TD Summer Reading Program Week 8 Ages 2-6

WEEK 8: Let's Play! 

 

For our last week at the Summer Reading Program we just had a party!! Since it was the last time seeing each other, the question of the day was "What has been the best part of summer?" It was really fantastic to hear all their responses and the kids loved listening to everyone's answers!

The first book we read was:

This story was obviously one of the children's favourites! There was lots and lots of excitement when they found out that we were reading Pete the Cat.

GAME: The first game we played was twister on the carpet. Once we went through which arm and leg was right and which one was left, we were ready to begin. There were lots of twists and stretches happening and most every game ended up in a big pile of giggles.

The second book we read was:

I think the rest of the people in the library thought there was a zoo in the programming room, there was a lot of barking, mooing, meowing and oinking that happened while reading this story!

The last book we read was:

After reading this book, there was quite the heated debate on if it was actually a duck or a rabbit. I think that we settled on in was a hybrid of both.

Then we went outside to play with the best thing ever! THE PARACHUTE!! There was lots of laughter and smiles while we played with it.

We played some tag:

Then came inside for our craft which was a bird feeder:

Materials: 

-Egg Carton (Cut in half for each child)

-Hole Punch

-Yarn

-Markers

-Stickers

-Bird Seed

Directions:

1) Start by decorating your egg carton using the marker and stickers.

2) Thread the yarn through the four hole punched corners of the egg carton and gather them at the top in a knot.

3) Add the bird seed to your egg carton, hang on a tree and wait for the birds to come!

http://thecreativecubby.blogspot.ca/2013/06/egg-carton-bird-feeder.html

Then you can't have a party without having cupcakes, so we all sat down and enjoyed some cupcakes! A lot of the kids left with chocolate beards (and a couple with chocolate t-shirts) but it was a delicious end to the Summer Reading Program! 

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Summer Reading Program, it was an incredible summer and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did :)

TD Summer Reading Program Week 8 Ages 7-8

WEEK 8: Let's Play! 

 

For our last week at the Summer Reading Program we just had a party!! Since it was the last time seeing each other, the question of the day was "What has been the best part of summer?" It was really fantastic to hear all their responses and the kids loved listening to everyone's answers!

For the last day, I had a variety of 10 books all laid out and we all voted on which books to read! Unsurprisingly, the kids chose a lot of Robert Munsch books. 

The first book we read was:

 The second book we read was:

And the third book we read was:

After we read our books, we went outside to play some games!

The first game we played was Giant Jenga:

We played a couple different tag games, like Color Monster, Freeze Tag and Red Rover. Once the kids were all tuckered out from running around, we went inside to make our craft! 

Today we made a paperbag kite!

Materials List: 

• paper lunch bag
• colored streamers
• string or yarn
• crayons or markers
• tape
• scissors

Step 1
Cut off the bottom of the bag. Have an adult help you with this.


Step 2
Decorate the bag.



 


Step 3
Attach colored streamers with tape on one end of the bag—three streamers are just right for kite tails.



Step 4
Attach a length of string with tape on the opposite open end of the bag.


Step 5
Take it out in the breeze, or if there’s no breeze…run like the wind!

 

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/science_out_of_school/science_in_your_community/community_events/whitehouse_easter/make_a_paper_kite 

 

We ran around outside and tested out our kites! 

 Then we sat in the sun, ate some watermelon and cupcakes and told jokes: a great end to the summer!

 

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Summer Reading Program, it was a fantastic summer and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 8 Ages 9-12

WEEK 8: Let's Play! 

 

For our last week at the Summer Reading Program we just had a party!! Since it was the last time seeing each other, the question of the day was "What has been the best part of summer?" It was really fantastic to hear all their responses and the kids loved listening to everyone's answers!


Today was a big craft day! The craft took us almost all the program, but it was worth it! This is what we made:

Wax Paper and Crayon Lantern

Material:
-Wax Paper
-Crayons
-Popsicle Sticks
-Iron
-Scrap paper
-Glue stick or Hot Glue Gun

Directions:
 1) Cut a piece of wax paper about 10-12 inches long. Fold and cut the paper in half length-wise. Fold each half again width-wise, so now you have two sheets that are about 5x10 with a folded seam.
2) Shave crayon shavings in the middle of the folded wax paper. We used a pencil sharpener to do this and it was very useful! Once all the shaving are in the wax paper fold back the top of the paper, so the shavings are in between two pieces.




3) Put folded piece of wax paper on top of scrap paper and begin to melt the shavings using an iron.
4)Using a hot glue gun or glue stick, glue the Popsicle sticks together to form a cube. 
 

5) Cut out wax paper to fit the four sides of the cube and using glue stick, glue the wax paper to the Popsicle stick squares.

6) For the final step, get a candle (or for a safer option, use a battery tea light) and see your lantern in the dark!

After our busy craft, we relaxed by eating our celebratory cupcakes and watermelon!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Summer Reading Program, it was an incredible summer and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did :)

To make a wax paper lantern, you'll need:

Wax Paper {any brand should work great}

Crayons in multiple colors

Craft Sticks {I got mine from CraftProjectIdeas.com}

Iron

Scrap Paper or Newspaper

- See more at: http://www.artsyfartsymama.com/2013/02/diy-wax-paper-lantern.html#sthash.36ChGxXZ.dpuf

TD Summer Reading Program Week 7: Ages 2-6

WEEK 7: PLAY MUSIC

 The second to last week of the summer reading program has flown by! This week we broke the library's rule of being quiet and we made quite the racket making some music. 
Our question of the day was : If you could play any instrument what would it be? Almost everyone answered either piano or guitar, they were very popular instruments!

The first book we read was:

 This book was really awesome to learn different animal sounds (it was also very fun to hear all the animal sounds from the kids, they could "MOO" very very well!)

We then played some music together! We grabbed the different shakers, drums, tambourines and maracas and played them together like a marching band. We also made up a song together, the different sounds we made were : shake with your right hand, shake with your left, clap your hands together, shake as fast as you can and so much more!

The second book we read was:

We played an activity along with this book where I printed off all the instruments that were mentioned in the book and then when the instrument was mentioned one of the kids came to the front and held it up!

The next game we played was "Name that Tune". I hummed different songs and the kids had to guess what I was singing! The songs I hummed were : Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, If You're Happy and you know it, Frosty the snowman and I'm a little teapot. 

The last book we read was:

 We moved on to our craft for the day which was toilet paper maracas!

What You Need:

• Cardboard toilet paper roll
• Colored paper
• Glue stick
• Pencil
• Dry pasta, beans or rice

What You Do:

1. Set the toilet paper roll on the colored paper.
2. Carefully use a pencil to draw the dimensions of the roll on paper. It's okay if the paper is longer than the roll—you'll just glue over it.
3. Let your child cut out the colored paper along your penciled lines.
4. Glue the colored paper on the toilet paper roll.
5. Encourage your child to draw and cut out fun shapes, designs, and fringes from other sheets of colored paper.
6. Have her glue her decorative pieces on the roll.
7. Help your child make "caps" for her homemade maraca out of the colored paper. The caps should be slightly larger than the paper roll openings.
8. Put a small amount of glue around one end of the paper roll.
9. Place one cap gently over the glued end.
10. Let your child add beans, pasta or rice into the paper roll.
11. Glue the cap on the other end. Wait for your maraca to dry.
12. Give your maraca shake! How does it sound?

 http://www.education.com/activity/article/toilet-paper-roll-maracas/


Next week is our last week of the Summer Reading Program, so we will be having a party to celebrate the end of the summer!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 7: Ages 9-12

WEEK 7: PLAY MUSIC

 The second to last week of the summer reading program has flown by! This week we broke the library's rule of being quiet and we made quite the racket making some music. 

Our question of the day was : If you could play any instrument what would it be? Almost everyone answered either piano or guitar, they were very popular instruments!

The first game we played was musical chairs. I had each of the kids tell me their favourite song and we played a round of music chairs for each! 

 The next activity we did was body percussion, here are some of the rhythms that we did!

 





http://www.bodypercussionclassroom.com/ 

The craft for today was Nail String Art:
Materials
-Foam board
-Nails
-Pattern
-Yarn or string

Directions
-Place your template down on the foam, and push in nails all around the template.
-Remove Template
-Loop string around nails in any pattern you'd like!