Homeschoolers - March 2021
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Did You Know... CKPL provides Bags of Books and Subscription Bags for homeschool and virtual learning families? Contact us with your curriculum needs and we will curate a book bag for you. You will be notified when your items are ready for curbside pickup. Phone 519.354.2940 Email cklibrary@chatham-kent.ca Facebook Chat @CKPLibrary Text 519.401.7174
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Titles for Kids at the Kitchen Table
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Llamas, hot dogs, and six other silly, non-standard measuring units demonstrate the math concept of weight. Pre-readers learn the weight of a car, a hummingbird, a burger, and more.
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You are a musician! Learn how to make music without any formal training. Play clay flowerpots like chimes, start a sonic symphony with water-filled bowls, march to the bat of your own handmade drum. Make 35 instruments with things your have at home.
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The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book is a year-round how-to activity guidebook for getting kids outdoors and exploring nature, be it catching fireflies in the cool summer evenings; making birdfeeders in the fall from peanut butter, pine cones, and seed; building a snowman in 3 feet of fresh winter snow; or playing duck, duck, goose on a warm spring day.
Kids of all ages will enjoy more than one activity for every single day of the year. Each of the year's four seasons includes fifty checklist items, fifty challenge items, three each of projects, destinations, garden recipes, and outdoor games.
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Flags of the World by Sylvie BednarEach nation's flag is paired with facts and tidbits of history about that country, providing a window into the values and cultures of countries from around the globe.
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by Kristin Fontichiaro
Help readers with the tools they need to find, organize, and share information clearly and effectively, encouraging them to think critically as they conduct research and present their findings in new and interesting ways.
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How to be a Coder by Kiki ProttsmanA kid-friendly introduction to coding with comprehensive, STEAM-supporting activities that demonstrate how to work offline and online using Scratch 3.0 and includes short biographies of such coding pioneers as Alan Turing and Katherine Johnson.
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Turn a tune like The Farmer in the Dell into: The architect draws the plans. The lumberjack cuts the wood. Hi, ho to work we go We're going to build a house. Bonus activities are designed to bolster fine and large motor skills.
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Find out how to make easy-to-build, fun-to-fly contraptions that can be flow indoors or outside. Rockets, gliders, boomerangs, launchers, and helicopters are constructed for little or no cost using recycled materials. Readers will learn how to turn rubber bands, paper clips, straws, plastic bottles, and index cards into amazing, gravity-defying flyers! Each project contains a material list and detailed instructions.
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Let's Take It Outside!: Teacher-Created Activities For Outdoor Learning by Kathy CharnerCombine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that build math, literacy, and science skills in young children. Over 100 teacher-created, classroom-tested activities engage children's minds and bodies as they explore the limitless bounds of the outdoors!
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Hands-on activities encourage children to explore patterns, cause and effect, size and scale, change and growth, energy and how things work. Activities use household items and things easily found outside.
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