Each Friday I will post some fun projects and activities
that you can participate in as a family at home. Of course there are always
more options for our Primrose Thornton, Stapleton and Reunion families on our
Primrose Parents Place on our school websites using your log in and password. Look
for log in information in our school monthly newsletters!
The Giving
Tree Project

After reading
the story with your children talk about their feelings and how the man and the
tree might have felt. Then, create your own giving trees. Collect sticks and
leaves from outside to decorate your tree. When you are done with the trees, draw
a few leaves and write on each leaf the things you are thankful for. Hang your
giving tree in your home to remind everyone to be generous to others and thankful
for the things you have.
Rainbow
Fish Project
Read the “Rainbow
Fish” by Marcus Pfister for another lesson on Generosity. After you are done
eading the book, have your child create what they would look like as a rainbow
fish after sharing all of their beautiful scales with other fish. Have children
use lots of different materials to create the colorful scales. Here is a
reading of the story online.
Picture of
Generosity
Give your
child several art materials to choose from to create a picture of what they
believe generosity looks like. When they have completed their picture, have
them explain their picture of generosity to you. Next have them draw or write
one thing they would like to do that is generous and help them to complete this
activity this holiday season.
As we enter
into the holiday season, here are a few fun holiday crafts we like to make as
decorations for the house as well as gifts for friends and family and even a fun science experiment to do during winter break!

Salt Dough Recipe
2 cups of table salt
1 cup of water
1 teaspoon of oil
1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of corn flour
Approximately half to one cup of cold water (during the kneading process)
Instructions: Combine the salt and one cup of water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, let the salty mixture bubble for a few minutes while stirring. After a few minutes take the saucepan off heat and add flours and oil. Stir vigorously. Our out onto wax paper and let it cool. When dough is cool, kneed and add cold water as needed to get the right consistency. Once you have turned your dough into shape, use a straw to make a hole in the top of each shape. Bake in the oven at low heat (150ºC or 300ºF) for 3 to 4 hours. When ornaments are cooled, paint and tie a piece of yarn or fishing wire through the hole and into a loop at the top to hang.
Chocolate Marshmallow Dreidels
12 Chocolate Kisses
12 Marshmellows
8 oz. semisweet chocolate
– melted
12 pretzel sticks

Life Cycle
of a Snowman Science Experiment
During those
snow days, go outside to collect snow to create 2 miniature snowmen or if you
don’t have snow, you can always use frozen water balloons! You will need 1
large, 1 medium and 1 small water balloon. Once frozen, peel the water balloon
off of the frozen ball. Use some salt to adhere the 3 ice balls together to
create your snowman. You can make eyes, nose, mouth and buttons with felt to
get the hole affect. Place one snowman
outside and one indoors inside of a container. Have children create hypothesis
of what they believe will happen to each. Have them record observations of both
and then conclude with actual results and compare.
Primrose curriculum theme this week was Fairy Tales and Legends and next week will be Signs
of Winter. Don’t forget to check out our Home Fun projects on Parents Place on
our school websites for fun projects to reinforce what we are learning at Primrose!
See you back
here next week for information on “Traveling
with the Small Child”.
Thanks Erin - these ideas are so relevant and helpful for us during this chilly weekend, as we get ready for the winter holidays!
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