Thinking Thursday, May 14, 2020

Thursday, May 14, 2020, EDS at HOME

Please bring something that you like to smell to our Zoom meeting and/or two items that rhyme.

We will have a summer birthdays Zoom on Wednesday next week to celebrate those friends.

 CHRYSALIS WATCH DAY  11 

STORY TIME

This is a favorite EDS story about seeds!

GODLY PLAY



LETTER OF THE WEEK:  ALL THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET!  We have studied all 26 letters!  Hooray!  Sing the ABC song!

Abouna with a Letter Z tour around the classroom!

MATH:

The Shape of the Month is a diamond.  A diamond shape is a rhombus.  A rhombus has 4 equal sides and opposite parallel lines.

Lila's number poem!

In spring time, Baseball games begin!  The game of baseball is played on a field that is shaped like a diamond!  Can you draw a green baseball diamond and label the Home plate with an H, 1st, 2nd and 3rd base?

The Number of the week is 9.  Speaking of baseball, there are 9 players on a baseball team and those teams play 9 innings!

Practice writing the number 9, tracing the number 9, or form the 9 with small stones or dough.

This week's card trick, find the number 9 card with a diamond shape on it.

A fun number activity with a hole puncher.  Write a number nine and punch nine holes, OR write a large 9 on a piece of paper and punch along the line of the nine.  Hole punchers are great for fine motor development.  Test the puncher first, sometimes they require too much strength to use.








Try this number joke:  Why was 6 afraid of 7?  Because 7 8 9!

SCIENCE: Today is Day 11 on our Caterpillar watch.  I wonder if any have spun their chrysalis!

Day 1

Day 4

Day 8

This butterfly schedule has the dates at the top. The numbers in the squares are the number of days for each stage.  We are currently on day 10 of our caterpillar stage watching them eat and grow.  We should see a chrysalis any day now!  We can see webs inside the jar, that is a clue that they are getting ready to spin their chrysalis.  That will need 3 days to harden.  Then we wait 7 to 10 days for them to emerge from their chrysalis as a butterfly.  We are hopeful this will happen before our last Zoom meeting.  If they have not, we will schedule a viewing!  It is all up to Mother Nature.


Butterfly fact:  Butterflies feed on nectar from flowers.  They have taste receptors on their feet!  They have six feet.  What do we taste with?

Yesterday we talked about metamorphosis.  That is a big word, clap it out: MET A MOR PHO SIS..5 parts to that word.  A frog also goes through Metamorphosis.

Wednesday we talked about how a butterfly eats.  They have a proboscis, which is a straw-like body part on its head for sucking up nectar from a flower.

We began a new experiment this week.  Regrowing a celery plant.

MUSIC or MOTOR:

We hope to sing the songs below at Graduation






Z for ZUMBA!



EDS HOME SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY

 A fruit is a suitcase for a seed!  Look at all the different kinds of seeds...a pit, small seeds, seeds on the outside of a fruit, and tiny, tiny seeds!

9 holes punched!

A dandy 9!














BONUS MATERIAL

Dandelion life cycle viewed at the following link:  
https://www.facebook.com/362863237425296/posts/1102652480113031/

Butterfly time lapse video at the following link
https://www.facebook.com/362863237425296/posts/1102243290153950/

Visual recognition - matching fronts and backs.  Cut apart empty grocery boxes.  Mix up the fronts and backs.  Pair them together.

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