Wacky Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020, EDS at HOME

Chick Project, Day 2

You are welcome to wear something wacky for our Zoom meeting today!

Our chicken eggs came from Casey Farm.  Below is a video of this beautiful historic farm.

STORIES OF THE WEEK 

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

This week please view ...

Conversation starter or journal entry:  If you were the good egg, where would you go to cheer yourself up?

Journaling can be accomplished a number of ways.  Your child can narrate their answer for you and draw a picture related to their answer.You may choose to write their answer at the top of their paper, or you may write their response reserving a simple word for them to write or trace.

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 2 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!  It takes 21 days to hatch a chicken egg.  How many days are left?

Make a pattern with jelly beans or Easter eggs.

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?

We are currently watching 3 lifecycles, a bean plant, a chicken and Ronan's butterfly!  Can you think of something they all  need to live?


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?

Draw a treasure map and mark the treasure with an X.  X marks the spot!

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

EDS HOME SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY

Graphing oval objects around the house! 

Decorating an oval egg.

 Drawing a chicken family.

X writing practice!














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!

Peep Science:  Use 3 marshmallow peeps, put one in water, one in vinegar and one in soda water.  Make a prediction of what will happen.  Watch and record what does happen?  

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