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