Today we learned all about Butterflies with guest speaker Police Chaplain John! We read "Waiting for Wings" by Lois Ehlert", sang a song about butterflies, and read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" By Eric Carle.
In honor of Women's History Month, we read about Marie Curie today and learned about her legacy as one of the first great female scientists!
Please forgive our technical difficulties, the first minute or so of Storytime was cut off the recording. My apologies!
“I never met a color I didn’t like.” – Dale Chihuly Color is everywhere! Can you guess the color for each of these riddles?
Fun things to do with your child before they enter kindergarten!
It is important that children are always expanding their vocabulary, and this means they will need to start hearing and using longer words.
When practicing multisyllabic words, it is helpful to clap to each syllable! This helps children focus on and recognize the individual sounds that make up a word.
This rhyme is fun because it is interactive! It requires kids to notice what they are wearing and respond to the instructions of the rhyme. You can also adapt it to what your children are wearing and turn it into a game with different actions required.
Your challenge is to create a device to transport some goods—move things from one place to another. How can you do this? Start by brainstorming, thinking about different ways you might be able to use these items. Take a look at the hints for ziplines and pulley systems if you need some ideas.
Goal: Create two ramps, one that lets your car speed on quickly and travel far, and one that slows your car down!
This year, the autumnal equinox is Wednesday, September 22. But what is the autumnal equinox? This is when our sun shines directly on the Equator. Because of this, day and night are about the same length of time. Day will be about 12 hours long and night will be about 12 hours long. After the autumnal equinox, our days will be getting shorter and our nights will be getting longer. It will also be getting cooler. And it will start to look and feel like fall! This is why the autumnal equinox is considered the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, where we live.
Find each of the following colors on a walk around your neighborhood. What kind of interesting things do you see? Mark each color off as you find them, don't forget to look high and low!
Gravity is what we call the natural force that causes things to move towards each other. It’s the force that causes things to fall towards the Earth.
Of course you’ve already seen gravity in action. When you throw a ball, it eventually falls to the ground. When you jump in the air, you don’t float around, you fall to the ground, too! Now you get to make your own device to demonstrate gravity: a marble run.
Check out these sites to see some cool optical illusions!
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/human-body/senses/optical-illusions/
https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/puzzles/optical-illusions/
A maze is a type of puzzle. Mazes are made up of a system of paths. They can be on paper, or they can be big enough to walk through.
Try making your own!
Sunlight is white light, which is a mix of all colors of light. So how do we see color, and what are rainbows? Objects reflect light in different ways. Objects that look white don’t absorb any light. All of the light is reflected, so we see white. Objects that look blue absorb all colors of light except blue light. The blue light is reflected, and that’s what we see. But when white light goes through raindrops or water in the air, the raindrops bend the light, separating the colors out so we can see the individual colors of light: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet = a rainbow!
Go beyond just reading this summer! Mix up how or where you read, or maybe what you do after reading a book.
Challenge yourself to complete at least five tasks from the list below. How many can you complete?
No snow? No problem! Have a “snowball” fight with this mini launcher and color some snowy scenes!
Skidamarink is a classic kids song all about love! Here are the lyrics. Not sure about hand motions or tune? Check out this family friendly video on YouTube https://youtu.be/gZpDqvXiuyU?t=53
Why do some items sink and some float? Everything is made of molecules, tiny particles that can only be seen with a special instrument called a microscope. Density refers to how close together an object’s molecules are—items with low-density have molecules that are packed loosely together and high-density items have molecules that are packed tightly together. The denser an object is, the more likely it will sink. If you have two items of the same size but one is heavier than the other, the heavier one is probably more dense!