At-Home Activities: Desert Adventures - Finding New Creatures
January 18-22

Workshop Class Activities:
Craft – Animal Tracks
Key Points - Roadrunner's Day in the Desert
Collaborative – Desert Web of Life
Language Arts - Write Captions
Math/Logic – Discover the Dichotomous Key
Prepare for Adventure – Bush Tucker: Outback Survival
Big Activity – Bug Study
Movement - Echolocation Game
At-Home Activities
See a suggested week schedule at https://www.celebrationeducation.com/single-post/free-curriculum
Materials
• various fiction and non-fiction books that relate to deserts
• notebook or lined paper
• art paper
• a cup of pocket change
• bowl
• deck of cards
• bug jar
Reading
Various fiction and non-fiction books that relate to deserts
Writing
Copywork
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” - Charles Addams
“Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.” - William Shakespeare
Language arts lesson
Photo captions are a few lines of text that explain photographs.
Writing Activity
Find some interesting desert animal photos to write your own captions about.
Journaling
When I’m old, I want to...
Math
Math Concept
A tessellation is a tiling on a flat surface with no overlaps and no gaps. See https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/tessellation.html .
Math Project
Make some tessellations of your own. Here’s a video that can help you get you started: https://youtu.be/WBVzoaFi90E