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Active Listening: Spring Edition

6/1/2020

Active Listening: Spring Edition

During our regular classes, we love to incorporate sounds from nature during our active listening activities, especially bird sounds. Robins, mockingbird, cuckoos, and so many more! In an effort to take your learning outside and to keep singing n moving at home, we are sharing resources from the Audubon Society for kids! Watch, listen, draw, create, interact, and get inspired with these amazing weekly resources from the Audubon Society! Start your exploration by getting to know/listening to 15 common birds. You can listen to the calls of each bird! Also, dive deep into Owls with looking, listening, mimicking, and measuring via the link below!

Audubon for Kids Weekly Assets

Get to Know/Listen To 15 Common Birds

Look and Listen to Owls

Week 8: Kindermusik Assets - Theme: Be Royally You

5/25/2020

Week 8: Kindermusik Assets - Theme: Be Royally You

This week we are sharing new resources to assist you in engaging your little ones at home! This week's post includes easily accessible Kindermusik Assets that are packed with ideas to help kiddos spark imagination, stay focused, and feel good about learning through playful, music-fueled activities. They share free downloads, simple crafts, engaging songs, and helpful parenting tips. Sign up via our blog for access to the weekly activities and get reminders with downloads straight to your inbox or keep visiting our blog to see what's posted each week!

Week 8 Includes:
Theme: Be Royally You
Did you ever imagine you were a queen or king, or what it must have been like to live in a castle? Kiddos are still fascinated with this imaginary lifestyle. So, this week, we’re tapping into medieval music, costumes, symbols, and food to channel our inner royalty!

1 scepter craft
1 castle craft
1 how-to video
1 royal feast menu
Royal dance instructions
Printable Activities
Ideas on how to use your crafts
Suggestions for pairing activities with music
Helpful parenting tips
Plus 2 Kindermusik songs
All for free!

Week 8 Activity Pack

Week 8 Printables

Week 7: Kindermusik Assets - Theme: For the Birds

5/18/2020

Week 7: Kindermusik Assets - Theme:
For the Birds

This week we are sharing new resources to assist you in engaging your little ones at home! This week's post includes easily accessible Kindermusik Assets that are packed with ideas to help kiddos spark imagination, stay focused, and feel good about learning through playful, music-fueled activities. They share free downloads, simple crafts, engaging songs, and helpful parenting tips. Sign up via our blog for access to the weekly activities and get reminders with downloads straight to your inbox or keep visiting our blog to see what's posted each week!

Week 7 Includes:
Theme: For the Birds
Remember wishing you could fly as a kid? Some of us still do. This week, turn your little one’s attention right outside your door to one of the most fascinating animals on earth…the bird! All you need are some household items, your imagination, and a listening device. We’ll caw, swoop, peck…and fly!

1 bird craft
1 how-to video
1 bird recipe
A family move-along + birdsong
Printable Activities
Ideas on how to use your crafts in the backyard
Suggestions for pairing activities with music
Helpful parenting tips
Plus 3 Kindermusik songs
All for free!

Week 7 Activity Pack

Week 7 Printables

Week 6 Kindermusik Assets Released - Theme: Little Critters

5/6/2020

Week 6 Kindermusik Assets Released - Theme: Little Critters

Reminder post today since Week 6 assets have been released! Kindermusik is sharing weekly assets to assist you in engaging your little ones during these days at home! Weekly Activity Kits are bright, easily accessible downloads that are packed with ideas to help kiddos spark imagination, stay focused, and feel good about learning through playful, music-fueled activities. They share simple crafts, engaging songs, and helpful parenting tips. Sign up via our blog for access to the weekly activities and get reminders with downloads straight to your inbox.

Week 6 Includes:
Theme: Little Critters
Ever wonder why little ones are so fascinated by bugs? They're small, brightly colored, intricate, and oh so different! Stay away from the harmful ones (no mosquitos allowed!), but this week, let's explore the magic of earth's creepy crawlies. From insect finger puppets to the "Eensy Weensy Spider" to tasty grub-like treats, you can help your child learn about this important part of our ecosystem, and pack in lots of developmental benefits while you're at it!

4 critter crafts
2 critter recipes
2 how-to videos
Printables
Ideas on how to use your crafts around the house
Suggestions for pairing activities with music
Helpful parenting tips
Plus 3 Kindermusik songs
All for free!

Week 6 Activity Pack

Week 6 Printables

Science and Music Mashup!

5/5/2020

Science and Music Mashup!

The Franklin Institute has created a science and music mashup that we wanted to share with you! Their #sparkofscience with Science Interpreter Fox today demonstrates how to turn ordinary household items into a musical instrument. Watch the video tutorial showing how to make a glovaphone while learning that sound is the vibration of air molecules. Variations in the length of tube you use will help to explore high and low pitch!

Watch the Tutorial

Simple Springtime Ideas

5/4/2020

Simple Springtime Ideas

The sun has arrived and it's the perfect day to spend as much time outside as possible! Here are 7 Simple Springtime Outdoor Activities from PBS Kids to help inspire your outside time today! Feel the warmth of the sun on your cheeks and smile!

May Newsletter

5/1/2020

May Newsletter

May is here! Our monthly newsletter went out today. Please review for updates, ways to stay connected, and lots of resources to create engaging, comforting, and educational moments with your child during this time at home. To every family - we send our love & support. We miss you all!

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Language & Literacy

4/29/2020

Language & Literacy

We want to continue to support language and literacy development in our students so we are sharing a fun resource today from PBS Kids. Each week, celebrities and PBS KIDS authors are reading aloud their favorite books! You can watch them all again via the link below and also find fun, supporting activities for the whole family to enjoy! We've linked directly to the Make Your Own Dragon Wings Craft that was inspired by Michelle Obama's Read Along of There's a Dragon in Your Book.

PBS Kids Read-Alongs

Make Your Own Dragon Wings Craft

Week 5 Kindermusik Assets Released - Theme: Color My World

4/28/2020

Week 5 Kindermusik Assets Released - Theme: Color My World

Reminder post today since Week 5 assets have been released! Kindermusik is sharing weekly assets to assist you in engaging your little ones during these days at home! Weekly Activity Kits are bright, easily accessible downloads that are packed with ideas to help kiddos spark imagination, stay focused, and feel good about learning through playful, music-fueled activities. They share simple crafts, engaging songs, and helpful parenting tips. Sign up via our blog for access to the weekly activities and get reminders with downloads straight to your inbox.

Week 5 Includes:
Theme: Color My World
We live in a colorful world...let’s explore it together! Colors are one of the first and lasting fascinations for kiddos, so this week, we’re focusing on mixing all sorts of hues through crafts, letting our imaginations take flight through song lyrics, and recreating all of the bright tints and tones we see in nature. Ready for a trip to the best art museum ever? Let’s go!

4 easy-to-make crafts
2 how-to videos
Printables
Ideas on how to use your crafts around the house
Suggestions for pairing activities with music
Helpful parenting tips
Plus 3 Kindermusik songs
All for free!

Week 5 Activity Pack

Week 5 Printables

Sound and Music

4/28/2020

Sound and Music

Ready to experience sound and music at home? Scholastic has compiled a plethora of online resources about a variety of topics. Today we're highlighting their resources on sound and music. Listen to the story Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss, read the book All About Sound by Lisa Trumbauer, watch the video What's That Sound?, and do the activity Listening Ears. You can use music to explore every school subject, in this case you can explore physical science through musical concepts along with activities easy to do at home!

Listen to the Story

Watch the Video

Do the Activity