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! 

TD Summer Reading Program Week 7: Ages 7-8

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 story we read was: 

The first activity we did was play some music together! We each got two shakers and together we made a song. Some of 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 story we read was:

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:

Then we went outside and played a game of limbo! We each chose our favourite song and then we saw how low we could go!!



Our craft for today was a paper plate tambourine:

Materials

• Paper plates
• Hole punch
• Yarn
• Markers
• Decorate the tambourine with: craft foam shapes, sequins, glitter glue, etc.
• Dried beans 

DIRECTIONS

• Decorate outside of paper plates as desired.
• Fill one plate about 1/4 or less of the way full of dried pasta or beans (or similar material).
• Put the other plate over the first and staple around the edge (about 4 staples).
• Punch holes all the way around the plates (we punched 2 holes between each set of staples to make 8 holes in total).
• Lace the plates together with string or wool
• Shake your tamborine!

 Next week is the last week of the Summer Reading Program, so we will be having a big outside party in all the programs!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 5: Ages 9-12

Week 5: Play around the World

Week 5 of the reading program has come and gone and this week we traveled

around the world!

At the beginning of the program, I asked everyone to close their eyes and imagine their favourite place in the entire world, and then had them think about why it was their favourite place. We shared with the class and it was awesome to hear all the places they've been! A lot of kids said Disneyland because of the food and the rides and because, of course, it was the happiest place in the world! My favourite answer though was Home, because how fantastic is that?!



The first thing we did was get started on a craft because I knew it would take a while! (And I was right!)
Our craft today was a paper mache pinata! Here is what you need to make it:

Supplies:
-Balloon
-Paintbrush
-Modge Podge
-Cut of pieces of Newspaper or Magazines

Directions
-Using the paintbrush, paint the modgepodge onto the balloon then start to stick the newspaper to it! It is a really easy craft but quite time consuming depending on the size of the balloon. It took us almost 45 minutes!!)

With the last 15 minutes that we had of the program we sat outside and ate nachos and salsa and had some Canadian Trivia questions! 

Here are some of the questions that we had:

1. Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada? Sir John A. Macdonald
2. What animal is on the Canadian quarter?
   the CARIBOU
3. How many oceans touch Canada? THREE - the Atlantic on the east, the Pacific on the west and the Arctic to the north
4. How many countries border Canada? ONE - the United States of America
5. How many provinces in Canada? TEN - from west to east they are:  British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
6. What is the capital city of Canada (the national capital)? Ottawa
7. True or False?  Canada is the world's second largest country, by land mass? TRUE
8. What is the Canadian $1 coin called? the Loonie  (the loon is a Canadian bird and is pictured on the coin, thus the name)
9. How many territories in Canada? THREE - from west to east they are:  Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
10. What is the most recent territory in Canada called? Nunavut
11. What is the leader of Canada called? the Prime Minister
12. What leaf is on the Canadian flag? the maple leaf - it is the national emblem of Canada
13. What is the Canadian national anthem called? O Canada -- oddly enough, although it has been sung since the late 1800's, it wasn't proclaimed Canada's National Anthem until 1980.
14. What is the "big prize" for the Canadian Football League ("CFL") called?  The ________ cup
    the GREY cup
15. What is the "big prize" for the National Hockey League ("NHL") called?  The _______ cup
    the STANLEY cup

http://www.dltk-kids.com/canada/canadian_trivia-qa.htm 


Next week our theme is "Play with Magic" so be prepared to become magicians!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 5 : Ages 2-6

Week 5: Play around the World

Week 5 of the reading program has come and gone and this week we traveled

around the world!

At the beginning of the program, I asked everyone to close their eyes and imagine their favourite place in the entire world, and then had them think about why it was their favourite place. We shared with the class and it was awesome to hear all the places they've been! A lot of kids said Disneyland because of the food and the rides and because, of course, it was the happiest place in the world! My favourite answer though was Home, because how fantastic is that?!

The first book we read was:

This book is about an emu who just wants to be the most popular animal at the zoo. He tries to become a seal, a lion and a snake but he realizes that the best thing he can be is himself: Edward the Emu!
GAME: We then played a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey! That was really fun, we twirled around with our eyes closed then tried to get the tail closest to the X as possible. 

 The next book we read was:

This was an awesome book that took you around the world to gather al lthe ingredients for an apple pie! 

GAME: We traveled to Greece for the next game we played called "Statues". Someone stands in the center of the room and closes their eyes, while the person's eyes are closed everyone else walks around the room. When the person opens their eyes everyone has to freeze like statues! 

The last book we read was:

 After we traveled to Venice with Olivia we learned how to say Hello in different languages!!
Here are all the ones we learned together:

Bonjour-French
Guten Tag-Germany
Aloha-Hawaiian
Ni Hao-Chinese
Privet-Russian
Ciao-Italian

The craft for around the world theme was a chinese Dragon:
Supplies
-cardstock (for backround and for scales, mouth, head and tail)
-Yarn
-Googly Eyes
-Glue
-Markers for decoration

First glue your yarn on the paper in the shape of a "S" (or really any shape you like!) Then glue on your head, tail, tongue, eyes and your scales all along the yarn! 

Next week our theme is "Play with Magic" so be ready to become magicians!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 5: Ages 7-8

Week 5: Play around the World!

Week 5 of the reading program has come and gone and this week we traveled

around the world!

At the beginning of the program, I asked everyone to close their eyes and imagine their favourite place in the entire world, and then had them think about why it was their favourite place. We shared with the class and it was awesome to hear all the places they've been! A lot of kids said Disneyland because of the food and the rides and because, of course, it was the happiest place in the world! My favourite answer though was Home, because how fantastic is that?!

The first book we read was:

 This book was fantastic! Every image was a wonder of the world but it was recreated using ordinary things. We spent a long time looking through all the photos, the Taj Mahal was made out of brussel sprouts, recorders, onions. Machu Picchu was made out of toast! 

The second book we read was:

We read Edward the Emu in the other programs, so it only seemed fitting that we read the story about Edwina! 

The last story we read was: 

After our last story we traveled outside to play some games!

The first thing we did outside was do yoga, this was more fun than you can imagine! We started off taking some deep breathes and reaching our hands to the sky and then we got started with the poses. The first pose we did was the tree pose:

 Then we did airplane pose:

 Downward Dog:

Then we just breathed for a couple minutes:

After our yoga practice we decided we needed to burn off some energy so we played a game called "Dragon Tails" 

After that game we were all ready for our craft and snack so we came back inside for some Chips and Salsa and started on our craft!

Our craft for today was a Chinese Dragon:

Supplies
-cardstock (for backround and for scales, mouth, head and tail)
-Yarn
-Googly Eyes
-Glue
-Markers for decoration

First glue your yarn on the paper in the shape of a "S" (or really any shape you like!) Then glue on your head, tail, tongue, eyes and your scales all along the yarn! 

Our theme next week is "Play with Magic" so prepared to become a magician!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 4: Ages 2-6

Week 4: Play with Food! 

There was a lot of excitement this week when the kids found out this week was all about food! They loved talking about their favourite foods- which was our question of the day. The most popular favourite food was, of course, pizza and ice cream! 

 

The first thing we did before storytime was get all of our wiggles out: we wiggled our right arm, left arm, then our legs and then our entire body! When all of our wiggles were out, we started with the first story. 

The first story we read was:

The kids loved this story, and we talked about how many pies we thought we could eat before we turned green and passed out under the table! Some kids thought they could eat 7 pies..I'd like to see that!

The second book we read was:

We then played a game to see if we could say a food that started with each letter of the alphabet! Here was our list:

A: apple, asparagus, almonds.

B:banana, bread.

C: cabbage, cake, corn, cereal.

D: donuts.

E: eggs,eel.

F:fish, french toast,fig.

G: grapes, garlic, guacamole.

H:ham, honey, hot dogs.

I:Ice cream.

J: jam, jello.

K: kiwi, ketchup.

L:lettuce, lamb, lasagna.

M:meatballs, milk.

N:noodles, Nutella.

O: Orange.

P: pizza, pepper, pancakes.

Q: quinoa, quiche.

R: rice.

S: spaghetti, spinach.

T:Toast, tomato.

U: We couldn't think of anything!

V: vegetables.

W: waffles, watermelon.

X: We couldn't think of anything!

Y: Yogurt

Z: Zucchini.

The last book we read was:

The last thing we did before our craft was sing a song about pizza!

Five leftover pizza pieces From the night before,

Dad came and ate one, Gulp! Then there were four.

Four leftover pizza pieces One with pepperoni

Mom came and ate one. Gulp! Then there were three.

Three leftover pizza pieces, Cheese like sticky glue.

Brother came and ate one, Gulp! Then there were two.

Two leftover pizza pieces Not having any fun.

Sister came to take one, Gulp and then there was one.

One leftover pizza piece But I don’t wanna be a hog.

So I went and got it And shared it with the dog!

Our craft for today was play dough, this was a lot of fun!!

At first they just cut out shapes using cookie cutters but for the last 10 minutes of the program they made all their favourite foods our of play dough.