Room 1 - Ms. Noruma

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Parents Corner

Hi Parents,

Here are the activities, practice sheets and resources for the last week of June. Wow, we are in July now and time is flying by so quickly. Please make sure to sign up for SEESAW, as I send out mini activities through this site. Zoom will be on Wednesday at 11 and I might add another day depending on how many more kiddos join our group. So far, we have five girls. If you need anything please email me. Thank You, Mrs. Norma

Don't forget to look at the online resources at the bottom of this page!

Weekly Activities

June 29 to July 2, 2020

Here are some online songs, activities, and book readings that I thought the kids would enjoy:

Activities

All About Me

MATERIALS

Construction paper or cardstock-You’ll need a variety of colors so kids can choose their favorite color for their shirt, and we recommend grabbing a set of multicultural construction paper to use for the arms.
Small paper plates
Yarn in assorted hair colors
Crayons-Grab some multicultural crayons for the faces.
Glue
Stapler
Personal photos or cut outs from magazines
Googly eyes (optional)
Hand held mirror (optional)

Bread Tasting Party

This is my favorite activity. Go to the grocery and gather various “breads from around the world” such as naan, cornbread, tortillas, matzo, pita, scones, etc. Introduce the name of the bread and from which culture it originates. Then invite the children to taste it.

Talk about the traditions of those cultures. Maybe even make your own bread together. I love this learning activity because it brings in the senses and is truly hands on. If you don’t have access to the breads, then seek out images from a library book or the internet.

This Simple Bread Experiment Is a Genius Way to Get Kids to Wash Their Hands

Washing your hands is important. Really important. But how can you visually demonstrate the importance of this valuable life skill to kids?This classroom activity is done with your kiddos so that kids can see why its so important to wash their hands. Have the kiddos touch various pieces of plain white bread with clean and then with dirty hands. Then seal bread in plastic baggy and then watch the bread over the next week.

Ingredients

Jus-Roll croissant dough 2 x 350g packs
unsalted butter 100g, softened
soft light brown sugar 125g
ground cinnamon 2 tsp
orange 1, zested

ICING

icing sugar 50g
vanilla extract ½ tsp
milk 1 tsp

Croissant Cinnamon Buns

Directions

Unroll the croissant dough rolls, and cut each in ¹/2 width ways so you have 4 smaller rectangles. Spread each with the butter, then mix together the sugar, cinnamon and orange zest, and sprinkle evenly over each. Roll the pieces from the shortest side, into a sausage, then cut into 3. Repeat with the other pieces.
Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Put each roll into the hole of a non-stick muffin tin, spiral side facing up. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden on top and cooked through. Remove to a wire rack, spirals facing upwards, to cool, with a piece of baking paper underneath the rack.
Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add the vanilla and milk, mixing well – it should be a thick, drizzle-able consistency.
Once the buns are warm but no longer hot, drizzle with the icing, then eat straight away.

Sponge Bombs

How to Make Sponge Bombs – 3 Easy Steps:Disclosure – This post contains affiliate links. I will earn a commission if you purchase the supplies using my links. Thank you for supporting us!

To begin, use scissors to cut up ordinary household sponges into thirds.
Next, use an ouch less to group together nine sponge strips.
Lastly, poof up the sponge bomb, and you are ready to dunk them into water for some active outdoor FUN!

Volume (Amount of space that substance or object occupies):

I filled various plastic containers with exactly 2 cups of water each. Then I brought them outside and let the kids add food coloring to each one (they loved this, of course). Next, I asked them to tell me which container they thought held the most water. You might have guessed that their top guesses were the cup of blue water and the container of red water – because the water was filled to the top. We took turns pouring the water into the measuring cup. They were surprised to discover that each container held exactly the same amount.
How could this be? I taught them the word volume — and together we talked about how a liquid takes the shape of its container. Two containers can hold the same amount of liquid – but it looks different depending on how wide or tall the container is. I think my Six was the only one who soaked up this information!

Doll Bath Station

SETTING UP YOUR DOLL BATH STATION FOR PLAY:

I used a dollar store kitty-litter basin for the baby-bath, and set up a tray with everything the Hooligans would need to bathe their babies.

THE TOOLS:

I set out sponges, baby wash cloths and hand towels, toothbrushes, spray bottles, a soap pump (filled with soapy water) and a couple of travel shampoo containers filled with watered down shampoo and conditioner.

Pool Noodle Water Wall

To make this water wall, you will need just 3 supplies:

3 or more pool noodles (ours are from The Dollar Tree)
zip ties
peg board (we got ours at Lowe’s for around $6)

You can create your pool noodle water wall however you’d like! Feel free to follow the pattern we did or just make up your own. Once you’ve decided how you want the pool noodles to go on the pegboard, just use zip ties to attach the noodles to the board.