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GET MOVING

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ACTIVITY Let’s try building your own campsite! It could be inside or outside depending on the weather. Set up a tent or make a fort. With your child, brainstorm the items you might need to create your campsite. Some examples are a tent, sheets or blankets, a flashlight, a table and chairs. Gather the items you will need and start building.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Engineering

Materials Campsite building materials

ACTIVITY Enjoy a song all about camping! Play Stella and Sam – “Camping Out Music Video” a few times and have your child think about what he or she has for pretend camping that he or she sees in the sing-along video.

LEARNING SKILLS Music and Movement

Materials Website

Get movingGet Moving activities are designed to start your day with a way to either engage your child’s full body in a physical activity to start the day with a jump, OR to start the day planning for play, a critical area of development in organizational thinking.

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Get moving

ACTIVITY Let’s go on a bear hunt today! Watch the sing-along video for “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.” Ask your little one if he or she can think of new moves or obstacles to extend the song and try some.

LEARNING SKILLS Music and Movement

Materials Website

ACTIVITY Let’s get active and do some jumping jacks! Count out loud and see how many you can do together. Then challenge your child to do five more.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials N/A

ACTIVITY Ask your little one if he or she would like to have a pillow toss! Find a pillow, big or small, and enjoy tossing it back and forth. You could even try to count how many times you can catch the pillow before it hits the floor.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Pillow

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Get mESSYGet Messy is a section designed for your child to engage in sensory play. Sensory play allows learners to make sense of the world around them by taking in as much information as possible from an experience by using as many intake receptors as possible on their bodies. It allows information to absorb better and with more meaning.

ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy some water play! Grab some utensils from the kitchen to explore in water. You could try measuring cups, wooden spoons, plastic containers or a strainer.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Kitchen utensils, container, water

ACTIVITY Try making s’mores with ooey-gooey melted marshmallows (or marshmallow fluff), soft chocolate bars and graham crackers. You could do this carefully at a fire pit or use a microwave as a pretend fire to heat up your treat.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Graham crackers, chocolate bars, marshmallows, sticks (optional), fire or microwave

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Get mESSY

ACTIVITY It’s painting time! Ask your child to gather some paint and paper. Try adding some salt to your paint mixture for a new effect. After it dries, discuss what is different.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Science

Materials Paint, paper, salt

ACTIVITY Try creating a batch of summer molding dough. Ask your child if he or she would like to create Big Foot prints in the molding dough. Other family members can participate too. Compare the Big Foot prints and see who has the biggest foot in the house.

Recipe for molding dough:• 2 cups plain flour • 1 cup salt · 1 tablespoon oil • 1 cup cold water • 2 drops food coloring – your choice

Mix all ingredients together.

LEARNING SKILLS Science

Materials Bowl, spoon, flour, salt, oil, water, food coloring (optional)

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Get mESSY

ACTIVITY It’s time for some water play! You could try experimenting with balloons; try filling them with water using the hose. You could also play with a squirt bottle or squirt toys.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Balloons, water, squirt toys

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GET FOCUSED

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ACTIVITY Let’s plan our camping adventures! Encourage your little one to journal all the things you would like to do and see while you are exploring and learning about camping and the great outdoors.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Paper, writing utensil

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to create a hiking-trail map. You could think about the layout of your house, yard and neighborhood. Plan which areas you would like to explore when you take a hike or a walk. Ask your child if he or she can draw it out on a piece of paper. For an extension activity, show your child a picture of a real map.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Science and Nature

Materials Paper, writing utensil, map

Get FocusedGet Focused is a time of day devoted to learning a specific skill. It is a time that is best for children to engage independently or with their parent to fully concentrate and build new skills through hands-on lessons.

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Get Focused

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to create a simple origami paper boat. It’s always important to name your boat. Try to think of some creative names. Write the name along the side of the boat.

Ask your child if he or she thinks his or her boat will float. Try it out in the bathtub, pool, lake or a simple bucket of water.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Engineering

Materials Paper, website, crayons, water

ACTIVITY Let’s explore with seeds! As you are eating fruits and vegetables during the week, save a couple of seeds from each one. Compare the seeds you collected each day. Ask your child which seeds are the biggest and smallest. Can he or she sort them and put them in order from smallest to largest? Some examples are strawberries, watermelons, avocados, apples, zucchini, squash, oranges, lemons and beans. As an extension activity, try planting the seeds in soil to begin your own garden.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Fruit, seeds

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ACTIVITY Let’s explore with some magnets! Using refrigerator magnets, try to find objects inside and outside that the magnet will attract.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Magnets

Get Focused

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ACTIVITY While taking a hike or walk, discuss with your child all the things you might discover while hiking including plants, animals, bugs and people. Encourage your child to bring his or her map so you don’t get lost. Use your camera to take pictures of all the interesting things you see.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Science and Nature

Materials Map, camera

ACTIVITY Let’s read outside! Gather some of your favorite stories and get cozy. Read or listen to Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak or The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read aloud

ACTIVITY Let’s have fun playing a tossing game. Create your game using balls, bean bags or any soft toys and a bucket. Try taking a few steps back from the bucket and see if you can toss the objects into the bucket.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Bucket, bean bag (or something similar)

Get OutsideGet Outside is a time of day designed to do just that- get outside and explore. Exploring offers children new ways to relate to their world and engage in physical activities and inquiry-based learning.

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Get Outside

ACTIVITY Let’s get moving on wheels while outside today. Ask your child if he or she would like to enjoy his or her bike, scooter, roller skates or skateboard.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Bike, scooter, roller skates or skateboard

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to join you for freeze dance while outside. Bring your favorite music outside and have some fun dancing in the sunshine.

LEARNING SKILLS Music and Movement

Materials Music

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ACTIVITY It’s time to relax with your little one and enjoy reading or listening to “Golidlocks and the Three Bears.” Once finished, reflect on the number three and what groupings of three were demonstrated in the story. Ask your child to find items in your house that are in groups of three.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Cognitive and Math

Materials Book or read aloud

ACTIVITY Let’s try some new yoga poses. Turn on soft, relaxing music as you move through the poses. Try mountain pose, butterfly pose or tree pose.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Music and Movement

Materials Yoga poses

ACTIVITY Enjoy reading or listening to The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle while relaxing with your little one. Once finished, try to recall what happens to the tiny seed throughout the story. For an extension activity, try to grow your own seed in a sandwich baggie. Wrap the seed in a wet paper towel or soil, seal the bag and hang it in a sunny window. Watch it grow!

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Science and Natur

Materials Book or read aloud

Get RElaxedGet Relaxed is a time of day to unwind and do something low-key. This allows your child to take a brain-break and rest their bodies so that they can enjoy more active play after they relax or take a rest.

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Get RElaxed

ACTIVITY Let’s try some intentional breathing and stretching exercises. Start simple. Encourage your child to take a deep breath, watching his or her belly go out and in with each inhale and exhale. Try to hold the inhale for three seconds and the exhale for five seconds. While completing the breathing technique, have your child stretch his or her arms high above his or her head and stand on tippy toes to extend the body as tall as possible. Relax and repeat three times.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials N/A

ACTIVITY Read or listen to a fun camping story with a favorite character. Enjoy Pete the Cat Goes Camping by James Dean.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read aloud

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ACTIVITY What can you create using these materials? Encourage your child to gather some supplies including paper, crayons, glue and leaves collected from outside. Take a picture of your final product and share it with a member of your family.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Paper, glue, leaves, writing utensils

ACTIVITY What can you build? With your child, search for items around the house that may be fun to build with including empty cereal boxes, tissue boxes, paper towel tubes, recycled containers and tape. Try building your creation outside! Discuss and reflect: Is it harder to build outside or inside? Does the weather affect your creation?

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Engineering

Materials Recycled household items, tape or glue

Get CreativeGet Creative is a time of day designed for your child to have open-ended experiences with a variety of mediums. By giving them opportunities to create with no specific outcome in mind it exercises their creative thinking skills allowing them to be better communicators and problem solvers.

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Get Creative

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to experiment with water painting outside. You could use small brushes, large brushes, sponges or any material of your choice. Try painting the driveway, sidewalk or fence.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Different sized paintbrushes, sponges, etc.

ACTIVITY Let’s play dress-up in your parents’ clothes! Ask your child to explore some options and have fun.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Adult clothing

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to create new dance moves. Bring some music outside and be silly. You could even try creating a name for your new move.

LEARNING SKILLS Music and Movement

Materials Music

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ACTIVITY Ask your child to choose a loved one and ask him or her the reasons why he or she loves that person. If your child is comfortable, he or she can call or video chat with that person and tell him or her the reasons, or your child can journal and draw the reasons on paper.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Paper, writing utensils, phone or video-chat device

ACTIVITY Get comfy and snuggle with a loved one inside the tent you built. Use your flashlight to create images with shadows using your fingers.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Cognitive and Math

Materials Flashlight

ACTIVITY With your little one, reflect on and discuss a few of the parks you have visited together. Discuss with your child whether you had to travel far to get there. Was it in a different state? If you have some pictures, look at them and reflect on some great memories.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Photos

Get ConnectedGet Connected is a time of day to connect with family members or loved ones in a variety of ways. Social and emotional connections are imperative to all learning. If a child does not feel secure and connected, they cannot engage appropriately and cannot learn effectively. So, have fun with these ideas for both virtual and personal connections!

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ACTIVITY Ask your child to find his or her favorite book in the house. Let your child “read” the book to you. Ask your child questions about the book such as the following:• Why did you choose this book?• What is your favorite part of the book?• If the book had more pages at the end, what do you think might

happen next?

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Books

Get Connected

ACTIVITY Encourage your child to write or draw to his or her summer pen pal about something you like to do outside.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Paper, writing utensils