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Dear Parents,
I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App, direct message me through Instagram  or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Monday, March 30, 2020
Question of the Day: Where does our trash go?  What is a landfill? 
Today, we are going to make our own landfills.  Landfills are places that garbage goes.  The garbage is normally buried in landfills.  First, they remove and sort recyclable items like plastics, glass, metals and paper goods.  Landfills smell bad and they don’t look very pretty.  People do not live close to Landfills.  
 
 

 
Science
Make your own landfill

 Making a Modern Sanitary Landfill

• Materials needed:
  • Transparent plastic container (2 liter bottle)
  • Soil
  • Clay / Playdough
  • Plastic wrap
  • Cotton balls / pom poms
  • Gravel (from outside / aquarium gravel)
  • Food scraps
  • Small plant / grass seeds
• Vocabulary
  • Compacted
  • Solid waste
  • Earth cover
  • Groundwater
  • Landfill
  • Leachate

1. Your first step will be to cut the top off of the plastic bottle.  This will be the container you build your model in.
2. The first layer of your landfill will be soil.  The base of the landfill is the natural soil of the land that the landfill is placed on.  Because of this, great care is taken to be sure that any toxins in runoff water or leachate (water that has percolated through a solid and leached out some of the constituents.), from the garbage do not end up in the native soil and ultimately in ground water.
3. The next layer is compacted clay, or playdough for your model.  The clay in an actual landfill provides another barrier to prevent leachate from entering the groundwater.  It also helps gases to escape from the landfill.
4. The third layer of the model, plastic wrap, represents the geomembrane, a thin plastic sheet that again serves to prevent leachate from draining from the landfill.  Do you sense a pattern?  Leachate is nasty stuff. 
5. You’ll use cotton balls / pom poms, spread thin, to represent the next layer of the landfill, the geotextile layer.  This is part of a system that in an actual landfill uses pipes (not included in the model) to separate solids and liquids in the runoff from the landfill.  The geotextile fabric prevents the pipes from getting clogged.
6. The fifth layer is a layer of gravel.  The gravel layer is what collects the leachate as it originally exits the landfill’s trash.
7. Finally, in the sixth (6^th) layer up from the ground is the trash!  In a working landfill, the trash is covered with soil daily.  We added two layers of trash and soil to represent this.  You may have room to add more layers of each in your model.
8. Once a landfill has reached a specified height, it is closed off.  There is another layer of clay added to the top of the last trash / soil layer.
9. Another geomembrane, or in our case, plastic wrap, is added.
10. After the plastic geomembrane is another layer of gravel that serves as drainage.
11. The landfill is topped off with soil and grass.  We used some houseplants, but to be even more accurate you can plant some grass seeds in your topsoil.

12. Voila, Now watch your model.  See if you can answer the following questions in the next days, weeks, and months.
    1. What happens to the trash over time.
    2. Do you notice anything changing? Can air and water get all the way through your model?
    3. How is this like a real landfill? 
    4. What pieces of trash could have been recycled or composted?

Why is it important to reduce, reuse, and recycle?  So that our planet doesn’t run out of space!  Who wants to live surrounded by trash anyway?
 
Story Time
 
Getepic.com- Read the story:  Filling the Earth with Trash. 
Discover what happens to trash in a landfill.
Questions:
What happens at landfills?
How can we reduce what we put into the landfills?
You can also read:  Here comes the garbage barge by Jonah Winter
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3bXKAkeek
Before everyone recycled…there was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do?  Enter the Garbage Barge! This mostly true and completely stinky story is sure to make you say “Pee-yew!”
Questions: 
Did the author describe real or imaginary characters? Places? Events?      
Dramatic Play
Allow your child to help do household chores like separating the garbage.  Have garbage can available so that your child can sort the trash that is made throughout the day.  The regular trash goes into the regular trash can while glass, plastic, and metal can go in blue.  Paper and cardboard into a box or a green trash can.  If you can you could also compost.
 
Music and Movement
You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.
Reduce, Reuse Recycle
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Recycle, recycle, Recycle.
Reduce, reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do.
For your world is my world
And my world is your world.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do!
Gross Motor
       You could also play with the ring toss that you made.  How many rings can you get on the cardboard tube?
Letter of the week
X
What sound does X make?  X is for xylophone and x-ray.  What other words can you think of?  Practice writing your X’s.
You could also sing the Leap Frog song. 
        The X say /X/.  The X says /X/.  Every letter makes a sound the X says /X/.
Buildings:
To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

• Pinterest
  • homemade recycled robots
  • homemade recycled crafts

 
Every day, please practice writing first and last name.  Letter recognition and writing the letters along with number recognition and writing the numbers.  I will be checking your child progress on www.happynumber.com and www.getepic.com.  You can send me pictures of your child doing the activities through email, the Remind app and direct message me through Instagram.
 

Dear Parents,
I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App, direct message me through Instagram  or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Question of the Day: When you go on a walk (Or look out the window), what do you think you will see more of:  bottles, paper, or other garbage? 

Arts and Crafts

Ring Toss

Today, you can make a ring toss game to play at gross motor.  For this activity you will need:   an empty box, scissor, crayons, markers, glue, construction paper, a paper towel tube, and three to four paper plates.  With the box make a hole to stick the paper towel cardboard tube in it.  You can decorate the cardboard tube and the box with crayons, markers and construction paper.  Next, take the paper plates and decorate them with the crayons and markers.  Then, once you have decorate them ask mommy or daddy to help you cut the entire middle part of the plates.  All that should be left is the outer rim.  Finally, with paper towel cardboard tube sticking out of the box, take the plates and toss them at the tube.  Let’s see how many plates you can have land on the tube.  You can ask you child:   What did you make?  How did you make it?  How did you recycle these items?   

Math

In school, we have measured ourselves using blocks.  We can measure ourselves using different things.  Look around your house and find something you would like to use to measure yourself.  You can use: cans, boxes, bottles. You can lay on the floor or stand flat against the wall and have your measuring tools lined up.  You can ask your child:  what did we use?  How many pieces did you use?  How tall are you?  What is taller than you?  What is shorter than you?  What else do you want to measure?

Story Time

Getepic.com- Read the story:  Look out for litter. 
Earth has a litter problem.  How can you help?  Join Trina to learn how little pieces of trash become big problems.
Questions:
How can you help the Earth?

 
Music and Movement

You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.

Reduce, Reuse Recycle

Reduce, reuse, recycle
Recycle, recycle, Recycle.
Reduce, reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do.
For your world is my world
And my world is your world.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do!

Gross Motor

Let’s end the week by dancing to the Cha Cha Slide.
 You could also play with the ring toss that you made.  How many rings can you get on the cardboard tube?

Letter of the week
W

What sound does W make?  W is like water, world, waste, white, window and wand.  What other words can you think of?  Practice writing your W’s.

Buildings:

To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

• Pinterest
  • homemade recycled robots
  • homemade recycled crafts 

Every day, please practice writing first and last name.  Letter recognition and writing the letters along with number recognition and writing the numbers.  Also, please remember you can do Happy Number.

Dear Parents,
I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App, direct message me through Instagram  or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Question of the Day: Should we throw paper or other garbage out our house window or car window?
 
Arts and Crafts
Litter Monster
Today we are going to make a litter monsters.  We are going to need:  a cardboard tube, crayons, markers, paint, paper, glue and a craft stick.  First, you will have to decorate the cardboard tube.  You can paint it or color it with a crayon or a marker.  Next you can add eyes.  On piece of paper you can write “Do not be a litter monster.”  You can make it look like a sign by adding it to a craft stick then to the cardboard tube. You can ask your child:  What did you make?  How did you make it?  What does it mean :Do not be a litter monster?
Math
In school, we have measured ourselves using blocks.  We can measure ourselves using different things.  Look around your house and find something you would like to use to measure yourself.  You can use: cans, boxes, bottles. You can lay on the floor or stand flat against the wall and have your measuring tools lined up.  You can ask your child:  what did we use?  How many pieces did you use?  How tall are you?  What is taller than you?  What is shorter than you?  What else do you want to measure?
Story Time
I can save the World By Allison Inches YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mkwhe6LOBo
Little Green Books will educate children on what they can do to be more eco-friendly. The books in this line will be made from recycled materials, and the storylines will cover subjects such as improving the environment, learning about endangered animals, recycling, and much more.

Meet Max the Little Monster. He is a cute, furry green monster who is an environmental nightmare. Among other things, he leaves on all the lights, keeps his computer plugged in, blasts the TV, hoards his old toys and uses so much toilet paper it clogs the toilet until finally, his excessive ways cause a power outage. With no TV to watch, computer to play on, video games to play with, Max finds there is a whole big world outside that he can make a difference in the environment.

Kids can follow Max the Little Green Monster's journey to environmental awareness and learn tips on how they can become little green monsters themselves. A kid-friendly glossary of terms is included in the back of the book.
Questions:
How can you save the Earth?
If you were to make a pledge, how will you promise to take care of the Earth?
Should we throw paper or other garbage out our house window or car window? Why or why not?
 
Music and Movement
You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.
Reduce, Reuse Recycle
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Recycle, recycle, Recycle.
Reduce, reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do.
For your world is my world
And my world is your world.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do!
 
 
Letter of the week
W
What sound does W make?  W is like water, world, waste, white, window and wand.  What other words can you think of?  Practice writing your W’s.
 
Buildings:
To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

• Pinterest
  • homemade recycled robots
  • homemade recycled crafts

 
Every day, please practice writing first and last name.  Letter recognition and writing the letters along with number recognition and writing the numbers.  Also, please remember you can do Happy Number.

Dear Parents,
I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App, direct message me through Instagram  or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Question of the Day: What do you think workers do at recycling centers?
 
 
Arts and Crafts

Today, we are going to make piggy banks by using empty water bottles.  We are going to need:  an empty bottle with the bottle caps, four bottle caps, glue and markers.  If you have you could use goggly eyes and other arts and crafts materials. First, get the empty bottle and glue the four bottle caps as the feet to the piggy bank.   Next, you could use googly eyes or other art and crafts materials to make the eyes of the piggy banks. Then, you could decorate your piggy banks. Ask your parents for help to make a small hole on top for the money.  Now you have a piggy bank.  You can ask your child:  What did you make?  How did you make it?  What recycled materials did you use?  What will you put in it?

Math
In school, we have measured ourselves using blocks.  We can measure ourselves using different things.  Look around your house and find something you would like to use to measure yourself.  You can use: cans, boxes, bottles. You can lay on the floor or stand flat against the wall and have your measuring tools lined up.  You can ask your child:  what did we use?  How many pieces did you use?  How tall are you?  What is taller than you?  What is shorter than you?  What else do you want to measure?
Story Time
Sam Helps Recycle By Judith Bauer Stamper YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejALkFYCwL4
"Sam the family dog is eager to help with the recycling, but he's worried when he spies his beloved food bowl perched atop the pile."--Page 4 of cover.
Questions:
How can you recycle?
How are you going to help others recycle?
 
Music and Movement
You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.
Reduce, Reuse Recycle
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Recycle, recycle, Recycle.
Reduce, reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do.
For your world is my world
And my world is your world.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do!
 
 
Letter of the week
W
What sound does W make?  W is like water, world, waste, white, window and wand.  What other words can you think of?  Practice writing your W’s.
 
Buildings:
To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

• Pinterest
  • homemade recycled robots
  • homemade recycled crafts

 
Every day, please practice writing first and last name.  Letter recognition and writing the letters along with number recognition and writing the numbers.  Also, please remember you can do Happy Number.
 

Dear Parents,
I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App, direct message me through Instagram  or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Question of the Day: Where do you think that our trash goes after we throw it away?
 
 
Math
In school, we have measured ourselves using blocks.  We can measure ourselves using different things.  Look around your house and find something you would like to use to measure yourself.  You can use: cans, boxes, bottles. You can lay on the floor or stand flat against the wall and have your measuring tools lined up.  You can ask your child:  what did we use?  How many pieces did you use?  How tall are you?  What is taller than you?  What is shorter than you?  What else do you want to measure?
 
 
 
 
 
Story Time
I Stink! By Jim and Kate McMullen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj8rZ8KHaqw
Know what I do at night while you're asleep? Eat your trash, that's what! See those bags? I smell breakfast!
With ten wide tires, one really big appetite, and an even bigger smell, this truck's got it all. His job? Eating your garbage and loving every stinky second of it!
And you thought nighttime was just for sleeping.
Questions:
What is the title of this story?
Who are the characters?
Where does our trash go when we throw it away?
What happens to the trash when it is goes into the garbage truck?
When does the garbage truck take care of the trash?
Where does the trash go after it has been collected by the garbage truck?
How does a garbage truck process the trash?
How do you think garbage collection is different in the country than it is in the city?
 
Activity:
Draw a picture of your favorite part of the book.  When you child is finished drawing their favorite part the story, you can ask them:  What was your favorite part of the book?  Why is it your favorite?  Can you predict, how will our community look like if we do not have any sanitation workers and sanitation trucks?
 
 
 
Music and Movement
You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.
Reduce, Reuse Recycle
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Recycle, recycle, Recycle.
Reduce, reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do.
For your world is my world
And my world is your world.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
It is easy to do!
 
 
Letter of the week
W
What sound does W make?  W is like water, world, waste, white, window and wand.  What other words can you think of?  Practice writing your W’s.
 
Buildings:
To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

• Pinterest
  • homemade recycled robots
  • homemade recycled crafts

 
Every day, please practice writing first and last name.  Letter recognition and writing the letters along with number recognition and writing the numbers.  Also, please remember you can do Happy Number.

Dear Parents,
I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App, direct message me through Instagram  or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Question of the Day: How can we keep ourselves healthy?
 
 
Arts and crafts
     Soap making
     It is very important to wash our hands.  We are going to make homemade soap. You can find the video on www.YouTube.com.  Please, type in:  How to make soap at Home- 4 ways.

1. Cut a bar of soap into cubes. (or you can use leftover soaps)
2. Put the cubes in measuring cups.
3. Microwave on high for thirty seconds.
4. Stir.
5. Add colorant.
6. Stir well.
7. Add a few drops of fragrant.
8. Add spray alcohol.
9. Pour into a mold.
10. Freeze for thirty minutes.
11. Push mold away from soap.
12. Dip in simmering water.
13. Pull soap out of mold.
14. Enjoy.

Draw a picture 
Draw a picture on how you are going to keep yourself and other healthy.  It could be washing your hands, covering you mouth or doing an elbow bump.  You can ask your child:  Why is it important to wash your hands?  Why should we cover our mouths when we sneeze and cough?  How else can we say hi to a person besides high fives and hugs?
 
 
Story Time
Social Story: My School is Closed Today https://lessonpix.com/downloadMaterial.php?material_id=9512199
 
GetEpic.com
Please send me your email, so that I can invite to our class on www.getepic.com.  Our class code is ALB-0891.
The story today is:  Wash your Hands!
 Questions: 
     Why is it important to wash your hands?
     What song are you going to sing when you wash your hands?
 
Science
Today, we are going to be scientist.  We are going to do an experiment to see why it is so important to wash our hands. 
We are going to need:
One deep bowl filled with water,
Black pepper,
A small cup,
And dish soap.
In the bowl with water add some black pepper.  In the small cup add some dish soap enough to stick a finger in it.
Tell your child that the black pepper will be the germs in our experiment.  Allow your child to stick their finger water.  Ask your child, what happened?  What is on your finger?
Now take your finger dip it into the soap.  Then take your finger and put it back in the water with pepper.  Ask your child:  What happened now?  Why is it important to wash your hands?
 
Buildings:
To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

• Pinterest
  • homemade recycled robots
  • homemade recycled crafts

Dear Parents,

I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Question of the Day: How does your family throw trash away?

  

Arts and craft

Sensory bottles 

Your child can create their own sensory bottles. Your child use empty water bottles, marker, water, glitter, glitter glue, food coloring, pompoms, buttons, other art collage materials, and glue.  The students will be able to fill the water bottle to the line the teacher drew on the bottle with a marker.  Then your child can choose any color of glitter glue, glitter and food coloring they like to add to their bottles.  Next, your child will add pompoms, buttons or any other collage materials they like.  Then, your child will place glue all aloud the rim of the cap.  Finally, your child will shake the bottle to get all the materials all shook enough to flow easily.   You can ask your child:   What did you make?  How did you make it?  How did you reuse the water bottle?  What else can you make with a water bottle?

 

Music and Movement

You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.

Reduce, Reuse Recycle

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Recycle, recycle, Recycle.

Reduce, reuse, Recycle

It is easy to do.

For your world is my world

And my world is your world.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

It is easy to do!

 

Story Time

I Stink! By Jim and Kate McMullen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj8rZ8KHaqw

Know what I do at night while you're asleep? Eat your trash, that's what! See those bags? I smell breakfast!
With ten wide tires, one really big appetite, and an even bigger smell, this truck's got it all. His job? Eating your garbage and loving every stinky second of it!
And you thought nighttime was just for sleeping.

Questions:

Where does our trash go when we throw it away?

What happens to the trash when it is goes into the garbage truck?

When does the garbage truck take care of the trash?

Where does the trash go after it has been collected by the garbage truck?

How does a garbage truck process the trash?

How do you think garbage collection is different in the country than it is in the city?

 

Letter of the week

V

What sound does v make?  V is like van, vulture, vest, and violin.  What other words can you think of?

Buildings:

To enhance their learning and creativity, I am encouraging you to work together with your child and do a craft project out of recycled materials.  They will need to bring it in and explain to the class how they made their creation.  You can find ideas on:

·        Pinterest

o   homemade recycled robots

o   homemade recycled crafts

 

Get Epic

Beginning next week I will begin to use stories from GetEpic. Com

These are the log in instructions.  The class code is:  alb0891.

 

Dear Parents,

I will be posting suggested daily activities.  The activities/suggestions will align with our current unit - "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." Please, check back every day for new activities.  These activities are the activities we would have been doing in school. If you have any questions and concerns, please, use the remind app, direct message me on Instagram or email me at:  tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Parents, if you would like to send me pictures of your child’s work you may send it to me either through the Remind App or through the email tsaglimbeni@stlucys.org.

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Question of the Day: Where do people throw trash away?

 

Math craft

Your child can create an ABC Pattern.  Your child could use aluminum foil squares, cardboard squares, and snack wrappers and glue.  The students will use the aluminum foil squares to represent metal, the cardboard squares to represent paper and the snack wrappers to represent garbage.  Your child can make an ABC Pattern.  You can ask your child:  What did you make?  Can you read me your pattern?  How can we extend your pattern?  

 

Music and Movement

You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.

Reduce, Reuse Recycle

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Recycle, recycle, Recycle.

Reduce, reuse, Recycle

It is easy to do.

For your world is my world

And my world is your world.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

It is easy to do!

 

Story Time

I Stink! By Jim and Kate McMullen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj8rZ8KHaqw

Know what I do at night while you're asleep? Eat your trash, that's what! See those bags? I smell breakfast!
With ten wide tires, one really big appetite, and an even bigger smell, this truck's got it all. His job? Eating your garbage and loving every stinky second of it!
And you thought nighttime was just for sleeping.

Questions:

·         Where does our trash go when we throw it away?

·         What happens to the trash when it is goes into the garbage truck?

·         When does the garbage truck take care of the trash?

·         Where does the trash go after it has been collected by the garbage truck?

·         How does a garbage truck process the trash?

·         How do you think garbage collection is different in the country than it is in the city?

 

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Question of the Day: What did you throw away today?

 

Arts and Crafts

The students will be able to create their own newspaper art.  The students will be able to use newspaper, construction paper any color they like, scissors and glue. The students will first come up with an idea of what they would like to create.  Then the students will be able to use the newspapers to cut out their idea. For example, if the students want to make a flower. They would cut of petals and the stem from the newspaper. Finally the students will be able to use the glue and glue it to the paper.  You can ask you child:   What did you make?  How did you make?  Was it a good idea to save the newspaper and make something from it?  Why?  Would you do it at home again? 

 

Music and Movement

You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.

Reduce, Reuse Recycle

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Recycle, recycle, Recycle.

Reduce, reuse, Recycle

It is easy to do.

For your world is my world

And my world is your world.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

It is easy to do!

 

Story Time

Radio Man by Arthur Dorrus.  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNCOhJhBo4

Diego and his family are migrant farm workers who travel around the country picking fruits and vegetables.  Every farm brings something different a new crop, new people, and new experiences.   No matter where Diego and his family go, Diego brings his radio with him.  He knows that the voice on the radio is always there to remind him where he is going, and to keep him in touch with the people that he meets along the way.

Questions:

Diego’s family is always moving to find work.  How do you think they know where they are going?  Diego used the radio to send a message to David.  How do you send messages to your friends and family?

Writing:

Using the question of the day: What did you throw away today?

You can ask you child what did you throw out today.  You can write the word down and have your child copy it down.  

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
Question of the Day: What do people threw away?
 
ü Arts and Crafts

• The students will be able to make their own paper plate earth.  The students will use a large paper plate, glue, scissors, blue construction paper and green construction paper.  Please tell your child that the blue construction paper will be the water and the green construction paper will be the land.  Help your child understand that we have to take of care both the land and the water.  We have to keep it clean.  The students will cut out green and blue squares from the construction paper.   Then they will glue it to the paper.  You may ask your child:   What did you make?  How did you make it?  How could you keep the Earth and the ocean clean?

 
ü Dramatic Play
o   Allow your child to help do household chores like separating the garbage.  Have garbage can available so that your child can sort the trash that is made throughout the day.  The regular trash goes into the regular trash can while glass, plastic, and metal can go in blue.  Paper and cardboard into a box or a green trash can.  If you can you could also compost.
 
ü Music and Movement
o   You can keep practicing the song we were learning in school.  Your child can make instruments from things they find around the house.   For example, a box can become a drum.
ü Story Time
o   Radio Man by Arthur Dorrus.  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNCOhJhBo4
ü Diego and his family are migrant farm workers who travel around the country picking fruits and vegetables.  Every farm brings something different a new crop, new people, and new experiences.   No matter where Diego and his family go, Diego brings his radio with him.  He knows that the voice on the radio is always there to remind him where he is going, and to keep him in touch with the people that he meets along the way.
o   Questions:
§  What do you think gave Diego the idea to bring his radio with him and listen to it wherever he goes?   Moving a lot means saying goodbye to friends and family.   How do you feel when you have to say good bye to someone you care about?

Additional Educational Sites: 

https://cdn-blob-prd.azureedge.net/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/learn-at-home-2020/early-childhood-family-activities-accessible.pdf

to PreK-4
 

In the month of March, the Building study will come to an end.  We had so much fun during the study.  We are moving on to our new unit.  Soon we will begin our Reduce, Reuse, Recycle unit.  We will learn about how garbage affects our community and why it is important to recycle.  We will learn ways, in which, we can take care of our environment. We will learn to recycle and reuse materials to create something new.  The way we will be doing this is by doing different activities, arts and crafts, as well as reading books.