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Children's Book Week: Chromatography Butterflies

5/6/2022

Thank you, Ms. Barb

for reading Never Tease a Weasel! It was a really good book to wrap up our celebration of Children's Book Week!

Today's Activity is Chromatography Butterflies!

I had a LOT of fun making my chromatography butterflies! They are now taped to my office window to brighten up my days. You can find the instructions below or you can download and print out the instructions here. Have Fun!

Children's Book WEek: Monster Book Marks

5/5/2022

Thank you, Ms. Dru

for reading Dragons Love Tacos 2 The Sequel! It was such a fun book! Now I want to go eat some tacos.

Today's activity is Monster bookmarks

We all need a friend to keep us company as we read so today we're making Monster Bookmarks! You can find the instructions below or you can download and print out the instructions here. Have Fun!

Children's Book Week: Book Bingo

5/4/2022

Thank you, Ms. Karla

for reading My Lucky Day by Keiklo Kaszu! The piglet is very tricky!

Today's activity is book bingo!

How to Play: Print out a copy of the bingo board. To start check off the free space. Then spend the next week completing different activities on the bingo board. To win you need to get a bingo which is 5 in a row. The row can be up and down, across, or diagonal.
For extra fun ask someone to play Book Bingo with you and see who gets a bingo first!

STEM Activity: Trains Run

5/4/2022

Hi friends, here's another STEM video for you on trains! Join Ms. Sarah as she demonstrates an activity replicating the function of train wheels! If this activity sounds familiar, that's because this activity's instructions were posted during 2021 Fall Children's Book Week.

Train wheels are bigger on the inside because this allows them to provide stability to the train and help the train shift easier!

Thank you for participating in another STEM activity with us this week! We hope you will come back next week for another one.

Supplies Needed:
- 4 paper or plastic cups
- 2 yardsticks
- Tape (duct or scotch)
- Scissors
- A cardboard box or stack of books

Directions:
- Cut the lip off of each cup
- Tape two together from the top and the others at the bottom
- Place the yard sticks on their edges on the books or box and tape them down
- Roll each cup grouping across the yard sticks
Which one worked better?

Children's Book Week: Z is for Moose!

5/3/2022

Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoyed Z is for Moose! It is one of my favorite silly books to read with my nephew.

Today we are going to make sure that everyone knows M is for MOOSE! That's why today's activity is making the letter "M" into a moose! Check out the instructions below!

I hope you have fun making your Moose!

Children's Book Week: The Kissing HAnd

5/2/2022

The Kissing Hand

Supplies:

2 pieces of construction paper (any color; bright colors work best)
A pencil
Scissors
Glue or tape
Coloring supplies

Directions

Take one piece of construction paper and place your non-dominant hand (the one you don’t write with) in the middle of it.
Using your dominant hand, trace your hand with a pencil.
Once your hand is traced, use the scissors to cut it out.
Take the other piece of paper and draw a heart the size of your hand. (You can use your cut out hand for guidance because you want the heart to fit in your hand!)
Cut out your heart and stick it to your cut out hand with glue or tape.
Write a short and special message on the heart! (I recommend “I love you")
Once you have completed this craft, you can give it to someone you love!

Suggestions

You can use the back of your cut out hand to write more!
You can add colorful designs to your Kissing Hand.
You can bend the fingers forward to slightly cover the heart, just as Chester's mom does in the story!

STEM Activity: Buoyancy

4/27/2022

Hi everybody! This week's STEM activity is on buoyancy. You can do this activity with the directions below or follow along with Ms. Sarah in the video.

Buoyancy is the power of supporting a body so that it floats! Ships or boats that have a large, flat shape with high sides allows the weight to be evenly distributed. Kiddieland boats at the museum are built with flat bottoms and high sides to allow more guests to ride without sinking!

Thanks so much for participating in this week's STEM activity on buoyancy! We hope to see you next week!

Supplies needed:
- Aluminum foil
- Scissors
- A tub of water
- A ruler
- Coins or weights

Directions:
- Fill your tub with water
- Cut a piece of the aluminum foil 5 inches long
- Make a boat out of the foil that is able to float in water and hold cargo
- Put your aluminum boat in the water. If it doesn't float right away, try a different style of boat!
- Once your boat is floating, begin to put the coins or weights in the boat one at a time until it sinks.
How many could your boat hold? Do you think a different style of boat could hold more weight?

STEM Activity: Paper Bridges

4/20/2022

Hi friends! This week's STEM activity is paper bridges! You can craft your own paper bridge by following along with Ms. Sarah in the video or following the directions below!

Bridges can hold more weight when they have extra support or ridges. Bridges that are flat or thin provide less support and are weaker. We see this when we had paper or tape to our first bridge!

Thank you so much for joining us this week as we engineered our own bridges! We hope to see you back here next week for another STEM activity!

Supplies Needed:
- Construction paper
- 2 cups
- Pennies (works best with at least 20)
- Tape
- Scissors

Directions:
- Place the 2 cups in front of you on a flat surface. (Leave a space in between the cups.)
- Put 1 piece of construction paper on top of the cups to connect them.
- Place as many pennies as you can on top of the paper before it collapses. (See if you can get to 20!)
- Make changes to your bridge to try and get it to hold more pennies than before.
How many pennies were you able to get on your bridge without it breaking? What does your bridge look like now?

STEM Activity: Move Around

4/13/2022

Hey there friends! Here's another fun STEM activity on Centripetal force! You can follow along with Ms. Sarah in the video, or you can follow the directions below.

Supplies Needed:
- 2 paper plates with a Lip
- A marble
- Tape
- Scissors

Directions:
- Place the plate on a flat surface
- Place the marble in the plate and push it so it goes around the plate completely
- Use the scissors to cut out 1/4 of the plate (It should look kind of like Pac-Man!)
- Use the tape to predict where the marble will go
- Push the marble in the plate again and see what happens
Did your marble go where you thought it was going to?

Centripetal Force is when other forces push an object towards the center of the circle, making it go around. In this activity, we are using force to push the marble around the plate!

I hope you had fun completing this cool activity! Join us next week for another STEM activity!

STEM Activity: Just Move Along

4/6/2022

Hi friends! Here's another fun STEM activity on force!
Just like the last video, you can follow along with Ms. Sarah in the video or you can follow the directions below.

Force is what is used to move an object. Forces are either a push or a pull. In this activity, we are using force to move the cotton ball and the marble! The ball is moved in different directions by changes in the direction of the force.

I hope you had fun completing this fun and moving activity! Join us next week for another STEM activity!

Supplies needed:
- A straw
- A cotton ball
- A marble
- Tape
- Scissors (as needed)

Directions:
- Place the ball on a horizontal surface
- Place the straw in your mouth and aim it at the ball
- Blow through the straw in the direction of the ball
- Repeat these steps for the marble
- Use 3 to 5 pieces of tape to make a pattern on the surface (zig zag works best)
- Repeat the first steps while trying to keep the ball away from the tape.
Were you able to do it? Was it easier using the cotton ball or the marble?

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