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.