TD Summer Reading Club Week 7: Ages 9-12

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 got ready to start our first activity, spaghetti and marshmallow towers! I gave all the kids a whole bunch of uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows and had everyone work together to try and build the biggest and tallest tower. It was a blast! 

Then after that we all went outside to play Cops and Robbers before heading back inside to make this week's craft, snake chain puppets! Here's how you can make them too:

Materials:

• Craft foam 
• Stapler 
• Construction paper 
• Glue 
• Black marker 
• Party blowers 
• Scissors 
• Snake puppet stencil

Directions:

1. Take pattern and cut snake head out of the craft foam. 

2. Fold the head in half and staple on both sides. 

3. Draw eyes on the snakes head using a black marker. Then cut a hole where the “X” is with scissors. Slide the party blower through the hole. 

4. Cut stripes of light and dark green construction paper. 

5. Thread one strip through the back of the snake’s head and staple to form a loop. Continue threading strips through the last loop, making a chain tail. 

Tune in next time for our final week of the Summer Reading Club where we will go on a safari! 

Club de Lecture: Semaine 6

Semaine 6: Dans Le Ciel 

Bon retour au Club de lecture d'été! Cette semaine, notre thème était la ciel! On a discuté les differentes types d'oiseaux and leur cri. Nous avons aussi decidé que les  ara macaos sont les oiseaux le plus beau parce qu'ils ont les plumes avec toutes les couleurs d'une arc-en-ciel. Savez-vous qu’il y a certaines race d’oiseaux qui peut pas voler? Pouvez-vous me dit laquelle oiseaux pouvait et pouvait pas voler? 

 

 

Les trois livres qu'on a lus etaient: 

 Gédéon au magasin de Laura Well 

 Le vilain petit canard de Susanna Davidson 


Gros grognon de Jeremy Tankard


Puis, on a joué <<Duck, duck, goose>> avant qu'on a commencé notre travaux manuels, un mangeoire à oiseaux! 

Matérial:

• Gobelet en carton 
• Peinture à l'acrylique
• Ficelle
• Pinceau
• Cheville en bois 
• Perforateur 
• Graines pour oiseaux 

Déroulement:

1. En avance, couper les tasses et faire deux trous pour le cheville en bois. 

2. Demander au enfants de peinturent l’exterieur de les tasses.

3. Utiliser le perforateur pour faire trois trous autour de la haut de la tasse. Ficelent les ficelles a travers de chaque trous et nouer les trois ensemble. 

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 6: Ages 2-6

Week 6: Up In The Sky  

This week we flapped our wings and learned all about birds! We discussed the different types of birds you can find and the different sounds they all make. We all decided Macaws are the prettiest birds because of all the different colors they have on their tails. We also learned that there are some species of birds that can't fly even though they have wings! Can you guess which birds those are?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first story we read was:

Little Owl's Day by Divya Srinivasan

Then we read our second story:

Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard

After that we read:

What A Naughty Bird! by Sean Taylor 

Then we finished story time with:

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

After story time we got ready to make this week's craft, paper plate parrot puppets (say that ten times fast)! Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Paper plate cut in half
• Scissors
• Stapler
• Markers
• Ribbon
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Popsicle stick

Directions:

1.      Cut your paper plate in half.

2.      Staple one half on top of the other facing horizontally and one vertically.

3.      Have the kids decorate their parrot however they’d like.

4.      Put on googly eyes.

5.   Have them pick out their favorite color of ribbon. 

6.   Glue the ribbon to the bottom and the popsicle stick on the side!

TD Summer Reading Club Week 6: Ages 7-8

Week 6: Up In The Sky 

This week we flapped our wings and learned all about birds! We discussed the different types of birds you can find and the different sounds they all make. We all decided Macaws are the prettiest birds because of all the different colors they have on their tails. We also learned that there are some species of birds that can't fly even though they have wings! Can you guess which birds those are?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first story we read was:

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

Then we read our second story:

Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard

Then before we played we read one last story:

Duck In The Fridge by Jeff Mack

Then in the spirit of bird week we went outside to play Duck, Duck, Goose and Simon Says as well! 

After we were done playing we went inside to make our craft, handprint macaws! Here's how you can too:

Materials:

• Colored construction paper
• Scissors
• Markers
• Macaw stencil printed on white paper (you can find it here)
• Glue

Directions:

1. Have the kids cut out their macaw and then color it. 

2. Trace their handprint on the different colors of construction paper (we used the colors of the rainbow) 

3. Cut out the handprints from the paper. 

4. Glue on to the bird stencil. 

 

They did such a good job! 

Make sure you join us next week because things are about to get really slimy as we learn all about reptiles!