Elementary Activities

Get Up & Move

ACTIVITY:
Learn some new dance moves

LINK:
Go Noodle – Kidz Bop: CLICK HERE
Coach Wood – Dance Edition: CLICK HERE

Boom Chicha Boom: CLICK HERE

 

Get Up & Stretch

ACTIVITY:

30 second neck rolls

30 second arm circles forward and reverse 15 seconds

20 second arm crosses

20 second Leg stretch – touch your toes switch feet after ten seconds

15 lunges each leg

15 high knees or knees to elbow

LINK: CLICK HERE

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Cosmic Kids Yoga offers fun themed yoga story sessions! This video incorporates yoga moves as telling the story of Anna and Elsa from Disney’s Frozen.

VIDEO: CLICK HERE

Art

ACTIVITY: Draw Your Favorite Video Game Characters
 

LINK: Draw So Cute: CLICK HERE

 

 

Reflection
ACTIVITY:
Draw a picture of what you’ve done today. Write a sentence about why you enjoyed
doing this activity today.

 

 

Club LAIR:
What are the differences between a reptile and an amphibian?

 

Write or draw major differences you see between

a reptile and an amphibian after watching the video. CLICK HERE!
 

Vocabulary to know:
Amphibian
Environment
Pollution

 

 

Hydrological:

What is the water cycle?
Using the video (CLICK HERE) to try and answer the following questions:

 

1. Water in the water cycle is always __________(fill in the blank)
 

2. Give some examples of precipitation.
 

3. How does water at room temperature become vapor?

 

ACTIVITY:
Try out some Origami

 

Make a paper fox! CLICK HERE for video.
 

To Make Origami Paper:
1. Take a piece of 8 ½ x 11 paper
2. Fold the top corner diagonally towards the bottom

(you will have a long rectangle on
the bottom)
3. Cut the rectangle off of the bottom and unfold the paper
4. You now have a piece of square paper

Printable Origami Paper: CLICK HERE

 

Identifying Kids’ Strengths

To help kids thrive, recognizing their strengths is just as important as working on their challenges. Here’s a cool—and crafty—way to identify kids’ strengths and connect them in a paper chain, or a “strengths chain.”

Documents and downloads for this activity:

https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/empowering-your-child/building-on-strengths/strengths-chain-for-kids

Accomplishment Box

Setting goals gives kids something to work toward. But as they move forward, it’s important to help them look back at what they’ve already achieved—including small steps they may not have even realized were accomplishments. This can help them stay motivated and push ahead with confidence.

 

Making an “accomplishment box” is a fun way to help kids see their accomplishments—and watch them grow.

 

To get started, download and print this set of sheets. It includes directions and everything else you need to get started on an accomplishment box with your child.

 

Documents and downloads for this activity:

https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/empowering-your-child/celebrating-successes/download-your-childs-accomplishment-box-starter-kit

Simple Density Science Experiment

Here’s a simple density science experiment that you can try at home to see how liquids and objects with different densities behave. Using three fluids (syrup, water and oil) we can see they clearly have different densities, and form clear layers. By dropping items with different densities into the glass, we can see which fluids are denser than them.

LINK: CLICK HERE

 

Growth Mindset Activity

These are trying times for all youth and sometimes we can get into a challenging way of thinking. Provided in the link are several growth mindset downloads and activities the help youth have a positive outlook on themselves with an I can do this attitude.

LINK: CLICK HERE

Art: Drawing a Landscape

Here is a fun art lesson for kids on how to draw a landscape. This lesson teaches kids to be creative and how to layer using lines while learning concepts such as backgrounds and foregrounds. We also learn the term translucent. We make this landscape translucent with oils so it looks like its stained glass, and kids love putting it in their windows. This drawing is super fun and needs only a few basic supplies.

LINK: CLICK HERE

 

Make it: Bird House Collage

Follow along with Ms. Hallie as she makes bird house collages!

Supply list:

2 sheets of card stock

multicolored paper

choice of coloring tools (crayons/oil pastels/markers/etc)

Glue

Pen

Pencil

Scissors

Ruler

HOW-TO VIDEO: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ubr3fltlb6kuz2/Video%20Apr%2011%2C%201%2015%2045%20AM.mov?dl=0

 

 

Edible Play Dough

Follow along with Ms. Zakina as she makes edible play dough!

Ingredients:

1 cup salt

1 cup flour

1/2 cup water

1 cap full of vegetable oil

1 Kool-Aid package. 

HOW-TO VIDEO: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/velg6ouodbmzan8/1080p.mov?dl=0 

 

 

We Read!

Join Ms. Belinda for story time as she shares The Snatchabook! 

VIDEO: CLICK HERE

 

Typing Tips

Join Ms. Polita for typing tips! Videos offered in both English and Spanish.

 

Test your speed and accuracy at https://www.livechat.com/typing-speed-test/#/

ENGLISH VIDEO: CLICK HERE

SPANISH VIDEO: CLICK HERE

Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari

Cincinnati Zoo offers daily videos that highlight different animals. The video can be viewed live at 3pm on the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Facebook page, or later in the day on YouTube. During the live video, it allows viewers to submit questions they will answer about the featured animal. After watching the video, their website has related activity ideas offered.

LINKS:
 

http://cincinnatizoo.org/home-safari-resources/

https://www.youtube.com/user/CincinnatiZooTube/featured 

https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/