Garlic Cloves
Experimenting with garlic
Instructions
- This activity gets a child thinking about how a body functions as a whole
- Together peel a garlic bulb, remove one clove and smell
- Place the clove of garlic between your child’s toes and put on their socks. Join your child in this experiment and have a clove of garlic between your toes too!
- In as little as 30 minutes, you may begin having the taste of garlic in your mouth
- In an hour or so you can smell the garlic on your skin
- Explain how your skin in the largest organ of the body and acts to insulate and protect the body from germs and the need to keep it clean
Simplify
Your skin has many important jobs. Here are three:
1. Skin protects your body
2. Skin keeps your body at the correct temperature
3. Skin is used for our sense of touch
Click here to link for information about the skin being the largest organ.
Extend
Click here for a video to watch sharing how your skin works.
Draw a picture of yourself showing an example of how your skin works.
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
If you were out in the sun for a long time, what would happen to your skin?
There are 110 different skin tones included in six different types of skin complexions. What is the color of your skin? Can you name a family member or friend with each type?
Type 1 - Extrememly fair skin
Type 2 - Fair Skin
Type 3 - Medium skin
Type 4 - Olive skin
Type 5 - Brown skin
Type 6 - Black skin
Materials
- 1 garlic bulb
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Curriculum Plan Resources
Skills Focus
- Shape - Review
- Color - Black
- Number - Seven, 7
- Alphabet Letters - J, I
- Sense - Smell
- Character Trait - Courage
- Target Words - Long, Little, Short, Small
Monthly Proverb
Chinese - If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through
Did You Know?
"Before children enter elementary school, they must develop many linguistic and cognitive skills that will make later academic learning possible. By the age of five, however, children differ markedly in their success in reaching these developmental goals." Entwisle & Alexander, 1993
Books to Read
"The Little Engine That Could"
by Watty Piper, Illustrator Loren Long (Activity 12) (audiobook available)
"My Very First Mother Goose"
with Ioa Opie Editor and Rosemary Wells Illustrator (Activity 26)
"The Color Monster, A Story About Emotions "
by Anna Lienas (Activity 8)
"The Color Monster, A Story About Emotions" VIDEO
by Anna Lienas (Activity 8)
"The Little Engine that Could" VIDEO
by Watty Piper (Activity 12)
"My Very First Mother Goose" VIDEO
with Ioa Opie Editor and Rosemary Wells Illustrator (Activity 26)
Music Playlist
"America (My Country Tis of Thee)" VIDEO
by the Hit Crew, Album: Drew’s Famous Music for Summer Games and Activities (Activity 13)
"Teeth" VIDEO
by Willa Brigham, Album: Healthy Happy Habits (Activity 25)
"Miss Mary Mack"
by Ella Jenkins, Album: You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song (Activity 9)
"My Country 'Tis of Thee" VIDEO
by Aretha Franklin (Activity 13)
"Miss Mary Mack" VIDEO
by Patty Shula (Activity 9)
"Teeth"
by Willa Brigham, Album: Healthy, Happy, Habits (Activity 25)
Monthly Materials List
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Fingerplay / Poems / Songs
Jack and Jill
(Activity 19 Month 9)
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.