TD Summer Reading Club Week 8: Ages 7-8

Week 8: African Safari 

This is our last week of the Summer Reading Club, so since we have been learning about animals all summer, we decided to go on a safari! To start things off I asked the kids to tell me what types of animals they would find in an African savanna. Some of the answers they came up with were lions, hippos, zebras, giraffes and so much more, we also discussed how you wouldn't find any unicorns there because they live in rain forests! ;)

After we were done talking we read our first book:

Lion Vs. Rabbit by Alex Latimer 

Then we read our second book:

Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen

Before we went outside to play we read one last story:

I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems

After story time was all done we went outside to play Simon Says before we went back inside to make our craft, elephant puppets! Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Paper plates
• Googly eyes 
• Grey knee-high socks 
• White construction paper 
• Markers
• Hot glue gun 
• Scissors
• Glue / hot glue 

Directions:

1. Take your paper plate and cut a large hole in the middle. 

2. Take your construction paper and cut out two large elephant ear shapes. (I used this stencil). 

3. Allow the kids to decorate their paper plates and ears. 

4. Pull the sock through the hole until there’s about an inch poking out of the inside. Line around the hole with hot glue and put some on the sock as well – press firmly together until it is dry (do not let the kids do this part).

5. Glue googly eyes on the front and glue each ear to both sides of the plate. 

This week we were also lucky enough to get yummy cupcakes and muffins thanks to Andrew and Taylor! Yay!!! 

Doesn't get much better than this!

Thank you to everyone that came and got wild with me this summer! I loved every minute of it and hope you guys did too! :) 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 8: Ages 9-12

Week 8: African Safari 

This is our last week of the Summer Reading Club, so since we have been learning about animals all summer, we decided to go on a safari! To start things off I asked the kids to tell me what types of animals they would find in an African savanna. Some of the answers they came up with were lions, hippos, zebras, giraffes and so much more, we also discussed how you wouldn't find any unicorns there because they live in rain forests! ;) 

Look at how cute they are!

After we finished talking about savannas and African animals, we got ready to go outside and play our first game of Cops and Robbers. Then we also played Kick the Can, Anteater Tag (everyone's favorite) and Everybody's It! It was a great way to spend the last day of class outside in the sun!

After we were all tuckered out from playing we came inside to make this week's craft, elephant puppets! Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Paper plates
• Googly eyes 
• Grey knee-high socks 
• White construction paper 
• Markers
• Hot glue gun 
• Scissors
• Glue / hot glue 

Directions:

1. Take your paper plate and cut a large hole in the middle. 

2. Take your construction paper and cut out two large elephant ear shapes. (I used this stencil). 

3. Allow the kids to decorate their paper plates and ears. 

4. Pull the sock through the hole until there’s about an inch poking out of the inside. Line around the hole with hot glue and put some on the sock as well – press firmly together until it is dry (do not let the kids do this part).

5. Glue googly eyes on the front and glue each ear to both sides of the plate. 

 

Thank you to everyone that came and got wild with me this summer! I loved every minute of it and hope you guys did too! :) 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 8: Ages 2-6

Week 8: African Safari 

This is our last week of the Summer Reading Club, so since we have been learning about animals all summer, we decided to go on a safari! To start things off I asked the kids to tell me what types of animals they would find in an African savanna. Some of the answers they came up with were lions, hippos, zebras, giraffes and so much more, we also discussed how you wouldn't find any unicorns there because they live in rain forests! ;) 

After we were done talking we read our first book:

Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae 

Then we sang a song about zebras, this one was called "I'm a Little Zebra":

I'm a little zebra, white and black,

With a bushy mane running down my back.

I like to gallop and run and play

In the jungle, every day.

After that we read our second book:

Lion Vs. Rabbit by Alex Latimer 

Then we sang another song! The Itsy Bitsy Monkey:

The itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the coconut tree

Down came a coconut and hit him on his knee - OWWWWW

Out came a lion a hanging his mighty mane - ANNNNND -

The itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the tree again.

The last book we read was:

I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems

Then after finishing our story about elephants, we decided to make some of our own! Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Paper plates
• Googly eyes 
• Grey knee-high socks 
• White construction paper 
• Markers
• Hot glue gun 
• Scissors
• Glue / hot glue 

Directions:

1. Take your paper plate and cut a large hole in the middle. 

2. Take your construction paper and cut out two large elephant ear shapes. (I used this stencil). 

3. Allow the kids to decorate their paper plates and ears. 

4. Pull the sock through the hole until there’s about an inch poking out of the inside. Line around the hole with hot glue and put some on the sock as well – press firmly together until it is dry (do not let the kids do this part).

5. Glue googly eyes on the front and glue each ear to both sides of the plate. 

Thank you to everyone that came and got wild with me this summer! I loved every minute of it and hope you guys did too! :) 

Club de Lecture: Semaine 8

Semaine 8: Safari Africain

Bon retour! Cette semaine était notre dernier semaine du Club de lecture d'été, alors nous nous sommes très triste. Mais, cette semaine était le semaine de safari, alors j'avais demander aux enfants quelles types d’animaux vous pouvez trouver dans une savane? Où pouvez-vous trouver une savane?

Les trois livres qu'on a lus étaient:
Si petit... de Jonathan Bentley 


Qui m'amènera à l'école cette année? de Jerry Pallotta


Pourquoi les éléphants ont-ils perdu leurs ailes? de Lesley Sims 


Alors, parce qu'il pleuvait on a joué les jeux à l'intérieur. On a joué chaude patate, <<heads up, 7-up>>, et <<Twister>> sur le tapis! 

Aprés ça on a commencé notre travaux manuel, les masques d'assiette en papier! 

Matérial:

• Assiette en papier
• Papier cartonné
• Les feutres 
• Ciseaux
• Un abaisse-langue
• Colle 

Déroulement:

1. Couper un grand trou a l'intérieur de l'assiette en papier. 

2. Choisi votre couleur préféré de papier cartonné. Couper en morceaux longs. 

3. Colorier votre assiette en papier. 

4. Coller tes morceaux sur le bord de l'assiette. 

5. Couper deux demi-cercle de papier cartonné brun. 

6. Coller les demi-cercle en-dessus de l'assiette.

7. Coller l'abaisse-langue en-dessous de l'assiette. 

Merci à tous ceux qui ont participé cette été! J'avais m'amusé beaucoup avec tout le monde! Merci! :) 

Club de Lecture: Semaine 7

Semaine 7: Les Reptiles! 

Bon retour au Club de lecture d'été! Cette semaine, notre thème était les reptiles! Il y a certaines types des tortues peuvent vivre jusqu'à 100 ans. Ces incroyable! Savez-vous qu'est-ce qu'un reptile? Il y a deux indices:

1. Les reptiles sont des vertébrés à température variable
  Leur température interne varie avec celle du milieu extérieur. Ils se mettent au soleil pour se réchauffer et à l’ombre pour se rafraîchir. 

2. La peau des reptiles est couverte d'écailles. Les écailles protégé les corps des reptiles. Les ecailles peut etre doux, dur, grande, ou petites. Les crocodiles ont des gros ecailles bosselées. Les serpents ont des écailles lisses et rondes.

Les trois livres qu'on a lus etaient: 

Je manjerais bien un enfant de Sylvianne Donnio 

La princesse et le crapaud de Sylvie Roberge 

 Un bébé alligator? de Robert Munsch 

Puis, on a allé dehors pour joué les jeux de tag et Simon Dit avant qu'on a commencé notre travaux manuel, l'art reptile indigène! 

Matérial:

• Papier avec un gabarit d'un lézard 
• Peinture 
• Coton-Tige

Déroulement:

1. Utiliser les coton-tiges pour dessiner les points et gribouillis sur le gabarit. 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 7: Ages 7-8

Week 7: Miles and Miles of Reptiles

This week we learned all about... You guessed it, reptiles! We talked about all the different sorts of reptiles you can find, whether it's a snake, alligator, turtle, lizard, you name it! We learned that in order to be a reptile you must be two things:

1. Cold blooded - This means that their bodies react to the temperature of their surroundings.  When they get too warm, they can go into the water or shade to cool off and go back in the sun to warm up again.

2. Covered in scales -  Scales protect their bodies and they can be hard or soft, large or small. A crocodile’s back has large, bumpy scales. A snake has slimy and smooth scales.

Then we read our first story:

The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water by Gemma Merino 

After that we read our second story:

Alligator Baby by Robert Munsch 

Then before play time we read one last story:

I'd Really Like To Eat a Child by Sylviane Donio 

After story time we went outside to play a couple games of Cops & Robbers and Simon Says, then we went inside to make our craft of the week, paper plate turtles! Here's how you can make them too:

Materials:

• Paper plates
• Scissors 
• Markers/crayons
• Glue
• Tissue paper 
• Green construction paper 

Directions:

1. Take the construction paper and cut out four small cylinders (for legs), a large cylinder (the head), and a small triangle (the tail). 

2. Take those pieces and glue them along the sides of your paper plate. 

3. Take the markers and color all over his "shell". 

4. Take tissue paper and glue it wherever you'd like. 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 7: Ages 2-6

Week 7: Miles and Miles of Reptiles

This week we learned all about... You guessed it, reptiles! We talked about all the different sorts of reptiles you can find, whether it's a snake, alligator, turtle, lizard, you name it! We learned that in order to be a reptile you must be two things:

1. Cold blooded - This means that their bodies react to the temperature of their surroundings.  When they get too warm, they can go into the water or shade to cool off and go back in the sun to warm up again.

2. Covered in scales -  Scales protect their bodies and they can be hard or soft, large or small. A crocodile’s back has large, bumpy scales. A snake has slimy and smooth scales.

After learning all these cool facts about reptiles we read our first story:

A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan 

Then we sang a song about a type of reptile, turtles! Here's the tune of Tiny Tim:

  I had a little turtle, his name was Tiny Tim

I put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim

He drank up all the water, he ate up all the soap

And when he tried to talk, he had a bubble in his throat!

Then we read our second story:

The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water by Gemma Merino 

Then we sang another song, On The Back of a Crocodile:

She sailed away

On a bright and sunny day

On the back of a crocodile

You see said she

He’s as tame as he can be,

I’ll ride him down the Nile,

The croc winked his eye

As she waved a fond good bye 

Wearing a happy grin.

At the end of the ride,

The lady was inside,

And the smile was on the crocodile.

Then we read our last story:

I'd Really Like To Eat a Child by Sylviane Donio 

Then after we were all done story time we went to go start our craft, paper plate turtles! Here's how you can make them too:

Materials:

• Paper plates
• Scissors 
• Markers/crayons
• Glue
• Tissue paper 
• Green construction paper 

Directions:

1. Take the construction paper and cut out four small cylinders (for legs), a large cylinder (the head), and a small triangle (the tail). 

2. Take those pieces and glue them along the sides of your paper plate. 

3. Take the markers and color all over his "shell". 

4. Take tissue paper and glue it wherever you'd like.