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GET MOVING

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ACTIVITY Let’s create our own bowling alley! Gather some recycled materials such as empty milk gallons, creamer bottles, ketchup bottles or cereal boxes. Ask your child to line the materials up in a row and practice rolling a ball down the alley. How many of the “pins” can you knock down?

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Gross Motor Skills

Materials Recycled materials, ball

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 Encourage your little one to move as fast as the following modes of transport: • a car • a plane • a scooter • a train

You could even use a stopwatch to time how long it takes your child to get from point A to point B. Try again and see if he or she can beat the original time.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Stopwatch

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ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy a game of red light, green light. Encourage your little one to run as fast as he or she can. Then your child could try walking slowly or hopping to get to the finish line.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Gross Motor Skills

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ACTIVITY Try moving and turning your body into a bridge! Ask your child to try the belly-side-up and then belly-side-down versions of this pose. Take turns with your little one; one person can be the bridge and one person can be the boat traveling under the human bridge.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Creativity and Discovery

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ACTIVITY Let’s have a jumping-jack contest. Encourage your little one to see how many jumping jacks he or she can do. Try it together and count how many you both can do.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Cognitive and Mathematics

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GET MESSY

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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 enjoy some waterplay! Outside today, bring a bucket filled with water, a small plastic cup and either a paper-towel tube, part of a pool noodle, a plastic straw or a plastic funnel. Encourage your little one to transfer water from one place to another using a tube. Reflect and discuss with your child. Which tube transferred the water the fastest? What about the slowest?

LEARNING SKILLS Science and Nature, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Bucket, plastic cup, objects in the shape of a tube

Get mESSY

ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy some fun uses for ring-shaped cereal! Ask your child to sort the cereal by color. Glue the cereal onto a piece of paper for a fun creation. You could also try putting a straw through the hole of the cereal and try to wheel it across the table.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Ring-shaped cereal, paper, glue, straw

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ACTIVITY Gather some nuts and bolts from your toolbox. Ask your child to practice screwing the pieces together. Once finished, ask your little one if he or she would like to paint or stamp using the pieces. Enjoy creating a beautiful masterpiece together.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Nuts, bolts, paper, paint

ACTIVITY Let’s explore with 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?

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Science and Nature

Materials Bubbles, dish soap, water

ACTIVITY Gather your painting materials and have fun finger painting a masterpiece with your child.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Paper, paint

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ACTIVITY Let’s try to make a wheel and axle. Find two bottle caps of the same size. Ask your child to add some modeling dough to each cap to make a wheel. Next, using a plastic straw, help your child to push each end of the straw into the middle of the cap. Hooray! You’ve made your own wheel and axle. Encourage your child to explore and see if it will roll and how far it will roll.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics, Creativity and Discovery

Materials Bottle caps, modeling dough, plastic straw

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 Let’s learn about how houses are built. Enjoy reading or listening to How a House Is Built by Gail Gibbons. Once finished, encourage your child to find materials around your house to build his or her own house. You could also ask him or her to locate some of the objects that were mentioned in the story.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy, Technology and Engineering

Materials Book or read-aloud

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ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to explore with some ramps. You can make a ramp using a piece of cardboard. Search around the house for other items that could be used as a ramp. Try to roll a ball down the ramp. Ask your child to find some other objects that could roll down the ramp. Which items roll the fastest and farthest?

LEARNING SKILLS Technology and Engineering

Materials Cardboard, ball or other rolling objects

ACTIVITY Brainstorm with your child how many objects have wheels. Some examples could include skates, airplane wheels, scooters and motorcycles. You could even go outside and count how many wheels you see.

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics

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ACTIVITY Let’s explore some kitchen tools. Pick one tool and discuss with your child how it works. Try using a spatula and flip something soft, or try turning a salad spinner to dry some lettuce.

LEARNING SKILLSLanguage and Literacy, Technology and Engineering

Materials Kitchen tools (e.g. spatula, salad spinner)

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ACTIVITY While enjoying some outside time today, ask your child to count how many cars, trucks, motorcycles and planes you see. Tally your results. What vehicle did you see the most?

LEARNING SKILLS Cognitive and Mathematics

Materials Paper and writing utensil or dry erase board and marker

ACTIVITY Ask your child if he or she would like to take a walk today. While walking around your neighborhood, do you cross over or can see you any bridges?

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

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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 play a game of Simon says while outside today. Encourage your child to point to some different, lesser-known body parts including shin, earlobe, hip and knuckle.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Cognitive and Mathematics

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ACTIVITY Let’s try making an origami boat and test it outside in a container of water. It’s important to name your boat, so create some silly names. Use the link provided for instructions.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Paper, container of water, website

ACTIVITY Let’s explore in the sprinkler outside today! Discuss with your child how the water shoots in an arc. See if you can run under the arc without getting wet!

LEARNING SKILLS Engineering and Technology, Gross Motor Skills

Materials Sprinkler

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ACTIVITY Let’s do some breathing and stretching. Encourage your child to take a deep breath, watching his or her belly go out and in with each inhale and exhale. Have your child try to hold the inhale for three seconds and the exhale for five seconds. While completing the breathing technique, have your child stretch his or her arms high above the head and stand on tippy toes to extend the body as tall as possible. Relax, and repeat three times.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

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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 camel pose, half-boat pose or triangle pose.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills

Materials Website

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ACTIVITY It’s time to relax before rest time. Enjoy reading or listening to Amazing Airplanes by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker. After listening, talk about a place you have visited where you had to travel via airplane.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read-aloud

ACTIVITY Ask your little one if he or she would like to sing “The Wheels on the Bus.” The wheels on the bus go round and round… The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep… The people on the bus go up and down… The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish…

Encourage your child to make up his or her own verses as well.

LEARNING SKILLS Music and Movement

ACTIVITY Enjoy a peaceful walk together before rest time today. Encourage your little one to find some flowers or plants and feel them or smell them.

LEARNING SKILLS Gross Motor Skills, Science and Nature

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ACTIVITY Let’s explore with some recycled materials from the kitchen. Ask your little engineer to try opening and closing some of the recycled bottles and materials with screw-on lids or snap-and-close lids. Try re-closing an already opened cardboard box with tape or a sandwich baggie. Explore around the house to locate other objects that can be opened and closed.

LEARNING SKILLSCreativity and Discovery, Technology and Engineering

Materials Recycled materials

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 Try creating new objects using toothpicks and small marshmallows or gummy candies and plastic straws. What can we create today? You could try forming shapes or 3D objects.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery, Technology and Engineering

Materials Toothpicks, small marshmallows, gummy candies, plastic straws

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ACTIVITY What can you build? Ask your little one if he or she would like to try and create a structure using plastic cups and paper. You could use tape to reinforce your structure if need be. For an extension, try balancing an object on top of your structure.

LEARNING SKILLSCreativity and Discovery, Technology and Engineering

Materials Plastic cups, paper, tape (optional)

ACTIVITY Let’s explore and draw with chalk or rocks today while outside. You could even play a game of hopscotch.

LEARNING SKILLS Creativity and Discovery

Materials Chalk, rocks

ACTIVITY Let’s enjoy some building materials. Encourage your child to build with building bricks or any type of block. What animal friends would want to live in your creation?

LEARNING SKILLSCreativity and Discovery, Technology and Engineering

Materials Building materials

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ACTIVITY Cozy up with your little one and enjoy this cool video from Interesting Engineering about how bridges are constructed. Once you’re finished watching, discuss some of the bridges that you cross in your neighborhood.

LEARNING SKILLSSocial-Emotional Learning, Technology and Engineering

Materials Website

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 Write or draw to a pen pal. Tell him or her about something you created this week. You could even send a picture of your creation to your pen pal. Getting and sending mail is fun!

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning, Language and Literacy

Materials Paper, pencil, stamp, envelope

ACTIVITY Enjoy some time together and carve a watermelon into a wedge shape. After enjoying the special treat, research what a wedge can do and how it can be helpful around the house. Some examples of wedges include a doorstop and a shovel.

LEARNING SKILLSSocial-Emotional Learning, Technology and Engineering

Materials Watermelon, knife (for adult use)

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ACTIVITY Enjoy reading or listening to Froggy Builds a Treehouse by Jonathan London, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz. Ask your child to share his or her favorite part of the story and whether he or she would like to have a treehouse.

LEARNING SKILLS Language and Literacy

Materials Book or read-aloud

ACTIVITY Video chat with a loved one about some upcoming plans or something exciting that happened over the weekend.

LEARNING SKILLS Social-Emotional Learning

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