Emmanuel Day School Family Blog : Wacky Wednesday, May 6

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020, EDS at HOME

CATERPILLAR WATCH: DAY 2

We will celebrate our friend Charlie's birthday today on Zoom, Please make a birthday drawing for our Zoom meeting tomorrow. Thank you!

WOW! Another special delivery today! THANK YOU, from all your teachers, for the delicious sweet treats. We are most grateful for your kindness and feel honored that you would go to such trouble to deliver them to our homes.

GODLY PLAY

STORY TIME

This is one of our favorite stories. It speaks to the idea that when you plant a seed and care for it, you are not guaranteed a growing plant. You must have hope and faith.

LETTER OF THE WEEK: Z

Zipper begins with the letter Z. Can you zipper your coat or sweater? Practice using a zipper.

Can you make a Z out of sticks you find in your yard, or any other straight objects in your house?

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.

Which traffic signs pictured below are diamond shaped? While you are out riding in your car, can you spy some of these diamond shaped signs?

A kite is a diamond shape. Can you make your own kite out of a piece of paper? Draw a diamond shape on an 81/2 x 11 piece of paper, or larger. Cut it out. Attach a tail of yarn or rope. Color it. Fly it in the backyard.

The Number of the week is 6.

Practice writing the number 6, tracing the number 6, or form the 6 with small stones or dough.

All insects have 6 legs. Take a look at this ladybug and count its legs. Can you draw a lady bug with 6 legs?

This week's card trick, find the number 6 card with a diamond shape on it.

SCIENCE:

We are going to be watching the life cycle of a butterfly. We have read and talked about the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. What do you already know about a butterfly?

On Friday we put some celery stalks in three different colored glasses of water. "What do you think will happen to the stalks of celery?" was our question. Monday we saw that the leaves turned the color of the water that they were standing in. We learned a new vocabulary word, xylem. Xylem transports water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves and plant body. Our celery stalk drew the colored water up from the bottom of the glass and transported it to the leaves. This experiment proves how the xylem functions.

You may work on Ms. Bridget's Lesson No. 2 pages. They were previously sent by email. We will share them on our Thursday Zoom meeting.

Below is a picture of our caterpillars that arrived on Monday, May 4. We will watch them grow for 7 days, they will eat, and eat and eat and wiggle. After about 7 days, they will spin their chrysalises.