After learning about pollinators do you feel like a pollinator master? Well then it's time to make a spring crown!
Our Lessons For the Week!
What is our theme? Spring Crown
What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
Create opportunities for choice (e.g., provide time, space, and a variety of materials and activities that are familiar and challenging).
MA Guidelines/Standards:
SEL3: The child will demonstrate self-efficacy (confidence/competence).
APL 1: The child will demonstrate initiative, self-direction, and independence.
APL 2: The child will demonstrate eagerness and curiosity as a learner.
APL4: The child will demonstrate creativity in thinking and use of materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://youtu.be/ZDjFZVqiLvY - flower video
Materials:
Duct tape
Brown paper grocery bags
Scissors
Colorful mix of leaves, flowers, and anything else you’d like to use for embellishments on your crowns.
Activity (Procedure):
Activity Wrap Up:
Wear your fancy crown! I bet you can attract some bees with it!
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
You can try doing a pattern with the flowers you have or make more than one crown.
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
If the items are too big you can always hot glue them for your child so they stay on their crown.
Our Lessons For the Week!
What is our theme? Spring Crown
What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
Create opportunities for choice (e.g., provide time, space, and a variety of materials and activities that are familiar and challenging).
MA Guidelines/Standards:
SEL3: The child will demonstrate self-efficacy (confidence/competence).
APL 1: The child will demonstrate initiative, self-direction, and independence.
APL 2: The child will demonstrate eagerness and curiosity as a learner.
APL4: The child will demonstrate creativity in thinking and use of materials.
Learning Outcomes:
- emphasize the creative process over replication of an adult-made product - show children how to use materials rather than what to make with them.
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://youtu.be/ZDjFZVqiLvY - flower video
Materials:
Duct tape
Brown paper grocery bags
Scissors
Colorful mix of leaves, flowers, and anything else you’d like to use for embellishments on your crowns.
Activity (Procedure):
- Step 1: Measure the circumference of each queen or king’s noggin. Use that measurement (plus an extra couple inches for the “seam”) to cut a two inch wide strip from the paper bag that will fit around their heads.
- Step 2: Cut another paper bag strip of the same length, but this time cut one side straight and one side in whatever pattern that you’d like to appear along the top edge of the crown (we did a simple zigzag cut).
- Step 3: Tear off a piece of duct tape of the same length then lay it down on a flat surface, sticky side up. Attach your plain strip of paper bag at the bottom edge (make sure any printing on the bag faces down) and the shaped strip along the top edge, leaving most of the sticky tape area exposed. This adhesive strip is where you’ll attach all of your beautiful spring adornments to create a glorious crown!
Activity Wrap Up:
Wear your fancy crown! I bet you can attract some bees with it!
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
- ask open-ended questions that create dialogue (e.g. “What do you think about…?” “Tell me more about it.” “How do you know that?”).
- model flexibility by demonstrating that with new information, you can change your mind or adjust your plans and that there may be more than one way to do things.
How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
You can try doing a pattern with the flowers you have or make more than one crown.
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
If the items are too big you can always hot glue them for your child so they stay on their crown.
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