Enjoy
a special Butterfly School hike this week. It is great exercise and you
can squeeze a short walk into any week. Share an Activity
Sheet each day and you'll find new ideas for your next walk.
Here are more neat walking ideas from my kitchen table to yours.
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Hiking friends! Print, cut and color our little caterpillar patterns or butterflies and take them hiking. A pillow, chair or couch makes a great landscape for paper friends. You can also cut or draw a "trail" from paper to set right across the kitchen table.
| Make an acorn matching game. Use our acorn patterns to create a simple & fun game.
| Make a wish
tree. Gather leaves
and press them in an old phone book. Then use them to decorate a big
"tree trunk" cut from a brown grocery bag.
| Create a surprise leaf search. In the Butterfly School story, the caterpillars are searching for special autumn treasures. Surprise your child with a simple leaf game. Cut out five to ten paper orange leaves and hide them in your kitchen at kid height. After your child finds them, invite him to hide them for you!
| L is for leaf. Remind your child how important leaves are for plants, caterpillars, butterflies and people! As the seasons change, all living things adapt. Leaves come in many beautiful shapes, colors and textures. In cold areas some trees shed their leaves in a rainbow of colors. Evergreens keep their needles all year round. Consider a little leaf celebration on one of your walks. Collect some interesting leaves, bring them home and use them to decorate your Butterfly School area. For more walking ideas, check out the walking section at www.shininghours.com. |
Join us next week for the continuation of our alphabet series. We'll be visiting a doctor's office next! Until then, enjoy the resources posted here and at www.shininghours.com!
You are ready for the Activity Sheets now; you can print them from here (go to Activity Sheets), or go back to the Butterfly School home page.
From Butterfly Central,
Teacher Tips
from Corinne Steigerwald
Be observant and you will teach your child to be observant! Walking by your side, your child can learn to find everything interesting -- the sidewalk, the bark on a tree, the clouds, the street signs you pass.
Look up! Try to look up at least three times on your walk. Look up into the tree tops. Look up when there is an uninterrupted view of the sky. Look up when you can see an interesting roof top, window, chimney, smoke stack, weather vane or other house decoration. Describe what you see.
Look down! Look at the cracks in the sidewalk. Look at the color and shape of blades of grass. Observe how the pavement on a road or driveway changes texture at the edges. Observe curbs, cracks and paint lines. Where it is safe, reach down to feel different textures.
Look all around! Wherever you walk, there will be so much to see. With attention to detail your child can find everything fascinating. Give your child the words to describe what you see and you her a broader vocabulary and the tools to take in even more information on your next walk together. Happy hiking!
Questions for Corinne: corinne@shininghours.com
Coordinated resources:
Check our posters section!
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