Weekly Blog Post

June 17-24, 2020

Happy Father’s Week! This week we will be celebrating our dads, or that significant male figure in your life. Father’s Day is June 24th, this upcoming Sunday. The activities contained in this post are intended to inspire your creativity and offer a few suggestions on how to celebrate your ‘Dad’ or that special someone who has come to mean so much to you over the past several years.

Belonging and Contributing:

- Go for a bike ride with dad. Be sure and wear your helmet.

- Play an outdoor game like catch, ring toss or lawn bowling.

- Prepare a simple breakfast for dad and serve it to him in bed. You could prepare cereal, peanut butter on bread and jam or a bagel with cream cheese. Serve him a glass of juice with breakfast. Remember, it is the thought that counts.

- Make dad a bow tie or a windsor knot tie out of construction paper or special coloured paper. Ask mom to create an outline of the tie for you. Cut it out and decorate it with markers and stickers. Don’t forget to include his favourite colour. Write a special message on it such as Best Dad Ever, Number 1 Pop or World’s Greatest Dad. He can tape it to the front of his shirt and wear it throughout the day on Sunday. Don’t forget to take some pictures of Dad in his new tie.

Self-Regulation and Well-Being:

- Make special plans to go on a fishing trip together. 

- Cook a meal together.

- Make something together. Try putting together a kite or assembling a puzzle together. 

- Make dad a crown and print on it ‘KING FOR A DAY!’

Demonstrates Literacy and Mathematics Behaviours:

- Listen to The Night Before Father’s Day, by Amy Wummer. Use the URL to access this book on YouTube.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqu0MwLvy8o

- Did you get any great deas about ways that you could surprise Dad on his special day?

- Make Dad a Father’s Day card. 

- Write Dad a special Father’s Day Book. Staple four pieces of clean paper together to make the book. Think of a ‘title’ that you’d like to use for the book. Write that on the front page. Don’t forget to draw pictures with lots of detail. Make it special. Dad will want to keep this special gift.

Using this sentence starter. . .

My dad is great because _________________. 

complete the book by adding pictures on each page and words which match what you have drawn. Practice reading it until you are comfortable sharing it with your dad. On Father’s Day morning, read the book to him. Be sure to give Dad lots of hugs and kisses.

Problem Solving and Innovation:

- Solve this problem:

Dad has three blue golf balls and six yellow golf balls in his golf bag. How many golf balls does he have in all?

- How can you be sure you solved the problem correctly? Which problem solving strategy did you use?  Draw a picture, Make a Model, Act it Out, Use Thinking Tools (manipulatives)?

How can you use the golf balls mentioned in the problem above to make a pattern? Can you make more than one pattern? What is the core for each pattern that you made?

Happy Father’s Day, Dad!!!