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🌙 Recommended Nighttime Activity

Take turns making up a story

Steps

• Let’s take turns making up our own story. The characters can be real people (like your family, teachers, or community leaders), or talking animals, or unicorns! It can be set on Earth or in Space or under the Sea — whatever we imagine!

• I’ll start: Once upon a time, there was a …

• Now it’s your turn. What happens next?

• Now it’s my turn. We can go back and forth and even take a break and start the story again tomorrow!

Watch Gisela’s “Moon Mission” story to inspire your storyteller

⛅ Recommended Morning Activity

Rhyme and bounce to get our minds and bodies charged up for the day!

Steps

• Let’s warm up our minds and bodies to start the day!

• Let’s see how many rhymes we can make with the word “new.” Every time one of us says a rhyme, we’ll both jump in the air.

• Ready … set … go: it’s rhyme time! [Hint: shoe, blue, do, stew, moo, threw, shampoo…]

• How many rhymes and jumps did we do this morning? We can try to rhyme other words, too, like “cat,” “dog,”and red.” What other words can YOU think of to rhyme?

Watch Wally’s “Rhyme or Slime” segment to get started.

⛅ Recommended Morning Activity

How many times can we touch our toes this week?

Steps

• Let’s warm up our bodies to start the day!

• Let’s stand with our feet apart and our hands on our hips.

• Let’s reach both hands up to the sky as high as we can, and then reach down and touch our toes. Can we do it without bending our knees? Reach up to the sky again and then repeat.

• Can we both do it 10 times? Let’s count!

Dance along to Cantico’s “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes”!

Extend the Learning: Making Maracas

Kids have been making maracas for years because it’s easy and fun. Check out Steve and Blue’s friends as they make maracas out of beans and cans. What household items can you and your kids use to make maracas?

Extend the Learning: Making Maracas

What sound do maracas make? Uh-oh, it looks like Steve and Blue’s instruments got all mixed up. They aren’t making the right sound. Can your child listen closely and help Blue and Steve figure out the right instrument sounds?

Extend the Learning: Phone a Friend

Looking to have a little phone-a-friend fun? Learn this catchy little ditty with your kids and then have them teach it to a friend over the phone. How many tries will it take before the friend gets it right? And if you want to have a friendly competition, call another friend to see if it’ll take them fewer tries to get it right.

Extend the Learning: Phone a Friend

Have you seen Josh’s new handy dandy notebook? It doubles as a phone! Kids can explore Josh’s new gadget in the Noggin app by visiting the Smart Schedule. They’ll get to take photos, read emails, play music and more!

Extend the Learning: Super Solar Power!

To fly his rocket to the moon, Darlington goes on a mission with Blaze to charge his battery using three different power sources: water, wind, and Sun! Will they make it to the moon? Watch “Darington to the Moon” today in the Noggin app and blast off with easy explanations that will inspire your future scientist to explore the earth’s natural energy sources.

 Extend the Learning: Dreaming of Ice Cream

Make Your Own Ice Cream at Home

Ingredients

☑ Zipper storage bags

☑ Salt

☑ Ice

☑ Half & half

☑ Sugar

☑ Vanilla (optional)

Ice Cream Recipe

• Let’s make ice cream! In a small zipper storage bag, combine 1 cup half & half, 2 tbsp. sugar, and ½ tsp. Vanilla (optional), and then seal the bag. Put 3 cups of ice and ⅓ cup of salt into a larger plastic bag. Put the smaller bag inside the bigger bag and close it.

• Let’s take turns shaking the bag hard for 7 to 10 minutes. How many times can you shake in a row? My turn! Who shook the most?
  

• How does the ice cream change as we shake? How many shakes did it take to turn the ingredients into ice cream?

Extend the Learning: Dreaming of Ice Cream

This sweet Team Umizoomi song adds up to lots of fun as Milli, Geo, and Bot sing about their love for ice cream and shapes! Listen out for Bot’s shout out to the inventor of ice cream!