Week 5: Canadian Food Ages 9-12

Week 5

Canadian Food 

Ages 9-12 

Books: 

We started the program by reading a few poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. There were some great poems involving food in this one!

The second book we read was "More Pies!" by Robert Munsch. This group always likes to read a Robert Munsch book to end our reading for the day. 

Activity: 

Steal the Maple Syrup 

To play this game split children in two teams. Have a line down the middle of the playing area to designate each teams side. Place a Jug in the middle. When you say go children must run to try and grab maple syrup first. After this point the other team is trying to steal it back. If they are tagged on the opposing teams side they must go back to their own side and start again. Set a timer for three minutes. Whichever team has the jug when the time is up wins. 

Craft: 

Create your own Canadian Menu 

Materials: Manila tag paper, crayons, and markers

Instructions: 

1. Fold your manila tag paper into three like a brochure 

2. Make an appetizer, main course, and dessert column 

3. Think of different Canadian style foods that you could have in your restaurant

4. Make your menu visually appealing 

Ex: Bacon wrapped moose drizzled with maple syrup 

Week 5: Canadian Food ages 7-8

Week 5

Ages: 7-8

Canadian Food

Books

The first book we read was "More Pies!" by Robert Munsch. The kids really enjoyed this book (and it gave great inspiration for our craft). 

    The second book we read was  “Everyone Loves Bacon” by Kelly Dipucchio. The kids loved this book, it's quite funny (Canadian Ham even made an appearance).

The third book we read was "Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast" by Josh Funk, this is a fun rhyming book and great to read aloud. 

 Activity: 

Battle of the Restaurants 

To play this game split children into two teams. Designate a middle line.Give each team some objects to have on their side (these are the ingredients). Each team is trying to get all the ingredients. Each team is safe on their own side. If a team is tagged on the opposing teams side they must freeze where they are tagged until a teammate comes to rescue them. To be rescued a teammate must walk them back to their home side (they have a free walk back). The first team to have all the ingredients wins.  

Craft:

Saskatoon pie craft

Materials:

Brown strips of construction paper, different colors of tissue paper, glue, paper plate

Instructions:

1.First crumple up assorted colors of tissue paper (whatever flavor you want your pie to be)

 2.Take the crumpled up tissue paper and glue it on to the plate,
continue gluing the tissue paper until the entire white of the plate is covered

3.Next take strips of brown construction paper to make the pie crust,
weave it to make a lattice like structure

4. Once weaved glue the crust onto the top of your pie, 

you may need quite a bit of glue for this step. 

Week 5: Canadian food ages 2-6

Week 5

Ages 2-3

Fun with Canadian food

Question:

Can you guys think of some food that comes from Canada?

Most of the kids thought of maple syrup and bacon when they thought of Canadian food. 

Book:

The first book we read was "Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast" by Josh Funk, this was an exciting book with a good moral.

The second book we read was "Everyone Loves Bacon" by "Kelly Dipucchio. What a funny book! The kids got quite the chuckle out of this one!

The third book we read was "More Pies" by Robert Munsch. This was a fun book, it was a great read-aloud! 

Activities:
The Banana Song: 
Bananas unite!
  (Clap hand together on top of head)
Peel banana, peel peel banana, peel banana peel peel banana
 (One hand in fist pretend to peel your fist)
Chop Banana, chop chop banana, chop banana, chop chop banana
(flatten hand in front of you chop with other)
Mash banana, mash mash banana, mash banana, mash mash banana
(Pretend to mash banana in hand)
Eat banana, eat eat banana, eat banana, eat eat banana
(Pretend to eat banana with a fake spoon) 
Go bananas, go go bananas, go bananas, go go bananas!
(Go crazy wave your hand in the air, run around in a circle)

Purple Stew:

Making a purple stew, whip, whip 

Whip Whip Whip (pretend to stir a huge bowl, circular motion with arms)

Making a purple stoobie-doobie-oobie-doobie 

Purple potatoes, and purple tomatoes and (pretend to throw things in from over your shoulder) 

You in my purple stew. (person in middle points to someone) 

Fancy meeting you in my purple stew. (the two shake hands)

Everyone stands in a circle while one person stands in the middle. While you are singing the song perform the actions. When you say "You in my purple stew" the person in the middle points to someone and that person joins the middle. On "Fancy meeting you..." the person who was just pulled into the circle shakes hands with the person who brought him there.

Craft:

Little Chef Craft:
Materials: 
Colored construction paper (for chef's outfit, skin, and background,), black paper for mustache, marker, coffee filters, paper plate, scissors, squiggly scissors and glue.
Instructions: 
I pre-cut the chef's shirt and arms for each of the kids. To do this I just made squares for the shirt and then just cut strips for arms. I also pre-cut the mustache (just a strip of paper then kids used their squiggly design scissors to design whatever mustache they pleased)
1. Glue shirt onto background paper
2. Cut out a circle for head
3. Glue head above shirt
4. Draw a face on your chef
5. Cut out a mustache from black piece of paper, glue your mustache onto face
6. Fold coffee filter in half and glue it on the chef's head, place a strip of colored paper underneath coffee filter for the hat band
7. Attach arms and hand onto chef
8. Draw your favorite meal on your paper plate, and glue plate onto chef's middle
9. Glue hands onto the plate to make chef hold the food

Semaine 4: Au Nord

Semaine 4

Au Nord

Question:

 Pouvez veux nommer les animaux du Nord

Livres:

   Le premier livre que nous lisons est "Gros ours affamé" par Nick Bland, ca c'est un très bon livre avec un bon histoire.

     Le deuxième livre que j'ai lue été "Les Amis Qui Ne Pensaient Qu'a Gagner" par Nicholas Oldland.
Ca c'est un livre très drôle! 

Activités:

    Quatre coin avec les animaux de Nord
Comment Jouer:
Mettre les images des différents animaux de nord dans chaque coin. Se tenir début dans la milieu de chambre, fermer les yeux. Conte a 20, les enfants doit choisis un coin dans les 20 secondes. Quand tu est finir a conte a 20 dit un nom de un de les coin, les enfants qui sont a le coing que tu a dit doit maintenant joindre toi même dans la milieu et conte avec toi. Le personne qui gagne est le dernier personne de être appelé. 

Bricolages:

Ours polaires avec des doigts.

Matériaux:

Papier bleu, le peinture noir et blanc, brosse a peinture, les vers avec d'eau.

Instructions:

1.    Fait le corps de ours avec un doigt.

2.    Fait le tête avec le point de ton doigt.

3.    Fait les jambes and les oreilles avec tes doigts aussi.

4.    Utilise ton brosse de peinture pour faire des yeux et bouches noir.

Week 4: Way Up North ages 9-12

Week 4
Way Up North 

Ages 9-12
Books:
We read some "Canadian Hauntings" to begin the program. Everyone enjoyed the stories, most participants were quite intrigued.

After that we read "The Polar Bear's Gift" by Jeanne Bushey. This was a really great story the kids enjoyed this fable!

Activity: 

Arctic Fox VS Puffins 

To play this game: Split participants into two equal teams, one side will be arctic fox, and the other will be puffins. Place balls (these will be the puffins eggs) on the puffins side. Designate a middle line that is each animal's "home" (each have their own side). If the foxes are tagged by a puffin before they can successfully steal an egg, they must freeze where they are until one of their teammates comes to rescue them. When being freed by a teammate foxes have a free walk back to their side. Time the game for 3 minutes. Once the time is up if the foxes have more eggs than puffins they win. *PUFFINS CANNOT STEAL BACK EGGS*. Have the teams switch animals when a new round begins. 

Craft: 

Northern Lights Sky Craft 

Materials: Dark colors of construction paper (dark blue, purple, green etc), Black construction paper, glue, white paint, paintbrushes, and chalk 

Directions:

1. With chalk draw some northern lights on your colored paper

2. With a fine paint brush dot white stars onto your page

3. From black paper cut out silhouettes of either trees, mountains or a village

3. Once your paint is dry, glue your black paper onto the bottom of your colored page to create a northern lights scene.  

Week 4: Way up North ages 7-8

Week 4

Way Up North 

Ages 7-8 

Question: 

Can you name some animals from the arctic? Which is your favorite, and why? 

Books: 

The first book we read was "Sweetest Kulu" by Celina Kalluk. This book has beautiful pictures and tells a lovely story. 

The second book we read was "A Team Like No Other" by Georgia Graham. The kids really enjoyed this story, some of them got really into it (you could tell from the expressions on their faces). 

The third book we read was "Baby Beluga" by Raffi, I was surprised at how much the children still enjoyed this book as I thought they might think they are too old for it, but they adored the star character: Baby Beluga. 

Activity: 

Puffin VS Arctic Fox

To play this game: Split participants into two equal teams, one side will be arctic fox, and the other will be puffins. Place balls (these will be the puffins eggs) on the puffins side. Designate a middle line that is each animal's "home" (each have their own side). If the foxes are tagged by a puffin before they can successfully steal an egg, they must freeze where they are until one of their teammates comes to rescue them. When being freed by a teammate foxes have a free walk back to their side. Time the game for 3 minutes. Once the time is up if the foxes have more eggs than puffins they win. *PUFFINS CANNOT STEAL BACK EGGS*. Have the teams switch animals when a new round begins. 

Craft:

Torn paper craft

Materials:

 Assorted colors of construction paper (make sure to also have black) , and glue.

Directions:

       Have children tear construction paper width wise, overlap the paper so that it creates a northern lights sky. Glue your paper onto white construction paper, once the children have all their colored paper glued down, have them tear mountain like shapes with black paper and glue it at the bottom of the page. 

Week 4: Way Up North ages 2-6

Week 4 

Way Up North 

Ages 2-6 

Question:

Can you think of some animals that live in the snow in Canada? 

I got an array of answers for this question the answers ranged from polar bears to giraffes. 

Books: 

"Over in the Artic: Where the Cold Winds Blow" by Marianne Berkes. This was a fun rhyming book that showed the kids all the different animals that live in the arctic. 

The second book we read was "Baby Beluga" by Raffi. The kids enjoyed the song that goes along with book. There are some adorable pictures in the book of various arctic animals. 

The third book that we read was "Polar Bear Night" by Lauren Thompson 

The kids really enjoyed the pictures in this book, and of course the baby polar bear because who doesn't love an adorable polar bear cub?!

Activity: 

What time is it Mr.Whale? 

How to play: 

This is played like "What time is it Mr.Wolf ", however instead of just taking steps the children pretended that they were swimming in the ocean. They seemed to really enjoy this game, and some of them got really into swimming which was awesome to see. 

Craft:

Baby Beluga Paper Bag 

Materials: Paper bag, markers, scrap paper, foam stickers, and elastic bands. 

Instructions:

1. Decorate your bag, be sure to put two eyes, and a smile on each side of the bag to make your whale! Decorate your whale however you please, draw spots, stripes, a rainbow be creative! 

2. Once you've finished decorating your whale, begin crumpling up your scrap paper and stuff it inside your whale bag. 

3. Once your whale is full of scrap paper, tie an elastic band on the end make a tail.