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SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANS

PRESCHOOL & PRE-KINDERGARTEN

GET MOVING

FAREWELL TO SUMMER

GODDARD AT HOME: SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANS 2

SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET MOVING

ACTIVITY With your little one, brainstorm as many exercises as possible that you have practiced over the summer. Work together to create a workout routine. You’ll want to be in tip-top shape as you prepare for the new school year. You could include arm circles, jumping jacks, squats, pushups, sit-ups, lunges and jogging in place. For an extension activity, you could record your routine and watch it back to see how you have improved over time.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Paper, pencils, device to record (optional)

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 Try playing Red light, Green light outside. One person can be the traffic light while the other stands at the other end of the outdoor space. When the traffic light says “Green,” the other person can come toward the light. When the traffic light says “Red,” STOP! Try variations such as hopping, crawling and twirling. Reflect and discuss with your child what other fun games you have done together over the summer.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Language and Literacy

Materials N/A


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET MOVING

ACTIVITY Let’s play a game of hide-and-seek today either with each other or with a favorite toy. Have your child find a secret place to hide while you count to 10 out loud. Then find your little one. You could always try reversing the roles as well, or you could hide a favorite toy of your child’s and provide clues as to where to find the toy.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Toy (optional)

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GET MESSY

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET MESSY

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 explore some bubbles! You could make your own solution with dish soap and water. Try to see how big you can make the bubbles. How far can the bubbles travel? Can you catch a bubble on your finger?

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Dish soap, water; or bubble mixture, bubble wand, dish

Get mESSY

ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy some waterplay today! Using some food coloring, you could change the color of the water. Ask your child what color he or she would like to turn the water and encourage your child to test his or her guess. Once the water is the perfect color, add plastic spoons and cups to explore.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Food coloring, water, containers, spoons


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET MESSY

ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy an end-of-summer yummy treat! Try making s’mores with ooey-gooey melted marshmallows (or marshmallow fluff), soft chocolate bars and graham crackers. You could create a pretend fire to “heat everything up” or melt the marshmallow in the microwave. While sitting next to the pretend fire, reflect on your summer together. What activities did you each enjoy? What are some activities that you would like to try next summer?

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate bar, heat source, stick (optional)

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GET FOCUSED

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET FOCUSED

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 you sort them and put them in order from smallest to largest?

Some examples could include strawberries, watermelons, avocados, apples, zucchini, squash, oranges, lemons and beans. As an extension activity, if you planted seeds earlier in the summer, check your garden to see what has grown. Which plants grew the biggest? Which ones are the smallest? What is your favorite fruit or vegetable to eat from your garden?

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Fruit and vegetable seeds

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 Reflect and review the list you created with your child of all the fun summer activities he or she did while at home with you this summer. Encourage him or her to add to his or her summer journal and illustrate some of the activities that you did together.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Gross Motor Skills, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Journal, pencil or crayons


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET FOCUSED

ACTIVITY Ask your little one if he or she would like to practice writing his or her name. You could encourage him or her to practice writing in flour, sand or sugar or with chalk or markers. You could even begin to gather some materials for your child’s pencil box to get ready for school.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Flour, sand, sugar, chalk or markers, paper, tray, pencil box (optional)

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GET OUTSIDE

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET OUTSIDE

ACTIVITY It’s time to head outside and search for colors! Encourage your child to find items that are red, green, yellow and blue. Tally or graph your results. What color was found the most? What color was the hardest to find? You could even bring your journal outside and draw some of the objects you found.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Gross Motor Skills

Materials Journal, crayons or markers

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 Let’s get outside for a hike or walk! While taking a hike or walk, discuss with your child all the things you might discover while hiking, including plants, animals, bugs and people. Reflect with your child and reminisce about all the walks, hikes and adventures you have had together over the summer. If you took any pictures from your walks at the beginning of summer, revisit them. What has changed?

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Pictures (optional)


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET OUTSIDE

ACTIVITY Let’s play hopscotch! Draw a hopscotch grid in your driveway or walkway and practice jumping on one foot or two across the grid. You and your child could try jumping through the grid on your opposite foot as well.


Materials Chalk or rock for writing

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GET RELAXED

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET RELAXED

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: “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 Language and Literacy

Materials Book

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

ACTIVITY Let’s practice some yoga poses today. Try tree pose, downward-facing dog pose and warrior-one pose, all as shown on Namaste Kid, or any other poses that you have learned over the summer. Reflect with your little one and ask him or her which pose is his or her favorite. Can you try to create a new pose?


Materials Website

https://www.namastekid.com/teaching-tools/tree-pose/

https://www.namastekid.com/teaching-tools/downward-facing-dog/

https://www.namastekid.com/teaching-tools/downward-facing-dog/

https://www.namastekid.com/teaching-tools/warrior-1-pose/


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET RELAXED

ACTIVITY Let’s relax before rest time. Ask your little one if he or she would like to build an end-of-summer fort. Gather some cozy pillows and enjoy reading or listening to Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz. Talk with your child about all the new and exciting events leading up to starting school.

LEARNING SKILLSTechnology and Engineering, Language and Literacy

Materials Fort materials, pillows, book or read-aloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0IwpUHMWSI

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GET CREATIVE

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET CREATIVE

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 SKILLSTechnology and Engineering, Language and Literacy, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Cereal boxes, tissue boxes, paper-towel tubes, recycled containers, tape

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 Let’s make an end-of-summer collage! Gather magazines and photos you have taken over the summer. Cut out various pictures from the magazines or photos of places you have visited over the summer or experiences you have had with your little one. Create a poster of all your experiences and reflect and discuss all the special memories.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Magazines, photos, scissors, poster board, glue


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET CREATIVE

ACTIVITY The end of summer and the start of the new school year means reading new books. With your little one, look at this tutorial from WikiHow to learn how to make your own book cover. After creating it, decorate it with crayons, markers or stickers. You can even make a bookmark for the book and decorate it to match.

LEARNING SKILLSTechnology and Engineering, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Crayons, markers, stickers, book-cover material, website

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Book-Cover

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GET CONNECTED

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET CONNECTED

ACTIVITY What was your favorite activity this summer? Encourage your child to write or draw to his or her pen pal and tell him or her all about what your child’s favorite activity was and why.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Paper, pencil or crayons, stamp, envelope

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 Talk with a loved one about a few things you are excited for in the upcoming school year. You could talk about your child’s new teacher, new friends or new adventures. For extension, you could create a new back-to-school daily routine and schedule.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Smart device, paper, pencil


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSPRESCHOOL & PRE-K • GET CONNECTED

ACTIVITY Ask your little one if he or she would like to record a video of him- or herself acting out some of the activities from the various themes from the summer. You could have your child act out being a robot or a secret agent, making s’mores or pretending to be a parent or a favorite story character. Ask your child if he or she would like to send the completed video to a loved one.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Smart device

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