen, would you have shared the bread that you worked so hard to bake?

What makes you feel like a good egg?  How are these 2 stories similar?

LETTER of the WEEK :  Xx

Write the letter X.  We verbally say, "Start your letter at the top, slide a long diagonal line down and then leap frog your marker or pencil back to the top a space away from your diagonal line and slide another long diagonal line down backward, crossing through the first diagonal line and stop."   Draw a picture of something that begins with X; or for tactile learning, shape the letter X in play dough or a small plate of salt or flour, or use 2 straight objects to form an X. 

 MATH

Fun with Jelly Beans, check out the shape of a jelly bean... looks a lot like our shape of the month!
Create and fill in an at home graph. Send along photos of our graphs for us to share on the Blog this week!

The Shape of the Month is an Oval like an egg! Can you find something besides an egg in your house that is an oval?

Color in or put an X through the Number 1 egg on your Countdown to Hatch Day Calendar.  Using your pointer finger, touch and count each egg on your calendar.  See if you can count all the way to the end!

SCIENCE

Open the chick journal to the page with the parts of a chick and complete that page.  Color the chick, label the parts of the chicken.

Oviparous is a word that means producing babies by means of eggs that have been laid by the parent.  Chickens are oviparous.  Can you think of another animal that is oviparous? 



CREATIVE ART
Draw an oval and color an Easter Egg.

Draw a chicken family:  hen, rooster and chick.  Can you write an H over the hen, an R over the Rooster, and a C over the chick?

MUSIC or MOTOR:  I know a Chicken, By Laurie Berkner

EDS HOME SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY

Oval Eggs!

Beautiful spring day for a bike ride!

Baking some oval shaped treats!

Constructing an X!









Easter Egg math.

 

 Hiking and exploring nature!

BONUS MATERIAL
 Using a set of 5 plastic Easter Eggs,  fill each with a different number of items 1 through 5.  Hide the eggs and have your child hunt for the eggs.  Open each, lining the items up on a piece of paper and then write or trace the number of each item in the eggs.  Some ideas for stuffing:  pennies, paper

clips, buttons, goldfish crackers, stickers, etc.

Sink or Float Predictions with Plastic Easter Eggs.  Experiment by filling plastic Easter eggs with items of different weights to test if they sink or float.  This can be done in the bathtub or in a large bowl of water.  Pro tip:  have a towel near by.  Some items you may use are pennies, paper, plastic beads, a bouncy ball, a lego.

Play tic tac toe.  Great practice for making an X!  

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