News from North Star

July 13th, 2020

Weekly Activities Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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The Big Friendly

Giant

A Giants Nail

Salon

Humongous

Origami

Larger than Life

Fairy Tales

Giant Feet Relay

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Cosmic Yoga

Indoor Scavenger

Hunt

Rainbow Leaf

Prints

Marshmallow

Shooters

Basketball Basics

15

Water Play

Film School: Wintergatan Marble

Machine

Create Your Own

Instrument

Coffee Filter

Butterflies

Find Your Family

Tree

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Water Play

Introducing Bill

Nye the Science

Guy

Turning Milk into

Plastic

Plantable Seed

Paper

Self Portrait

Mosaic

17

Weekly Cabin

Movie Creation

Weekly Wind

Down

Personalizing our

Jenga

Summer Fan Craft

Create Your Own

Pod Sport

Reminders:

-Water Play is on Wednesdays and Thursdays. We

recommend bathing suits, sandals and a towel. We

generally play with water balloons, water shooters, and

sprinklers.

-APS provides lunch and breakfast for all children, but

you are welcome to send food from home if you prefer.

-Please ensure you send your child with a fresh mask

each day.

Helpful Information

Site Phone: 504-4557

Office Phone: 296-2880

Site Email: Northstar@childrens-

choice.org

Financial Assistance Available:

841-4800

Carrots is Pod 3’s furriest member (disinfected daily). He was

feeling a little left out and downright irresponsible by not

wearing a mask! So the rest of Pod 3 found a beautiful green

mask for their bunny friend to wear!

Magna-tile Mansions

Last week we experimented a lot with light and

shadows. We built magna tile mansions but decided

they looked spooky and haunted when we put a light

on them and thought maybe the Adam’s family could

live there. Linnea and Issa wish they could meet

mortician Adams and show her the house.

Experiments with light and Shadows Due to new limitations we have found ourselves using media more in our programs and especially using our projector to take the

kids on virtual field trips and provide tools for learning from the intent but that got us thinking about how projections work and if

we could make our own. We knew we needed clear surfaces and that we could put other transparent images on it and came up

with these cup projectors!

Bracelet Weaving

Dayton and Hollynn Making Friendship

bracelets in pod 2. “Once you get the

hang of the patterns, it’s pretty easy and

it’s pretty distracting”

Geometric Soap Painting

We all know soap has been a hot

topic lately so we have been trying

to incorporate it into play. We

experimented with putting soap

and paint together and discovered

it makes a beautiful opaque effect

.we taped off geometrical shapes

with tape and had each kid paint

their own part leaving us with this

beautiful mural.

Horsing Around!

Last Monday we had a horse day.

We learned about jockeys, made

chariots to race and created finger

puppets and cork horses. “These

horses are getting married, they

would usually eat wood blocks but

they are going to eat pretend

spaghetti because it is their

wedding.” Said Makenzie.

Petit Plan Pressing

Continuing our projects in found nature we forged for native New Mexico

plants and discussed how to preserve them. Pod 4 decided to do plant

pressings of these pods and flowers and created these cute pieces of art.