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SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANS

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GET MOVING

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SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET MOVING

ACTIVITY Use a mirror, large or small, and clear some space in front of it. If you don’t have a mirror in an appropriate space, you can turn on your laptop or tablet to video mode (and consider recording to watch later!). Play “Family Time” by Ziggy Marley, or any song of your choice, and move your body to the beat and flow.

Invite your little one to experiment with using different body parts, copying each other’s movements and just being free.

For a fun twist, consider stopping the music and holding your pose like a statue until you start it up again.

LEARNING SKILLS Music and Movement

Materials Mirror, music player, laptop or tablet

Get movingGet 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA2HSdrdt5A



Get moving

ACTIVITY Show your toddler how to do a burpee. Do five burpees with your little one and count each one as you go. Afterward, talk about how the body feels when it’s warmed up and ready to go for the day. Encourage your toddler to keep moving throughout the day.

How to Do a Burpee 1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms at your sides. 2. Lower your body into a squat. 3. Place your hands on the floor in front of your feet. 4. Jump your feet back so your body is in the “up” position of a pushup. 5. Do a pushup, then stand up again. That is one burpee.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Instructions



Get moving

ACTIVITY Collect a couple of bouncing balls (playground balls, tennis balls, basketballs, etc.) and put them in a bucket or container. Add a shallow amount of water so the balls are slightly floating and able to get wet. Encourage your little one to select a ball and bounce or throw it on a hard surface such as your driveway or patio. Watch as the ball creates shapes and splatters as it moves across the space.

Talk with your little one about the shapes made and what they look like. Work together to see if you can make shapes that are larger or smaller, closer together or farther apart, depending on how hard or softly you throw the ball. What if you hold the ball over your head or closer to the ground? Does the shape change if you roll it instead of throwing it? Experiment with the different ways you can create art using the balls.


Materials Various bouncing balls, bucket, water

ACTIVITY Using your copy or following a read-aloud for Donald Crews’ Freight Train, read the story and talk about the different colors of the train.

After the story, have fun being a train. Talk with your little one about the colors he or she is wearing and what color train you both would like to be, and pretend to be a train. Chugga-choo around your house, pump your arms, work your feet quickly and slowly and don’t forget to pull your whistle!

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read-aloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ola2pR9bXyU



Get moving

ACTIVITY Let’s play red light, green light! Before the game begins, work with your toddler to create a red sign and a green sign. Decorate two pieces of paper to create the signs using crayons, markers, paint – anything you choose. Once done, you’re ready to play.

Clear a space inside or head outside and stand opposite your toddler with at least five to ten feet between you. Talk about how green means “go” and red means “stop” and when you see each color you need to move closer or freeze like a sculpture.

Hold up each color sign and shout “Go!” or “Stop!” accordingly. Don’t worry about turning your back, but use the color signs to help the flow of the game.


Materials Paper, red and green art materials

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GET MESSY


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET MESSY

Get mESSYGet 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 It is always fun to play in the mud. After reading or listening to the book Mud by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, take your child outside in his or her bathing suit to explore the mud.

To make muddy footprints, step in the mud and then step on paper to make images of your feet. You can do the same with muddy hands and handprints.

Add art tools such as paintbrushes, sponges and rollers and let the driveway be a canvas. Older toddlers can help with cleanup by using the hose to wash away the mud.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Book or read-aloud, mud, bathing suit, hose for cleanup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDR_uD6Eye8



Get mESSY

ACTIVITY Fill a sink, a bucket or the bathtub with water and lots of dish soap or bubble bath. Watch as the water turns the soap into bubbles. Encourage your little one to explore how the bubbles feel in his or her hands.

Try stacking handfuls of bubbles on top of one another to create a bubble sculpture. Use cups, spoons and your hands to have some clean, messy fun.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Sink, bucket or bathtub; water; dish soap or bubble bath

ACTIVITY Practice dumping and filling. Take out a few containers of different sizes and have your child fill them up with a hose and dump them into empty ones.

Use descriptive language to describe what you see your child doing, such as “You filled that bucket to the top! You picked up the bucket. You are so strong. Splash! It splashed when you tried to pour the water into the smaller bucket, didn’t it?”

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Empty containers and water



Get mESSY

ACTIVITY Get out some paper and washable paint. Encourage your little one to paint with his or her feet. If your little one is not walking yet, hold him or her and dip hands or feet in the paint to make patterns on paper.

Put on some music in the background in case your child wants to “dance paint” too.

Feel free to take this activity outside as well.


Materials Paint, paper, music (optional)

ACTIVITY Have your little one help you make watercolor paints. Try this five-ingredient watercolor recipe or this two-ingredient watercolor recipe. Use words such as “first” and “then” to describe what steps you do first and what comes next.

Then enjoy using the watercolor paints with your toddler. Give him or her paper and a paintbrush or encourage your child to paint with his or her fingers. Talk about what your child is making. Describe the colors and shapes you two create.


Materials Baking soda, white vinegar (optional), light corn syrup (optional), cornstarch (optional), food coloring, water, paintbrush (optional), paper

https://happyhooligans.ca/homemade-watercolour-paints/

https://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/05/easy-homemade-watercolors.html

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GET FOCUSED


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET FOCUSED

ACTIVITY Add paper and paint to a zip-top bag, seal it and put a piece of tape across the top to ensure it does not open. Let your child play with the bags. Ask your little one what he or she sees inside the bag. How does it feel? Younger children can look at it, touch it and crumble it. Talk about how it feels, using words such as smooth, squishy and cold.

Talk about the colors and what the paint looks like (e.g., red, blue, purple, shiny, thick). Older children can open the bags on paper and make a messy art piece.


Materials Zip-top baggies, paint, paper, tape

Get FocusedGet 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.

ACTIVITY Get out the blocks or plastic cups and encourage your little one to stack them and create sculptures. For younger children, use simple blocks or stacking toys. Talk about how high your child can stack. Can he or she stack two-by-two? Can your little one stack using all the blocks?

This is an activity that your child can do independently as well.


Materials Blocks or plastic cups



Get Focused

ACTIVITY Put a few dollops of red, yellow and blue paint on a piece of paper. Talk with your little one about these colors, what they’re called and which one is your child’s favorite. Work together to carefully fold the paper in half and press down on the seam. While pressing, count together: one, two, three, four, five!

Once done, open your paper to reveal the beautiful masterpiece. Talk with your little one about what was created and what he or she thinks it looks like, as well as the new colors generated as the red, yellow and blue paints mixed together.

Feel free to read or listen to White Rabbit’s Colors by Alan Baker before or after this activity to expand on your little one’s discoveries.


Materials Paint, paper, book or read-aloud (optional)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgr8Yh5NJ8k



Get Focused

ACTIVITY Use plastic cookie or biscuit cutters, spoons, forks, cups or any other safe kitchen items that have a shape or design. Press them into an ink pad or a shallow plate of paint before stamping them onto a piece of paper.

Consider finding objects of the same shape but of different sizes and talking about the similarities and differences between them.

Once you’ve completed your masterpieces, talk together about them and hang them prominently in your home where your child can see them.


Materials Plastic cookie or biscuit cutters, kitchen items, ink pad or paint, paper

ACTIVITY Tip a large cardboard box on its side so it’s open and your child can crawl in and out of it. Poke several small and large holes in the top and sides of the box and provide your little one with crayons.

Encourage your little one to feed the crayons through the holes in and out, up and down, as well as to color and decorate the box.

This is an activity that your child can do independently as well.


Materials Cardboard box, crayon

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GET OUTSIDE


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET OUTSIDE

ACTIVITY Race your child back and forth in the yard. Encourage your little one to go fast and celebrate their wins. Use descriptive language such as “Wow, your legs moved so fast. You ran quickly. You finished before I did!”

You can use painter’s tape or choose an object in your yard to designate as a finish line.


Materials Painter’s tape (optional)

Get OutsideGet 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.

ACTIVITY Take a walk in your neighborhood and play a game with your toddler where you two find objects of different colors. For example, you could say, “Let’s find things that are yellow!” Talk about various objects you two find and change up the color when it feels like it’s time to move on to another one.


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ACTIVITY Have your child bring open-ended materials such as building bricks or stacking blocks outside. Encourage him or her to explore by playing and building with the blocks while adding any outside materials he or she would like to include such as rocks, sticks or grass.

Notice the different ways your little one plays with these items when he or she is outside instead of inside.

Once you’ve spent some time enjoying this activity with your toddler, encourage your child to play independently.


Materials Building bricks or stacking blocks

Get Outside

ACTIVITY Pretend you and your child are snakes. Encourage your child to slither through the yard, hissing as he or she goes. If you have sidewalk chalk, encourage your child to draw snakes on the sidewalk.

Talk about the sound snakes make, how they move and where they live.

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature

Materials Sidewalk chalk (optional)



ACTIVITY Fill up a plastic spray bottle with water and have your child “spray paint” plants, bushes, the sidewalk, the side of your house, etc. Encourage your child to experiment with different streaming settings and being close to or far away from objects as he or she sprays them.

Once you’ve spent some time enjoying this activity with your toddler, feel free to encourage your child to play independently.


Materials Plastic spray bottle, water

Get Outside

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GET RELAXED


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET RELAXED

ACTIVITY Draw simple shapes on your child’s back and have him or her guess what shape you drew. Describe the movement your finger is making, e.g., “I’m drawing a shape that goes around and around.”


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ACTIVITY When it’s time to calm down, practice the twinkle fingers pose, as shown on Namaste Kid, while taking slow, deep breaths.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

Materials Yoga pose

Get RElaxedGet 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.

ACTIVITY Read or listen to Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson or another creative-themed book as you help your toddler settle down for a rest. Snuggle your child and rub his or her back gently as you read the book and talk about what you see in the pictures.


Materials Book or read-aloud

https://www.namastekid.com/teaching-tools/twinkle-fingers/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl94zwz8cKU


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET RELAXED

Get RElaxed

ACTIVITY While cuddling, share with your child your favorite moment together from the day so far. Ask what your child’s favorite moment of the day has been as well.


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ACTIVITY Put on some calming music as your child starts to settle down for rest time. Talk about how calm, soothing music helps our bodies feel calm and settled.

Try this relaxation music for children if you’d like an idea for calming rest-time music.


Materials Music player

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

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GET CREATIVE


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET CREATIVE

ACTIVITY Have your little one use markers to color on paper towels. Then have him or her dip a paintbrush in water and paint over the coloring and watch what happens.

Marvel at your child’s masterpiece! Talk about the shapes and colors that you see and what happened when water was added to the coloring.


Materials Markers, paper towels, paintbrush, water

Get CreativeGet 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.

ACTIVITY Have your little one use child-safe cookie cutters to cut out familiar shapes in molding dough.

Talk about what he or she is making, the color choices, etc. For example, “You used the heart-shaped cookie cutter. What shape did it make? A heart! Is it a blue heart or a green heart? You’re right. It IS a green heart.”


Materials Cookie cutters, molding dough



Get Creative

ACTIVITY Scribbles have meaning to all little ones. Get out the crayons and encourage your child to draw on paper, cardboard, etc. For inspiration, ask your child to draw an object he or she sees, his or her family or what he or she would like to eat. Have your child tell you about their drawing.

For a younger toddler, give your child the crayons and let them explore. Talk about what your child is doing and the colors he or she is using to draw.

You can leave the paper and crayons out for your child to return to and scribble independently throughout the day.


Materials Crayons, paper or cardboard

ACTIVITY Have your toddler go find several toy trucks or cars. Then put some paint on a paper plate and encourage your little one to dip the wheels of the trucks and cars in paint and drive them across paper or paper plates. Point out the tracks he or she is making.

Feel free to mix in some dirt to give the paint texture.

Talk about the colors, thickness of the tire tracks, sounds that the cars make when your child rolls them across the paper, etc.


Materials Toy vehicles, paint, paper plate, paper, dirt (optional)



ACTIVITY Give your child molding dough and have him or her create a sculpture. Feel free to add popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, etc. for your child to stick into the molding dough.

Let the molding dough sit out to dry and show your child their finished sculpture when it has hardened.


Materials Molding dough, pipe cleaners (optional), popsicle sticks (optional)

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GET CONNECTED


SUMMER LEARNING SUMMER LEARNING FUN WEEKLY PLANSTODDLER • GET CONNECTED

ACTIVITY Set up a video chat with a family member or special friend who will act as a mystery reader. Ask that person to pick a book to read to your child. When it is time for the call, hold your little one on your lap so he or she cannot see the screen.

After a few seconds of reading, ask your child “Who do you think is reading the book?” Once your child answers, turn the screen to reveal the reader! Continue the story until it is finished and encourage your toddler to say “thank you” to the mystery reader.

Consider setting up a mystery reader experience with someone your child hasn’t seen or spoken to in a while.


Materials Video chat program, book

Get ConnectedGet 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!

ACTIVITY Sit down with your toddler and draw a picture of you two enjoying spending time together. It does not have to be fancy. Stick figures are great. Encourage your little one to color beside you as you model drawing.

Talk about how your picture is of you and your little one and how much you enjoy spending time together.


Materials Paper, crayons



Get Connected

ACTIVITY Have your toddler color on paper and create several pictures. Write a short and kind message on each one, have your little one help you put them in envelopes with “A message from your neighbor!” written on them and have your toddler help you put them in nearby mailboxes. Talk about how the two of you are like the postal worker delivering mail.

Feel free to put a stamp on your envelopes and mail to family members or friends. Video chat with the recipient once it has been delivered.

Kind messages could be as simple as “Your community neighbors hope you’re having a good day!”

Talk about how it’s kind to do nice things for our community members and kind words make us feel good.


Materials Paper, crayons, envelopes



Get Connected

ACTIVITY Do the following fingerplay with your little one:

Here is the beehive, where are the bees? (Clench your fist.) Hidden away where nobody sees Watch and you will see them come out of their hives One, two, three, four, five (Bring out your fingers, one by one.) Buzz, buzz, buzz! (Wiggle your fingers high in the sky.)

Then tickle your little one with your buzzy fingers! Laugh along with your little one and repeat.


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ACTIVITY Choose a favorite story and find a cozy space to sit and snuggle. Look at the book together and talk about the illustrations, the colors you’re seeing, what’s happening on the pages and how the characters are feeling based on their expressions. Ask your little one about their favorite color or what they think is happening on the pages.


Materials Book

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