Jackie
Schoettle
Youth
Gardening Site
Here you will find fun links for
the kids,
with heartfelt thanks to Lori Levy for all her hard work finding these
sources.
A good site for math
homework - 1st grade through college.
An amusement
park of math
A good site for math
homework - 1st grade through college
Try telling some jokes to your friends and family
http://raisingahealthyfamily.com/blog-action-day-going-green-with-the-kids/
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/nature/index.shtml
http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html
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MONARCH BUTTERFLY FACTS
The monarch butterflies that hatch
in the spring and summer only live for a few weeks.
The ones that hatch
in midsummer
are the ones that migrate.
They live 8-9 month. |
About 100 million monarchs migrate
each year.
Monarchs can cluster together and thousands
of them cling to one tree.
Some monarchs fly as high as 2,000 feet.
Sometimes they fly up to 12 miles an hour
and almost 100 miles in one day.
A monarch can have a wing spread
of 3 1/2 inches.
http://www.monarchbutterflyusa.com/Cycle.htm
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SET UP AN ANT FARM..................................
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Materials
2 wide-mouthed plastic
jars that
fit closely, one inside the other
Sandy soil
Sponge Bottle cap
Corn syrup
String Plastic wrap
Rubber bands
Black paper
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Place the small plastic jar inside
the larger one and fill the narrow gap
between the two with the sandy soil.
Wet the sponge and place it in the smaller jar, along with the bottle cap filled
with corn syrup.
Dangle several lengths of string from the soil in he larger
jar to the bottom of he small jar
so the ants can reach their food and water
supply.
Now, check around your neighborhood for ants. You'll need to find several
dozen.
Be careful, as certain ants do bite!
When you find the ants, put down
a sheet of paper with a drop of corn syrup on it.
When the ants are on the
paper, quickly transfer them to the jar.
Cover the mouth of the jar with plastic
wrap with pinholes poked through secured with a rubber band. Wrap black paper
around the jar secured with another rubber band
to keep the ant farm dark.
Remove he black paper in a day
or two and you should see the beginnings of
a network of tunnels.
Add more syrup and water as needed. When you're finished
observing the ants,
release them back to where you found them.
Family Fun Magazine, Sept.
2001 |
MAKE BINOCULARS
Take two empty toilet paper rolls and glue them together.
If the eye pieces are too close together for your little one,
try gluing something between the two rolls...
a piece
of
a
sponge is one idea. You may also have to wrap the rolls
together with construction paper, tape,
or yarn to hold them in place.
CREATE YOUR OWN SOCK GARDEN
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Choose a pair of socks that you won't
mind getting dirty.
Dampen the bottoms and help your child pull them
over his
feet (or shoes).
Walk with your preschooler over dry grass
& weeds (to ensure
quicker results, toss grass seeds in a designated area).
When the sock bottoms
are covered with dirt, seeds, and grass, remove them carefully.
Cover the bottom of an aluminum loaf
pan
with potting soil and place your socks in the pan (dirty sides up);
lightly
cover them with 1 inch of soil.
Label a wooden craft stick "My Sock Garden,"
place it in the dirt, and set the pan by a sunny window.
Make sure you water
it daily and watch for the seeds to sprout.
source: Sesame Street Parents,
April 2000 |
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