Thursday, April 30

Spring Bugs-Ants Go Marching

1.  (Use items in your E-Day Bag). Draw a picture of your favorite part of today’s book in your Composition Book and dictate a sentence about it to your parent (who can write it next to your picture).  Allow children to mimic your writing, if interested.

2.  Discuss the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”.

What is the correct thing to do?

Should the ants have shared with the grasshopper?

Make an ant hill from brown paper and cut it out.  Make little fingerprint ants with a black stamp pad on the ant hill.

Use:

Thumb-abdomen

Pinkie-thorax

Pointer-head

Draw on legs and antennae.

1.  Count as high as you can and identify the foam numerals from 1-10 in your E-Day Bag.

2.    How Many am I Hiding?

Use plastic ants or any small item.  Begin with 3 ants.  Put your hand over all the ants. Slide your hand away with 2 under your hand.  Have the child tell how many you’re hiding.  Explain to your child this is not a guess.  They use their brain to think of the answer.  When your child catches on, try the game with more ants.  Then let your child take a turn hiding the ants, and see if they can “trick” you.

1.  Egg Carton Ants

Cut a cardboard egg carton so your child has 3 egg cups for the 3 body parts.  Paint either red, brown or black.  Add wiggle eyes and pipe cleaner pieces for the antennae and legs.

2.  Ant Hill in a Cup

Use a clear punch cup so you can see the layers.First put a layer of chocolate pudding for the “dirt”.  Then crush a graham cracker in a ziplock and pour the crumbs into the cup for the anthill “sand”.  Last, add chocolate chips or raisins for the “ants”.

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