Wall Ball - Game - Instructional video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExeFl0CJ9Y
Equipment:
2 players (these players are playing the game simultaneously, but more players can play as there is a rotation of players), a wall (this can be your garage, the side of the house, a barn side etc.), a bouncy ball (to make it more difficult you can use a smaller bouncy type ball like a tennis ball), and your hands.
Make boundary lines with chalk, stones, tape or cones. The boundary line will indicate the out of bounds area.
Before You Start Playing:
Practice Skills: Practice underhand and overhand ball hitting against the wall. Also, agility footwork is important to practice.
Playing Rules:
Starting:
1 player serves/hits the bouncy ball towards the wall. This player is called the server. The ball needs to be hit/bounce one time on the ground; then the ball needs to be able to reach/touch the wall.
The other player, the returner, must allow the ball to hit the wall and then bounce once on the ground before returning/hitting it.
Players will then alternate hitting/bouncing the ball on the ground and reaching the wall off the bounce.
Players will continue to play until the ball:
Bounces on a line
Is hit outside the boundaries
Hits/reaches the wall before bouncing off the ground
Bounces twice in a row before it reaches the wall
Does not bounce
Once play is stopped, the player who made the mistake goes to the end of the line; a new player comes into the game to play.
You can play this game with your friends and family!!!
by Peggy Rathmann
Good night, Gorilla,” says the weary watchman as he walks by the gorilla cage on his nightly rounds at the zoo. The gorilla answers by quietly pickpocketing the guard’s keys, stealthily trailing him, and unlocking the cages of every animal the oblivious fellow bids goodnight to. Looking much like an exhausted father, the uniformed guard traipses home toward his cottage, while the lonely zoo animals softly parade behind him. The animals manage to slip into his bedroom and nestle unnoticed near his sleepy wife–until the bold little gorilla goes so far as to snuggle up beside her as she turns out the light.
Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly
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YOU NEED:
TOILET PAPER ROLL, PAINT, PIPECLEANER, STAPLER. SCISSORS
1. CUT THE ROLL INTO 4 EVEN PIECES.
2. PAINT THE INSIDE ONE COLOR AND THE OUTSIDES ANOTHER.
3. WHEN THE PAINT HAS DRIED, TWIST A PIPECLEANER LIKE IN THE PICTURE.
4. SQUEEZE THE ROLLS GENTLY TO MAKE THEM MORE OVAL THAN ROUND.
4. HAVE AN ADULT HEL[ TO STAPLE THE PIPECLEANER TO THE PIECES OF THE ROLL.
NOW YOU HAVE A BUTTERFLY!
This is my favorite illustration from the book. I think I like it because, like the Cat, I juggle lots of things at once...
Can YOU juggle?
See our post from July 29, 2020 to learn how!
Story written and illustrated by William Steig
Sylvester had a pebble collection. When he found an unusual one, he realized it had magical powers.
Find out what happens in the story. Come back fo an activity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNGUnk8JeLE
Go outside and look for a pebble that looks and feels nice to you. Carry it around and see if it has any magic!
Think about what you might do it if DOES turn out to be magical!
Draw or paint some pictures, and tell the adventures of what happened with YOUR magic pebble! Turn your drawing and story into a BOOK!
Ask your friends to do the same thing, and then exchange and read each other's stories.
I saw lots of butteries in my garden this week, and I thought of today's activity.cardboard tube
bubble wrap
double sided sticky tape
paint and paint brush
tray or large lid (paper plate, clean styrofoam meat tray, etc.)
paper
Lay down some newspaper, an old table covering, or some garbage bags to protect the surface. Cover the cardboard tube with a layer of bubble wrap, held in place with double sided sticky tape.
Squirt some different colored lines on your tray.
Roll the bubble wrap tube in the paint and rolled it onto the paper. Repeat.
Ask your family and friends to make some. If you have them up, you will have a beautiful sky of butterflies!
MATERIALS:
You need heavy paper (like construction paper or cover stock)
Scissors. a ruler. a pencil
a sloped surface
WATCH the video first.
I made our horses in the colors of the SELVA Contrada - orange and green.
Race your horses with your friends and family. Which horse do you think will win?
Prima Selvata in Campo! Selva is always first in the Campo Race.
See the videos of the Palio Race in the next post (8/16/2020).
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This is a game that can be played inside or outside the house.
Bocce is an ancient game from Italy. It is like lawn bowling, and can be played with Bocce Balls or any other balls you have around the house.
How to Play Bocce Ball - pronounced: Baahh- Chee
EQUIPMENT
There is limited equipment for bocce ball. All you need to play is a bocce set. If you do not have a bocce set, you can use objects/balls you have at home.
A small white ball or rock can be used as the pallino. The pallino is a smaller object used as the target for the bocce balls to hit during game play.
You will also need bocce balls. This consists of 8 larger balls or objects, 4 of one color, 4 of another color. Around the house you can use tennis balls, golf balls, rubber bouncy balls, or any type of balls you have that roll. These balls will be your bocce balls.
BOCCE COURT
In order to play bocce ball, you will need to have a smooth, flat surface. This can be a floor in your home, grass, sand, concrete, a rug, or any type of surface that you can toss or roll balls on. The size of your area can be whatever size you need to accommodate your game play. You will also have to draw or make a foul line. This line will be where the players throw from.
PLAYERS
Bocce ball can be played with any amount of players. You can ask your friends, family and parents to join. Divide the teams evenly.
BOCCE RULES
Standing behind the foul line, the first player will roll or toss the pallino to set the target.
That same player will then throw/toss or roll a bocce ball.
The goal of the toss or roll is to try to get the bocce ball as close to the pallino as possible.
The next person to toss or roll is from the opposing team. This player will throw/ toss or roll one of their bocce balls. The goal is to get closer to the pallino than their opponent.
Teams will keep tossing or rolling their bocce balls in opposite order, with everyone in the team tossing a bocce ball at least once, until all the bocce balls have been tossed.
BOCCE SCORING
Point(s) will be rewarded to whatever team has a bocce ball closest to the pallino.
If the bocce balls are equal distance to the pallino, no points are awarded.
For the team that has their bocce balls closet to the pallino, they will receive a point. Points will be rewarded for multiple balls closest to the pallino than the opponent’s closest ball.
Games will go on for as long as you want, each time with a different player tossing the pallino.
GAME PLAY
Now that you know how to the setup up the court, have equipment, know the rules and scoring of bocce, you can begin playing.
Enjoy playing with your family and friends.
With the video so you can see a game in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQJ6s0YUlc
Meet Your MaskDuring the Pandemic, it is important to keep yourself and others safe. In some places, you will be asked to wear a mask. The mask can be fun and you can show that you are very responsible by wearing it correctly.
Here are some tips.
ACTIVITY: Design some masks for your favorite book, TV, or cartoon characters.
Tell why they like the mask you have drawn for them.
I made one of Summer Words. Here it is.
THEN I was inspired to write a few sentences using the words from my word cloud.
ACTIVITY: Think of something you really like. Make a list of words, using the WorsArt.com tool, or any other program or app to make word clouds.
You can also sketch a shape on a piece of paper, and just write the words on the paper, generating your wn picture.
Then think about the words you used, and write a few sentences.
Here's mine to go with this word cloud shown:
Summer by Deb
It's a HOT day in the summer. I am sitting outside, listening to the birds and Beas as they go to the flowers. My plants are growing, but I must water them. First, though, I am thirsty and hungry. I will have some lemonade with lots of ice and maybe even a popsicle. Then, I will read a book under the tree in the shade.
What can you see when you look out your bedroom window? Does your eye always catch in the same place? What about looking WAY up? Now look way down (get close to the window). How is the view different from another window in your house?
ACTIVITY: WHAT I CAN SEE
Using toilet paper tubes (empty ones), make a pair of binoculars, like in the picture. Glue them to a picture you draw or paint of your face.
On another sheet of paper, write a story about what you see from wherever you want to be... real or imagined.
Now you have an illustrated story!
Share with your. family. What do your friends see?
Exchange stories and try to imagine what they are describing.
WATER BALLOON PINATA It's the end of summer, but it is still HOT HOT HOT...
ABC Fun
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Barn Yard Animals - Story Read Aloud Video and Bookmarks
SUNFLOWERShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRNHdGXTi4
I absolutely LOVE sunflowers...but only yellow ones... I love how they follow the sun (I also love the sun (see previous post 8/5/2020).
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Art © Arnold Lobel. Permission to reproduce and distribute this page has been granted by the copyright holder, HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
