A bit late posting last week’s activity, sorry all! Week 5: Feb 22 – Water and Human Impact / Conservation efforts Activity: Learn + Share: We learned that water is precious, it is shared by all living things and sometimes
Nature Study Class Quarks Ages 4 – 9 Unit Study on Water Source Book for Lessons “One Well, story of water on Earth” citizen kid book Online Teaching Guide Week 4: *Valentine’s day week – Feb 15 First
The Quarks did a little celebrating of Valentine’s Day with a choice between two books – they ended up choosing Happy Valentine’s Day, Curious George over Fancy Nancy. Good thing it was a short book, because our outdoor reading time
This week, a few of the Muons went off to finish filming their Hero’s Journey. Thanks to Chris for serving as videographer for two weeks in a row! The rest broke into groups to work on a co-op themed mad
This past week the Neutrons played a dice game we affectionately called “Chip-o.” Wheels were turning and kids cheering before we even made it through the first round. We made (sometimes heated) observations of which numbers we kept rolling, and
Last week we discussed area and perimeter. The Neutrons were each given five plastic animals, two dice, and a thick sheet of grid paper to create their own zoos. They used the numbers rolled as the proportions for each animal
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, we read Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon by Kat Zhang. We followed up with a cool dragon craft inspired by the book. We had a fire dragon, a rainbow dragon, and a
In week 2 of 3 studying The Hero’s Journey, the Muons took advantage of the beautiful weather and went for a hike. Erin found a really handy story-starter template, which the Muons worked on in small groups once we found
Quarks started art last week with an outdoor reading of The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner. In the book, a girl knits a pair of mittens for a deaf mother and her baby when she notices that they sleep with
We started art with a read aloud of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. This was especially fun since most, if not all of the Quarks are very familiar with this story. We then made snowflake sun catchers loosely
