TD Summer Reading Club Week 6: Ages 9-12

Today we discussed the ocean! At the very beginning I asked

everyone to name all the different animals they could think of that lived in the ocean. They said: starfish, shark, jellyfish octopus and so much more! We then took turns and said our favorite animal, there were a lot of dauphins and sharks.

For this week we did a bunch of ocean and beach themed games! Here are all the ones we played:

Game: Hot Beach Ball

This is a variation of the game Hot Potato. You will need a beach ball to serve as your “potato.”

Instructions:

1.       Have everyone sit in a circle leaving a bit of space between each person.

2.       Play beach-y music. One suggestion is “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys, or any Beach Boys song.

3.       While the music is playing the children toss the beach ball around the circle to each other.

4.       Periodically stop the music.

5.       The person who is holding the beach ball when the music has stopped is out and has to stand on the outside of the circle.

6.       The winner is the last person sitting in the circle.

 The next game we played was: Pin the Shades on the Sun!

Instructions: A summer version of Pin the Tail on the Donkey!

-Print out (and if possible, laminate) a picture of a sun with a face

-Print out or draw a pair of sun glasses (for variety, you can do a few different kinds)

-Blind fold one child at a time, spin them, and let them try to place the glasses over the sun’s eyes!

And then we went fishing!

What You'll Need:

◦6 Paper Clips

◦A 3' Length of String

◦A Magnet

◦A Stick

◦Our Gone Fishing Cut-Outs

◦A Pen or Pencil

◦Scraps of Paper

1.Let everyone take a turn using the pole you made to fish in the box or behind the sofa.

2.When they catch something, identify the fish. (If more than one is caught, throw one back.)

3.If they have caught another type of fish, have him or her pick a funny activity from the pile . Such as:

◦Make a fish face.

◦Do 5 leap frogs.

◦Sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

◦Do 6 jumping jacks.

◦Pat your head and rub your tummy 3 times.

Then we all swam over to our craft chairs and worked on our turtles! For this craft you need:

A plastic or paper bowl

Cut up pieces of tissue paper

Glue

Googly eyes

Green paper for the head and legs

 And then we made our own edible oceans. The supplies you need are:

-small bowl (can be paper or Styrofoam)

-vanilla pudding

- blue food coloring or icing,

-Graham cracker crumbs

-Small party umbrellas (we made our own but you can buy them as well!)

-Gummy bears

  We went outside to run around after all the pudding! We played a game of shark tag. One person was the shark and if you got tagged then you turned into seaweed and had to help with the tagging as well! It was a beautiful day outside so it was great to be outdoors!

 Next week is the last week of the TD Summer Reading Program! And next week We are Inventors, it will be the time to share all your brilliant ideas and creations.

Don’t forget to bring in your reading notebook next time, with all your readings from the past week so you can enter into the weekly prize. The prize will be drawn Friday at 4:00!

TD Summer Reading Club Week 6: Ages 7 and 8

Week 6: Down in the deep blue sea

Today we discussed the ocean! At the very beginning I asked everyone to name all the different animals they could think of that lived in the ocean. They said: starfish, shark, jellyfish octopus and so much more! We then took turns and said our favorite animal, there were a lot of dauphins and sharks.

As a little bit of a warm up, I showed them pictures of underwater animals in camouflage and they tried to guess where it was! Here are the pictures we looked at!

We moved right onto our first book which was:

Game: Hot Beach Ball

This is a variation of the game Hot Potato. You will need a beach ball to serve as your “potato.”

Instructions:

1.       Have everyone sit in a circle leaving a bit of space between each person.

2.       Play beach-y music. One suggestion is “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys, or any Beach Boys song.

3.       While the music is playing the children toss the beach ball around the circle to each other.

4.       Periodically stop the music.

5.       The person who is holding the beach ball when the music has stopped is out and has to stand on the outside of the circle.

6.       The winner is the last person sitting in the circle.

The Second book we read was:

Memory Game – I’m Going to the Beach

Instructions:

1.            Have the children sit in a circle.

2.            Going around the circle each person begins a sentence “I’m going to the beach and I’m going to bring…”

3.            They list something that they would need to bring to the beach, e.g. sunscreen.

4.            The next person then has to list what the previous children are bringing and add one item to the list.

5.            As you go around the circle the children have to remember more and more items. 

The last book we read was:

Then we all swam over to our craft chairs and worked on our turtles! For this craft you need:

A plastic or paper bowl

Cut up pieces of tissue paper

Glue

Googly eyes

Green paper for the head and legs

Next week is the last week of the TD Summer Reading Program! And next week We are Inventors, it will be the time to share all your brilliant ideas and creations.

Don’t forget to bring in your reading notebook next time, with all your readings from the past week so you can enter into the weekly prize. The prize will be drawn Friday at 4:00!

TD Summer Reading Club Week 6: Ages 2-6

Week 6: Down in the deep blue sea

Today we discussed the ocean! At the very beginning I asked everyone to name all the different animals they could think of that lived in the ocean. They said: starfish, shark, jellyfish octopus and so much more! We then took turns and said our favorite animal, there were a lot of dauphins and sharks.

As a little bit of a warm up, I showed them pictures of underwater animals in camouflage and they tried to guess where it was! Here are the pictures we looked at! 

We moved right onto our first book which was:

We then sang the song Slippery Fish:

Slippery fish, slippery fish, sliding through the water,
Slippery fish, slippery fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It's been eaten by an?

Octopus, octopus, squiggling in the water
Octopus, octopus, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It's been eaten by a?

Tuna fish, tuna fish, flashing in the water,
Tuna fish, tuna fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It's been eaten by a?

Great white shark, great white shark, lurking in the water,
Great white shark, great white shark, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It's been eaten by a?

Humongous whale, humongous whale, spouting in the water,

Humongous whale, humongous whale,

Gulp! ? Gulp! ? Gulp! ? BURP!

Pardon me! 

The second book we read was: 

We played a game of “Who lives in the ocean?” I said a list of animals and if they lived in the ocean they would pretend they were swimming and if they lived on land they would march around. It was a lot of fun and a great way to get the kids moving!

The last book we read was:

And with the help of five little helpers we sang our next song:

“5 Little Fishies”

Five little fishies swimming in the sea, teasing Mr. Shark; “You can’t catch me!” Along comes Mr. Shark quiet as can be….SNAP!

Four little fishies swimming in the sea, teasing Mr. Shark; “You can’t catch me!" Along comes Mr. Shark quiet as can be….SNAP!

Three little fishies swimming in the sea, teasing Mr. Shark “You can’t catch me!" Along comes Mr. Shark quiet as can be….SNAP!

Two little fishies swimming in the sea, teasing Mr. Shark; “You can’t catch me!" Along comes Mr. Shark quiet as can be….SNAP!

One little fishies swimming in the sea, teasing Mr. Shark; “You can’t catch me!” Along comes Mr. Shark quiet as can be….SNAP!

No more little fishies swimming in sea!

Then we all swam over to our craft chairs and worked on our turtles! For this craft you need:

-A plastic or paper bowl

-Cut up pieces of tissue paper

-Glue

-Googly eyes

-Green paper for the head and legs

Here are some other awesome underwater adventure books:

Next week is the last week of the TD Summer Reading Program! And next week We are Inventors, it will be the time to share all your brilliant ideas and creations, so put on your thinking caps and we will see you next week! 

Don’t forget to bring in your reading notebook next time, with all your readings from the past week so you can enter into the weekly prize. The prize will be drawn Friday at 4:00!

EUREKA! Club de lecture d'été: Semaine 6

SEMAINE 6: L’océan

Cette semaine, nous avons porté nos maillots de bain et des gilets de sauvetage, car nous avons découvert l'océan cette semaine!

Au début du programme, j'ai demandé à chaque enfant de nommer tous les différents animaux qui vivent dans la mer.

Ils ont nommé: requins, poissons, poulpe, barracuda, les méduses, les dauphins et bien plus encore!

Le premier livre qu’on a lu etait:

Ensuite, nous avons chanté une de mes chansons préférées (et l'un des favoris des enfants aussi!) Petit Poisson de Charlotte Diamond

Un petit poisson, petit poisson

nage, nage, nage

petit poisson, petit poisson

gloop gloop gloop!

oh non! il est mangé par une...

Belle pieuvre, belle pieuvre

nage, nage, nage

Belle pieuvre, belle pieuvre

gloop gloop gloop!

Oh non, elle est mangée par un…

Barracuda, barracuda

nage, nage, nage

barracuda, barracuda

gloop gloop gloop!

oh non! il est mangé par un...

Grand requin, grand requin

nage, nage, nage

grand requin, grand requin

gloop gloop gloop!

oh non! il est mangé par une...

Grosse baleine! grosse baleine!

nage, nage, nage!

grosse baleine, grosse baleine!

gloop gloop gloop!

...*burp*...

Excusez-moi!

Le deuxieme livre qu'on a lu était:

Ensuite nous avons joué un jeu de « hot potato » avec un ballon de plage. La personne qui avait le ballon lorsue la musique finissait devait reculer du cercle. 

Le troisième livre qu’on a lu était :

Ensuite nous avons joué le jeu "qui vit dans l'océan?" J’ai montré des images d'animaux et les enfants devaient dire si elles vivent dans l'océan ou non.

Les méduses-Océan

Les Lion-Terre

Les Requins-Océan

Les hippopotames-Terre mais ils nagent dans l’eau!

Pour notre activité on a fabriqué les méduses! On a coupé une plaque à papier en deux puis utiliser les tissus pour décorer!

Voici quelques autres livres sur l'océan: 

La semaine prochaine est la dernière semaine du Club de lecture d’été et le thème est les inventions! Alors il est maintenant le temps de partager vos idées brillantes!

N'oubliez pas d'apporter votre carnet de notes la prochaine fois, avec toutes vos lectures de la semaine dernière, alors vous pouvez entrer dans le prix hebdomadaire. Le prix sera tiré vendredi à 04h00!

TD Summer Reading Club Week 5: Ages 9-12

Week 5: Whodunnit?

For the fifth week of the Summer Reading Club we took out our notebooks, put on our trench coats and became detectives! We talked about all the jobs that detectives have to do in a day and then we moved on to discuss Ninjas and if they were similar or different to spies and detectives!

 I asked if anyone would want to be a spy or a ninja for a day and everyone thought that would be the coolest job ever! 

After our discussion we headed outside with some chalk and talked about how in movies when someone dies you see and outline of their body in white, so we laid on the sidewalk and we took turns tracing each other’s outlines!

We came back inside and sat down on the carpet, I gave an I spy book to groups of kids and we had a competition to see who could find every object on their page!

You can tell that they are really looking hard!!

After squinting long and hard at the I spy books our eyes needed a break so we played a game of “Two truths, One lie” We went around the circle saying two true things about us and one lie, and the others had to guess which one was the lie. It was really fun and a great way to get to know one another!

Then all the detectives sat down so we could work on our crafts. For this week we made hand print detectives, we painted our hands and then decorated the hand print so it looked like a detective. Here was the final look!

 We also painted our hands and put our handprints on a big “Whodunnit” banner and signed it with our Agent names!

After all the crafts, we sat down on the carpet and had some snacks! Some apple slices with mysterious-mustached men on them! 

 While eating our snack we solved some mysteries together, here are the ones we solved!

Question:There is a man found dead in a circular mansion. The detective interviews the cook, maid, and babysitter. The cook said he couldn’t have done it because he was preparing the meal. The maid said she couldn’t have done it because she was dusting the corners. The babysitter said she couldn’t because she was playing with the children. Who was lying?

 Answer: The maid. There are no corners in a circular mansion.

Question: A man is found dead one Saturday morning. He was killed while his wife was sleeping. The wife tells the police all that she knows. She tells them that the cook was cooking breakfast, the maid was cleaning and the butler was getting the mail. The police immediately arrest the person who is responsible. Who is responsible and why?

Answer: The wife because she was sleeping, how could she know that all of that happened!

Question: A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

 Answer: The poison from the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drunk the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually, as the ice cubes melted the poison was released into the punch.

Practice holding your breath for next week because we are going to be diving Down in the Deep Blue Sea we will be talking about all the underwater creatures and discovering the vast ocean!

Don’t forget to bring in your reading notebook next time, with all your readings from the past week so you can enter into the weekly prize. The prize will be drawn Friday at 4:00!