Hi friends!

I hope you were able to join Ms. Sarah for We are Proud of You by YeShil Kim! It's so important to remember how special and unique you are and to appreciate and love those things about yourself!

Hi friends! For our second week of Summer STEM, we are learning about Physics. We will have 3 different activities for all ages!

Our first activity is All the Way Around​! This activity involves a marble and paper plate. Centripetal force is directed towards the center, so it's also what helps you stay on the carrousel as it moves round and round! 

Our third activity is called Mini-Parachutes, where we will test gravity by making parachutes for all sorts of different objects. 

All activities on Physics ​this week can be found in the Children's Gallery from Wednesday to Saturday. Hope to see you there! 

Hi friends! This week starts our Summer of STEM, where we will have different themed STEM activities each week. This week, we are looking at Coding!

Our first activity is Spheros, which is a little circular robot that you can control on an iPad! This teaches the importance of sequencing and coding, which are elements that help the carousel and band organ run.

   

Our second activity is Binary Bracelets! Using beads, string, and the binary alphabet, you can create jewelry while learning what binary coding is. Binary coding is a simple code that most technology use to work, similar to a band organ! ​

I hope you were able to join us for Never Show a T. rex a Book by Rashmi Sirdeshpande and Diane Ewen. ​I really like this book because it is about two of my favorite things, books and dinosaurs!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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!

Directions

1. Take one piece of construction paper and place your non-dominant hand (the one you don’t write with) in the middle of it.
2. Using your dominant hand, trace your hand with a pencil.
   
3. Once your hand is traced, use the scissors to cut it out.
   
4. 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!)
   
5. Cut out your heart and stick it to your cut out hand with glue or tape.
   
6. Write a short and special message on the heart! (I recommend “I love you")
   
7. 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!