1 Reading Help your child get ready to learn to read! It’s Say Something Each day features a fun activity that will help your child build pre-reading skills. Nice Day. Read I See Activities are color-coded by skill. Ask your children’s librarian for more ideas Kindness Everywhere on how to promote early literacy skills with daily activities at home. by Shelley Frost together.
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It’s National Read a rhyming It’s National Doughnut It’s National Best Friends While grocery Make your own play It’s National Repeat Gingerbread Day. picture book together. Day. Have your child Day. Have your child tell shopping, have dough together using Day. Choose a favorite Use graham crackers, Then, flip through draw a picture of you a story about his your child count how one part conditioner song to sing together. frosting, and candy the pages and have a donut, with any best friend. It can be a many red objects you and two parts corn Then, sing it again! to create a summer- your child pick out the toppings on it she can person, a pet, a stuffed put in the cart. starch. Don’t forget to themed gingerbread rhyming words. think of. animal, or even an add some food coloring! house! imaginary friend!
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It’s National Red Rose In honor of National Go for a nature walk What words can your Day. Stack several sheets Smile Power Day, tell Have your child help together, pointing Talk about your At bedtime, make up child think of that have of red tissue paper. Fold each other stories you sort the laundry out the names of the favorite sounds of a silly song about your the same beginning accordion style. Tie about something that by color. plants and animals you summer. child’s day. sound as “June”? a green pipe cleaner happened this week see. around the center, and that made you smile. unfold to form a rose.
Add food coloring On National Selfie Welcome summer In honor of Father’s Spread a layer of On National Go Fishing to cups of water, Tell your child a story Day, have fun taking with a book about the Day, read Dad and the flour on a baking pan. Day, have your child then place celery about something funny silly selfies together. season, such as And Dinosaur by Gennifer Let your child spell out think of as many words stalks in the cups. that happened when Take a few with your Then Comes Summer Choldenko together. her name in flour using as he can that rhyme Check back tomorrow she was a baby. child’s favorite stuffed by Tom Brenner. her finger. with “fish.” to see what happens! animals or with a pet!
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It’s National Pink Day. Have your child count On National Waffle Celebrate by coloring how many steps it takes Hold up objects from Flip through a Iron Day, have your On Paul Bunyan Day, or painting pictures to go from one side of around the house, and magazine together Play a game of musical child help you mix read Paul Bunyan: A using different shades the living room to the have your child tell you and see how many chairs, but use pillows waffle batter, then talk Very Tall Tale by Jo of pink. other. Then do the same the beginning sound pairs of rhyming instead of chairs. about what happens to Weaver together. for each object. objects you can find. 30 the batter as it bakes Writing in the kitchen. Which has more steps? in the waffle iron. Have your child make