Kindergarten at Home - Day 22 - Make Heavy Objects Move + Emotions

Lesson 1 - Activities: How to Make Heavy Objects Move.  We got to go outside to put our muscles minds to work!  Work smarter, not harder - that's a new proverb for her book!  The assignment was to discover different ways you can make a heavy box or bucket move.

(above) I showed the kids how to make a simple [non-metal] pulley system by using a rope to raise a bucket full of apples we gathered off the ground from around our apple tree.

(above) Using the same bucket, I showed them how you can put round objects (like a log, or a ball) under the heavy bucket to slide it like it is on rollers - this required teamwork to move the last log to the front to keep the bucket rolling along!

The last method we played with was using leverage with two logs stacked perpendicularly.  This helped to lift the bucket, but if done too high, the bucket would eventually flip over!



Lesson 2 - Language Arts
Unbelievably Undertake Umpteen Undulating Uu's Upon Unwrinkled Underwear (I couldn't think of something that starts with "U" that you could write on - let me know if you think of something that makes better sense than underwear?  I decided to run with underwear because it's silly)

We read a shortened version of, "City Mouse, Country Mouse" and then she answered questions, recalling details from the story.  Then, I had her draw pictures of what she thinks the Country and the City looks like. She drew a lovely Country Cow and Horse enjoying hay in a grassy meadow, with a long, windy road that leads to the barn.  Her city scene showed sky scrapers, houses, people walking on the sidewalk, and two large construction vehicles on the road.  While she was doing that, I drew four different boxes with similarly-shaped, or same items from the country and city.  I had her tell me where each belonged: Silo vs. Skyscraper, Car vs. Tractor, Modern house vs. Traditional Farmhouse-style House, and Trees on rolling hills vs. trees along the sidewalk.

Lesson 3 - Social Studies: Emotions.  First, we looked at a book that showed different kids displaying emotions on their faces:  I had her guess what each emotion is, then show me what her face looks like when she feels that way too.  It's okay to feel different ways, even angry, but it is what you do with your feelings next that might not be okay (such as hitting).

 Happy

 Tired

 Mad

Glad

This one was how she felt in that moment, and she said she felt "Hungry!"

Lesson 4 - Math: Introducing Solid Shapes - Sphere, Cube, Cylinder, & Cone.  We did a workbook exercise, and watched a Brain Pop video to introduce the concept of the solid, or 3-dimensional shapes.  (Didn't get a photo of this one.)

Lesson 5 - Technology Studies: Introduction to keyboarding, A-M.  Connections Academy provided a link to a game that has you simply find, then type the requested letter.  Basically, to help the kids become familiar with how the keyboard is laid out.  This round was for the letters A, through M.