Culture - Day 5 grades K-3 learning activities

Trivia question: What is the world’s tallest waterfall?
A) Angel Falls    B) Browne Falls    C) Yosemite Falls

Mindfulness activity:

• Walk around the room.
• Now walk around again, slowly.
• Walk around again normally.
• Walk around again very slowly.
• Walk around one more time very, very slowly.

Supplies:

• 2 pieces of paper
• Tape
• Paint or markers
• Refer to page 3 as reference

Handheld fans have been used in art, dance, and poetry for centuries.

Help your child make their own fan:

• Tape two pieces of white paper together on the short side, so you end up with one long white paper.
• Turn it over so you don’t paint on the tape.
• Draw a design that will look nice on the fan. Make it slightly stretched out, since it will shrink down when you fold it.
• Paint or color the design.
• Let it dry.
• Cut off the corners to make them rounded.
• Fold up the fan like an accordion (so it zig zags back and forth) starting from one short side of the paper.
• Tape one end together to make the handle. - 2 pieces of paper

Supplies:

• 5 small painted rocks

This is a traditional Korean game. It's similar to the game of 'jacks' but instead of metal toys, Koreans traditionally use rocks.

• Collect 5 small rocks with your child in your backyard.
• Put the rocks on the ground.
• Have your child pick up one rock. They will toss it in the air while quickly trying to pick up a second rock before catching the first one before it hits the ground. They should have 2 stones in the same hand.
• For the second round, try to pick up 2 rocks each time you throw one in the air.
• In the third round, try to pick up three rocks and so on.
• If the rock drops before catching or picking up the others, switch turns.

To make the game harder (don’t do this if your child could hurt themselves)

• Toss all of the rocks in the air and try to catch them on the back of your hand.
• Toss them up again and try to catch them on your palm.
• The number of rocks that you catch is your score.
• If you fail to catch them, it’s the next player’s turn.
• The goal is to get the highest score.

Supplies:

• Sidewalk chalk
• Flat stone or similar object (button, plastic toy, shell, etc.)

Help your child draw a line of 10 boxes on the ground. You can put two boxes next to each other in some places. For ideas, search for “hopscotch” on the internet.

Write a number in each box, starting with 1 in the bottom box and going up to 10 in the top box. Or, try drawing the characters in Korean:

1. 일 - eel
2. 이 - ee
3. 삼 - sam
4. 사 - sa
5. 오 - o
6. 육 - yook
7. 칠 - chil
8. 팔 - pal
9. 구 - goo
10. 십 - ship

To play:

• Throw your stone or other object so it lands on one of the boxes.
• Hop on each box from 1 to 10, skipping over the one your object landed on. Use one foot when there’s only one box and two feet when there’s two.
• Then hop on each box from 10 to 1, picking up your object on the way back.
• To make it harder, try to throw your object onto each number.

Ask your child:

• How does it feel to try things from another culture?
• Do you think that kids in Korea like to play the same kinds of games as kids in Canada?
• What other places in the world do you want to learn more about?

Mindfulness Activity Answer: A) Angel Falls is the tallest waterfall, it is in Venezuela​