SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

Send a letter to the parents with directions and suggestions for how they can use the summer fun projects. Be enthusiastic and encouraging as you remind parents that they are, indeed, their child's first and most important teacher!

As children do the different projects, have them draw and write about their experiences.

Read a story with your parents. Tell what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. What do you think will happen next?

Play a rhyming game. How many words can you think of that rhyme with "can"? "Pot"? "Book"? "Coat"? "Sheep"? "Like"?

Trace around your hand and your foot. What can you make out of them?

Count as high as you can. Can you count by 2's, 5's, and 1O's?

Ask your parents to teach you a song they learned when they were your age.

Look in your kitchen pantry. How many labels can you read?

How many ways can you move? Can you hop, skip, jump, gallop, tiptoe, walk backwards?

Can you draw a circle, oval, square, rectangle, and triangle? What other shapes can you draw?

Write a special letter to someone in your house.

Look at some of your baby pictures. How have you changed?

Find something that begins with these letters: B, H, S, M, L

Draw a picture of your neighborhood.

Make a list of 5 things that are non-living. Make a list of 5 things that are living.

Do you have a library card? Visit your library and check out some books.

Do a job around the house.

Write your name on a piece of paper - first, middle, and last. What are your initials?

How many toes does your family have? How many thumbs? How many noses?

Read a book together. Retell the story in your own words.

TRANSLATIONS

Be sure to provide translations of these activities for parents who do not speak English.