Media Club

Club Description and Purpose: To create an enriching, educational and creative experience for students k-2, by exploring children's literature, reading books aloud to students during a live club time, and follow the reading with a related creative arts and crafts activity.

Offering arts activities combined with literacy, challenges students on mental, physical and developmental levels, encourages strengthening of fine and gross motor skills, and encourages creative problem-solving, and empowers life-long learning.

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You do not need a meeting id and passcode to join, but if you have any trouble getting in:

ID-890 7893 9631 Passcode media123

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Media CLUB meets Wednesdays

at 12:00pm

Join our next Media Club on:

APRIL 28th

THIS IS THE FINAL MEDIA CLUB FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR and will be asynchronous, so you can view and begin anytime! Click the links below to follow the book reading and "HOW TO" tutorials.

For today's Club, we will be reading,

The Tiny Seed

by: Eric Carle

Spring blooms and green grass is sprouting up ALL AROUND US!

So, today we are going to join in the party and plant grass seeds AND create our own "Grassy-head dolls" !

Supplies needed :

• Plastic or paper cup

• gardening soil or top soil, (even yard dirt).

• grass seed- These are TINY SEEDS that grow quickly and are thrilling to watch grow- creating a head of grassy hair for your funny faced cups!

• saucer or paper plate to catch excess water.

• Black and colored permanent markers- to create a funny face on the outside of your cup FIRST!

• OR sissors, paper, glue and markers to paste faces on cups.(see tutorial).

*Be creative and don't forget to add eyebrows, eyes, eyelashes, nose, lips to complete your "Grassy-head doll" face. You can even add some red or pink for lips and fun colors for eyes!

Directions for planting:

AFTER you have drawn or cut your funny faces on cups, its time to plant!

• Poke a small hole in bottom of cup and place in saucer to drain excess water.(You might need to have an adult to help you poke the hole).

• Fill cup half way with top soil or gardening dirt.

• Sprinkle a generous handful of grass seeds onto the top of soil and push gently into the soil. DO NOT PUSH TOO DEEP. Just enough to cover the seeds. You can also fill the cup half full with soil, add seeds and then COVER with a SMALL amount of soil.

• WATER daily( but dont OVER WATER) Just enough to make the soil wet.

• Place cup and saucer in SUNNY window so that your seeds are getting SUN !

Finally, BE PATIENT! It may take TWO WEEKS or more to sprout GRASS!

*I have posted the story, THE TINY SEED below, and tutorials;

How seeds grow, AND two ways to make"Grassy head dolls".