Week 6: Canadian Sports Ages 2-6

Week 6 
Ages 2-6
Canadian Sports

Question:

Do you have a favorite game or activity that you like to play/do?

Books: 

The first book we read was "Lucy Tries Soccer" by Lisa Bowes. This is a great series of books that demonstrates to children the importance of sportsmanship, and shows them all the different sports and activities that are available for them to try!

The second book we read was " Just One Goal!" by Robert Munsch. This is a great book with some funny characters in it! It shows true hockey passion! 

Activities: 

The first activity we did was red light, green light. I made it a bit more exciting by having the children show me their most silly face when I yelled red light. 

The second activity we did was What Time is it Mr.Wolf. I had children perform different forms of loco motion to go along with our sports theme. 

Our final activity was Simon Says. 

Craft:

Baseball Man 

Materials:

Small paper plates, glue, strips of colored construction paper (4 for each child), Googly eyes,
 and markers

Instructions: 

1. Have children fold their strip of colored paper like a fan to make crazy arm and legs

2. Draw a smile and baseball stitches on the backside of the plate (the side you wouldn't eat on) 

3. Glue on some googly eyes and enjoy your creation! 

Semaine 5 Nourriture Canadien

Semaine 5

Nourriture Canadien

Question: 

Est-ce que tu peux penser des nourritures Canadiennes?

Livres: 

Le premier livre que nous ont lu été "Benji, Tu Veux un Beigne?" par Laura Numeroff. Ce livre est très amusant. Les enfants aiment beaucoup ce livre.

Le deuxième livre que nous lisons été "Une tonne de tartes!" par Robert Munsch. Ça c'est une bonne addition pour notre thème pour la semaine.

Activités:
Bataille des restaurants
Comment Jouer:
diviser les enfants en deux équipes. Donne chaque équipe des objets. Fait une ligne dans le milieu du terrain de jeu. Les équipes essayaient de voler les objets d'équipe. L'équipe avec le plus d'objets quand tu dis arrêt gagner. (Chaque tour est 3 minutes)

Bricolages: 

Poutine

Matériaux: bande de papier jaune, papier orange (pour fromage), assiette en papier, colle, peinture brune

Pour les frites: Les bande de papier jaune 

Pour le fromage: Petit cercle de papier orange

Pour la sauce: Peinture brune mélanger avec la colle liquide 

Instruction: 

1. Colle les frites sur l'assiette

2. Colle le fromage sur les frites 

3. Verser la mixture de colle et peinture sur ton création

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.