Jan. 27, 2006
South America Unit Study
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This study isn't completely done, but I'm posting it anyway since I probably won't finish planning it. Map of SA to color I had a hard time finding coloring pages of the animals, so I'm just going to buy a rainforest coloring book. Anaconda Piranha Peccary Sloths Parrot Macaw - coloring page Jaguar Science Terrariums Terrariums are easy to make from plastic soda or water bottles. Have everyone bring a bottle with the label off. Cut bottle in half. Put pebbles and potting soil in the bottom half. Plant some small plants and water it sparingly. Use the top half with the cap on as the lid. Cut 4 1" places on the cut edge of the lid so as to allow it to fit over the bottom planted part. The plants will then water themselves from condensation on the inside of the bottle. They last a long time without care. You add a ceramic rainforest animal. learn about rainforest products - sugar, coffee, etc go in the bathroom and run the shower on hot....sit in the steam for a few minutes, to get the feel of the rainforest. learn about the 4 levels: The emergent level is the top level of the rainforest. The canopy is the next layer where monkeys, apes and exotic plants live. The canopy is like living under a big green umbrella. The understory is the next layer. It is the home of bats, frogs, butterflies and many other animals. Finally is the forest floor. It's dark on the rainforest floor because the trees keep most of the light out. water cycle Math find or draw a snake pattern on different colors of paper. You can also laminate the pieces so that you can use a dry erase marker and change the letters to spell new words, instead of making all new pieces. This pattern can be used to review just about anything you happen to be studying. Children will love this activity because they can get down on the floor and move around while making a great big snake.You can also use this snake for anything that your child is studying that has an order such as numbers, letters, books of the Bible, counting by certain numbers, alphabetizing, etc. Crafts Rainforest Mural As a class activity, the children will be dipping their palms in green paint to make palm prints covering several large sheets of paper. Once dry, these will serve as a background for your class rainforest. As you learn about the rainforest add food, plants, and animals to your mural. Snake Sock white tube sock markers craft eyes super glue red felt (approx 3" x 1") Allow
the child to decorate the white tube sock snake with the markers.
Supervise the child as they cut a snake tongue from the red felt.
Super
glue craft eyes to "top" of toe end of snake. Super glue tongue where
the sock will naturally fit in the child's hand (think puppet).
Play. Make
binoculars with toilet paper rolls - decorate, punch holes in, and tie
together with yarn. Tape up pictures of animals/birds, and go
for
a walk, looking for animals in the rainforest. Parrot craft Sloth craft rain forest mobile Food/Cooking Buy different food found in the rainforest: bananas, star fruit, coconut, chocolate, papaya, papaya, bananas, mangos, etc. Misc. Tribal Faces Get a book on indigenous people of the rainforest and face paint the children to look like the tribal people. Then string beads for tribal necklaces. Have students cut out animals and glue them in the proper layer. go on a smell hunt with food items from the rainforest Do 1,2,3,4,5 Fish nursery rhyme. Learn about right and left hands anteater maze worksheet Rainforest Links more links |
Oct. 2, 2005
October Unit Studies
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Australia Unit Study Fall Unit Study South America Unit Study Farm Unit Study Australia 5 Day Plan Fall 5 Day Plan South America 5 Day Plan Farm 5 Day Plan |
Oct. 2, 2005
Australia 5 Day Plan
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Do coloring sheets all week,
using different art methods Monday Math Money Flashcards Buried Treasure Science Air activities Crafts Lesson 1 art curriculum Sandpaper prints Misc. Look up Australia on Google Earth Color map Tuesday Math Money Flashcards Coin Rubbings Science Straw Glider Crafts Lesson 2 art curriculum Puzzle prints Misc. Paint flag Wednesday Math File Folder Games Crafts Map collage Food/Cooking Anzac Biscuits Science talk about ecosystems of Australia Thursday Math Money Flashcards Coin Patterns Science Materials Crafts Jumping Kangaroo Friday Math File Folder Games sorting and sizing Crafts Boomerang Koala Craft Food/Cooking Pavlova |
Oct. 2, 2005
Farm 5 Day Plan
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Do animal flashcards and coloring sheets all
week Monday Science Animal Match Math Eggs are Hatching Crafts Little Boy Blue Paper Plate Pig Misc. Little Boy Blue little book Tuesday Science Make Butter Math Worksheets Crafts Little Bo Peep Mobile Misc. Little Bo Peep little book Wednesday Science Dairy Products Math Worksheets Crafts 3 Pigs Houses Muddy Pig Misc. Animal 3-in-a-row Thursday Math Worksheets Crafts Sponge Paint Farm, Sheep, Cow Food/Cooking Bake Bread Misc. Do patterns with 3-in-a-row cards Friday Science Animal Sort Math Worksheets Crafts Farm Mobile Food/Cooking Milkshakes |
Oct. 2, 2005
Fall 5 Day Plan
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To get some more fun crafts for fall,
I did a swap with a few other women. We picked out a few
crafts from Oriental
Trading Company,
and then we each got a few of each craft - that way we weren't each
stuck with 12 of the same craft. So the kids will be doing
those,
too. Monday Math Leaf Graph Number Matching Science Planting Acorns Crafts Scarecrow Fun Scarecrow Art Food/Cooking Pumpkin Pudding Misc. Fall Book Tuesday Math Leaf Match Science Fall Sensory Box Crafts Apple Wreaths Apple Printing Food/Cooking Apple Pancakes Misc. Fall Book Wednesday Math Acorn Numbers Science Open and Closed Pinecone Crafts Pinecone Squirrel Corn Cob painting Food/Cooking Leaf Sugar Cookies Misc. Fall Book Thursday Math Apple Puzzles Science talk about hibernation Fall Smells Crafts Tissue Paper Pumpkin Food/Cooking Leaf Piles Misc. Fall Book Apple Hide and Seek Friday Math More or Less Pumpkin Patch book Science Fall Smells Crafts Scented/Pumpkin Playdough Food/Cooking Leaf Toast Misc. Fall Book |
Oct. 2, 2005
Australia Unit Study
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Australia 5 Day Plan Animals to Study: Tasmanian Devil - Coloring Sheet (convert to b/w) Koala - Coloring Sheet Kangaroo - Coloring Sheet Platypus - Coloring Sheet Sugar Glider - Coloring Sheet (convert to b/w) Bandicoot - coloring sheet (convert to b/w) Frilly-Necked Lizard - coloring sheet (convert to b/w) Goanna Geography Look up Australia on Google Earth Color map of Australia Paint the flag Math work on money Buried Treasure: Bury coins in a bowl of rice or sand. Have her find specific coins. Coin Rubbing: Hot-glue several coins onto index cards. Lay thin paper on top and clip it with clothespins to hold the paper it place. Use the flat side of a crayon to rub over the paper and make an impression of the coins. Patterns: Make patterns with coins. For example, heads, tails, heads, tails; or, penny, nickel, penny, nickel. work on recognizing and writing numbers 1-20 sorting and sizing with koala craft Science air/gliding activities Fill a bowl with water. Place a cup in it, open side down. Tip the edge up and watch what happens. Talk about the air bubbles and the air leaving the cup, letting water in. Blow up a balloon. Talk about air from our lungs; slowly let the air out of the balloon and feel it. Blow up a balloon and let go of it - watch it fly around. Straw Glider What You Need
What You Do
The paper rings or loops are like wings. The air pressure that is on
top and below the loops create what we call "lift." This lift makes it
possible for the object or straw glider to sail in the air. Australia is the leading producer of wool. Gather clothes made of different material such as wool, rayon/silk, cotton, etc. Compare textures and weight. Do an experiment with the clothes. "Which material will dry the fastest? Soak each piece of material in water. Place the wet pieces on a tray and place the tray in the sun. Check them periodically and record the order in which the different materials dried. Talk about the different ecosystems/habitats in Australia. Cooking/Food PavlovaCrafts Jumping Kangaroo Australia map collage Cut a boomerang shape out of cardboard, let them paint it. Puzzle prints (from kinderart.com) What You Need:
 What You Do:
Koala Craft Sandpaper Prints (mock aboriginal cave drawings) Use crayons to draw and color a design on sandpaper, pressing hard. Color in as much as possible. Place the sandpaper colored side down onto white construction paper. Place both pieces of paper in between two pieces of newspaper. Press the newspaper with a hot iron. Let cool and then remove the newspaper. Peel the sandpaper off of the white paper. The print is now on the white paper. Music listen to some opera (Sydney Opera House) The rough guide to Australian Aboriginal music CD Books to Read In search of the real Tasmanian devil / by James Preller J 599.2 P Australia J 994 Into wild Australia / John Woodward J590 The aboriginal peoples of Australia / Anne Bartlett J 305.89915 BAR Coco's surprise / written by Karen van Holst Pellekaan E H Koalas / by Gail Saunders-Smith E S The koala : the bear that's not a bear / Diana Star Helmer J 599.25 H platypus 599.29 Wombat & Bandicoot : best of friends :three stories / by Kerry Argent. E A Bush walkabout. Lowe, Beulah. J 398.2 P Island ancestors Oceanic art from the Masco Collection Allen Wardwell 709.011099 W Misc. World of the koala [videorecording] Kangaroos faces in the mob / [videorecording] Good Links: Australian Animals -since this isn't an 'official' site, I would double check all the facts they have on there. Australian Theme links Rainforest Australia (I didn't know they had one) Arthur's Australian Clipart 22 Australian Activities/Lessons Australia at San Diego Zoo - includes video clips of animals |
Oct. 1, 2005
Farm Unit Study
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Farm 5 Day Plan Science Make butter with real cream. Taste a variety of dairy products. Animal Sort Have their barn set out (or a picture of a barn) and have their safari mat set out (or a picture of a safari area). Gather all their plastic animals into one pile, and have them separate the animals between safari and farm, putting the animals in their correct homes. Animal Match Print out images of animals, cut in half, and have them match them up. To make it harder, cut into a couple of pieces. Arthur's Clipart Images Math Eggs Are Hatching - activity in a reproducible math book I have Farm Animal Shadow Matching worksheet make farm animal pattern worksheets dot to dot worksheets 1 2 maze worksheets 1 2 more/less worksheet Crafts Little Boy Blue shape craft hay * Ask and help child to identify the shapes Talk about the different shades of blue. * Encourage child to glue the template pieces to the body outline template. * When Little Boy Blue is assembled cut around and then glue Little Boy Blue to "sleep" over the hay mat template (suggest to color the mat in different shades of yellow & brown). You can also have the children glue some real hay, or cut-up raffia, construction paper in a coordinating color to the hay mat first and then glue Little Boy Blue on top (beige, brown). * There is a small marking on the hay mat marking to use a hole punch to insert a piece of yarn, string or raffia to hang as a decoration. Little Bo Peep Mobile Muddy Pig Cut out a pig out of construction paper and have children fingerpaint the pig with chocolate pudding. Cow Prints Sponge Print Farm Obtain sponges shaped as cows, pigs, farm houses, fences, clouds, etc. Have your child dip the sponges into paint and press on a piece of paper to create a farm scene. Paint with tractors - run through paint, and then onto paper to make tracks. Three Pigs House What You Need: Paper, Twigs, Spaghetti or straw, Glue, Paint What You Do: Let your children create the three little pigs houses by using red paper (bricks), spaghetti (straw), and small twigs (sticks). Sponge Painted Black Sheep Print
the sheep template onto heavy construction paper. Dip a sponge in black
paint and sponge paint the sheep's black wool. Let dry. Cut out
and glue onto a popsicle stick for a puppet. Food/Cooking Cow Milk Shakes Blend the following together: Milk, Ice Cream, Chocolate Syrup Bake bread Misc. Play with animal flashcards - matching mothers to babies Farm coloring sheet animal coloring sheets good coloring sheets With the coloring sheets, have them use a variety of art mediums to color - different paints, pastels, colored pencils, chalks, etc. Do Little Boy Blue and Little Bo-Peep little books Animal 3-in-a-row both from Early Childhood Units for Nursery Rhymes Books I've discovered the Bobbie Kalman books are great. The Usborne book of tractors / Caroline Young J 629.225 Y All about farm animals / Brenda Cook J 636.01 C Hooray for sheep farming! / Bobbie Kalman J 636.3145 KAL Hooray for orchards! / Bobbie Kalman J 634 K Life on a cattle farm / by Judy Wolfman J 636.222 WOL Life on a crop farm / by Judy Wolfman J 630 WOL Life on a pig farm / by Judy Wolfman J 636.4 WOL Richard Scarry's On the farm Little Red Hen Pioneer projects / Bobbie Kalman J 745.5 K Pioneer life from A to Z / created by Bobbie Kalman J 973 K Pioneer farm cooking / by Mary Gunderson : J 641.5973 G Pioneer farm : living on a farm in the 1880s ; by Megan O'Hara J 630 0 Nursery Rhymes Baa Baa Black Sheep - coloring pages Little Bo Peep (read Jesus and lost sheep - compare) - coloring sheets Little Boy Blue 3 Little Pigs - coloring pages |
