Jellyfish, April 27
Week of April 27
My family has been talking about “What I am going to do when staying at home is over”. My daughter wants to go to her favorite ice cream shop, my husband wants to return to kayaking and fishing. I want to see my favorite people! I painted this Wish Jar so we can have a creative place to keep our documented ideas. When we are back to work and school, we can pull out our written/missed activities one by one and reconnect with our ideas. When we get a chance to go wherever we want, what are you looking forward to?
Recipe of the Week
Puffy Pancakes!
3 Tbls. butter ¾ c flour
¾ c milk 3 eggs
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix together milk, eggs and flour. Heat 3 Tbls. butter in an oven safe pan until melted. Pour mixed ingredients into pan and bake until edges are light brown. Use rubber scraper to separate pancake from pan.
Top your pancake with: lemon juice and powdered sugar, strawberry jam, Nutella, cinnamon and sugar, pie filling, or whatever sounds good to you!
Art
Remida at Home!
At the ELC, we refer to the use of our reusable, recycled materials as Remida (this is a term that finds it's roots in Italy's Reggio Emilia schools where it began as a cultural project focused on sustainability, creativity, and research on waste materials). In aftercare, Remida days are a favorite. The picture shows items that I found in my recycling and in my junk drawer. What creations can you picture being built with these things?
Ask your parents if you can repurpose some items in your home to make something new. Will it be a machine? Art? Useful? What can you add to your creation in the future?
Easy Origami
Here are instructions to make a super simple origami heart. Any paper can be used, but thinner paper is easier to fold and simply needs to be square shaped.
Numeracy
Show Me the Money!
This is an extension of the money value activities from last week. Simply write an amount of money on cupcake papers (or paper circles) and pop them in a muffin tin. Give your child a collection of coins to sort into the correct values. This numeracy activity can be scaled up or down according to the age of the child.
Science
Rock Candy
Click this link - Rock Candy to find instructions on how to make rock candy using just a few ingredients. This will take a bit of parent involvement to help with hot liquid, but imagine the outcome! Children can observe the jars as sugar crystallizes each day and can hypothesize about why they think this is happening.
What if the same experiment was done with salt?
Older children may want to write their observations each day or illustrate what they see.
Fine Motor
Pin Poke creatures
Print the pink poke page - Pin Poke activity…. Then using a thumb tack or push pin poke a hole in each dot. This works best with firm carpet or cardboard under the paper. This can be printed directly onto colored paper, taped to colored paper (a seasoned Jellyfish might insist on this but you don’t have to!), or just poke the printout itself. When finished color or hang in a window for a fun decoration! Light will shine through the holes. Extend this idea by using the same strategy with coloring sheets or encourage your child to draw their own picture and pin poke around the edges!
Large Motor
Move Your Body - Build a fort!
Remember how much fun it was to take all of the couch cushions and blankets in the whole house and build yourself a hideout? Help your child make the best fort ever! Make it humongous, climb in together, bring some stuffed friends, have a picnic, read a book or settle in for a much-needed nap after all that building!
~Also~ Here’s a fun way to exercise your body, indoors or out!
