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SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANS

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GET MOVING

WELCOME TO SUMMER!

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET MOVING

ACTIVITY Set up a goal area and see how many balls you can shoot in the goal in one minute. Keep track of how many you make.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Soccer ball

ACTIVITY Use painter’s tape to make a line on your patio, driveway or balcony and try to walk the tape line. Try to walk backward and forward.


Materials Painter’s tape

Get moving

ACTIVITY Have a crab-walk race. When outside, see how fast you can crab-walk from one landmark to the next.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor skills

Materials N/A

Get 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 MESSY

WELCOME TO SUMMER!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET MESSY

ACTIVITY Make rainbow feathers. Draw a picture of a bird

and squeeze a few drops of liquid watercolor onto

watercolor paper or white construction paper. Have

your child use a straw to blow the paint around the

paper – no brushing required!

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Paint, watercolor paper, straws

Get mESSY

ACTIVITY It’s time to make a marble run. Collect all the paper tubes you can with your child. Decorate the paper tubes by wrapping them with colorful tape. After the tubes are decorated, cut them in half lengthwise. Take painter’s tape and tape the tubes up on empty wall space to make a marble run. Add a basket at the bottom to catch the marbles. If the marbles do not roll fast, rethink where the tubes need to be positioned.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Mathematics

Materials Marbles, paper tubes, colorful tape, scissors, painter’s tape

Get 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 allow information to absorb better and with more meaning.

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GET FOCUSED

WELCOME TO SUMMER!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET FOCUSED

ACTIVITY Try making mirror reflections. This classic activity is fun inside and outside. Go outside with a small hand mirror. Ask your child to place the mirror so it faces up, right below the eyes. What does the mirror reflect? Walk around and see the sky, tops of trees and birds. Ask your child to describe what he or she sees. Now try with the mirror just above the eyes, facing down. The ground will look strange. You can tilt the mirror a little to change the reflections.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Mirror

Get Focused

ACTIVITY Build a train with letters, words or numbers. Your child can create a word train by putting letters on each train car (using an index card or construction paper) to spell the word or name. Older children can make sentences. Next, try a number train with numbers 1–10 or a three-car train with addition (e.g., 2+4=6).

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Paper, markers, tape

Get 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.


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET FOCUSED

Get Focused

ACTIVITY Help your child attach brick blocks to a mat to make a maze. Put a marble in the maze. Move the mat back and forth to make the marble roll through the maze.

LEARNING SKILLS Technology and Engineering

Materials LEGO® bricks or blocks, mat or cardboard, tape, marble or small ball

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GET OUTSIDE

WELCOME TO SUMMER!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET OUTSIDE

ACTIVITY Plant a garden in a bucket. Choose what plant you want to grow, plant it in soil and watch it grow all summer.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Bucket, soil, seeds, watering can

ACTIVITY Make an outdoor kitchen. Bring out pots, pans, utensils and bowls, use dirt and pretend to be a chef.


Materials Pots, pans, utensils, bowls, dirt or sand

Get Outside

ACTIVITY Go on a photo exploration. Create a map of your neighborhood and add places or things you want to find. When you find a place or item, take a picture. At the end of your exploration, create a book of pictures.


Materials Camera

Get 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 RELAXED

WELCOME TO SUMMER!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET RELAXED

ACTIVITY Slowly count to 10 backward and then forward. How high can you go counting forward and backward?

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials N/A

ACTIVITY Read or listen to The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. Talk about the impact of one tree.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read aloud

Get RElaxed

ACTIVITY Do some stretching exercises outside. Stretch to the sky, kneel to the earth, stretch your arms to the north, south, east and west.


Materials N/A

Get 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 CREATIVE

WELCOME TO SUMMER!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET CREATIVE

ACTIVITY Ask your child to create with potatoes and other foods. Your child can make potato people, buildings or animals. Take pictures of the creations before you eat the potatoes and other foods.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Fine Motor Skills

Materials Potatoes, toothpicks, slices of apples, carrots, peppers

Get Creative

ACTIVITY The sense of touch can help your child create art. Assist your child in putting corn syrup and drops of food coloring in a tightly sealed large plastic bag, and help to create squishy designs. Your child can make designs using his or her fingers to mix colors and paint. The results are beautiful art and lots of giggles. Next, ask your child to create with his or her eyes closed. How did the designs change? Take pictures of the images and then do it all again.


Materials Large plastic bag, corn syrup, food coloring

Get 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.


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET CREATIVE

ACTIVITY Point out the shapes hidden in objects, animals and people (e.g., a horse’s body is shaped like a rectangle). Draw favorite animals by sketching the hidden shapes first. Expand the activity by using shapes to create other objects your child chooses (e.g., boat, tree, house).


Materials Art materials, paper

Get Creative

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GET CONNECTED

WELCOME TO SUMMER!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET CONNECTED

ACTIVITY Play virtual “I spy” as your child describes something and the person on the video guesses what it is. Then encourage your child to do the guessing.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Video-chat device

ACTIVITY Before bedtime, as you watch the summer sky, share a simple chant with other family members.

Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight.

Ask your child, “Did you make a wish? What did you wish for?” Try again in the evening on a starry night.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Lyrics

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!


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSKINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL AGE • GET CONNECTED

Get Connected

ACTIVITY Write (or draw) a simple thank you note to someone your child would like to thank.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Paper, envelope, crayons, pen or pencil

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