Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:30:07 -0700WeeblyMon, 01 Jun 2020 12:36:18 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/last-week-of-fun-61-64Monday, June 1st: Mad Scientist Day! 

Show & Share: Wear a silly hat (or create your own mad scientist hat). 

We will be making volcanoes! 


 Materials Needed: 
*Please have all materials pre-measured out. (thank you)
**Each child will be doing their own experiment 1 at a time. 


-1 pan (deep)
-1 plastic cup
-1 spoon
-Water (approx 2 cups)


-4-6 Tablespoons (at least) Baking Soda
-1 tsp dish soap
-1 cup (8oz) vinegar (per eruption) (*we will be doing 1 , but in case your child would like to do more)
-Food coloring (your child’s choice of color)
-½ fill your pan w/ soil or pebbles (we will be making a mountain with this inside your pan- to hold your cup). 
-Smock
-Table covering (it could get messy)
-Paper towels
 


(In case you would like to look at the activity ahead of time: Google: Easy Baking Soda & Vinegar Volcano Eruption For Kids).


Tuesday, June 2nd: Beach Day with a special picnic snack.


Wear to our Meeting Something that you would wear to the beach (ie sun hats, sunglasses, etc.) Bring a snack that you can nibble on and a beach towel if you would like. 


Show & Share: Bring something you would take to the beach. 


We will be playing a memory game: Going on a picnic. We will also be reading books about summer.

Wednesday, June 3rd: Sports and Games


We will be playing basketball. We will be using rolled up socks as our ball and a basket you that you have on hand (ie. laundry or waste basket, or a pail/bucket). We will also be playing a game of Alphabet Bingo! : ) 


Materials Needed: Basketball
-5 rolled up socks
-A bucket or basket of some sort (make sure that the sock ball can fit inside of it). 


Materials Needed: Bingo
-Please bring a sheet of paper with 10 alphabet letters (any 10 letters) written on it.  
-10 coins or objects (ie. torn up pieces of paper, acorns, buttons, cereal, etc). 
Show & Share: Wear your sports gear

Thursday, June 4th:  “We Did It” Talent Show Day!
Today is our Talent Show! Come show us your hidden talents! :)
Show & Share: We will be having a House scavenger hunt!
* This is a special day to celebrate everyone and their talents! Think of something you want to show your friends. It could be a dance or a picture you have made or even some magic tricks! Maybe you have an instrument you like to play or some funny jokes! It's up to you!!


]]>Fri, 29 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/create-your-storyWhat is our theme?  End of the year Review!

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
Your child will use their imagination to create a story of their own, then they will draw pictures to their story. 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Use of combination of dictating and drawing to tell a story

Learning Outcomes:
Your child will use their imagination. Your child will create their own story. Your child will illustrate their story.

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Read a few stories to your child. Then tell them they are going to make up their own story. Ask questions : who is the main character in the story? Who else is in the story? What is the story about? What will happen in the beginning of your story? What will happen at the end of the story?

Materials:
Someone to write down your child’s story, 3 or 4 pieces of white paper folded in half, crayons or markers, stapler 

Activity (Procedure):

1. Fold a few pieces of white paper in half to make a book
2. Stape the edges to secure the the book
3. As your child dictates their story write it down on the top of each page.
4. Leave room at the bottom of each page so your child can draw pictures to their story.
5. When they are done creating their story have your child draw pictures to their story
6. When you child is finished their book read it back to them

Activity Wrap Up:
Read the story together. Read the story to the people in your home. What is the TITLE of your book?

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Is your child proud of their work? Did your child draw pictures to match the words in their story? Does the story have a main character? Does the story have a beginning, middle and end? 

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Play story starters. Someone starts a story and your child has to come up with the end of the story or your child can start a story and someone has to end the story.

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Many people can play the story starter game. Have someone write these stories down and later your child can illustrate the stories.

]]>Thu, 28 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/fine-motor-skill-practiceWhat is our theme? End of year Review!

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
To fine tune your child's pincer grip and finger strength

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Fine motor skills will often be practiced through arts and crafts and sensory play

Learning Outcomes:
Your child will have fun scooping, pinching, and using tongs to move colored pom poms from a bowl to labeled muffin tin. They will also be practicing color recognition.

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Tell your child that they are going to have fun while strengthening the finger muscles. Show them all the tools they will be using ( a scoop, tongs, chopsticks, tweezers and clothespins ). Then have your child pick up items using those tools. ( Items: beads, small rocks, cheerios, etc. )

Materials: Muffin tin, colored paper, colored  pom poms, tongs, colored beads, tweezers, chopsticks, a scoop

Activity (Procedure): 

1. Cut out colored circles that match the colors of the pom poms
2. Place them in the bottom of the muffin tin
3. Then have your child pick up the pom poms one by one and match them to the correct color in the muffin tin
4. Let your child choose which tool they would like to start with
5. Dump them out and try it again with a different tool.

Activity Wrap Up:
Your child is having fun picking up colored pom poms with a tong and placing them in the correct colored muffin. 

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Is your child able to pick things up with the tools in front of them? Can they match the colored pom poms to the correct colored muffin? Can they identify the colors they are using?

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Have your child use colored beads instead of pom poms or small pieces of broken crayons.

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Have your child play with play dough or practice their cutting skills with scissors. These all build fine motor development.

​]]>Wed, 27 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/upper-lower-case-practice-recognitionWhat is our theme? End of year Review!

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
Your child will continue to practice upper and lowercase letter recognition 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Recognize and name the letters of the alphabet. The child will demonstrate eagerness and curiosity as a learner.


Learning Outcomes:
The child will continue to recognize the written alphabet. The child will show excitement in finding letters. The child will realize that letters are everywhere!

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Sing the alphabet song. Show examples where they can find letters ( books, magazines, newspaper, food boxes in the pantry, on television, etc. ). Take a drive in your car and point out all the letters you see. 


Materials: Small cards with the upper and lowercase letters on them, Tape


Activity (Procedure):

1. Tell your child we are going to go on a alphabet hunt
2. Start with uppercase A 
3. Have your child find an A and stick the card on the letter
4. Then go the lowercase a and do the same thing
5. Go through the alphabet sticking cards on all the letters 

Activity Wrap Up: Letters are everywhere

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment) Is my child interested in the game? Can my child identify the written letters? Can they use the correct letter name?

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) Play the CAR game. Drive around and have your child look for the letters of the alphabet. Start with letter A. They can spy an upper or lowercase letter. Example 
I see an A on that sign over there! I see a B on the store front! Play with everyone in the car. Go through the whole alphabet A to Z in order! 

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) Add the letter sounds as you play these games

]]>Tue, 26 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/i-can-countWhat is our theme? End of year Review!

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? Your child will continue to practice their number recognition and counting skills 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Recognize and name numerals 0-10. Understand the relationships between numerals and quantities up to 10

Learning Outcomes:
Your children will recognize written numbers 0-10. Your children will understand the correct quantity with the written numbers.


Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Have your children find things around the house that they can count, then label them with number cards. Example: Count the spoons, clothing, shoes, etc. 


Materials: Chalk, rocks, bucket


Activity (Procedure):

1. Collect rocks from outside ( small )
2. On the driveway or a porch draw 11 large circles with chalk
3. Write the numbers 0-10 in each circle
4. Yell out a number and see if your child can find the right circle it’s in by standing in that circle.
5. Then have your child place the number of rocks into each circle for that specific number.

Activity Wrap Up: Review the numbers by saying them and have your child stand on the correct number.

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment) Is my child interested in counting? Does your child recognize the numbers? Does your child understand how many rocks go  with each number? 

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) Play Hopscotch game. 

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) Have your child count out loud while playing these fun games

​]]>Fri, 22 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/spring-has-sprung-healthy-tree-snackThis lesson is about making a healthy tree snack!

What is our theme? Spring has sprung

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? To review the different parts of a tree while making a healthy snack 

MA Guidelines/Standards: Compare using descriptions, observation, invention and expression. Strengthening the pincer grip 

Learning Outcomes: Your child will make a  tree using pretzels and grapes

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Review the parts of a tree. tell your child they are going to make a yummy snack in the form of a tree.

Materials:
Paper plate, small stick  pretzels, green grapes

Activity (Procedure):

1. At the bottom of the paper plate make the trunk of a tree by placing the stick pretzels next to each other( 7 or 8 pretzels )
2. Make branches by adding stick pretzels to the top of the tree trunk
3. Cut green grapes in half and place them next to the branches.
4. EAT YOUR TREE  yummy

Activity Wrap Up: Reenforcing the parts of a tree, your child made a healthy snack

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment) Can your child name the parts of a tree 

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) You can substitute the grapes with red and yellow cherries tomatoes to create a fall tree.

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) If the pretzels keep moving around you can glue them down with peanut butter or cream cheese

​]]>Thu, 21 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/spring-has-sprung-tree-craftThis lesson is identifying a basic structure of a tree & doing a flowering tree spring craft!

What is our theme?  Spring has sprung

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? To identify and describe the basic structure of a tree 

MA Guidelines/Standards: Compare using descriptions, observation, invention and expression.

Learning Outcomes: Your child will learn the parts of a tree. A trunk that divides into branches, leaves grow from the branches and flowers grow from the buds. The roots are underground and the tree is covered with bark.

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
ake your child outside to observe the trees. Are leaves beginning to grow? Do you see colored buds starting to pop out? Touch the tree and describe how it feels. What other kind of trees do you see? ( Pine trees ) Do they have leaves? ( Pine needles ). What is falling from some of the trees?

Materials: Construction paper for the background, Brown and green paint, a loofah or sponge, piece of bark, pink tissue paper, 2 paper plates


Activity (Procedure): 

1. Place a light colored piece of construction paper on the table
2. Poor brown paint on one paper plate
3. poor green paint on the other paper plate
4. Take the piece of bark and swirl into the brown paint
5. Paint the trunk of the tree with the brown bark, make sure you start at the bottom of the paper. 
6. Take the loofah or sponge and dab at the top of the paper to make the leaves.
7. Crumble small pieces of pink tissue paper and place them on the green leaves to make the flowers.

Activity Wrap Up: Your child has made a beautiful flowering tree and has learned the different parts of a tree 

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment) Can your child describe the different parts of a tree? ( Trunk, branches, leaves, buds, flowers, roots )

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) Your child could make a pine tree by picking up pine needles and use them to paint green pine needles on a tree.

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) If you don’t have paint you can use food coloring.

]]>Wed, 20 May 2020 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/spring-has-sprung-flower-mathThis is a Math lesson using flower pedals!

What is our theme? Spring has sprung

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? Your children will be improving their cutting skills while they continue to practice their number recognition and counting skills. They will be making pedals out of circles, triangles, ovals and place them around the center of a flower that has a number letting them know how many pedals to use. 

MA Guidelines/Standards: Recognize and name written numbers 0-10. Understand the relationships between the numerals 0-10

Learning Outcomes: Students will recognize numbers between 0-10. Students will understand the correct quantity with written numbers. 

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Go outside and find a flower that you can pick. Make sure it is a flower that doesn’t have too many pedals. Pull the pedals off one by one counting them as you pull them off.


Materials:
Scissors, colored paper, numbers 0-10 written on pieces of paper, markers or crayons


Activity (Procedure): 

1. Draw a flower without petals ( Stem, leaves, with a round circle at the top )
2. Have your child cut 10 circles, 10 triangles, 10 ovals ( small enough to fit around the top of the 
3. flower ) The circles, triangles and ovals can be different colors.
4. Put a number in the center of the flower and have your child add pedals that match the number on the flower. For example: Number 4 is placed on the flower, your child will then decide what kind of pedals they will use ( pink ovals ). They will then add 4 pink ovals to the top of the flower.
5. Continue to put different numbers on the flower and have your child create flowers with different petals.

Activity Wrap Up: Your child is having fun counting petals and making beautiful flowers.

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment) Is your child interested in counting? Does your child recognize the numbers 1-10? Can your child put the correct number of petals on the flower? 

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) Make other shape pedals. Have your child make a garden by making many flowers to add pedals to.

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) When all is finished counting your child can then glue them on to make a flower picture.

​]]>Tue, 19 May 2020 12:09:03 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/spring-has-sprung-seedsWhat is our theme? Spring has sprung


What is the lesson (overall purpose)? Your child will have fun making a cute grass head while continuing to learn what plants need to survive and grow.


MA Guidelines/Standards: Characteristics of living things. Observe and describe the growth of seeds.


Learning Outcomes: Your child will grow grass in a styrofoam cup and decorate it with permanent markers and googly eyes to make a face. They will keep the grass growing and be able to cut the grass pretending it’s hair. 

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Take a walk outside and observe the grass. Ask questions: Does the grass grow in the winter time? What does the grass need to grow? Does somebody cut the grass in your yard? What do they use to cut the grass? How often does the grass need to be cut? 


Materials: Styrofoam cup, permanent markers, googly eyes,soil, grass seed, water, scissors


Activity (Procedure): 

1. Fill styrofoam cup with soil ( almost to the top )
2. sprinkle grass seed on top and mix it around with your finger, then add more on top.
3. water the seed
4. make sure you have a hole at the bottom of the cup to let excess water out
5. glue on googly eyes, add a mouth and nose with the permanent markers
6. Place the cup in a warm and sunny spot

Activity Wrap Up: Your child will enjoy watching the grass grow just like the hair on their head. Then they will have fun giving their grass head a haircut!

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment) What did the grass need to grow? How long did it take for the grass to grow? Does the hair on your head grow as fast as the grass? Did the grass keep growing after you cut it?

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) Make a grass head resembling everyone in your family. Place them in different places in your house. Whose hair grew the fastest?  

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) If you don’t have googly eyes just draw them in with a permanent marker.

​]]>Mon, 18 May 2020 12:04:12 GMThttps://www.laurelschoolbrewsteronline.com/ms-lynn/spring-has-sprung-plants5073905What is our theme? Spring has sprung

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  To identify and describe the basic structure of a common flowering plant. 

MA Guidelines/Standards: Characteristics of living things 

Learning Outcomes: Your child will enjoy observing and describing the growth of a seed. ( roots, stem, leaves )



Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Show your child a bean seed. Ask questions: What do you think this seed needs to grow? When this seed begins to grow what do you think happens first? Then tell your child they  are going to do a science experiment that will show them how a seed grows into a plant.

Materials: Jar, water, paper towel or napkin

Activity (Procedure): 

1. Swirl some water around in your jar
2. Roll up a piece of paper towel or napkin and put it inside the jar pressing it against the glass
3. put the jar with the Bean in it on a windowsill where it will get plenty of light.
4. After a few days your bean should start to sprout roots
5. Be sure to have your child add water to the paper towel keeping it moist

Activity Wrap Up: Your child will demonstrate eagerness and curiosity watching the seed grow into a plant

How do I know what my child is learning?  (Assessment) Can your child describe the basic structure of a flowering plant? What came from the seed first? ( roots ) What came next? ( stem ) etc.

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications) Have a few jars with a seed in them and put the jars in different locations around the house. ( In a closet so the seed has no light ) Put too much water in one jar. Don’t put any water in one of the jars. Which seed grew the best?

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions) If you don’t have a jar you can use a glass. Must be able to see through the glass.

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