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
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
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
Quarks Spring 2024 This week we introduced our unit study of water and the book which we will use to guide our weekly nature study inquiries, titled: “One Well, the Story of Water on Earth” Written by Rochelle Strauss from the
Autumn is a great time to begin a yearlong tree study. This week the children picked a tree that they can visit and observe regularly. We observed different trees. They adopted a tree to be their very own special tree
Today we played with bean bags! I love bean bags. Everyone got a bean bag, and we practiced throwing them to ourselves. Next we switched hands, and then tried catching them on the back of our hand. We paired up,
Last week I tried out a few different movement games on our Quarks, to varying degrees of success. Lacking hula hoops, we had to instead use a jump rope (tied in a loop) for our first exercise. We all joined
