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Learn at Home Preschool Week 3 >>> Earth Day

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Learn at Home Preschool Learn at Home Preschool is a supplemental preschool program that can be executed at home. It is a valuable way to increase parent-child engagement through fun and inviting activities that are developmentally appropriate for preschoolers. All the activities in the Learn at Home Preschool require minimal supplies and materials, making it easy and painless for parents to execute. Here is a sample schedule of what preschool at home can like: 8 - 8:30 am

Breakfast and kitchen clean-up

8:30 - 9 am

Ready for the day: get dressed, do hair, brush teeth, make beds, put away pajamas, do morning chores, etc.

9:00 - 9:15 am

Literacy activity

9:15 - 9:45 am

Playful Learning activity

9:45 - 10 am

Math activity

10 - 10:30 am

Play outside OR Stuck Inside activity

10:30 - 11 am

Just for fun activity

11am - 1 pm

Break for lunch and free play

1 - 2:30 pm

Nap, Quiet time, OR Get Online activities

2:30 - 3 pm

Just Plain Fun activity

3 – 5 pm 5 - 5:30 pm

5:30 bedtime

Free play Get ready for the evening: clean up the house, do evening chores, prepare dinner, etc. Enjoy time as a family. Consider any of the following: • Eat dinner together. Ask would you rather questions, like, “Would you rather explore space or explore the deep ocean? Why?” • Have your preschooler help prepare dinner or an easy dessert. • Play some board games. • Go on a walk or bike ride, play tag or chase, or create an obstacle course.

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Learn at Home Preschool Week 3 – Earth Day

Literacy • Cloud Writing – Use shaving cream on a baking tray and practice writing the alphabet in the clouds. Write the alphabet in large letters on a sheet of paper. Now, squirt some shaving cream on a baking tray and spread out with a spatula. Invite your preschooler to practice writing letters and numbers in the shaving cream with their finger or with a q-tip. • Building Stick Letters – Collect a number of sticks from around the yard and neighborhood ranging in length from 6-12 inches. Some should be straight and some should be curved. At home, place them on the back patio and use them to make letters on a large scale. For added fun, have your preschooler use the sticks to spell her name.

Math & Science • Green and Blue Sort – Gather a large number of items from around the home that are either blue or green. Invite your preschooler to sort them according to color. Explain that our Earth is made of blue water and green land, and that it is important to care for our Earth so that it can stay clean and we can be healthy. • Practice Recycling– Recycling is an important part of taking care of the Earth. Have your preschooler help sort items that can be recycled. Try two types at first: cardboard and plastic. Then add in metal. If you have a young preschooler, keep it extra simple by sorting just two items. For example, you might start with plastic bottles and soda cans.

Playful Learning •

Earth Playdough Invitation to Play– Make playdough in two colors: blue for the ocean and green for land. Add some toy animals and even some items from nature and play.

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Earth Balloon Painting– Blow up a balloon to about the size of a grapefruit. Dip the balloon in some green and blue paint and then use it to make Earth prints on a piece of paper.

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Easy Earth Map – Have your preschooler arrange blue and green blankets, pillows, and t-shirts to look like the Earth by laying out green items for the land and blue items for the water. Then, play pretend.

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Learn at Home Preschool Week 3 – Earth Day

Stuck Inside • Cardboard Tunnels – Reuse cardboard food and packing boxes and make them into car tunnels for pretend play. Cut an arch in each side of the box and have your preschooler paint it. Then, add it to a set of cards to make a tunnel. • Trashy Art – Save those little bits of trash and challenge your preschooler to use them to create a work of art. Try a collage make of just one or two colors of trash. • Caring Earth Scavenger Hunt – Make a list of ways your preschooler can help care for the Earth and have her go on a scavenger hunt around the house with you. Items on the list might include: turn off lights, reuse a plastic container, color on both sides of a paper, repurpose something that is worn out, fix something that is broken, etc.

Just Plain Fun • Milk Carton Bird Feeders – Repurpose milk jugs by making them into bird feeders. Get some ideas here. • Paper Cutting – Don’t throw away that scrap paper. Give it to your preschooler to practice scissor cutting. Help your preschooler cut safely: thumb up, elbow in, scissors pointing away from the body. The cut scraps of paper can be made into a collage. • Water Bottle Bowling – Save those old water bottles and fill them back up. Then use them to create your own bowling game. Start at a distance of five feet and have your preschooler roll a ball to knock down the bottles.

Get Online • Online Story - Go to Storylineonline.net and listen to the book The Garbage Barge and read by Justin Theroux. Look for a red button under the video called “Activity Guides” to find related activities that pair with the book. • Trash Art Video – Show your preschooler how garbage can be used to create works of art in this YouTube video. Challenge your preschooler to find things in the house that they can use again. • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Song – This is a fun song about taking care of our Earth. The graphics are very kids friendly and the tune is catchy.

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