Summer Kits Will Keep Learning Going Children need ongoing opportunities to learn and practice essential skills. This is especially true during the summer months.
important teacher. Your home is your child’s first and continual learning environment. As parents, you decide the family’s daily Did you know that children can lose routines: when to get up, eat, play, up to 2 months of knowledge and do chores, visit friends, and go to skills that were learned throughout bed. the school year if they don’t practice The way you talk with your children them over the summer? makes a tremendous difference in You are your child’s first and most how they think, how they feel about themselves, the language they learn, and the kind of people they will become.
X Assorted foam letters & numbers X Plastic scissors X Bottle of school glue X One spiral-bound journal X Magnifying glass X Three colorful scarves X 100 linking cubes in 10 colors X Three hand storytelling
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X Parent activity cards covering all domains of development (math, science, literacy, art, etc.) In order to help reduce summer learning loss and to encourage X Pack of white paper parent engagement, your Head Start We encourage families to take child will be coming home with the time to continue to work on a backpack filled with hands-on kindergarten readiness skills to learning manipulatives and easy to reduce summer learning loss and follow instruction cards for parents. have fun with your child this Each bag will include the following: summer! X A picture/story white board, Remember….PLAY is children’s eraser and dry erase marker work! X Box of 8 Colorations crayons Bags will be distributed during the last week of school. X Rhyming cards
Books of the Month for May and June The first week of May is Teacher Appreciation Week so what better time to read a book like Todd Parr’s Teachers Rock!
encourage children to make up their own story.
You can also have your child draw a picture of their favorite thing they do each day at school. But you can do that anytime!
out what animals come out when the sun goes down.
They are also a good way to encourage kids to “read” a book Kids love the simple, but colorful when they say “I don’t know how illustrations and text in books by to read!” this author. Teacher Appreciation The light and dark, black and white Week is the perfect time to write a illustrations will encourage children letter to your child’s teacher to say to think about exploring with a thank you. flashlight themselves and finding
Letting your child experiment with light encourages scientific thinking The wordless book Flashlight skills and can be lots of fun indoors by Lizi Boyd will fascinate you or outdoors during warm June and your child. Wordless books evenings.
