Wednesday, April 15, 2020, EDS at HOME
Chick Project, Day 9
Question of the Day: Do you have a special quilt? Bring it to our Thursday Zoom meeting
Grey's Birthday Celebration! Please draw him a special picture for our Zoom meeting! We will sing to him! Same for small group tomorrow..
STORY TIME
Talking points: Did you like this story? Did you know that so many animals can use a cactus for a home? How many do you remember? Did the cactus in the story live a long life or a short life?
Do you have a special quilt in your house? Does it have a story? In the story, which quilt square color or story did you like best?
STORYLINE This is a great website that features virtual story times.
GODLY PLAY
LETTER of the WEEK : Qq
Write the letter Q. We verbally say, "Start your letter at the top, make a big curve down and keep going to make a big curve up and stop. Pick your marker or pencil up and leap down to make a short line that slides from the inside of the circle to the outside of the circle. Draw a picture of something that begins with Q; or for tactile learning, shape the letter Q in play dough or a small plate of salt or flour. For our pre-writers, if you have a chalk board and some chalk, draw the letter Q and have your child erase it with a small wet sponge, or they can wet their finger and erase it.
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!
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 9 egg on your Countdown to Hatch Day Calendar. Using your pointer finger, touch and count each egg on your calendar and count. See if you can count all the way to the end!
Using a deck of playing cards, find all of the cards with the Number 10 on them. How many were there?
Trace both of your hands on a piece of paper. Write or trace the numbers 1 through 10 above each finger. For our pre-writers, use your pointer touch and count aloud each finger.
Wrap 10 or more rubber bands or hair ties around an object (ex. a cork, a paper towel tube, a block, etc.). Unwrap just 10 rubber bands. This activity may be made easier by using a piece of paper with 10 dots as place makers for your child to place the rubber bands on as they unwrap them. This is a great fine motor exercise!
Using a deck of playing cards, find all of the cards with the Number 10 on them. How many were there?
Trace both of your hands on a piece of paper. Write or trace the numbers 1 through 10 above each finger. For our pre-writers, use your pointer touch and count aloud each finger.
Wrap 10 or more rubber bands or hair ties around an object (ex. a cork, a paper towel tube, a block, etc.). Unwrap just 10 rubber bands. This activity may be made easier by using a piece of paper with 10 dots as place makers for your child to place the rubber bands on as they unwrap them. This is a great fine motor exercise!
SCIENCE
Review the inside of an egg chart in our Chick Journal. The children often wonder if the chick eggs are the same as what we eat for breakfast. It is good to reassure them that the eggs we eat for breakfast are different because they have not been fertilized. A hen and a rooster need to be near each other in the same pen for the eggs to be fertilized. After looking at the chart, crack an egg open on a plate and compare it to the picture. See if you can find the parts outlined in the picture. No need to waste an egg for this project, you can wait until you need an egg for cooking.
Have an Egg taste test: scrambled, hard-boiled, and fried or soft-boiled. Which do you like best?
Sort Oviparous and Non Oviparous Animals:
Try this fun 24 hour experiment using a raw egg and vinegar.
CREATIVE ART
Make a bubble letter Q and paint the inside of it using a Q-tip, or paste Q-tips on the inside of the letter.
Draw a Cactus Hotel.
Color a paper quilt pattern.
Put a quarter under a piece of paper. Color on the paper with a dark colored crayon back and forth over the spot that has the quarter under it. If you press hard enough and color all around it, you will magically see the quarter!
Review the inside of an egg chart in our Chick Journal. The children often wonder if the chick eggs are the same as what we eat for breakfast. It is good to reassure them that the eggs we eat for breakfast are different because they have not been fertilized. A hen and a rooster need to be near each other in the same pen for the eggs to be fertilized. After looking at the chart, crack an egg open on a plate and compare it to the picture. See if you can find the parts outlined in the picture. No need to waste an egg for this project, you can wait until you need an egg for cooking.
Have an Egg taste test: scrambled, hard-boiled, and fried or soft-boiled. Which do you like best?
Sort Oviparous and Non Oviparous Animals:
CREATIVE ART
Make a bubble letter Q and paint the inside of it using a Q-tip, or paste Q-tips on the inside of the letter.
Draw a Cactus Hotel.
Color a paper quilt pattern.
Put a quarter under a piece of paper. Color on the paper with a dark colored crayon back and forth over the spot that has the quarter under it. If you press hard enough and color all around it, you will magically see the quarter!
MUSIC or MOTOR:
EDS HOME SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY
Animal Action Exercise
Tuesday's Question of the Day
Look at these great Q drawings!
Q-tip painting!
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.
Make a cactus shape out of dough or paper. Stick 10 toothpicks into the cactus to make the spines or thorns of the cactus.
ADDITIONAL ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES
Make a cactus shape out of dough or paper. Stick 10 toothpicks into the cactus to make the spines or thorns of the cactus.
ADDITIONAL ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES
