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GET MOVING

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ACTIVITY Let’s play charades! Provide scenarios for your child to act out, such as eating a sandwich or going down a slide. Then you could switch roles.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

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Get Moving activities are designed 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.

Get moving

ACTIVITY It’s time to dance! Gather your flashlights, ask your little one to turn off the lights and turn on your favorite music for a fun flashlight dance party. Shine your light on your child while he or she shows you his or her best moves. Then reverse the roles and show your child your own best dance moves.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Flashlight, music player

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ACTIVITY It’s time to get fancy by going to a fairy-tale ball. Ask your child if he or she would like to dress up in fancy clothes and turn on some classical music. Encourage your little one to twirl around the house as you dance to the music. You could even add some props to enhance the fun.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Music player, dress-up clothes, props (optional)

ACTIVITY Let’s play a game of Simon Says today! Encourage your child to practice different movements, such as dance moves, animal moves and creative poses.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

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ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to have a race with you. Encourage your little one to race across the house or outside in the yard. For an added challenge, try racing while balancing a book on your head or balancing an egg on a spoon. Ask your child which race was harder to do and why.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Book, egg, spoon (optional)

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GET MESSY

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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 allows information to absorb better and with more meaning.

ACTIVITY Let’s play with foam shapes or sponges and water today. While exploring, ask your little one to identify the different shapes. Can you find all the stars?

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Foam shapes, sponges, container with water

Get mESSY

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ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to make a batch of slime. Here is a fun recipe to try. See if your child would like to add sparkles or other items to make it fun to find objects in it.

Materials needed: • 8 oz. bottle white school glue • 1 teaspoon powder laundry detergent • 1/2 cup warm water • 1 cup water • Food coloring

Instructions: 1. Empty the entire bottle of white glue into a medium-sized bowl. 2. Add food coloring (the more you add, the brighter it will be). 3. Fill the empty glue bottle with one cup of water. Shake it up to try to get

some of the leftover glue out of the bottle. Pour the water into the bowl. 4. Stir the mixture until it’s smooth. 5. Add more food coloring and stir again if you want a brighter color. 6. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of powder laundry detergent in 1/2 cup of warm

water. If you have trouble getting it to dissolve, put the mixture in the microwave for 20 seconds at a time and stir until it’s dissolved.

7. Stir the entire powder laundry detergent mixture into the glue mixture. It will almost instantly get stringy and turn into slime!

8. Add glitter or small objects if desired.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Science and Nature

Materials Bowl, white school glue, powder laundry detergent, food coloring, water, small objects or glitter (optional)

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ACTIVITY Let’s explore different types of soap! You could try shampoo, bar soap, hand soap or liquid soap. Discover the different smells, textures and lathers of each type of soap. Ask your child which one is his or her favorite and why.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Shampoo, bar soap, dish soap, hand soap, water, sink or bin

ACTIVITY Let’s explore with molding dough. Ask your little one to try to create stars, hats, microphones or other dramatic objects with cookie cutters. What shapes did you make?

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Science and Nature

Materials Molding dough, cookie cutters

ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy some painting today! Grab some painting supplies and paint and create a beautiful masterpiece. Once finished, use a homemade telescope (a decorated paper-towel tube) to view your masterpiece from afar.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Painting supplies, paper, telescope (decorated paper-towel tube)

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GET FOCUSED

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ACTIVITY Let’s practice expressing our emotions. Provide a scenario for your child, such as going out for ice cream, and ask your child to show what emotion he or she feels during the scenario. Your child may yell “Yay!” and show a happy face. Ask your child to try and name some other emotions. You could even have him or her draw them.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Paper, crayons

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.

Get Focused

ACTIVITY Let’s talk about settings and places you have visited with your child. Discuss with your child a location you have been to and ask him or her to describe the setting of that location. For example, if you choose the beach, your child might describe the setting using the words “hot, sandy, water, people.” Other locations could include mountains, the grocery store or even your backyard.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

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ACTIVITY Gather some magazines or books and ask your child what he or she knows about the people in the books or magazines based on their outfits or costumes. What is interesting about what a person is wearing? What job could the person be doing?

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Magazines or books

ACTIVITY Ask your little one if he or she would like to make some crispy rice cereal treats using this tutorial from New Sky Kids on YouTube. Encourage your child to pretend to be on a cooking show and talk to the audience about the ingredients and steps to make the treats.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Rice cereal, marshmallows, butter, bowl, saucepan, oven, mixing spoon

ACTIVITY Lights! Camera! Action! Ask your child if he or she would like to explore with light today. You could use flashlights to show what the lighting might look like on a movie set. If you turn the lights off, does the flashlight shine brighter? How bright is it when the lights are on in the room? In which room does the flashlight shine the brightest?

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Flashlights

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ACTIVITY While outside today, act out different animals that you would find outdoors. Encourage your child to act like a squirrel, lizard, frog or bumblebee. Can you name any other animals that live outside?

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Creativity and Discovery

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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.

Get Outside

ACTIVITY During outside time, ask your child if he or she would like to create a stage using a blanket and act out a favorite story. You could enjoy The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle or Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Blanket, book or read-aloud

ACTIVITY Let’s practice some yoga poses today while outside. Try these poses from Namaste Kid: camel pose, half-boat pose or triangle pose.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Website

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ACTIVITY Take a ball outside and kick it back and forth with your child. You could even set up an area, like a goal, to practice your aim. For an additional activity, practice throwing and catching the ball with your child.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Ball, goal area (optional)

ACTIVITY While outside today, play freeze dance with your little one. Turn on your favorite music and freeze when the music stops. Encourage your child to strike a pose each time the music stops.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Music player

ACTIVITY Take a ball outside and kick it back and forth with your child. You could even set up a goal area to practice your aim. For an additional activity, practice throwing and catching the ball with your child.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Ball, goal area (optional)

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ACTIVITY Ask your child to choose a favorite nursery rhyme and then read it and talk about the setting (where it takes place), the characters (people in the story) and the props (what objects they used). You could enjoy listening to this video of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Website

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.

Get RElaxed

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ACTIVITY Get snuggled up for rest time with your little one and enjoy listening to the story Sleepyheads by Sandra J. Howatt, illustrated by Joyce Wan. Ask your child where his or her favorite place to rest is and watch the read-aloud together there.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Website

ACTIVITY Let’s try meditating today before rest time. Enjoy this video together from Meditation Channel on YouTube called “Breath Meditation for Kids.”

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Website

ACTIVITY Enjoy reading or listening to, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss. Ask your child to try to make all the noises with Mr. Brown. You could even pretend to be performing the animal noises in front of an audience. Ask your audience for some requests.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read-aloud

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ACTIVITY Let’s do some breathing and stretching. 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 Social-Emotional Learning

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GET CREATIVE

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ACTIVITY Let’s make puppets today! Using a paper bag or old sock and art materials such as markers and stickers, decorate your puppet. Encourage your child to extend the experience by saying, “Don’t forget to give your puppet a name. What will your puppet say? Can your puppet talk in a silly voice? What dilemma might your puppet have? Does your puppet have a special skill to share?”

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Paper bag, sock, markers, stickers

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.

Get Creative

ACTIVITY Gather any puppets you have, or the puppet you created, and try to act out your own story. Ask your child if he or she wants to hide behind a curtain to put on the performance.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Puppets, curtain (optional)

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ACTIVITY Enjoy a guessing game by drawing with your child. Start by drawing a picture and see how long it takes for him or her to guess what you are drawing. Reverse the roles, and have your child do the drawing.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Cognitive and Mathematic

Materials Paper, crayons or markers

ACTIVITY Let’s get creative using fingerprints. Have your child press his or her finger in ink and create a masterpiece. You can substitute paint if you do not have an ink pad.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Paper, ink pad or paint

ACTIVITY Get creative by wearing your funkiest clothes or a costume and walk the runway, which could be a space inside or outside the house. Don’t forget to stop and strike a pose for the cameras. Record the funky fashion show and watch it afterward. What do you think about your fashion choices and poses?

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Funky clothes, video-recording device

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GET CONNECTED

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ACTIVITY Video chat with a loved one and act out your favorite nursery rhymes. You can narrate the nursery rhyme while your little one acts out the sequence of events. Try this favorite: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Phone, nursery rhyme or website for reference

Get 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!

Get Connected

ACTIVITY Video chat with a loved one about some upcoming plans or something exciting that happened over the weekend.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Smart device

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to pick out dress-up clothing from your closet. He or she could try pretending to be mom or dad while wearing your clothes.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Parent’s clothing

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ACTIVITY Write or draw to a pen pal. Tell him or her about something you created this week. You could even send a picture of your creation to your pen pal. Getting and sending mail is fun!

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Paper, pencil or crayons, stamp, envelope

ACTIVITY Can you name the colors of the rainbow? That’s right - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple! With your child, try creating a meal today choosing foods that are the color of the rainbow.

LEARNING SKILLSCognitive and Mathematics, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Colorful food items