Painting with nature - Virtual Book Clubs For Kids

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This month's author for the Virtual Book Club For Kids was Leo Lionni,

  and we had a lot of painting fun with the book Swimmy.

 

 The kids noticed right away that the pictures were made using imprints of textures such as doilies, and asked if they could try it out. Since it was a beautiful sunny day, I suggested that we take our painting project outside.

Things they gathered and painted with included dandelions, cedar bushes, tulips, and leaves. Then they got into the process and started using their fingertips, then in my son's case his entire hand and arm.

In this instance, the art was all about the process. We didn't have an end goal in mind, so they were free to explore.

Be sure to check out the other activities for Leo Lionni by all these great participating blogs:

Toddler Approved - Rainy Day Mum - Adventures in Reading with Kids - 3 Dinosaurs - Royal Baloo - The Educators' Spin On It - Inspiration Laboratories - Pleasantest Thing - Edventures with Kids - Two Big Two Little - Playing With Words 365 - Kitchen Counter Chronicles - Outlaw Mom - Mommy and Me Book Club - Crafty Moms Share - No Twiddle Twaddle - The Good Long Road - Ready. Set. Read 2 Me - Reading Confetti - Mama Smiles - Juggling with Kids- Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas - Creekside Learning - Creative Family Fun - The Usual Mayhem - Teach Preschool - PlayDrMom - CraftoArt - Here Come the Girls - Being a Conscious Parent - Smiling like Sunshine - Crayon Freckles - Train Up a Child - Smile Play Learn - Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - Coffee Cups and Crayons - Having Fun at Chelle's House- Love, Play, Learn - Juggling With Kids - Motherhood on a Dime - Growing Book By Book

- This Reading Mama - Fantastic Fun and Learning

Germs and Microbes K-1 unit study

We're embarking on a new collaborative K-1 unit study of Germs and Microbes. It's great to be teaming up with Darci from STEM Mom and Andrea from No Doubt Learning again! Over the next three weeks, we'll offer you some great science experiments, printables, and more. This post contains affiliate links as well as freebies.

Here are the books we've read over the last week:



I have made a few lapbook elements to go with this study. I'll have more later, but for now, here are my germ lapbook pieces you can download free if you'd like to play along with us.

These are just a few - there are couple more in the download that aren't shown because I made them but D hasn't used them in his lapbook yet.

Don't forget to go see what STEM Mom and No Doubt Learning are sharing this week, and the experiments that they did!

Outdoor Play Party - Sunshine and Parks!

Along with

Learning for Life

The Golden Gleam

Kitchen Counter Chronicles

Making Boys Men

I am happy to be co-hosting the Outdoor Play Party!

 

We had some great posts linked up last week and I couldn't pick just one! Some posts you'll want to make sure that you see:
KC Edventures had this great post on the science of kites

Creative Star Learning had 10 Little Stick Activities

My Nearest and Dearest wrote about sensory play in nature

And I am still completely jealous of Happy Hooligans' play logs!

This week, we spent a lot more time indoors than out, enjoying the unexpected gift of sunshine and warm weather. Our favourite outing was a trip to Parc Angrignon in Montreal, where we discovered that the catfish love the birdseed we threw as much as the birds!

What outdoor play have you been up to? Link up below!
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Supercharged Science - a free chance to see it in action!

You may remember our SuperCharged Science Review a couple of weeks ago.

If you were intrigued by the review, I think you'll like this week's free chance to see it in action! Aurora, the owner, is doing a free online science class this week. This post contains an affiliate link - the online science class is free but if you fall in love with the program and want to sign up like we did, using my link to do so is appreciated.

You can reserve a free spot by clicking here!

She's done these classes several times before (as you may know), and my kids have really enjoyed them. She's warm and engaging - and knows her science.

Kids not only learn solid academics, but get to do hands-on activities during the class. (How? You prepare the materials before the class, and during it, she gives you 5-10 minutes to do a certain activity, then discusses it.)

This week's topic is Rocketry and Spaceflight. This is really appropriate because Aurora actually used to work forv NASA, and is a real rocket scientist!

If you've never seen Aurora in action, you need to sign up for this class and try it out!

It is also great for parents who don't like teaching science -- because she does it for you, and kids stay engaged!

Reserve your free spot now by clicking here