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Echolocation Activity for Kids

November 1, 2017 By Deirdre

Earlier this week I shared with you a bat-themed shape craft. Today I have an echolocation activity to share with you. Your children will have fun playing the part of the bat and the mosquitos.

Getting Ready for the Echolocation Activity

The first thing you are going to need to do is to download the Echolocation Activity. The activity set includes a mosquito and a bat printable.

Putting the Activity Together

You will need to glue both pictures can be glued to the bottom of small paper plates. You will need one bat plate and mosquito plates for each of your remaining children.

Then you will need to staple a bag of beans to the back of each the mosquito plate. If you would prefer, you can put bells, small stones or rice in the bag instead.

Let’s Explore the Echolocation Activity

You will need to place all the mosquitos in a circle. Each mosquito will need to hold their plate in front of them.
The bat will stand in the middle of the circle with the plate held over their face. (If you want to attach pipe cleaners to the sides of the plate to create a blindfold mask, you can totally do that.)
The child who is the bat will need to make a sound like a beep or a squeak.
Pick four or five of the mosquitos in the circle to shake their plates every time the bat makes a noise.
The bat will keep repeating its sound and the mosquitos will keep shaking their plates until the bat finds one of the mosquitos.
Then the bat will trade places with that mosquito and the game will start again.

If you like this science activity, here are some more science activities your children will enjoy.

Tin Foil Boat STEM Challenge

Owl Eyesight Exploration

Why Do Pirates Wear Eye Patches

Room on the Broom STEM Building Activity

October 26, 2017 By Deirdre

Earlier this week I shared a sensory activity based on the book Room on a Broom. We had such fun making bubbles rise out of the dish soap brew to make creations based on activities found on our set exploration cards. Today I have another fun activity for your children. This activity invites children to create room on the broom for the witch and her friends to sit.

Getting Ready for the Room on the Broom Activity

You will need to print out a copy of the Design a Broom to Ride on STEM Activity. Each of your children will need a planning printable and a broom building mat.

You can decide if you want to put out a variety of building materials for your children to use or just one type. The creation you will see below features LEGO, but you can use any of the building materials below or one of your own selection.

Building Materials

Lego
Play Dough
Blocks
Odd and Ends (Sticks, Straws, Yarn, Clay, Etc…)
Bristle Blocks
Pattern Blocks

Getting Started with the Room on the Broom Activity

You will want to read the book Room on a Broom to your students. It will give them the opportunity to see the broom the witch and her friends traveled on. It will also give them the opportunity to meet the passengers they will be building the broom for.

Then you will need to decide if you want your children plan what they are going to build on the planning printable or draw a diagram of their creation on it when it is completed.

Once you have decided what you want to have the do first, you can pass out the broom building mat. It will be so much fun to see what they come up with. Please remind them that their creation doesn’t have to look anything like the one in the book.

If you like this STEM project, here are some other projects your children will like.

Exploring the Braille Alphabet with LEGO

Counting Syllables with LEGO Bricks

Over in the Meadow LEGO Creations and Book

STEM Engineering- Houses for the Three Little Pigs

Bubble Games and Activities – Blowing Bubbles in a Brew

October 23, 2017 By Deirdre

The witch in the story Room on the Broom created a wonderful new broom out with a mixture of things added to her cauldron. Your children will have fun creating bubble creations and playing bubble games using a free set of creation cards, water, soap bubble, and straws.

Your children can use the free printable cards to explore preposition, breathe control and challenge other children’s bubble blowing skills. All of the bubble games and activities can be done by both children young and old. Younger children will need you to read the words on the to them.

Bubble Games and Activities

Getting Ready

Before you start playing the bubble games and exploring the bubble activities, you will need to download a copy of the cards set. The Bubble Games and Activities Exploration Cards for Kids have a blue border. They could be printed in black and white, but look nice in color.

Supplies

Variety of Types of Straws
Dish Soap
Water
Plastic Container (We used one that looks like a cauldron.)

Bubble Games and Activities

Each of your children will need to have their own container filled half up with water and a few drops of dish soap. You can give them just one straw or several straws.

Each child will take an exploration card of the stack. Then they will need to do what it asks them too. If they playing the games with other people, they can challenge someone else to do the exploration with them. You will notice that some of the cards have explorations designed for two people. Feel free to join your child in those activities if another child isn’t available.

Before moving onto the next card, they will need to let the bubbles settle back into their containers.

If you like this sensory activity, here are several more your children will enjoy:

Pumpkin Counting Activities and Sensory Bottle

Decorating Robots with Buttons in a Sensory Bag

Let’s Explore Shapes Sensory Bowl and Cards

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Room on the Broom is the Virtual Book Club book of the week. Below you will find more Room on a Broom activities from other book club members.

Decorating Robots in Sensory Bags

October 19, 2017 By Deirdre

These sensory bags feature robot outlines. Your children will have fun moving the objects inside the sensory bag to add details to the robots. This activity part of a series called 31 Days of ABC. These sensory bags were designed to be used on R Day! While many of the activities in this series are for younger children. I found my 9-year-old decorating the robot several times this week.

Putting the Sensory Bags Together

These sensory bags are so easy to make. You really only need seven supplies to put them together.

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Supplies

Print Out of a Robot Outline
Clear Hair Gel
Permanent Marker
Gallon Size Zipper Bags
Two Wiggly Eyes
Bag of Buttons
Star Pony Beads

Directions

You will need to download a copy of the Robot Outlines for the Decorating Robots in Sensory Bags Activity. Then you will trace the robot onto the bag with a permanent marker.

Next, you will fill the bag with the contents of a bottle of hair gel. The hair gel should be about 1/4 of an inch thick in the bag.

Finally, you will place the eyes, buttons, and beads into the bag. (It is okay to keep them at the top to start with. ) Then seal the bag.

Exploring the Sensory Bags

There are several ways your children can explore the bag. Here are a few we thought of:

Give the robot a face and button joints
Place buttons and beads on its chest
Cover its body with buttons and beads
Move stars onto the robot’s chest on bead at a time. Count the stars when you place them on the robot.
Place the buttons symmetrically on the robot

If you like this sensory activity, here are some more you will like.

Pumpkin Counting Activities and Sensory Bottle

Let’s Explore Shapes Sensory Bowl and Cards

31 DAYS OF ABC

K – OCTOBER 12

Pennies of Time: K Is for Kindness- This is no longer available.

L – OCTOBER 13

Schooling Active Monkeys: L Is for Lion Craft

M – OCTOBER 14

Sugar, Spice & Glitter: M is for Madeline

N – OCTOBER 15

All Done Monkey: N Is for Nature Crafts

O – OCTOBER 16

Kitchen Counter Chronicles: O Is for Owl Bookmark Printable

P – OCTOBER 17

Creative World of Varya

Q – OCTOBER 18

Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes: Q Is for Quito

R – OCTOBER 19

JDaniel4’sMom: R Is for Robot

S – OCTOBER 20

Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes: S Is for Spanish

U – OCTOBER 22

The Educators’ Spin On it: U Is for Unicorn

W – OCTOBER 24

My Story Time Corner: W Is for Wheels on the Bus

X – OCTOBER 25

The Mommies Reviews: X

Y – OCTOBER 26

Teach Me Mommy: Y Is for Yarn Letters

Z – OCTOBER 27

Bambini Travel: Z Is for Zoo Animals

Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? Experiment

October 6, 2017 By Deirdre

JDaniel discussed Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? with one of his teachers a few years ago on Talk Like a Pirate Day. She told him that pirates frequently had to move above and below decks, from daylight to near darkness. It was said that they wore a patch over one eye to keep it dark-adapted outside. On this final day of 5 Days of Pirate printables, I thought it would be fun to do a STEM experiment to see if wearing an eye patch while playing made it easier to see when you moved into a darkened area.

Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? Experiment

While you could conduct this experiment without a recording printable, I have created a Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches Experiment printable. Your children can record their insights from the experiment on this document.

Getting Started

Your children will need to wear an eye patch in a brightly lit room or outside for a short time. We wore ours for about 15 or 20 minutes.

One Eye is Ready for Darkness

As they move into a darkened room or darker space, they can slowly lift up the eye patch as they go into the darkened space. They will have one eye that is dark adapted and one that will need to adjust the darkness.

Next, have your children describe orally or record on the printable what they could see as they walked into the darkened area.

Switching the Patch

The part of the Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? experiment has children move the eye patch from one eye to the other. As your children move from a bright area to a darkened one they will switch the eye that is covered with the eye patch. The once covered eye should be able to see better in the darkness. Afer all it is dark-adapted.

Next, have your children share orally with your or write down what they could see with the eye patch on.

Creating a Conclusion

You will want to take time to have your children share with you their experience with the eye patch. It will be fun to see if they felt that it helped to move the eye patch from one eye to the other. Finding out what they saw as they moved into the darkness will be fun too. Not every pirate may have focused on the same things.

Here are the other pirate printables that were shared this week:

R Controlled Vowel Worksheets

Long Vowel Worksheets

Subtraction Worksheets Used to Play Treasure Chest

Parrot Bingo Cards that Explore Colors

Subtraction Worksheets Used to Play Treasure Chest Match

October 5, 2017 By Deirdre

This is day four of the Pirate Printables. I have been sharing a new set of printables every day this week. Today’s set of subtraction worksheets can be used play Treasure Chest Match.

There are two different versions of treasure chest match. Let me share them with you.

Getting the Subtraction Worksheets

If you click onTreasure Chest Match Up, you can download your free copy of the subtraction worksheets need to play treasure chest match up. Once you have printed out the subtraction worksheets. You can cut out the subtraction flashcards and the treasure chest number cards.

Playing Treasure Chest Match

Equation to Answer

You can have your children layout all of the treasure chests in rows on a table or the floor and place the subtraction flashcards in a pile. Next, they will take one subtraction flash card from the pile at a time. Then, they will look at the treasure chest number cards on the table to find the answer for that subtraction fact. Finally, they will place the subtraction fact on the treasure chest card with the answer.

As the play this game, there will be fewer and fewer treasure chest that don’t have subtraction fact match on them. This will make easier for your children to find the final matches.

Memory

Your children will take all of the number cards and all of the subtraction cards and place them upside down on a table or the floor. Then they will turn over two cards at the time. Children are looking for a subtraction card and a treasure chest card with the number that answers that number fact on the subtraction card. If they get a match, they can pick up those cards and put them in a pile. The game is over when they have found all of the matches.

Here are the other pirate printables I have shared this week:

R Controlled Vowel Worksheets

Long Vowel Worksheets

ARRR You Ready to Work on Long Vowel Sounds Worksheets

October 3, 2017 By Deirdre

Welcome to Day 2 of Pirate Printables! Yesterday I shared a set of r controlled vowel printable activities. Today I have a set of four long vowel sound pages. Each of the pages invites children to circle the words with a certain long vowel sound. Then they have to graph the words with each letter combination.

Long Vowel Sounds Worksheets

This set of long vowel sounds worksheets features words with the long a, e, i and o. Later in the week, I will share a long u activity.

Getting Started

Before your children get started with the Long Vowel Pirate Pages, you will need to print them out.

Exploring the Long Vowel Worksheet

Your children will be asked to circle on the words with the long vowel sound featured on that worksheet. If you want them to, they can circle them with a gold crayon or colored pencil. The yellow circles will look like gold coins. Most of the sentences have two or three words for your children to circle.

Next, they will write the words they circle in the table above the vowel combination featured in each column. Your children will find more of some combinations than others in the sentences.

Finally, you can ask them which letter combination or combinations ended up with the most words. If you want them to fill each column all the way to the top.

If you want them to fill each column all the way to the top. You can have them come up with their own words that fit each vowel combination. They can write their words in the empty boxes or cells in each column.

If you like this reading activity, here are some more you will like:

Apple Themed Reading Comprehension Sheets

Reading and Building Words Under the Sea

R Controlled Vowels Go Fish

Use Reading Worksheet and LEGO to Explore Colors

R Controlled Vowels Printable Activities Set

October 2, 2017 By Deirdre

R Controlled vowels can be hard for students to say. Many don’t master sounds that the controlled vowels make until the end of second grade. Children with speech issues made need to keep working on them even longer. My son has had trouble with them for a long time. It is for that reason I decided to start pirate printables week with a set of activities focused on r controlled vowels. Another reason is that pirates love to say, “Arrr!”

Getting Started with the R Controlled Vowels Printable Set

Before you get started you will need to print out the R Controlled Vowels Word Sort Activities. You will only need a pencil to complete the first activity. The second activity has two pages of words filled r controlled vowels that will need to be cut out.

Word Sort Column Page

The first worksheet contains five columns and a word bank. Each of the columns features one of the five major vowels along with the letter r. Your children will need to decide which of the columns each of the words in the word bank needs to go into.

Since this printable is to help children work on r controlled vowels, they should be encouraged to say each word as they write it in the column. When they are finished, you may want them to say each r controlled vowel sound and then each of the words on their list.

Words Sort Card Activity

The second activity has a work mat and cards with words that have r-controlled vowels in them. Your children will need to read each word card. Then they will need to place the word in the box on the work mat that features that vowel sound.

Just as with the first activity your children should be encouraged to read each of the words as they place it in the box. Then they should read each of the words in each pile.

If you are looking for some more reading printables, here are some more you will like:

Apple Themed Reading Comprehension Sheets

Reading and Building Words Under the Sea

R Controlled Vowels Go Fish

Use Reading Worksheet and LEGO to Explore Colors

5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities for Kids

October 1, 2017 By Deirdre

Once a month I work with 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo to share collections of free themed printables for preschool and elementary ages children. This month we will be sharing printable pirate activities and worksheets. Your children will have fun exploring these collections of printables with pirates, parrots and treasure chests.

Each day I will post the printable each of us has put up for the day.If you don’t find what you are looking for on one day, don’t despair! Just come back the next day and see what we have created for you. By the end of the week, I am sure you will find several learning pages and printable pirate activities you will want your children to explore.

While you are waiting for the week to start, here are some printable pirate printable you can use today!

Printable Pirate Activities

Pirate Color By Math- Fractions, Addition, and Place Value

Pirate Themed Writing Paper

5 Little Pirates Finger Puppets and Rhyme

Jake and the Pirates Early Learning Printables

Pirate Themed Math Printables

5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities

Each day I will add the printables shared on 3 Dinosaurs, Royal Baloo and JDaniel4’s Mom.

Monday

Roll a Silly Pirate Sentence

Pirate Themed Array Printables

R Controlled Vowel Printable Activities

Tuesday

What Can a Pirate Sail? Easy Reader

Pirate Skip Counting Printable for Beginning Multiplication

Arrr You Reading to Work on Long Vowel Sounds

Wednesday

Place Value Task Cards

Printable Bingo Cards with Parrot Theme

Pirate Rounding Printable – Walk the Plank

Thursday

No-Prep Pirate Themed OI and AI Trace Find and Color
Subtraction Worksheets Used to Play Treasure Chest Match

Friday

Adding Pirate Coins Easy Reader Books: Single and Double Digit

Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? Experiment

If you like these learning printable and activities, you will find more on my Early Learning board on Pinterest.

Ten Frame Activities with Squirrel and Acorn Frames

September 25, 2017 By Deirdre

These ten frame activities were designed to be used with a printable set of squirrel and acorn themed frames after reading the book Scaredy Squirrel. Scaredy Squirrel is a favorite of my son’s. It is also the Virtual Book Club book of the week.

The ten frame activities use each of the four ten frame printables. Some of them use the acorn number cards that are also available in the set. After looking over the activities, you will probably come up with even more ways to use them.

Ten Frame Activities

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Getting Ready

Before you can do any of the ten frame activities, you will want to read the book Scaredy Squirrel and to print out the Ten Frame Activities with Squirrel and Acorn Frames set. They will be easy to print out in black and white.

More Supplies

You will also need the following to explore the ten frame activities.

Dice
Small Real Acorns, plastic acorns, orbrown pom poms
Crayons or Color Pencils

Exploring the Activities

Show the Number on the Card

Your children will need the large squirrel mat, the number cards, and acorns. They will start by picking up the top card in the stack. Then they will count out the correct number of acorns. Finally, they will place one acorn in each box in the frame.

Roll the Number and Show It

This activity needs an acorn or small squirrel frame pages cut in half, acorns, and a die. Your children will roll the die. Then they will count the number of acorns. Finally, they will place the acorns on the frame correctly.

Ten Frame Fill In

Your children will need the acorn printable that displays ten acorns. Your children will need to identify the number above each of the acorns. Then they will need to fill in the number of boxes in the frame that equals that number.

Here are some more math printables you will love:

Explore Shapes with a Sensory Bottle

Five Days of Pumpkin Printables

Find Count and Graph Ocean Creatures

Getting Ready for the Echolocation Activity

Putting the Activity Together

Let’s Explore the Echolocation Activity

Getting Ready for the Room on the Broom Activity

Building Materials

Getting Started with the Room on the Broom Activity

If you like this STEM project, here are some other projects your children will like.

Bubble Games and Activities

Getting Ready

Supplies

Bubble Games and Activities

If you like this sensory activity, here are several more your children will enjoy:

Putting the Sensory Bags Together

Supplies

Directions

Exploring the Sensory Bags

If you like this sensory activity, here are some more you will like.

31 DAYS OF ABC

TEACHING THE ABCS – OCTOBER 1

A – OCTOBER 2

B – OCTOBER 3

C – OCTOBER 4

D – OCTOBER 5

E – OCTOBER 6

F – OCTOBER 7

G – OCTOBER 8

H – OCTOBER 9

I – OCTOBER 10

J – OCTOBER 11

K – OCTOBER 12

L – OCTOBER 13

M – OCTOBER 14

N – OCTOBER 15

O – OCTOBER 16

P – OCTOBER 17

Q – OCTOBER 18

R – OCTOBER 19

S – OCTOBER 20

U – OCTOBER 22

W – OCTOBER 24

X – OCTOBER 25

Y – OCTOBER 26

Z – OCTOBER 27

Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? Experiment

Getting Started

One Eye is Ready for Darkness

Switching the Patch

Creating a Conclusion

Here are the other pirate printables that were shared this week:

Getting the Subtraction Worksheets

Playing Treasure Chest Match

Equation to Answer

Memory

Here are the other pirate printables I have shared this week:

Long Vowel Sounds Worksheets

Getting Started

Exploring the Long Vowel Worksheet

If you like this reading activity, here are some more you will like:

Getting Started with the R Controlled Vowels Printable Set

Word Sort Column Page

Words Sort Card Activity

Printable Pirate Activities

5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Ten Frame Activities

Getting Ready

More Supplies

Exploring the Activities

Show the Number on the Card

Roll the Number and Show It

Ten Frame Fill In

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You will love these activities based on Scaredy Squirrel from other blogs.

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