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Welcome to Fun Friday.
Welcome to Fun Friday.
Today we celebrate that we enjoyed another week of adventures.
SO PENCILS DOWN AND TURN UP THE FUN!!
Friday April 3 is: Backwards Day
Friday April 3 is: Backwards Day
*wear your clothes backwards
*safely walk around the house backwards
*have breakfast for dinner
*use your opposite hand to draw a picture
This week, Fun Friday is a holiday. So instead we will celebrate Fun Friday on Thursday.
Thursday April 9th is - FM Spirit day
Thursday April 9th is - FM Spirit day
If you would like to celebrate Spirit Day, The Florence Meares community is having a school wide Spirit Day on Thursday, April 9. Everyone is encouraged to wear their Florence Meares Falcon gear. You may also choose to wear blue and white. Come on Kindies, be creative and if you want, send us pictures of you celebrating this fun day.
April 17, 2020
April 17, 2020
Try Something Different
Try Something Different
Materials needed for this activity: a piece of paper, scissors, pencils or crayons, your family
Instructions- Cut a piece of paper into 4 pieces (or enough so everyone in the family has their own piece of paper). Each person draws an activity on their piece of paper. Fold up each piece of paper in a bowl.
Close your eyes and choose a paper. Have fun trying something new.
Some Ideas: have a picnic, have a dance party, build a fort, cook together, bake together, make an obstacle course, Blow bubbles. dance party, arts and craft day
Sorry this is coming to you late!! Give it a try for this week.
Sorry this is coming to you late!! Give it a try for this week.
April 24, 2020- Crazy Hair Day
April 24, 2020- Crazy Hair Day
This Friday is Crazy Hair Day. Comb or brush your hair differently, add gel. You can add hair bands, barrettes, whatever you have at home. Look at yourself in the mirror. Ask mommy or daddy if they want to have their hair crazy too!!
If you wish, here is the story Crazy hair day for you to enjoy! Click on Bookflix and add your login and password.
Click family and community and find the story "Crazy Hair day"
April 30, 2020- FM Spirit Day
Today spirit day is Pajama day and Front Line Workers Day
So find your comfiest pajamas and relax!
May 1, 2020 - Lets Get Moving!
Watch Mrs. Barretto’s Get moving video. (Mrs. Barretto comes into our class once a week) **** This video is not working at the moment . We are working on getting it fixed***
Can you dance along to this video?
Extension: Can you make your own dance/workout routine?
Kindergarten Gotta Dance 2020.mp4May 8th 2020- Thanking a First Responder and Essential workers
We would like to take this week to thank First Responders and Essential workers. You can either make a poster or make a chalk message on the sidewalk.
We would love to see your messages, so send them our way. Thanks!!
May 15th, 2020- Egg Experiment
Egg experiment
You will need:
*a jar with a lid, to place your egg in
*vinegar (white)
*food colouring
*1 egg
Place your egg into the jar gently.
Fill the jar up with vinegar, past the egg (allowing the egg to float) and add a few drops of food colouring.
Place the lid back on the jar and wait.
Look at the egg. What things do you see? What is happening to the egg? This experiment can take up to 7 days to see results. So don’t rush…….
On day 7 pour the vinegar out carefully and wash the off the egg.
Have your child explore the egg and record their findings
Please send 2 photos, a photo of your egg once you put the lid on your jar and when you wash your egg off. Thanks!!
Week of May 18: Lets Make Ice Cream
Week of May 18: Lets Make Ice Cream
Ingredients Needed:
Ingredients Needed:
1/2 cup of half and half cream
1/4 TSP Vanilla
1 TBSP of sugar
3 cups of ice
1/3 cup of Kosher salt or rock salt
Gallon size zip lock bag
Quart size zip lock bag
Instructions
Instructions
Step 1: Place ice and salt into gallon size bag and set aside
Step 2: In small bag combined Half and half cream vanilla and sugar. *** Make sure you seal the bag tightly***
Step 3: Place smaller bag into the gallon bag and seal tightly
**** AT THIS POINT PUT GLOVES ON AS THE BAG WILL GET VERY COLD****
**** AT THIS POINT PUT GLOVES ON AS THE BAG WILL GET VERY COLD****
Step 4: Shake Bag for 5 mins
Step 5: ENJOY!!! Send Photos of your ice cream
Hope everyone had a warm and enjoyable weekend.
Week of May-25-29 Travelling Water-
Week of May-25-29 Travelling Water-
You will need:
You will need:
7 glasses
Paper towel (6 sheets)
Food Colouring
Travelling Water Video- How to video
Travelling Water Video- How to video
Step 1: Take your paper towel and fold it in half, then half again. Fold it lengthwise and cut 5 centimetres off the bottom of the folded paper towel.
Step 2: Fill every other cup halfway with water.
Step 3: add red to the first cup.
Add yellow to the third cup.
Add blue to the fifth cup.
Add red to the last cup.
Step 4: Place the paper towel into the cups.
Watch what happens! Tell us what you noticed in this experiment.
Week of June 1-5
Week of June 1-5
Lemon Volcano
Lemon Volcano
Materials you will need for this activity.
Lemons: 3 in total
Baking soda
Popsicle stick or Spoon
Tray or dish to do the experiment in
Optional- Food Colouring
Dish soap
Step 1: Prep the lemon by rolling it on the counter. This will help loosen up the juice inside the lemon.
Step 2: Have an adult cut off the bottom of the lemon to make it flat.
This is so the lemon will stand up without flopping over or rolling away. Try not to cut in the flesh of the lemon or you may end up with a leaky lemon.
Step 3: Have an adult cut into the top of the lemon to make a hole. This is now your volcano.
Step 4: Place your lemon volcano into your tray. Use the popsicle stick or end of a spoon to squish and squash the lemon pulp to release the juice. Scrape the sides along the inside of the lemon, but try not to puncture the bottom.
Step 5: (Optional) Squeeze a few drops of dish soap into your volcano. This is not necessary but will make your volcano bubbly.
Step 6: (Optional) add a few drops of food colouring to your volcano. This is not necessary either, but adds colour
Step 7: Add a teaspoon of baking soda to the lemon to activate your volcano. Watch it foam up and come to life.
Step 8: Use your popsicle stick or end of your spoon to mix up the lemon juice some more. Sprinkle some more baking soda once your volcano slows down.
Step 9: Add in the extra lemon juice from other lemons to reactivate your volcano.
Week of June 8-12 Paper Clip Experiment
Week of June 8-12 Paper Clip Experiment
Materials Needed: many small paper clips, a shallow bowl, water
Prediction:
What do you think will happen if you put paper clips into a shallow bowl of water?
Method:
1. Pour a small amount of water into a bowl, enough so that when you put your finger in the water, it covers your finger
2. Drop a few paper clips into the water. They will probably sink. Do you think you can make them float?
3.This time, place the paper clip very carefully on the top of the water, so that it floats. If it floats, that means that it is not breaking the surface of the water.
4.How many paper clips can you get to float?
Conclusion:
The surface tension, the top of the water, will allow the paper clips to sit on top of the water until the weight becomes too much for the water bear.
****Send us a picture to let us know how many paper clips you could get to float?
Bubble Art
Bubble Art
Materials Needed: Light corn syrup; water; dish soap, containers, spoon for mixing, straws
Prediction:
Prediction:
What will happen when you mix all the ingredients together?
Method:
Method:
1. Pour a small amount of corn syrup, water and dish soap into a flat container
2. Use a spoon to stir the ingredients together. What do you see?
3.Use a straw and blow the mixture around the bottom of the container. What did you make?
4. Can you make small bubbles? Can you make large bubbles?
5.Can you pick up one bubble and stack it onto another bubble?
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
When you use a straw to blow onto the mixed ingredients, there is air inside the bubbles that makes them float.
Week Of June 22-26
Week Of June 22-26
Homemade Play dough:
Homemade Play dough:
*in a medium saucepan, add 1 cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, and 1/3 cup of salt (the salt keeps it from sticking and also helps preserve it).
*add 1 cup of water and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
*before it starts getting thick (this is going to happen fast, so be ready) you want to add whatever food colouring you would like
*STIR.....keep stirring......
*it is going to start thickening up (takes 30 seconds-2 minutes depending on how hot your pan/stove is)
*it will start getting thicker, keep stirring, and keep scraping the bottom of the pot.
*when the dough isn’t wet anymore, take it out of the pot.
*place the dough on some wax paper and allow to cool (30 minutes or so)
*knead in your hands for a few seconds (like 30 seconds). *****Store in a zip-lock bag or airtight container IN THE FRIDGE. It shouldn’t dry out, but if you notice it getting a bit dry you can add a few drops of water and knead that into the dough.
(Thanks DomesticSuperhero.com for the recipe)
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