Kindergarten Specials Activities

Art Music P.. S.T.E.M Activity 1: Find primary Activity 1: Teach someone a Activity 1: Same Spot, Sock Shot Science: Take a nature walk and collect song you have learned in Using clean pair of balled up socks some natural materials. When you get colors (red, yellow, blue) in practice tossing under hand and then home sort the materials you your house. music class. If the song had a overhand while stepping with the found. Below are some examples of how game, teach the game as well. opposite foot to a target. Please ask you might sort. If you have time after adult permission to use certain sorting try building something cool with the natural materials. targets at your home. Examples: K-1st: sort by shape, color, or size laundry hamper, spot on wall/tile on 2nd-3rd: sort by texture, shape AND floor, or family members make a size, or living vs non-living hoop with their arms. 4th-6th: Have students create their own way of sorting and then challenge someone elseto identify their method. Activity 2: SPY: Find Activity 2: Create your own Activity 2: Cardio Day Technology: Have someone in your instrument. You can draw it 5 Minute Morning Dance house pretend to be a robot. You secondary colors outside should program the robot how to (green, orange, purple) out and explain what it would Party move around the house. Remember be made out of, how it would Evening Running Competition; robots cannot make any decisions for work, and how it would How many laps can each themselves, they only can do what sound. You can also make it family member run around the programmer tells them. Give verbal directions to the robot out of recyclable materials. the house or the yard! one step at a time. Activity 3: I SPY: Find Activity 3: Go for a walk in Activity 3: Color Dash Engineering: Make a paper airplane, your backyard or around your Find 4 items that are red, blue, green how did it fly? What changes can you geometric (rectangle, and yellow. make to the airplane to make it square, circle, triangle0 house. Write down or draw Make a diamond with the items and fly better? Test out a couple designs shapes in your house (Ex. pictures of what you heard. stand in the middle. and see which is best. Share this with someone in Have someone call colors to you or Box of cereal=rectangle, your house. come up with your own pattern. basketball=circle) As the colors are called you must sprint to that color and run around it and sprint back to the center. Let’s see how fast you are! Activity 4: I SPY: Find three Activity 4: Sit outside for a few Activity 4: TIGHTROPE WALKING: All Math: Create a recipe for a snack mix minutes. Listen for birds. How you need is a bit of masking tape, together, make sure to include both different textures in your chalk, or string and a little sweet and salty ingredients. Make house. (Ex. Rough, many different kinds of birds imagination, and you can make all sure you are measuring and writing down how much of each ingredient goes smooth, soft) do you think you hear? Can kinds of tightrope obstacle courses. Make different kinds of lines and then into the snack mix so you can share the you try to imitate their song? recipe with others. walk the lines one foot in front of the Was it hard or easy? 4th-6th: Figure out the ratio of sweet to other trying not to fall off. Try to salty ingredients and the percentage of balance an object on your head while each ingredients in the mix. If you made walking the lines for a challenge! the mix again would you change any percentages or the ratio? Activity 5: Make patterns out Activity 5: Think and clap your Activity 5: Create a Stretching Wonder: Pick three objects and draw of objects in your house or first and last name. Try doing Routine: As a family create a a picture of an invention you could stretching routine that targets make with them. What problem outside (Ex, forks & spoons, this with other names of muscles in both the arms, legs, upper would the invention solve? toys, big and small rocks) people in your family. back, lower back, and core. Complete in the morning and once before bed. Activity 6: Go outside and Activity 6: Look around your Activity 6: Minute to Win It Science: Find 3-4 objects that roll and house for things that make Directions: Complete each set of something to be an incline . listen for frogs. What do Before you roll make a prediction sound. Find 5 things that are brain busters as many times as you think they are saying? possible in 60 seconds which object you think will roll the loud and 5 things that are fastest, which one will roll the Can’t hear frogs, then listen 1. Jump-Spin (90 degrees)-Clap soft. farthest? Set-up your incline plane to the birds or your pets. 2. Stomp-Jump-Spin (90 degrees) and test your hypothesis. If you have Describe who you think 3. Squat-Spin (90 degrees)-Clap a way of changing the height of your they are talking to and 4. Stomp-Stomp-Clap incline plane pick the object that 5. Jump-Spin (90 degrees)- Jump rolled the best and make a prediction what they are saying. 6. Pick your own combination of how will the speed/distance of the Show off your best ribbet! from any of the above! roll change when you increase the slope of the plane? How will it change when you decrease the slope? Test your hypothesis. Activity 7: Go outside and Activity 7: Make your own Activity 7: POWERFUL FROGS Technology: We know computers are In this activity, you will play the part everywhere. Make a list of some look at the clouds, name drum set. Use bowls, pots, Kindergarten Specials Activities things you see. Maybe a pans, or anything else you can of a powerful frog who is attempting machines in your house that might find! Practice keeping a to jump across a huge field to get to use a computer to do their job. cloud looks like a face, or a the pond on the other side. Use all K-2: Identify the function of the dog, or even a superhero? steady beat. Play some your power to get to the other side in machine and how it makes our lives rhythms you know on your as few jumps as possible. Challenge: better or easier. drum set. Listen to a song and See if you can go back across the field 3-6: Try to identify the input(s) and play your drum set to the in less jumps. Repeat 5 times and output(s) the machine uses. choose a different start and finish beat. each time. Make sure your jumping area is safe and clear of all obstacles. Activity 8: How many Activity 8: Draw a line that Activity 8: STRIKE A POSE Math: Take a walk, but before you do moves all around a page. This activity requires two players. pick 5-7 common items, plants or different faces can you Begin by playing one round of rock, animals you may see on your walk make in the mirror? Using your voice, sing what paper, scissors. and write them down on a sheet for (Happy, sad, angry, that line would sound like. The winner of rock, paper, scissors recording. As you walk every time you gets to choose a stance or a pose to see one of your selected things make surprised?) What changes stand in, both players must strike that a tally on your sheet. as you change your mood? pose at the same time and see who K-1: When you get home count your can hold that pose for the longest tallies and report to someone on What parts of your face amount of time. Whoever strikes the what you saw. Which of your selected change? pose for the longest amount of time items did you see the most of? Which without falling out of place gets to did you see the least of? choose a fitness activity for the losing 2-6: Decide how to display your payer to do. The fitness activity information in a way that would be should only be 10 repetitions. Fitness easier for someone to understand activities can range from jumping than tallies. What kind of graph or jacks, push-ups, squats, line jumps, chart could you make? sit-ups, wall-jumps, etc.

Activity 9: Imagine you are Activity 9: Read or have Activity 9: Circle Challenges Math: Take a walk, but before you do someone read you a story. Make a Circle using chalk on the pick 5-7 common items, plants or a robot. Try walking in driveway or Yarn on any floor. The circle animals you may see on your walk different ways that Create sound effects to go should be between 3 to 4 feet in and write them down on a sheet for diameter. Stand outside your circle. represent line. (Horizontal, with the story. recording. As you walk every time you Jump in landing on two feet. Jump out see one of your selected things make the other side landing on two feet. Jump vertical, diagonal, curvy) a tally on your sheet. When you get in landing on two feet. Jump backwards home count your tallies and report to back landing on two feet where you started. Jump in landing on two feet. someone on what you saw. Which of Jump out the other side with a half turn your selected items did you see the landing facing your circle. Jump in most of? Which did you see the least landing on two feet. Jump out the other of? side trying to complete a full turn prior to landing. Mix up combinations and be creative: For Example: Jump in with two feet hop out landing on one foot. Activity 10: Imagine you Activity 10: Find someone Activity 10: Do each activity for 15-30 Wonder: Think of your favorite (maybe it's you!) that looks seconds with a short rest in between. invention (like a bicycle) draw a are a pirate and you a 1. (Core) Lay flat on your back, hands picture of how you would make rowing a boat to an island. like they could use some under lower back/bottom, head raised improvements to that invention. and looking towards toes. Keep legs When you reach the island, encouragement. Sing or play a straight and raise and lower each leg, song for them. See if you can one at a time. go on a treasure hunt. get them to smile! 2. (Legs) Stand with feet a little wider

(Have a parent or sibling than shoulder width apart. Squat down hide one object to be slowly until your knees are at 90 degrees and then raise back up. found by the treasure 3. (Arms) Get into pushup position. hunter.) Balance on right hand and touch left hand to right shoulder. Then balance on left hand and touch right hand to left Note to Parents and shoulder. 4. (Core) Lay on your back, legs bent and Guardians: Any activity with hands on floor down at your side. Raise grade level specific hips up and hold for 3 seconds then suggestions is just guidance, lower back down. 5. (Core) Sit on the floor with hands please look at all the options holding you up in a sitting position. Lift and select the one most legs off floor. Bend legs and bring both appropriate for your knees to chest and back out (keep legs off floor whole time). student(s).

Kindergarten Specials Activities Art Music P.E. S.T.E.M

Activity 11: I SPY BLUE IN THE HOUSE Activity 11: Find someone to read this Poem: Activity 11:Cardio Day- 5 minute Morning Activity 11: (Science) Count how many different BLUES can light, star bright. Dance Party Take a nature walk and observe using all 5 you find in your house? (light blue, dark First star I see tonight. senses, record your observations. Which blue (navy), purplish-blue, blue-green) I wish I may, I wish I might, Evening Running Competition sense did you use the most? Which sense Have the wish I wish tonight. How many laps can each family member run did you use the least? Can you find someone to teach you how to around the house or the yard? sing it?

Activity 12: ACT IT OUT: Find a picture Activity 12: Pick your own category (cars, Activity 12: Do each activity15-30seconds 1. Activity 12: (Technology) or photo in your house, maybe in a animals, colors, etc) and clap the words that (Core) Sit on the floor with hands holding you Find examples of simple machines in your book, magazine, or on your wall. Pose match the category. For example, if your category up in a sitting position. Lift legs off the floor. house. yourself like the people or things in the is Fruits, you can clap the words ‘apple’, Bend legs and bring both knees to chest and - lever picture. Think about how the body is ‘watermelon’, ‘strawberry, etc. After you clap back out (keep legs off floor whole time).2. - inclined plane posed. Is the person sitting, standing, different patterns, try other body percussion such (Arms) Get in a pushup position. Lower - wheel and axle arms bent? Or are they doing an action as stomping, snapping, patting your lap. You can yourself, one arm at a time to your elbows. - wedge like hitting a baseball, catching a fish? try just one body percussion at a time or mix it up! Then raise back up, one arm at a time, to the - pulley pushup position.3. (Legs) Wall-Sit Stand with - screw your back against a wall. Slide down until your bottom is even with your knees and hold it there.

Activity 13: I SPY RED IN THE HOUSE Activity 13: Sing a story with two or more Activity 13: FITNESS ROULETTE Equipment Activity 13: (Engineering) -: Count how many different REDS can characters you find in your house. You could Needed: Dice or Cards: This activity requires at Find something in your house to build with you find in your house? (pink, dark red use stuffed animals, hand or finger puppets, or least two players. Each player draws a card or (blocks, cups, cards etc…) and build a (burgundy), red-violet/purple, red- any other fun characters you can imagine. rolls their die. Whoever draws the highest tower with them. Once you are finished find orange) What happens in your story? What do the number card or rolls the highest number on their a way to measure it and then challenge characters sing about? die, gets to choose a fitness activity for the losing yourself to build a new tower that is even player to complete. Repeat as much as wanted! taller. Face cards and Aces=10

Activity 14: I SPY YELLOW IN THE Activity 14: Freeze Dance! Turn on some Activity 14: Do as many burpees as you can in 3 Activity 14: (Math) HOUSE -: Count how many different music and dance. Have someone pause the minutes. Pick some objects around your home to YELLOWS can you find in your house? music and you freeze. Practice freezing in OR measure, try to pick a variety of sizes. (light yellow, dark yellow (mustard, different shapes. Go for a walk with your family! Using your thumb, hand and/or arm, take ochre), yellow-green, yellow-orange) measurements of the different items. Before you measure, make a prediction about your measurements.

Activity 15: LET’S DRAW: TRACE Activity 15: Stand up tall, reach as high as you Activity 15: (Wonder) STUFF (Tracing stuff helps us to learn can! Now place your voice up with your hands Think of four favorite activities, design a room about shapes and makes some really and then wiggle your hands all the way to the that would allow you to do all four in the same cool pictures.) MATERIALS: paper, ground in slow motion, letting your voice follow . Draw a picture of your design. pencil DESCRIPTION: Find 5 things in your fingers! Challenge a friend or family Activity 15 your house to trace. Trace the objects member to do the same! Now start on the on your paper. They can crossover each ground and go back up. Have fun! Hopscotch: An oldie but a goodie…… Refer to other to create an interesting drawing. the hopscotch diagram above. The Basics: In Color or paint if you like. squares 1,4,7 and 10 you need to hop land in the square on one foot. In squares 2 & 3, 5 & 6 and 8 & 9 you need to land on two feet. When you reach square 10, turn around and come back to the beginning alternating hops and jumps.

Activity 16: TEAR or CUT & GLUE: Activity 16: Have you ever noticed that movies Activity 16: Hit the Beat Activity 16: (Science) MAKE A FACE MATERIALS: One have music playing in the background almost Have a person be your drummer. Once you find Tape a bag of water to a window that gets a background sheet to glue pieces, any constantly? Listen to a piece of instrumental your drummer, be in a stance ready to do high lot of sun. Record what the bag looks like at throw-away paper (newspaper, music (music with no singing voices, just knees. The drummer will use their hands on their the beginning, then throughout the day magazines, glue sticks or liquid glue, instruments playing). If a movie were using this knees/table/drum to make a slow beat. You need check on the bag and see what changes scissors (optional) DESCRIPTION: You music in the background, what would be going to do a high knee step for every beat your are occuring. Record your observations. need a large sheet of paper to glue your on while that piece was playing? Draw that person gives you. Your drummer will gradually pieces to. Then, using scrap paper start scene from the movie. Your drawing should go faster until you reach your top speed! Your by tearing or cutting a large circle shape. match the mood of the music. adult can drum at any time of the day so you Then shapes for eyes, mouth, nose, need to be ready to keep the beat. Don’t let them ears. Paste your large circle shape first, catch you off guard. then all the rest. I hope your face is extra funny. Kindergarten Specials Activities Activity 17: LET’S DRAW: AN Activity 17: Turn on some music. Designate a Activity 17: Grab- 3 Players Needed1 Item Activity 17: (Technology) “ORGANIC” LINE ‘leader’ to give directions while listening - hop Two players face each other standing up with Find technology in your home, reflect on MATERIALS: crayons, paper An on one foot, crawl, gallop, skip, walk, march, the item on the floor between them. Third how it makes your life easier, better or more ORGANIC LINE is any curvy line. stomp, slither, wave, slow-mo, etc. Change Person is the caller and will yell out different fun. DESCRIPTION: Start drawing a curvy line. songs and leaders! body parts to touch. When the caller yells As your line continues and crosses over GRAB, you are trying to be the first person to itself it creates new shapes. Color in the GRAB the item on the floor. Rotate after a few shapes you create. Each shape should be rounds. a different color.

Activity 18: LET’S DRAW: A Frog Activity 18: Say this poem with actions: Activity 18: Rainbow Abs: Items needed ~10 soft Activity 18: (Engineering) MATERIALS: crayons, pencil, paper Two Little Blackbirds sitting on a hill. items that you can pick up with just your feet (ex. Design a robot that would help make your Words: - Rectangle, (Sit holding both thumbs up while bouncing your stuffed animals, clothes, balls.) Optional: a target life or the life of someone else easier. What Circle and 1/2 circle, Square fists on your knees.) to place your items in (ex. Laundry basket, functions would it need to be able to do? One named Jack, Description: Start by drawing a 1/2 bucket)Directions: Lie on your back with your (Raise one thumb up) circle. Add two small circles. Add two And one named Jill. items at your feet. (optional target will be placed smaller circles, Add a rectangle for the (Raise your other thumb up.) on the ground above your head)Pick up one item mouth and triangles for the feet. Fly away Jack, at a time with your feet, use your abdominal (Fly one thumb behind your back,) muscles to pull your feet up with the item, and Fly away Jill. place the item above your head in the target or (Fly the other thumb behind your back.) on the ground. See how many items you can get Come back Jack, in a minute! Try to go in reverse! (Fly the first thumb back to your knee,) Come back Jill. (Fly the other thumb back to your knee.)

Activity 19: I SPY GREEN OUTDOORS Activity 19: Sing a song you know (it could be Activity 19: Power jump: Activity 19: (Math) -: Count how many different GREENS Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Mary Had a Little Squat like a frog and explode straight up for 30 Cook something with your family. Use a can you find OUTDOORS? (light green, Lamb, or something different!). Now see if you seconds. Repeat. 3x recipe that requires measuring. dark green (evergreen), yellow-green, can demonstrate the same song with your blue-green) speaking voice. How about a whisper voice? Can you do it in a shouting/calling voice? Finally, can you do it inside your head with your thinking voice?

Activity 20: I SPY VIOLET (PURPLE) Activity 20: Go around your home and Activity 20 Spring into Action: Find 2 people. Activity 20: (Wonder) OUTDOORS -: Count how many experiment what it sounds like when you sing Do 30 jumping jacks together. Pick an everyday object and think of a way different PURPLES can you find in different places. Is it louder in the bathroom? OR to improve it. OUTDOORS? (light purple (pastel), dark Can you sing over water from the sink? What Have a plank contest with purple, red-violet, blue-violet) happens when you open or close a door when someone. singing in a room? Can you sing so quietly that the person can’t hear you in the room next to you? Sing whatever song pops into your head.

Activity 21: I SPY ORANGE Activity 21: Hygiene Symphony- You can Activity 21: Take a 5 minute fast walk. Now Activity 21: (Wonder) OUTDOORS -: Count how many create a musical masterpiece just by washing alternate Imagine someone came in and stole all of different ORANGE colors can you find your hands! Go to a sink and wash your hands. walking and jogging at your drinking cups and water bottles. What OUTDOORS? (pastel orange, dark, While washing, try to make your own musical your own pace for 15 would you use to get a drink besides a brownish orange, red-orange, yellow- piece by patting, clapping, scrubbing, and more min. Bring a grownup! bowl? orange) rinsing!

Activity 22: LET’S DRAW: A ROCKET Activity 22: Speak the Poem: “Row, Row, Row Activity 22: Activity 22: (Wonder) TO THE MOON MATERIALS: PENCIL Your Boat” Footwear Flip Challenge Think of an animal you have seen in your OR CRAYONS AND PAPER Row, row, row your boat, Ever tried a bottle flip, but with your shoe? backyard. Design a feeder for the animal. If Description: Using our geometric shapes Gently down the stream, Objective is to get the shoe to land on the you happen to have supplies at home with we’ve been learning, let’s draw a rocket Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, sole! Can you do 1 rotation? 2 rotations? parent permission go ahead and build the Life is but a dream. and go to the moon!! (GEOMETRIC How many can you get to land in a certain feeder.

SHAPES: RECTANGLE, SQUARE, Speak the poem. Next, whisper the poem and make amount of time? Can you use your opposite TRIANGLE, CIRCLE) Start with a small circles with your hands. Next speak the poem hand? Good luck! RECTANGLE, then keep adding with great feeling and make BIG circles with both shapes. When you’ve built your rocket, your arms. Alternative whispering and making small complete your drawing by adding more circles with strong speaking and BIG arm circles. to your picture story. Are you speaking differently? Use these project ideas as you can; 5-10 minutes a day or group them together to support continuous learning in Art, Music, & STEM.

Kindergarten Specials Activities

Art Music P.E. S.T.E.M.

Activity 23:LET’S DRAW: Using geometric Activity 23: Read the following poem with mom, dad, Activity 23:Exercise in Place: Science- Observe a bug or a bird and record your observations shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle), draw or an older brother or sister. Choose the room in 1 minute per exercise with pictures or words. a fish. MATERIALS: your choice your house that is big enough to work on the floor. Jumping Jacks Sit on your bottom, and reach behind you with your High Knees hands on the floor and push up to lift yourself, and Invisible Jump Rope turn yourself into a “Bug”. Try walking on your hands Run in place and feet, first forward, then backward, then in a Butt Kicks circle. Now say the poem with the reader while you “Doodle” around the room. Learn a new dance move or two and have a Doodle Bug Poem:traditional family dance off. Teach your family your new Doodle, doodle, doodle, bug, bug, bug moves if you choose! Doodle, doodle, doodle, bug, bug, bug Doodle bug doodles and doodles all around (turn in a circle) And he doodles back in the ground! (head back to the starting point) And he doodles back in the ground!

Activity 24: PAINT IT: Let’s think about different Activity 24: Sing and act this out! Activity 24:Coordination Self Passing Technology- Make your own code! For each letter of the materials you can use to paint with? Have you If you’re happy and you know it, quack like a duck Challenge- Try these challenges by throwing alphabet assign it a number, picture or symbol. Now write a ever painted with coffee or tea? Coffee and tea (quack-quack) and catching an object to yourself. Strive to get secret message (see below message requirements) to someone are brown. When using less water we get darker as many as you can in a row! using your code. Give the person your message and the key, browns, more water, lighter browns. When we Level 1: Use a below-chest pass only see if they can decode the secret message. Try to be more If you’re happy and you know it, quack like a duck use just one color and get different values of that creative than a=1, b=2, c=3 and so on. (quack-quack) one color, it is called MONOCHROMATIC. Level 2: Use an above-chest pass only MATERIALS: Coffee or tea. Paintbrush . Paper K: write a word SUBJECT: dog or cat If you’re happy and you know it, then your face will really show it (smile) Level 3: Use a combination of below-chest passes and above-chest passes 1-2: write a sentence If you’re happy and you know it, quack like a duck (quack-quack) Level 4: Alternate Left/Right Below-Chest 3-6: write two or more sentences Passes Only Now try it with a sheep: Level 5: Use below-chest passes while walking around If you’re happy and you know it, bleat like a sheep (baa-baa).... Level 6: Use below-chest passes while jogging around What animal actions could you sing and do next?

Activity 25:BUBBLE PRINTING: This a fun Activity 25: Find two different pieces or songs: one Activity 25: Random Object Bocce Ball Engineering- Find a small toy and some materials to make a project using simple household items. being fast and the other slow. Here are some parachute for the toy. First find a safe spot (parental approval MATERIALS: bowl(s), paper, dish soap, food questions you can use to compare the two pieces required) to drop the toy from without the parachute, time how Use any safe items you can find in your home coloring or cool-aide (without sugar), straws you choose. long it takes for it to hit the ground. Now construct your or place of residence. Examples: Shoes, balled Procedure: Put water, a few drops of dish soap, parachute. After the toy is secured to the parachute go to the up socks, pillows, hats, balls, water bottles, etc. and a few drops of food coloring or colored same spot and drop the toy again and time how long it takes for ●Are there any similarities? ●What makes them Select one item to be the "pallina", the object liquid. With a straw, blow into the bowl until you the toy to hit the ground. If you have extra time, see if you can different from each other? ●How would you move to the rest are trying to get closest to. Take turns get some good bubbles going. Take your paper make improvements to your parachute to make the descent even the fast music? ●How would you move to the slow with partners or yourself, using different and put it on top of the bowl of bubbles. Take the slower. music? objects, to knock other's objects out of the way paper off the bowl and check-out the cool bubble and make your object the closest to the print you just made. A print is something you can "pallina". do over and over, making several copies. Do you use different movements? If so, why are they Repeat the process or add new colors. different?

Activity 26: PEOPLE IN MOTION: Make a Activity 26: How high can you bounce a ball? Can Activity 26: Be Creative Create a game or Math- Using three pieces of paper make three columns: a picture of a person doing some action, running, you make your voice follow it up and back down? activity that tests your speed! You can use cylinder, a rectangular prism and a triangular prism. dancing, sitting, reading, etc. When we are Can you follow a yo-yo or a slinky as they move up items around your house, be inside, run learning to draw bodies in motion this is a good and down? Lay down on the floor and sing in your outside but remember we are looking for Predict which column will hold the exercise. MATERIALS: Paper, glue, toothpicks basement. Stand up slowly, moving your voice up quickness and speed. Let’s see how creative most weight. Using books, test the or cotton swabs. Arrange your person in motion slowly while making ah oohh shape to your mouth. you are. strength of the columns and see and glue to your paper. Or, arrange your Use lots of air! which one holds the most. Make toothpick person doing an action and try to Naruto Run-Choose a start and finish line a sure to use the same books in the redraw it on your paper. fair distance apart where the path goes same order to run your test. straight. The first time you run, I want you to sprint as fast as you can. The second time you 2-6: Can you explain to someone run, I want you to sprint like Naruto. Which way why it is important to use the same books in the same order was faster? Why? when testing?

Kindergarten Specials Activities Activity 27: WHAT'S YOUR NATURE?: Go Activity 27: Find a book you have that doesn’t have Activity 27: CORE ROULETTE Equipment Wonder- Think about a job you might like to have in the future. outside and count the different types of flowers many words on each page. Instead of speaking the Needed: Deck of cards or a dice.Start by Think of the different requirements your job will have. Can you or plants that you have in your yard or on a walk book, try to sing it. If the book has repeated phrases shuffling the cards. Player one will draw a card design a tool that would help your job be easier? Once you have with your family. What are the colors of the or lines, sing those the same way every time they or roll the die, Player two will then draw a card your design, find someone to tell about your tool and explain why flowers? Remember the shapes of the pedals. come up. If the book has different characters that or roll the die as well. Whoever draws the the tool would make the job easier. Go back inside and do a drawing of the flowers speak, change your voice for each . Also highest number card or rolls the highest that you observed. MATERIALS: Crayons, change your voice for the mood if it changes. Have number on the die gets to choose a CORE colored pencils or markers can be used. Paper. someone join you or perform it for someone. fitness exercise for the losing player to complete. (This could be wall-sits, planks, holding the push-up position, or sit-ups). Each exercise should be performed for 20-30 seconds. Repeat as much as wanted! Face cards and Aces=10.

Activity 28: TEXTURE RUBBINGS: Texture is Activity 28: Activity 28: Sliding Challenge-Mark a spot in Science- Go on a family nature walk. Have each member make how something feels and looks. A texture can be your yard or driveway make another mark 12 a BINGO card (5x5 grid), and in each box write or draw described as rough, smooth, soft. Can you think Meet my friend Forte. He is a feet across horizontally. Start with your right something they might see on the walk. As you walk mark off all of some other words that describe different lion. Forte got his name because foot outside your right mark. Slide sideways the boxes you see. Did anyone get a BINGO? textures? MATERIALS: paper, crayons (It works he LOVES to roar loudly! Can until your left foot crosses the left better if you take the paper off the crayon and you roar like forte can? mark. Continue sliding back and forth. Here use it on the long side.) PROCEDURE: Lay your are a few challenges. 1. Slide right to left paper over a texture you find in your house or counting each pass. See if you can do 20. 2. Forte has a cousin named piano. outside and rub the crayon on it’s side. What Slide back and forth for 30 seconds. See how Piano got his name because he patterns does the texture create? Hint: This many touches you can get. 3. Slide back and likes to speak very, very quietly. Do works best on rough or hard textures. Leaves forth. Switch the direction you are facing after you think you could try roaring like make cool texture rubbings. each touch. To add some challenge. Try to Piano? slide in an athletic stance. Back straight. Knees bent to lower hips to form a 90-degree Both Forte and Piano LOVE to sing. Could you sing angle with knees. Touch each mark with your any song for them twice? One like forte’s voice and hand each time you slide back and forth. Try one like piano’s? to do two or three 30 second rounds of sliding. Repeat this challenge 3x a week. See if you can improve your 30 second touch total.

Activity 29: LET’S DRAW TEXTURES: Draw a Activity 29 : Speak the poem: Where, Oh where has Activity 29: Rock, Paper, Scissors Fitness-Play Technology- If-Then Coding Game Rules FUZZY caterpillar. Draw a CURLY sheep. Draw my little dog gone? with a partner. Match your combination to the a SPIKY puffer fish. Come up with one more chart below and do that exercise 10 times and For every round, there is one Programmer and everyone else is texture drawing of your own. MATERIALS: your “Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone? play again. You can insert your own exercises. a Computer. The Programmer stands in front of the Computers choice. Oh where, oh where can it be? and gives them his command. If I ____ (fill in the blank), then With its ears cut short, and its tail cut long, Both tied with rocks = both do Jumping Jacks you _____ (fill in the blank). For example, the Programmer Oh where, oh where is it?” below gave the command “If I turn in a circle, Then you turn in a

circle.” 1. Can you make yourself look like a little dog? What Both tied with paper = both do sit-ups does a little dog sound like? Let’s call out to our little dog with a little dog bark! (Try: Woof, Arf, or Bow 1-2: you can add the twist that the Computers should do Both tied with scissors = both do push ups wow) Speak the poem again! 2. Can you make something different than the Programmer, but still start and stop yourself look like a big dog? What does a big dog when they do. This one works the brain because they’ll hear sound like? Let’s call out to our little dog with a big One rock and other paper = ski jumps something different than they are seeing. 3-6: you can move on dog bark! (Try: Woof, Arf, or Bow wow) up the coding complexity too with If-Then-Else statements. For example, the Programmer commands “If I raise my right arm, One paper and other scissors = plank for 10 Then you raise your left arm, else raise your right foot.” So if he seconds just stands there and does nothing, the Computers should all be raising their right foot. This gets pretty funny, pretty fast. One scissors and other rock = squats

Activity 30: CARDBOARD ROBOT Activity 30: Practice marching. Get a pot or pan and Activity 30: Family Workouts Do each exercise Engineering- Find some materials to construct a boat/raft. Test to SCULPTURE: A sculpture is something that is a spoon from your kitchen, and march around your for 20 sec and rest 10 sec in between see if it floats, if it floats test to see how much weight it can hold 3D and can be made out of any materials you house. before sinking by seeing if it will carry small toys, coins, or other can find in your house or outside and your small items. If you have time, try making improvements to your Workout #1: Jumping Jacks, Plank, Ski Jumps, parents don’t mind you using. Any throw-away boat/raft and run a second test. Squats Workout #2: Jog in Place, Shoulder boxes or packages or items will work. Using the taps (in push-up position),Jumping Jacks, Curl- cardboard or boxes and glue, yarn, etc. put ups Workout #3: Ski Jumps, Side Plank, High together your best robot. MATERIALS: Objects Knees jog (in place), Push-ups that are going to be thrown-away or recycled.

Boxes, plastic bottles, yarn, buttons, lids, sticks, etc. Glue.

Activity 31: DOTS, DOTS, DOTS: Start with a Activity 31: Practice following different shapes with Activity 31: Cross the River Skill: Leap Math- Find a penny and something you can use to drop water pencil, drawing several circles on your paper. your voice! Create some shapes that go higher and onto the penny one drop at a time. Before you begin putting Using markers or crayons, outline your circles lower, then trace the shapes moving your voice water drops onto the penny make a prediction on how many Find and open space inside or outside. Place with dots and keep outlining until you run out of higher or lower to match! You can make your shapes drops the penny will hold. After you have discovered how many down a starting point and a finishing point. room. MATERIALS: CRAYONS, MARKERS, out of Play-doh, sidewalk chalk, paint, paper and drops of water the penny will hold without spilling over, figure out Run and leap from one point to another and PENCIL, PAPER. pencil, or anything else you can think of! Here are the difference between your prediction and the actual results. 3- see if you can cross the river.. Start with a some shapes you can try -- see if you can come up 6: Pick out two more coins, one you think will hold more and one small river and make it bigger and bigger as with your you think will hold less than the penny and find out how many you leap over it successfully. own, too! drops they hold. Now create a way to display your results.

Use these project ideas as you can; 5-10 minutes a day or group them together to support continuous learning in Art, Music, PE & STEM.