Dot Talks
How many dots do you see?
How do you see the dots?
Can you count the dots a different way?
On a piece of paper, solve this problem. Try to use words, pictures and a number sentence.
What is a new learning you had from today?
What is something that challenged you?
What are you still wondering about?
Choose one of the activities on the choice board to complete.
Go outside to the exact same spot in the morning, noon and afternoon.
Measure the length of your shadow. What do you notice?
Can you run away from your shadow?
How are you and your shadow the same?
How are you and your shadow different?
What’s the most interesting shadow you can find? Do all the shadows you find look like the objects that cast them?
If you are with a sister, brother, or friend - try these fun things:
Can you touch your partner’s shadow without touching your partner? Can you make your shadow touch your partner’s shadow?
Can you and your partner make a shadow that looks like a person with four arms?
-or - Do this Mystery Science Lesson: Could a statue’s shadow move? How could a statue’s shadow move? You will do an experiment on shadows in your home
Today's activity is a Pokemon Fitness Hunt by Active Adventures!
You'll need:
Pokemon Fitness Hunt Video
Printable Pokemon Cards and PokeDex for recording your Pokemon finds.
A coin and a pencil/pen
To Play:
Have someone hide the Pokemon cards around your house. Be creative and hide them in tricky places!
To 'catch' a Pokemon, you have to flip heads on your coin. When you've caught one, it'll indicate what activity you have to do. Pick using a Pokeball for one flip of your coins (and do the exercise on the card, i.e. 10 jumping jacks), a Greatball for three flips of your coin (and do 20 jumping jacks), or an Ultraball for five coin flips (40 jumping jacks). Remember, you only need to flip heads once in your turn - but if you don't get heads in your flips, then you miss your Pokemon.
If you get tails on your coin flips, you miss the Pokemon! You can't try to catch it again until the next day (or the next hour if you're playing all in one day) or until you catch another Pokemon.
Once you've caught the Pokemon and you get to record the catch on your PokeDex. Keep going until you've caught all 15 Pokemon!
Mindful Eating
There are many reasons that people will decide to eat:
Sometimes we eat when we're hungry.
Sometimes we eat when we're bored.
Sometimes we eat because others around us are eating or we see something that looks yummy.
When we eat "mindfully," we try to notice the difference between these different types of hunger so that we can be aware of times we need to eat because our body needs fuel and times we may be choosing to eat even though our body has enough fuel.
Mindful eating helps us stop and think about the reasons and helps us to be aware of how certain types of food (and quantities of it!) make us feel after eating.
Imagine your favorite meal.
Think about that food and create a collage to represent the senses that match the food.
Draw a picture of the food and write/add words about how it looks, feels, smells, etc.
Example: apple slice with sunflower butter
Looks? – green, wet, brown
Feels when you touch it? – slippery, hard
Smells? – nutty, sweet
Sounds when it is cooking or when you bite into it? – crunchy
Tastes! – sweet and salty
Take a mindfulness break reinforcing your senses with this Cosmic Yoga VIDEO
“Explore Their Snacks”
Select a food and use your senses to investigate:
Look - what colors and shapes do you see?
Listen - does your food make a sound when you pick it up or bite it?
Touch - is it smooth, bumpy, or rough?
Smell - what does your food smell like?
Taste - put the food on your tongue but do not chew it just yet. Notice how it feels in your mouth. Do you taste anything yet? Start to chew, does the flavor change? How many different flavors are there?
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