Activities for 3-5 – Option 2 – Key Learning Centre

Activities for ages 3-5

Here you will find suggested activities, snack ideas, and new learning challenges to try. These will be updated monthly to give you a variety of stimulating and exciting tasks to do with your child.

Recipe to try

Oven Roasted Potato Wedges

You will need;

4 large potatoes

1 tbsp vegetable oil

2 tsp mixed herbs or 2 tbsp of fresh herbs finely chopped

Sealable plastic container

Preheat oven to 400 F

Cut the potatoes into wedges

Put oil into the plastic container with the herbs

Add the potato wedges

Close tightly and shake

Put potatoes onto baking tray to go into the hot oven

Bake for 15 minutes, turn over and bake another 15 minutes until brown

Physical Activity

Up and Over

You will need a rope, two chairs and a soft ball.

Tie the ends of the rope to chairs.

Begin with the rope close to the ground.

Bounce the ball on the near side of the rope so that it goes over the rope. Let it bounce on the other side before collecting or catching it.

Play with a partner-rally the ball back and forth and use a chart to keep count.

Language and Literacy

This week for our language and literacy activity I have recorded on Elluminate the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle for those of you who may not have this story at home. If you have it at home read the story with your child, if not go on-line and watch the recorded story. Then print off the sequencing activity to go with the story. Have your child color the pictures and then cut them out. After this use the cut out pictures to retell the story putting them in the correct order. Refer back to the book or the recorded story if they need help remembering the sequence of events.

You can find the recorded session under our activity post link labeled The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

Science Experiment

Lava Bottles

You will need; a clear plastic water bottle with a lid, water, vegetable oil, food coloring, salt, spoon.

Pour water into the bottle, fill to 1/3 full. Add about the same amount of vegetable oil to the bottle. Observe.

Add a few drops of food coloring. Observe. Put the lid on tightly. Shake the bottle vigorously, observe.

Allow the bottle to sit undisturbed for a few minutes. Observe. Add one spoonful of salt to the bottle and observe. Repeat the salt step as many times as you’d like.

What happened when you:

Added the oil? Did it mix with the water?

Added the food coloring? Is the food coloring in the oil or the water?

Shook the bottle.

Let the bottle sit after shaking.

What did you notice after you added the salt? Where did the salt go? What did the oil do?

Sing/Finger Play

Up To The Ceiling

Up to the ceiling, down to the floor

Left to the window and right to the door.

This is my right hand, raise it up high.

This is my left hand, reach for the sky.

Right hand, left hand twirl them around.

Left hand, right hand pound, pound, pound.

Arts and Crafts

Gather old flyers that can be cut up, 4 sheets of blank paper, scissors and glue.

Label each page 1^st-breakfast, 2^nd-lunch, 3^rd-supper/dinner and 4^th-snacks.

Have your child go through the fliers and cut out pictures of healthy foods that belong in each meal and then paste them on the corresponding sheet of paper.

Post these in the kitchen, they can be a great reference for healthy eating for your child.

Healthy Snack Idea

Yummy breakfast or snack idea

Toss dried cranberries and chopped walnuts into instant oatmeal.

Try different types of dried fruit and nuts that your child likes.

We love to see how these activities turn out for you. Send us in photos of your child and/or family trying them out. We hope you have fun!

The Key Learning Centre provides alternative style educational programs to British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.

Our school is located in the heart of the bustling community of Fort St. John overlooking the beautiful Peace River Valley. We house multiple programs including distributed learning (distance education), continuing education and an alternate education program.

We enroll a population of more than 800 students, offering programs for K-12 students, as well as adults. Adult students use our programs both to graduate and to upgrade in order to pursue post-secondary education goals.

Activity Zone 3-5

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