Want more fun from space?

Look at this cool experiment!

Nickelodeon sent some slime into space! 

They wanted the astronauts to do some experiments at the International Space Station to compare how slime behaves in low gravity compared to how it behaves on earth. 

It is super cool to watch! A fun experiment with SLIME!

Click on the picture to watch!

Storytime from SPACE!

Want to hear a story read by a real life astronaut? Today's story is read by astronaut Scott Kelly. 

He is reading his brother's book, Mousetronaut. Both brothers are astronauts! 

Scott Kelly reads this book from the actual space station rotating around the earth. 

Click on the book below to hear the read-aloud:

To learn more about space and play some cool learning games, go to NASA Kids Club: 

It's out of this world!

Now let's sing!

Dolly Parton is a famous country singer that has a great website where you can hear a bedtime story. 

This week's story is "There's a Hole In the Log on the Bottom of the Lake". It's a fun story that you can sing. 

It is a great rhyme that you can read along. If you read it fast enough, it is a tongue twister. 

Here's the story (click on the book cover): 

And here are some fun activity pages to go with the story (as well as the music!)

Make sure you scroll down to see them all!

There's a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake activity pages

It's a beautiful spring day! Let's plant!

Spring is when we plant and grow a garden!
Click on the cover below to read a great new book from the Yasmin series!

If you need a sign in code, it is 

username: continue

password: reading

Then do the following activity with all those extra toilet paper rolls you have around the house!

Toilet Paper Roll planters!

Let's get growing!

Happy Earth Day!

This morning I went to Explore.org again and checked in with the baby eagles on the web cam and the mom was feeding them a dead fish! Yeech! But I think they liked it a lot. They are growing up!

https://explore.org/livecams/currently-live/decorah-eagles-north-nest

What a great way to start Earth Day! Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a day set aside to recognize what a great planet we live on and what we can do to help our world - even while we are stuck at home. So go outside on this beautiful day and look for something big or small in this world that is beautiful and great!

If you want to read more about Earth Day, go to this ebook and explore and then find another animal ebook on this site to read about!

https://abdodigital.com/browse/title/?pid=25190

This book has QR codes throughout the book that you can click on find out more including videos!

The Most Magnificent Thing!

Are you missing Makerspace? I am. 

But now you have plenty of time to make MAGNIFICENT inventions with things you find around your house. Need some inspiration? 

Here's a great book for you, read by an inventor. 

Click on the book cover for the read-aloud.

Now are you ready to create? 

Need more inspiration? 

Let's go to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for help. 

Their site is FULL of great science experiments, information, games, videos and FUN!

Here's a great place to start - with a game called Simple Machines.

Can you beat it? 

Click on the picture below to go to the game! Have fun!

Ready for some eggs!

Today's book is about EGGS!

It is one fun book that is a favorite in the library...

REX FINDS AN EGG, EGG, EGG!

Here is a youtube read aloud done by some kids that are good readers. 

I bet you can read along with them.

After you click on the picture above hear the story, maybe you want to make a bouncy egg. 

All you need is some vinegar and a raw egg. 

You can add the inside of a highlighter to make it extra cool. 

Here's the directions:

Have fun! Happy Easter!