| Activity Ideas: But It’s Light Out! With your child, look at a map of Northern Canada. Find some locations where daylight lasts nearly 24 hours in the summer. Ask your child to imagine living in a place where the sun stayed out until very late at night. Together, illustrate a humorous story about a young child who doesn’t want to go to bed until it is dark outside. Include the solutions that the family comes up with to help the youngster go to sleep. Create a Frosty Winter Scene Use crayons to draw your favorite winter activity with friends. Make sure you press hard with the crayons to give a dark, rich colour. Then paint over the crayon with white paint. The paint won't stick to the crayons. Sprinkle with clear glitter while paint is still wet. Screaming Snowball Squeeze a penny through the neck of a white balloon that is not inflated, so it rests in the balloon. Now inflate the balloon and tie it off. Swirl the balloon so the penny rolls along the inside edge. Listen closely and you'll hear a slight hum. Now put a hex nut into a different balloon. Swirl it around... it screams! Why? When the penny rolls around the balloon, it rubs against the balloon a little, stretching it a little, making it vibrate a little. This makes a little noise. When the hex nut rolls around, it makes the balloon vibrate a lot, making a loud noise! Snowflakes Use wax paper, glue, q-tips, and glitter. Put a quarter size dab of glue on wax paper and then give the child 8 q-tips to lay in the glue (ends that is) and then let the child sprinkle with glue and then let dry for a day. Then peel off the wax paper and hang on the window or hang from the ceiling. Hot and Cold Activity Materials: Magazines, scissors, glue, poster board and markers. Description: After a few hands-on activities about hot and cold, have an assortment of magazines available and cut out pictures of things that are hot or cold. Have each child glue his pictures on the appropriate poster (hot or cold) that you have already prepared and displayed on a wall or easel. Make sure the magazines have lots of food items and clothing items. Store catalogs and grocery store flyers work great. Scurry Squirrel Sung to: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" Scurry squirrels and don't be slow. Winters coming, don't you know? Scamper, scamper all around. Bury treasure in the ground. Scurry Squirrels and don't be slow. Winters coming, don't you know? Feed the Birds Sung to: "Row, row, row your boat" Feed, feed, feed the birds In the wintertime. When the days are dark and cold, Food is hard to find. Feed, feed, feed the birds Till the spring has come. Scatter birdseed on the snow. Feeding birds is fun! The Blubber Glove Experiment Materials: 4 Zip lock Baggies, A Bucket of very icy cold water,Vegetable shortening Description: Place about 1 cup of shortening in the bottom of a baggie. Turn another baggie inside out and place it inside of the baggie containing shortening. Zip the two baggies together, sealing shortening between layers of baggies. Seal two other baggies together in the same manner (But do not place anything between the layers - just the two baggies.) Now have the children slip a shortening filled baggie on one hand and a empty baggie on the other. Then the children put their hands into the icy cold water and see how the shortening filled baggie insulates their hand from the cold. Explain that this is much like the way the blubber insulates the penguins, whales, and seals from their icy cold waters in the Antarctic. Other Ideas: Cut the bulletin board border strips themselves by cutting on a straight line that you've drawn about 2 1/2" from the edge of blue construction paper. Then have them do white, polka-dot, Q-tip painting on their strips for a snow storm. What a neat border! |
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| LIVE AND ACT IN A SPIRIT OF LOVE The place to begin to improve the world is in your own heart, head and hands. To get along with others, love them without forcing your love upon them. Imposing your beliefs on people will not bring you peace. Have concern for others, respect their rights and freedoms, and let them be themselves. Do this and you will enjoy peace. Having consideration for others is the basis of a good life. Most people are not against you, they are merely for themselves. Let differing ideas clash, but not those of the heart. Peace comes to you when you live and act in a spirit of love. |
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