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All By Myself

Learning Area(s): Reading and Writing; Social and Emotional | Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old
Learning Objective: You will read a picture book with your child about doing things independently, and then make an “all by myself” train out of paper.

Backwards Day

Learning Area(s): Reading and Writing | Age Group: 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will practice reading past tense words with -ed as they play a game.

Be a Book Critic

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Reading and Writing | Age Group: 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will read a book and write a review that includes a short summary, their thoughts on the book, and a rating.

Be a Storyteller

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Reading and Writing | Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old
Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will use pictures from a book to retell a story.

Beginning Sounds Picture Collage

Learning Area(s): Reading and Writing; Physical Development | Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will practice recognizing beginning sounds in words and create a collage of pictures that start with the same sound.

Building World Knowledge

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Reading and Writing; Math; Science; Sensory and Art | Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old
Learning Objective: This video highlights the importance of building content knowledge around STEM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). We discuss different strategies to use with your child and provide examples of activities to do with your child to build content knowledge.

Buried Letters

Learning Area(s): Reading and Writing; Sensory and Art | Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old
Learning Objective: In this game, children will practice naming letters and their associated sounds through a game of finding buried letters. Working with letters helps children learn their names and sounds, which are important pre-reading skills.

Change a Letter

Learning Area(s): Reading and Writing | Age Group: 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will move letters around to make words and read the words.

Chapter Book Selfies

Learning Area(s): Reading and Writing; Social and Emotional | Age Group: 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will make facial expressions representing a character's emotions in a chapter book, take a selfie, label it, and talk about how the character was feeling.

Compare the Book and the Movie

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Reading and Writing | Age Group: 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old
Learning Objective: Your child will practice making pictures in their mind as you read a book together. Then you and your child will watch the movie adaptation of the book and compare their mental images to the movie.

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