Activity 12

Activity 12: Lots of Shapes

Craft: Find little things around your house such as a flat bead or penny. Next put the piece of paper over the object and color on top.  You should have a picture of the item on the paper. Then label the shapes, oval, square, or triangle.

Lesson: Say all of the shapes you can think of like circles, oval, rectangle, etc.       Then try to make a song out of it like to " Mary Had A Little Lamb" or "Twinkle Twinkle" and finally ask them to write or draw them out on paper as you sing the song slowly.

Talk Together: Ask your kid what their favorite shape is. What shape do you think is mostly in your house?

Activity: Draw a funny and swirly shape and then give it a name like crazy shapes or triangle-funshape. Make a couple and choose your favorite one.   Try to make it by using something outside such as water, pebbles, grass, etc.

Activity 11

Sizes, Shapes, and Colors

Activity 11: Circles and Spheres 

Craft: Cut out about 5 different sized circles, then place them on a sheet of paper and try to make fun designs or pictures with the circles such as a heart,  smily face, or planets. Finally, glue the circles on the paper when you have found your favorite design.

Lesson: Tell your kid that a circle is flat,  round, and has no points or sides such as the circles you used for the craft. Say that spheres are round and not flat and also have no points or sides like a rubber ball. Then go around your house and look for spheres and circles.

Talk Together: How many points and sides do circles and spheres have? What other spheres and circles did you find?

Movement: Have your kid count about 10 balls and divide them into 2 groups    [ Each group should have five balls.] Then spilt the room your going to play in with a jump rope or something else and put the five balls on each side and start music or a timer for a little while. Next roll the balls on to each others spot as fast as you can. Then when the timer or song stops you stop. Count the balls and whoever has the least amount wins. 

Review of Activities 1-10

Review of Nature

Craft: Find a part of a plant in your backyard then tape it to a piece of paper. Next label whatever you chose in your back or front yard whether it is a stem, root, or a rock.

Lesson: A weed is anything that is growing where you do not want it to. A plant is anything that has the four main parts, the roots, stem, leaves, and flower or fruit. A rock is not a living thing but a weed and plant are. Tell your kid one of these definitions at a time with the answer then see if your kid can say the word or answer after you have said the definition.

Talk Together: Is the sun a star or something else? What is your favorite part of nature? Why? 

Activity: Hide about five things around your house in the wrong places. Then have your kid go and look for the misplaced items. Ask your kid what the items in the wrong places were kind of like in nature.

Answer: Weeds, because they grow in places you do not want them to.

Activity 10

Activity 10: Rocks

Craft: Draw one or two circles on a piece of paper, then put glue in the circle and sprinkle sand over it until the circles are covered. Next give the rocks names you can name them funny names like Rock Star or real names of rocks like ruby or marble.

Lesson: Tell your kid that sand is made of crushed rocks, tell them that rocks come from a lot of different places like caves or mountains. Ask your kid if they can think of any other place rocks come from. There are several different types of stone, rock, minerals, and diamonds in the world.

Talk Together: Name some types of rocks. [ Your kid may need help] How many rocks are in your backyard, 0, 10, 100, 1,000?

Activity: Make a poem about rocks.

Example: 

Rocks come in all different sizes,shapes, and colors 

Still they all look cool it is true

There are so many rocks everywhere

So look outside for rocks too!

Then say your own personal poem in your funniest voice possible.

Activity 9

Activity 9: Rainbows

Craft: Make a crazy rainbow by drawing a rainbow on a piece of paper, then add stickers and decorative tape patterns to it or your own fun stuff and color rain drops on the background.

Lesson: Rainbows are what we see after it rains because water and sunlight are what rainbows are made out of. The colors of a rainbow will be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Rainbows are also almost like air because you can move your hand right through one.

Talk Together: What are the colors of the rainbow? Have you ever seen one?

Activity: Find things around your house that are rainbow colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Then place them all together in a line and say a color for your kid to jump on.

Example: Red! Then have your kid jump on all the red items.    

If the item is hard or would brake have your kid throw a stuffed animal at that color instead of jumping.

Songs or Rhymes: Sing the 6 rainbow colors to the tune of your choice.

gggggggvvvvvvvjjjjjjjjjjjjjbbbbbbbbgggggggghhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggggbbbbbbbbnnnnnhhhnn

Activity 8

Activity 8: Sunshine

Craft: Take a paper plate and color it yellow, then with markers add a happy face. Glue the back of the paper plate on to a piece of paper. Finally add yellow lines of paint or markers to the edges of the sun circle and if you have glitter that would always be a fun touch.

Lesson: The sun is a big fiery ball that warms the earth up so we do not freeze or get really cold. If you live in a place that is usually cold the sun is probably farther away, if you live in a place that is usually hot it means the sun is closer to you. Now name places that you think would be hot and cold.

         Example: The desert is a hot place and an ice burg is a cold place.

Talk Together: Do you live closer to the sun where it is hot? How hot do you think the sun could be?

Activity: Play "Sun Tag,"first pick a person to be the sun and have them try to tag the other players. When they tag a person that person has to lay or sit down until another player that has not yet been tagged tags them, but in order for that player to be un-melted or tagged by another player you have to find something around your house that would provide shade and hold it over their head. Then after that has happened the player can rejoin the game.

Activity 7

Activity 7: Harvest

Craft: Make corn on the cob crafts by taking green and yellow paper and cutting both of the papers into ovals, make the yellow oval slightly smaller than the green oval. Then glue the yellow oval on top of the green oval. Finally take finger paints of your color choice and with your fingers decorate your yellow oval until it starts looking like a corn cob in a husk.

Lesson: Tell your kid that at this time of year people call it harvest because it is when farmers harvest or pick their crops. Say that a squash is a vegetable then have your kid try to name other vegetables and fruits that we harvest at this time of year.

Talk Together: Ask your kid what their favorite fruit or vegetable is? Would you like to be a farmer when you grow up or have a garden?

Activity: Take a couple bean seeds or pea seeds and put them in a plastic bag with moist paper towels or cotton balls, then put it in a little bit of water [ about a centimeter.] Finally put the bag in a sunny spot and watch it grow. 

Activity 6

Activity 6: Stars 

Craft: Practice drawing stars on a sheet of paper, then color them in and see what cool designs you can make with the stars.

Lesson: Tell your kid that the sun is a star. Also ask your kid when they usually see stars. Then tell them that stars are made of fire, encourage them to color some of the stars blue, green, red, and orange because up close some stars are that color. The blue and green stars are the hottest and the yellow, orange, and red are the less hot ones of course those are still very hot!

Talk Together: What are stars made of? What would you want a star to be made out of? 

Movement: Usually a star has 5 points, do 10 jumping jacks and every time you open into the star shape say" star."  Then try to think of other fun exercises that make a star outline or shape.

Song or Rhyme: Sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,"then if you have any instruments play them while singing  the song.

Activity 5

Activity 5: Leaves

Craft: Draw a trunk on a piece of paper, then with finger paints dot the tree with yellow, orange, and green paint. You can add other unique things to your picture   such as a sun, raindrops, glitter, etc. 

Lesson: Tell your kid that leaves have veins just like you, the veins in the leaves are like straws that give water to the leaf so it can get the water it needs to stay healthy just like your veins bring up and bring down blood to keep you healthy. Plants are green because of something in the leaves called chlorophyll, chlorophyll is simply the stuff that makes plants green.

Activity: Make a leaf collection of all the cool leaves you find by taping all the cool leaves you find on o a piece of paper. On top of each leave put the name of it or where you found it.

Movement: Take a couple pieces of paper and cut them into fours, then have your kid draw a picture of a leaf make some green and a couple brown ones. Put them around your house have your kid go run and search for them, see how fast your kid can find all of them.  

Activity 4

Activity 4: Water Forms

Craft: Take a piece of paper and draw an outdoor scene then take bluish paint and drip it on the paper. Let it dry. Now you have a pretty rainy picture to keep!

Lesson: Rain comes from the clouds so does hail and snow. You have probably seen rain and maybe hail or snow. Describe what hail and snow is. Every snowflake has a different pattern. We drink water, in fact we have water everywhere! There is more water than land, 3x more water than land.

Talk Together: What is your favorite form of water, hail, snow, or rain? When do you use water?  

Activity: Take a cup and put water in it [ you can use an ice tray.] Then freeze it for about 1 hour. Now let your kid play with the ice, you can also turn the ice back into water by pouring hot water over it. 

Movement: Have fun making cool snowflakes, then pretend that it is snowing by throwing them at each other. Then use blocks to make a snow fort if you do not have blocks hide behind a wall. Crumble up some paper and try to knock down the other people's forts while throwing the paper snowballs at each player.

Activity 3

Activity 3: Weather and Seasons

Craft: Use beads, cardboard, and other things that make noise, then punch holes in the materials and tie yarn so that all the things are tied together. Then hang it outside { If there is no place to hang it then you be the wind and dangle it around.} Now you just made your own wind chime! Watch as your kid listens to the sound of the wind blowing against the wind chime.

Lesson: Tell your kid the four seasons, summer, winter, fall, and spring. Then tell them what type of weather it usually is during that season.

summer - sunny and hot, winter - cold, cloudy, and [snowy], fall - windy and cloudy, and spring - sunny and rainy.

Also ask your kid by looking outside what they think the season and weather is.

Talk Together: What is your favorite season? What is your favorite type of weather? Can you think of anything else that happens during those seasons?

Activity: Go outside and give your kid seashells, rocks, sand, and water. Put all that stuff in a bucket if you do not have a sand table. Pretend you are at the beach. Have your kid experiment and play with the stuff making sand castles, making designs in the sand, etc.

Activity 2

Activity 2 : Animals

Craft: Help your kid make a cute animal puppet by getting a paper bag and decorating it with crayons or what ever you would like. Then have fun putting on shows with your puppets. 

Lesson: Animals have families just like people, have your kid try to name everyone in your family then try to name what the names of animal families are.

Talk Together: Ask your kid what pet they would have if they could have any pet? Also ask your kid where a good place for each animal would be, where they would have enough food and good shelter.                                                                 

Example: A penguin lives in icy areas not in the desert because...

 Activity: Use some of your stuffed animals or plastic animals and take care of them, play with them around the house and pretend that they are real.                                                                             

                                                                                                                                           






                                 

Activity 1

Introduction

Learn with your kid and help them to enjoy doing activities and learning while having fun.

Every day I will post another lesson containing a craft, educational lesson, occasionally a song or rhyme to help you remember with what we are learning, a couple of questions, and some kind of movement or activity.

Activity 1: Nature

Craft: Have your kid go outside and collect a couple of fun and interesting leaves, feathers, seeds, etc. Then have your kid trace the items. Have your kid observe, draw, label and play with the items, then put them back outside and add fun things to your picture. 

Lesson: Tell your kid about the parts of a flower, the roots, stem, leaves, and flower. Say that the roots get the flower water to drink, the stem brings the water  up like a straw, the leaves attract sun light, and the flower is the part of the plant that blooms and gives off pollen.

Talk Together: Ask your kid what the four parts of a plant are and ask them what kind of plants they can name { A tree is a plant }.

Movement: Cut out green, brown, yellow, and orange shapes such as a square, circle, oval, etc. Then hide the shapes around your house and tell your kid to find them. Ask them to tell you what color and shape it is. The colored shapes represent leaves.