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🌷 Learning In The Garden 🌿
🌷 Learning In The Garden 🌿
Activities for the Week
Activities for the Week
Music Monday
· Explore the “Music” page on the ELC Website
· Watch “Percussion Instruments” video
· Watch “Olivia Forms a Band” Read Aloud
· Design and make your own musical instruments to play while you sing!
Who Lives in A Garden
Visual Art
· Draw or paint a garden
· Garden Collage
Sensory & Dramatic Play
· Dig in the dirt—collect some soil in a container, let children explore what’s in the soil
· Add in Garden Creatures
· Allow kids to add water and see how it changes the soil
Wacky Wednesday
Cooking Projects— Allow children to use their fingers to tear herbs or small safety scissors to cut them.
· Herb dip for Veggies –tear or cut fresh herbs into small pieces. Stir into ½ cup sour cream, plain yogurt, or a combo of the two. Add salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy with veggies.
· Herbal tea—tear or cut fresh mint or lemon balm. Have a grown-up pour near-boiling water and let sit for 3-5 minutes. Sweeten with honey if desired. Enjoy!
Literacy
· Make your own book “In My Garden”
· Garden Vocabulary—print the Garden Word Wall. Notice the first letter of each word and sort them by that letter. Talk about what each word “means”. Practice writing some of your favorites. Use them to label a garden picture or your “In My Garden” book.
Listen to Bunny Mail
Numeracy
Movement Math-Print the “Movement Math Cards” and cut them apart.
1. Select your movements
2. Roll a die* or dice if you’d like to practice some addition
3. Perform each movement while counting to the number out loud.
If you don’t have a die, Click on this Link
Or make your own using a small box (cubed tissue boxes are perfect) and covering with paper.
This is a great extension as you and your child could create dice with any numbers!
Visual Art
Rainbow Hunt- Look around your house for items to make a rainbow. When you’re finished take a picture and email it to Miss Rachelle and she will post them on the blog.
Just For Fun: Vegetable Song
Materials Required for Each Activity
Materials Required for Each Activity
Music Monday
Connected device to explore website and watch videos
Instruments:
Variety of materials that will make noise
Containers-cups with lids, metal tins, boxes, canisters
Rice, beans, small rocks, sand
Buttons
Pots or pans
Sticks, pencils,
Bottles and water
Ask your kids- They will come up with some great ideas!
Draw or Paint a Garden
Paper
Crayons, markers, colored pencils
Paint
Paintbrushes
Small cups
Water
Garden Collage
Paper
Scissors
Glue or glue sticks
Old Seed Catalogs or Magazines
Pictures of things found in gardens-veggies, flowers, bugs, frogs, birds
Dig in the Dirt—Probably Best Outside and Have a Bath Ready!
A container to hold the soil (a long-shallow tub is perfect, like the kind designed to fit under the bed and can accommodate 3-4 kids comfortably)
“clean” soil
plastic or washable garden creatures--bugs, snakes, flowers, rocks
spoons, scoops, small containers
small container of water (introduce after they seem finished exploring the dry soil)
Cooking Project
For the Dip:
Plain yogurt or sour cream
Fresh Herbs-parsley, chives, basil, dill, thyme, ect.
For the Tea: mint or lemon balm
Hot Water
Honey (if desired)
In My Garden Book
Paper
Writing/drawing utensils
Stapler & Staples or hole punch and string
Garden Vocabulary
Printed copy of “Garden Word Wall”
Optional: whiteboard and marker, paper and writing utensil
Movement Math
Printed movement cards
1 or 2 dice
optional: small boxes, paper, writing utensils, glue sticks or tape
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