TD Summer Reading Club Week 3: Ages 9-12

Week 3: When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth

This week we decided to go wayyy back in time to the prehistoric ages so we could visit the dinosaurs! I started off by asking the kids what they thought the coolest dinosaur was. Everyone decided that T-Rex's are awesome, but Brontosauruses were really cute too (and won't bite)! We also learned that the Brontosaurus was the largest dinosaur to roam the earth, and weighed between 25-50 tons! That's about as much as 17 elephants! 

First we started off with a fun game of British Dinosaur (Bulldog). It's simple, all you need to do is pick two people to be the dinosaur (or bulldog) and have them stand in the middle of the field. Then whenever they say "British Dinosaur" everybody has to run to the other side of the field without being tagged, and if you are tagged you have to join the other British Dinosaurs. Continue playing until everyone is out! 

Then we played a few rounds of "What Time is it Mr. Dinosaur?"

Afterwards, we went back inside to play one last game of Four Corners (dino version). Here's how you play:

- Pick someone to be "it". This person stands at the front with her back to the group. Designate 4 corners with a different dinosaurs and pictures. Start the kids at the center and have them find a corner to stand in, while “it” counts to 10. The "it" person, without looking, calls a dinosaur. Eliminate the players in the corner that was called out. These players sit down in the middle, where they started. Call out for them to pick a new corner. Repeat until only one player is left. This person is "it" next.

Then after everyone was tired out from playing, we went inside to do our craft, paper plate dinosaurs! It was the most popular craft I've done to date. The kids loved making all sorts of different dinosaurs. Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Construction paper or colored cardstock 
• Paper plate (cut in half)
• Markers 
• Bingo dotters 
• Stapler 

Directions:

1. Print off your dinosaur stencils (I will attach links for all of them below) onto your colored construction paper. 

2. Ask the kids to cut out their dinosaur stencils. 

3. Give them markers, bingo dotters, ect. and tell them to use those to decorate their plates and dinosaur cut outs however they'd like. 

4. When they're done decorating they can staple the dinosaur pieces on their plate (some help may be required for this part). 

The finished product! 

- T-Rex stencil

- Stegosaurus stencil

- Brontosaurus stencil

- Triceratops stencil

- Pterodactyl stencil

Don't forget to swing by next week because we'll be diving deep down into the depths of the ocean for Under the Sea week! See you then! 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 3: Ages 7-8

Week 3: When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth

This week we decided to go wayyy back in time to the prehistoric ages so we could visit the dinosaurs! I started off by asking the kids what they thought the coolest dinosaur was. Everyone decided that T-Rex's are awesome, but Brontosauruses were really cute too (and won't bite)! We also learned that the Brontosaurus was the largest dinosaur to roam the earth, and weighed between 25-50 tons! That's about as much as 17 elephants! 

We started by reading our first book:

Edwina, the dinosaur who didn't know she was extinct by Mo Willems 

After that we talked about mean Reginald Von Hoobie Doobie was and how yummy Edwina's cookies must have tasted! 

Then we read our second book:

Dinosaurumpus by Tony Mitton 

Then we read our last book:

How Do Dinosaurs Laugh Out Loud? by Jane Yolen

 

Where do dinosaurs shop? At the dino-store! Hahaha. This book made everybody giggle. 

Then we went outside to play some games! Today we played Dino-Tag and Simon Says! Those little dinosaurs sure are quick, they tagged me out every time. 

Then after everyone was tired out from playing, we went inside to do our craft, paper plate dinosaurs! It was the most popular craft I've done to date. The kids loved making all sorts of different dinosaurs. Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Construction paper or colored cardstock 
• Paper plate (cut in half)
• Markers 
• Bingo dotters 
• Stapler 

Directions:

1. Print off your dinosaur stencils (I will attach links for all of them below) onto your colored construction paper. 

2. Ask the kids to cut out their dinosaur stencils. 

3. Give them markers, bingo dotters, ect. and tell them to use those to decorate their plates and dinosaur cut outs however they'd like. 

4. When they're done decorating they can staple the dinosaur pieces on their plate (some help may be required for this part). 

The finished product! 

- T-Rex stencil

- Stegosaurus stencil

- Brontosaurus stencil

- Triceratops stencil

- Pterodactyl stencil

Don't forget to swing by next week because we'll be diving deep down into the depths of the ocean for Under the Sea week! See you then! 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 3: Ages 2-6

Week 3: When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth

This week we decided to go wayyy back in time to the prehistoric ages so we could visit the dinosaurs! I started off by asking the kids what they thought the coolest dinosaur was. Everyone decided that T-Rex's are awesome, but Brontosauruses were really cute too (and won't bite)! We also learned that the Brontosaurus was the largest dinosaur to roam the earth, and weighed between 25-50 tons! That's about as much as 17 elephants! 

We started by reading our first book:
Dinosaur Kisses by David Ezra Stein 


Then we decided to get up and moving by singing the Dino-Pokey!

You put your claws in,
You take your claws out,
You put your claws in,
And you scratch 'em all about.
You do the dino pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!

Additional verses: 
 - feet in, feet out, stomp them all about
 - teeth in, teeth out, chomp them all about
- tail in, tail out, wag it all about

Then we sang our second story:
Dinosaurumpus! by Tony Mitton


This was a funny one about all the different ways dinosaurs dance!

Then we sang our second song, I'm a Mean Old Dinosaur:

 I'm a mean old Dinosaur 
 (Make a mean face, the kids make the cutest mean faces)
 Big and Tall
 (Gesture hands big and tall)
Here is my tail, here is my claw.
(Gesture hands behind your back for tail and make claw hands)
When I get all hungry
(Rub your tummy)
I just growl
(Have the kids exaggerate the grrroooowwwlll)
Look out kids I'm on the prowl.
(Give everybody tickles)

Then we read our last book:
Edwina, the dinosaur who didn't know she was extinct by Mo Willems 


Then we did our craft, paper plate dinosaurs! It was the most popular craft I've done to date. The kids loved making all sorts of different dinosaurs. Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Construction paper or colored cardstock 
• Paper plate (cut in half)
• Markers 
• Bingo dotters 
• Stapler 

Directions:

1. Print off your dinosaur stencils (I will attach links for all of them below) onto your colored construction paper. 

2. Ask the kids to cut out their dinosaur stencils. 

3. Give them markers, bingo dotters, ect. and tell them to use those to decorate their plates and dinosaur cut outs however they'd like. 

4. When they're done decorating they can staple the dinosaur pieces on their plate (some help may be required for this part). 

- T-Rex stencil

- Stegosaurus stencil

- Brontosaurus stencil

- Triceratops stencil

- Pterodactyl stencil

Don't forget to swing by next week because we'll be diving deep down into the depths of the ocean for Under the Sea week! See you then! 

Club de Lecture: Semaine 2

Semaine 2: La Vie D'un Insecte 

Bon retour au Club de lecture d'été! Cette semaine, notre thème était les insectes. Nous avons appris appropos des différentes types d'insectes comme les coccinelles, les papillons, les limaces et les moustiques! Toutes les enfants ont decidé qu'ils aiment les coccinelles et papillons le plus. On a aussi découvert que les mille-pattes ont environ 40-400 jambes! C'est incroyable. 

Les trois livres qu'on a lus etaient: 

La chenille qui fait des trous de Eric Carle 


Ella: la petite coccinelle au grand coeur de Alex T. Smith 


L'autobus magique au pays des papillons de Kristin Earhart


Puis, parce qu'on parle appropos des chenilles, je leur ai montré les pictures des chenilles et j'avais demander si ils peuvent me dire laquelle sont venimeuse ou pas. Voici les pictures:








Savais-tu les réponses?

Puis, on a joué un autre jeux avant qu'on a crée notre travaux manuel. Alors, nous avons joué "la cours de bisquit". L'objectif de la jeux est de placer un bisquit sur ton front et de déplacer la bisquit dans ton bouche, MAIS, tu peut pas utiliser tes mains. C'est très difficile! 



Ensuite, on a commencé notre travaux manuel, les chenilles (semblable à l'un dans La chenille qui fait des trous). 

Matérial:

• Guimauve 
• Papier de construction 
• Peinture 
• Crayons
• Colle 
• Yeux en plastique

Déroulement:

1. Prendre deux guimauve et utiliser un pour le peinture rouge et un pour le vert.

2. Utiliser les guimauve pour creer un tete (en rouge) et six cercle vert pour le corp de la chenille.

3. Utiliser les autres colours de papier de construction et tes crayons pour creer les different types de nourriture pour ta chenille a manger. 

4. Colle les pieces de nourriture sur ton piece de papier de construction et si tu veut les yeux en plastique sur le visage. 

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 2: Ages 9-12

Week 2: It's a Bugs Life 

Welcome back to the summer reading program! We had an absolutely super second week, because it was bug week! We learned cool facts about all sorts of different bugs. Did you know millipedes typically have between 40-400 legs! Imagine what you could do with that many legs? Then I asked the kids to tell me what their favorite bugs were. The general consensus was butterflies and ladybugs, because co'mon, who doesn't love them?

To start things off I played a game where the kids had to identify which caterpillars were poisonous and which were safe:

Do you guys know the answers? 

*Key: dangerous, safe, dangerous, safe, safe, dangerous 

Then we after that we played a game of wink murder! Here's how you play:

1. All guests sit in a circle and closes their eyes (no peeking!). The host taps one person to be the "murderer". Everyone may open their eyes, but no talking is allowed. The murderer must successfully wink at five (or less depending how many are in the circle) without getting caught.
2. If you are winked at you must dramatically fall to the center of the circle and wait for the game to end. If you catch someone winking you immediately raise your hand and secretly tell the host. If they're right they win, if they're wrong they "die" and the game continues until the murderer winks at all his victims.

Then after we were all done finding the murderers, we got up to have a cookie face race! The goal was for the kids to place a cookie on their foreheads and get it in their mouths without using their hands. It was tricky! 

Then for our last activity we played blind bigfoot! Here's how you can play too:

Materials:

1.  Large sheets of paper (11 x 17 inches ideally)
2. Crayons, markers, pencils, pens, ect.
3. Blindfolds 

Directions:

1. Issue each child a large sheet of paper, one drawing tool, a blindfold (if using) and a scoresheet. Ensure that each participant has a large, flat space (floor or table, protected by newspaper) on which to draw.
2. Show a few images of Bigfoot and describe to the group what Bigfoot is thought to look like.
3. Ask the kids to write their name at the top of their page. Explain that you’ll read off the instructions one at a time, and that the kids must draw what you say while blindfolded after you finish reading each instruction. 
4. Kids should now put on their blindfolds (or close their eyes). Begin to tell the children to draw the parts of Bigfoot, starting with the head, a body, arms, ears, face, feet, ect. Waiting a few seconds between each one to allow kids time to draw. The results will ensure laughter! 

Then finally, we ended with our craft, paper butterfly puppets!

Materials:

• Black construction paper 
• Colored construction paper 
• Glue 
• White paint 
• Q-tips 
• Scissors 
• Markers
• Crayons
• Popsicle stick

Directions:

1. Print off butterfly templates on the black and colored construction paper (a large one on the black paper, and a smaller one on the colored paper). 
2. Cut out butterflies from paper.
3. Glue the smaller colored butterfly on the larger black one. 
4. Color a face and designs all over your butterfly. 
5. Paint along the black edges with the white paint using your q-tips. 
6. Glue the popsicle stick on the back of your butterfly. 

Next week we're going back in time to visit the dinosaurs! Stay tuned to hear about all our adventures! 

TD Summer Reading Club Week 2: Ages 7-8

Week 2: It's a Bugs Life 

Welcome back to the summer reading program! We had an absolutely super second week, because it was bug week! We learned cool facts about all sorts of different bugs. Did you know millipedes typically have between 40-400 legs! Imagine what you could do with that many legs? Then I asked the kids to tell me what their favorite bugs were. The general consensus was butterflies and ladybugs, because co'mon, who doesn't love them?

The first book we read was:

Down in the Dumps With the 3 Nasty Gnarlies by Keith Graves 

Then after learning about how caterpillars become butterflies (and gnarlies do not!) I played a game where the kids had to identify which caterpillars were poisonous and which were safe:

Do you guys know the answers? 

*Key: dangerous, safe, dangerous, safe, safe, dangerous 

Then we read our second book:
Hi, Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold 

Then we played a quick game of cookie face race! The goal was for the kids to place a cookie on their foreheads and get it in their mouths without using their hands. It was tricky! 

But eventually everyone prevailed, because what is a better motivator than cookies?

Finally, we read our last book:

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback

Everyone decided there's no way we could swallow a horse without cutting it up into little pieces first! Silly old lady.  

Then we ended with our craft, paper butterfly puppets!

Materials:

• Black construction paper 
• Colored construction paper 
• Glue 
• White paint 
• Q-tips 
• Scissors 
• Markers
• Crayons
• Popsicle stick

Directions:

1. Print off butterfly templates on the black and colored construction paper (a large one on the black paper, and a smaller one on the colored paper). 
2. Cut out butterflies from paper.
3. Glue the smaller colored butterfly on the larger black one. 
4. Color a face and designs all over your butterfly. 
5. Paint along the black edges with the white paint using your q-tips. 
6. Glue the popsicle stick on the back of your butterfly. 

Next week we're going to travel back in time to visit the dinosaurs! Stay tuned to hear all about our adventures!