EMT Morales - Book 1 - Clamshell Stretcher
Story Time for EMT Morales-Clamshell Stretcher created by KT Brison of Lit Mama
Language
The wonderful writing of this book provides a great opportunity to practice sentence variety. Here's a free printable that explains how and why sentence lengths should vary with a paragraph for your kiddos to practice with.
Science
Flashing Light Bulb Experiment
One of the steps the EMTs take to race to the emergency is flicking on the flashing lights of the ambulance. If you want to wow your kiddos with a simple light experiment, this is the one. It's super easy, and they can even make the light flash! What you need:- 1.5 volt lightbulb (we removed ours from a standard flashlight)
- D Cell battery or larger (we used 6-volt battery because we had it in our science kit)
- 6 inches copper wire
- Knife or wire strippers for striping wire
What you do:
- Strip about 1/2 inch of the insulation from both ends of the wire
- If you're using a D cell battery, tape one end of the stripped wire to the negative or bottom side of the battery
- If you're using a 6-volt like we did, wrap one end of the wire around the negative post
- Make a loop in the other end of the wire that the metal base of the light bulb will sit in. Make sure the copper is touching the metal
- Holding the wire, touch the bottom of the light bulb to the positive end (or post) of the battery
- Light!
- To make it flash, simply move the bottom of the light bulb off the positive and back on
Craft
Pasta Skeleton
Because the injured man is dealing with a dislocated hip, making a skeleton so your kids can see where the hip bone is becomes the perfect craft. This is also really easy and cute as heck. What you need:- Salad Shells Pasta
- Elbow macaroni
- Penne pasta
- Spaghetti pasta
- Acini de pepe or other small pasta
- Card stock
- Glue
- Glue one piece of salad shells pasta near the top of the card stock for the skull
- Run a 2-inch straight line of glue from the base of the 'skull'
- Place the acini de pepe along the line for the spine
- Below the skull, glue a piece of elbow macaroni on either side of the spine for the shoulders
- Glue a piece of penne below each shoulder for the arms
- At the base of the spine, glue a piece of elbow macaroni on either side for the hips
- Glue a piece of penne below each shoulder for the upper legs
- Glue a piece of elbow macaroni below each upper leg for the knees
- Glue another piece of penne below each of the knees for the lower legs
- Break a piece of spaghetti into 20 small pieces and glue 5 of the pieces below the arms and legs for the fingers and toes
Snack
Apple Snow Custard
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. It might not help with emergencies, but this snack sounds fancy, looks pretty, and will wow your kiddos with its yumminess. What you need: For the Apple Snow:- 1 cup applesauce
- 1/4 cup water
- 3 egg whites (reserve the yolks for the custard)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 cups milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Pour the applesauce into a medium bowl
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until foamy
- Continue beating, gradually adding water and lemon juice to egg whites
- Beat until stiff but not dry
- Fold into applesauce
- Cover and chill until needed
- Heat the milk in a heavy-bottomed pan until very hot but not boiling
- Bet the egg yolks for about 3 minutes, slowly adding the sugar until mixture is a pale lemon color
- Very slowly pour the hot milk into the egg mixture while stirring constantly until fully blended
- Return to pan and heat over medium-low heat to just below boiling point (froth will disappear)
- Don't boil it or the milk will curdle. So stay off the phone for a few minutes. haha
- Remove from heat and quickly pour into a bowl
- Stir for 1-2 minutes to cool it
- Allow to cool completely then add vanilla, stirring to blend well
- Cover and chill until needed
- In a dessert cup or glass, add a layer of custard
- Cover with a layer of Apple Snow
