Week 3: Camping Ages 9-12

Week 3

9-12

Camping

Question: Have you been camping yet this summer?

Book:

This week we read "

Sandcastle Contest" by Robert Munsch.

Activity:

Find the missing object

I split the children up into two teams, each team had a different colored object to find. They closed their eyes while I hid the object outside. Once I was done hiding the objects I came back to the kids and would yell "GO!". Whichever team was first to find and bring their object back to me won. 

Craft:

This week for our craft we made s’mores out of popsicle sticks.

Materials needed:

8 Popsicle sticks for each child

Yellow and brown construction paper (for cracker and chocolate), liquid glue, and paint 

Instructions:

1. First I had the kids put together their s'more to do this they glued the Popsicle sticks side by side to make a flat surface to be the marshmallow.

2. I had them paint their Popsicle sticks white, like a marshmallow

3. While waiting for their marshmallow to dry they cut out their chocolate and graham cracker to complete their s'more

4. Once the paint was dry they glued their construction paper onto the marshmallow to make it look like a s'more

5. The final step was to draw a face on their s'more

Some of the faces that the kids painted on their s'mores were quite impressive :) 

Week 3: Camping ages 7-8

Week 3

7-8

Camping Trip

Question: 

What would be one thing that you would bring with you if you were to go camping?

Books:

      "Scaredy  Squirrel goes camping"  by Mélanie Watt this is a fast paced book with lots happening in every image!

        "The Sandcastle Contest" by Robert Munsch. This is a funny book about a boy who makes a realistic sandcastle while on a beach vacation with his family. 

Activity:

Steal the Camping Supplies! 

The basic idea is that there are two teams, and three dividing lines (ie. two halves of a playing field). Put an equal amount of the objects behind both baselines.

Each team needs to aim to steal as many of the objects as possible, without getting caught.

To steal an object the player must successfully make it to the other teams baseline without being tagged. Once they are there they can steal 1 object and release 1 captive team-mate (if there are any).

If the player is tagged while on the other teams half of the playing field, they are caught and must wait at the oppositions baseline until they are rescued.

Craft:

Hand print Fire

Materials: Red construction paper, Black contruction paper, chalk, glue,strips of brown construction paper, fiery colours of tissue paper, glue, and scissors.

Directions:

1. I had the kids trace their hand on a red piece of construction paper

       2. After tracing their hand I had them cut it out and glue in onto the black paper

       3.After gluing their hand onto the black paper, I had the kids glue two strips of brown paper under the hand to resemble a fire.

      4. After gluing the logs on, I had them glue pieces of tissue paper onto the bottom of their hand to add dimension

    5. After the fire was complete the kids drew stars and moons on their black paper.

(I changed the Craft to work better for my group and the materials I had, you could definitely improvise for this craft) 

Snack:

Carrots
Graham Crackers
Apples 

Week 3: Camping ages 2-6

Week 3

2-3

Camping

Questions:

       Have you been camping yet this summer?

        What would you bring with you if you went camping?

I got some pretty funny answers from my questions that I asked, some great ideas of what to bring with you to go camping that's for sure! 

Books:

      "In the red canoe" by Leslie A. Davidson this is a great book, with beautiful pictures! 

        "S is for S’mores" by Helen Foster James. This book has a lot of information in it about camping, however when reading for stroytime it has sentences in large letters to give children the idea of the picture. 

        "Maisy goes camping" by Lucy Cousins, the kids though this book was really funny, there was lots of laughter when this book was read. 

Activity:

Campfire songs

We created a pretend fire on the grass, after we stood around the fire and sang various songs, we ended it with going on a bear hunt

Craft:

Lightning bugs

Today for our craft we made fire flies on black paper

Materials: Sparkly sticky foam strips, strips of yellow construction paper, black construction paper, chalk, markers, and glue.

Instructions: To make the fireflies I had the children glue on a strip of yellow paper onto the black construction paper to make the body of the firefly, they then crisscrossed the sticky sparkly foam to make wings. When they were done making the bugs they decorated the night sky with chalk to make stars, and a moon.

Snack:

            Graham crackers

       Apples

     Carrots

Semaine 2: Les Animaux Canadien

Semaine 2 

Les Animaux Canadien 

Livres:

"J'ai Besoin D'un Câlin" par Aaron Blabey, les enfants ont aime beaucoup cette livre. Il y a beaucoup de differents animaux dans cette livres. 

L'autre livre qu'on a lu est"Ovide a l'école" par Carrie Westin

Cette livre est mignon les enfants ont aimez beaucoup les différents animaux.

Activités: 

L'Oie et Ours

Instructions: 

Tous les enfants cours tout par tout. Les enfants qui sont les oies fair semblant que ils avant les ailes. Les enfants qui sont les ours fair semblant qu’ils sont des ours et ils doit fait du son que les ours faisant. Les ours essaient de attrape les oies, et les oies essaient de attrape les ours. Pour example, quand un ours attrape un oie le oie devient un ours. Quand le oie attrape un ours, le ours devient un oie. Quand tous les enfants devient ours, les ours gagner. Quand tous les enfants devient les oies, les oies gagner. 

Bricolages:
Oie avec des coeurs 

Materiaux: le papier blancs, gris, et noirs, les ciseaux, et colle. 

Instructions: 

1. Imprimer les coeurs de differents grandeur. (Tête, joue, corps, aile, bec et les pieds) 

2. Decouper les bandes de papier pour faire des jambes et le cou. 

3. Colle tous les coeurs ensemble pour faire le oie des coeurs. 

Week 2: Canadian Animals ages 9-12

Ages 9-12

Week 2

Canadian Animals

I started the program off this week by reading a book to the kids. 

The first book we read was "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose" by Dr. Seuss

The children enjoyed this book!

Craft:

         Beaver Pine cones:

Materials: Pinecones, Styrofoam balls (for head), foam (for tale),
brown construction paper (for ears and teeth), googly eyes, and glue.

Instructions:

1.       Color the brown Styrofoam ball with brown marker

2.       Stick the Styrofoam ball through a one of the cone scales (near where the head would be)

3.       Glue the googly eyes on the Styrofoam ball

4.       Cut out ears from brown construction paper and glue them on the head

5.       Cut out teeth from white construction paper and glue them on head

6.       Cut out a tale from orange foam and draw checker pattern on it

7.       Glue tale to body in between scale cones

Activity:

         Guess what animal I am: Have one child think of an animal in their head. Have the other children ask yes or no questions (about the animal) to try to figure out what the animal is. EX: Do you live in the forest?

       Another game we played was moose vs bear:It is like tag, split the kids into two groups they are either a moose or a bear, all the bears are trying to tag the moose to make the moose bears, and vice versa. Kids must perform actions when playing the game to make it clear what team they are on. 

Week 2: Canadian Animals, Ages 7-8

7-8

Week 2

Canadian Animals

The first book we read was "This is a Moose" by Richard T. Morris 

The kids get a real kick out of this book, it's a funny book with lots happening.

The second book we read by Robert Munsch. "Moose!" got a lot of good feedback from the kids. Who doesn't love Robert Munsch?

Activity:

    Canadian Goose (British Bulldog):
The bulldogs stand in the middle of the play area. All remaining players stand at one end of the area (home). The aim of the game is to run from one end of the field of play to the other, without being caught by the bulldogs. When a player is caught, they become a bulldog themselves.

Craft:

Canadian Moose craft

This week for our craft, I gave each of the kids an 11x17 sheet of manila tag. I also gave them each a moose template to cutout.  First I had them draw a landscape on their paper, then I had them color their moose, cut out the pieces of the moose’s body and place it in the appropriate spot on their paper. This was a really fun craft, the kids seemed to enjoy the end result of their creation.
Snack:
Pretzels
Carrots

Week 2: ages 2-6, Canadian Animals

Week 2

2-6

Canadian Animals

Books:

"This is a Moose" by Richard T. Morris

"This is a Moose" is a really fun book, it's goofy and gets all the children laughing.

The second book we read was called "Up the Creek" by Nicholas Oldland.

This was a great read-aloud book, with some famous Canadian animals!
The third book we read was "Moose, Goose, and Animals on the Loose" by Geraldo Valério.

This was a great book to show all of the different animals that we have here in Canada. 

Activity:

       Who’s baby?

I hung up several different pictures of different Canadian animals as adults. I gave a pack of baby animal pictures to the kids. The children had to place the baby animal picture in a bucket underneath the mother or father animal. The kids seemed to really enjoy this activity, I think they really enjoyed looking at the images of baby animals.

Craft:

         Moose Puppet

For this weeks craft we did a moose puppet. The materials we used were brown paper bags, googly eyes, brown construction paper, glue sticks, and wax crayons.

1.  First I had the child trace their hands on the brown construction paper

2. I had them cut out their hands (with help of an adult)

     3. After cutting out their hands, I had them glue their hands on to the paper bag as if they were antlers

4.  After gluing the antlers on, I had the kids glue on some googly eyes

5. After they glued on their googly eyes, I let them add a nose and design their moose however they would like

If some children were finished before siblings, I printed out some coloring pages that they could color while they were waiting.