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💡Skills: When your child plays school and teaches a lesson on Earth colors, he/she will build curiosity about the world and learn to identify all of the colors. 

Description

Teachers like Mr. Grouper from the Bubble Guppies work hard every day to help kids learn about the world. They have to think about what to teach and how to teach it before they teach their students something new. Work with your little teacher to teach a special lesson about the colors of the Earth.

Materials 

☑ Printable (optional)

Set Up 

Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:

• Today, YOU’RE a teacher just like Mr. Grouper! Can you teach me and your stuffed animal friends about the colors of our Earth?

• To get ready, let’s look out the window: what colors do you see? Blue, green, brown, tan, gray? What other Earth colors are outside other windows? Red cardinal birds? Orange sunsets?

• Now, let’s cut out rectangles (or circles) of different Earth-colored paper and find objects around the house that are the same colors. For example, a brown stuffed bear, a brown shoe, and a brown wooden spoon all go with the brown paper.

• It’s time for “school!” Welcome your students to class, and then help them sort the objects onto the correct color of paper. For example, the blue block goes on the blue paper and the green ball goes on the green paper.

• What else can we teach and learn about the Earth?

Pro Tip:

If this is hard for your little teacher, pick one color and try to find objects in the house that are that color. Can you find things that are blue like the sky and the ocean? If your little teacher needs a challenge, see if you can find different shades of colors, such as light blue and dark blue, dark brown and light brown.

Extend the Learning

Listen to “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers about a colorful situation involving disgruntled crayons; help with Shine’s science experiment — turning white flowers into colorful ones; and play our color matching game to keep the learning going.

Words to Use 

• Plan – decide how you are going to do something before you do it
  

• Teach – to help someone learn how to do something
  

• Planet – a body in space, orbiting around a star. Earth is OUR planet!
  

• Shade – how light or dark a color is
  

Extend the Learning: A Spin Around the Sun

Learn a thing or two about our solar system with the help of the SUN! 

Sing Along!

♪ Well, the Sun’s a hot star

Mercury’s hot too

Venus is the brightest planet

Earth’s home to me and you

Mars is the red one

Jupiter is most wide

Saturn’s got those icy rings

Uranus spins on its side

Neptune’s really windy

And Pluto’s really small

Well we wanted to name the planets

And now we’ve named them all ♪

Extend the Learning: Colors of Our Earth

Shine wants to make white flowers into colorful flowers. What will happen if we change the color of the water that the flowers drink? Will the flowers change color? You can do this experiment in your home by adding food coloring to a vase. And watch how science saves the day! 

You can find more “Science Saves the Day” videos streaming in the Noggin app!

Extend the Learning: Recycled Masterpiece

Madame Gazelle wants Peppa and her classmates to use their imaginations and make a castle using recyclables!  Cardboard, plastic bottles, egg cartons, cereal boxes, and other household materials can be used to make amazing artwork! Kids can get inspired by Peppa and her friends

You can find more Peppa Pig streaming in the Noggin app!

💡Skills: Fitting trash into a garbage truck helps your child practice basic geometry skills. Sorting trash and recycling items is a great way to help our Earth! 

Description

PAW Patrol’s Rocky knows that sanitation workers are the Earth Heroes who pick up garbage and recycling from homes and stores. Play a math estimation game to see if you can help the sanitation workers fit more into the truck!

Materials 

☑ Truck or box

☑ Scissors

☑ Tape

☑ Crayons, markers, or pencils

Set Up 

Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:

• Rocky from PAW Patrol knows that it’s not easy to get everything to fit into the back of a Recycle Truck.

• Let’s be heroes to the Earth by making our own sanitation vehicle (or “garbage truck” or “recycling truck”) out of a box or using a truck we have at home.

• Now, let’s gather up a pile of toys (like blocks) or other things from around home to represent our garbage or recycling.

• How many objects do you think can fit into our sanitation vehicle? Let’s make a guess and then count how many really fit! Let’s dump everything out and try again. Can we fit in more “trash” on our second try?

Pro Tip:

If your little recycler needs a challenge, work together to create a recycling center in your home with space for glass, metal, plastic, and paper. Talk about how recycling works and how it’s different from trash. If this activity is a little too hard, use a bag to pick up pieces of paper to recycle from around home. How many pieces of paper can you collect?

Extend the Learning

Read “I Stink” by Kate & Jim McMullan to learn about a spunky garbage truck, create your own Rocky vehicle, and learn about composting with the help of Rocky!

Words to Use 

• Represent– to stand for
  

• Trash – something that is not used anymore and is thrown away
  

• Garbage – another word for trash
  

• Recycle – to reuse something or to convert waste into reusable materials
  

• Sanitation – to make sure something is clean and healthy
  

• Vehicle – used to transport things, like a car or truck
  

Extend the Learning: How Much Trash Can You Stash

Rocky the recycling pup knows just what to do when he comes across some bananas that have turned brown! He’ll use them as compost! Watch this short clip with your pint-sized planet saver, and learn a little bit about composting.

Learn more from Rocky and the rest of the PAW Patrol in the Noggin app.

💡Skill: This activity helps children to develop their identities and care for themselves and others

End the day with hugs and happy thoughts

Steps

• Let’s wind down and get ready to sleep. Think of something on the Earth that makes you feel happy.

• Picture your happy thing (it could be a beautiful flower or a shady tree or a hug from your grandmother). Give yourself a little hug with your arms as you think about it.

• Your happy thought is bringing a smile to your face! Now, I am going to give you a hug, too!

💡Skill: Moving and stretching builds the big muscles in your child’s legs, back, core, and arms!

Let’s move and groove to say good morning to our heroic Earth!

Get up and groove and learn how to move like Bot from Team Umizoomi!

Steps

• Good morning, Earth! It’s time to get up and groove with Bot to start our day!

• Let’s start with our arms up high in the air, toward the Sun! 1-2-3!

• Let’s reach our hands way down to the Earth — first toward one side. 1-2-3! Then toward the other side. 1-2-3!

• Let’s bend our knees and squat down to the Earth. 1-2-3!

• Let’s pump our fists up to the sky. 1-2-3!

• Let’s end with the craziest shake on Earth!

• Let’s start over. How many times can we do the “Good Morning, Earth” sequence from beginning to end?

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💡Skills: Pretending to be a firefighter builds skills like creativity, expression, and problem solving. 

Description

You might be familiar with Blaze — a monster truck who solves math and science problems. In one episode, he even fights a five alarm fire! In this activity, your child can pretend to be a firefighting hero, too!

Materials 

☑ Printable (optional)

Set Up 

Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:

• Firefighters are heroes who help us when we need them — if there’s a fire or if there’s a cat stuck in a tree!

• Let’s pretend: We can save the day, just like real firefighters.

• First, let’s pretend to put on our gear: helmets, firefighting suits, and boots. Then let’s get our pretend ladders and hoses. Now let’s pretend to be Blaze fighting the fire!

• Let’s make up our own firefighting story. We can talk about firefighters and how they help our neighbors and friends!

Pro Tip:

If your little hero has a hard time, help him or her pretend to fight a fire and read a book about fighting fires! If your little hero needs a challenge, work with him or her to write down a fire hero story and draw pictures to go with it. Review the resources from the National Fire Protection Association and think about whether there’s more about fire safety you can practice with your child.

Extend the Learning

Kids can learn more by watching Blaze fight a fire and creating a booklet with facts about fire dogs — dalmatians like Marshall, and creating a helmet they can wear during their pretend play time.

Words to Use 

• Firefighter– someone who puts out fires
  

• Helmet – a hard hat that firefighters wear
  

• Hose – a tube that water comes through