Summer Time Fun and Learning

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Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

Supporting Home-Based Early Care and Education

Monthly Fun To Learn at Home Activity Guide

Summer Time Fun and Learning

- August 2020 -

Dear Parent,

In this edi on of the Monthly Fun To Learn At Home Ac vity Guide you will find insects and bugs.

Yes, we are exploring the world around us, including insects and bugs. In this edi on, we have included a variety of ac vi es that you can do with your Hopkins House Preschool Young Scholar at home: Outdoor adventures, science and art projects, songs to sing, and suggested books to read.

These ac vi es oﬀer fun and exci ng ways to develop your child’s language, early reading, math, science, crea vity, and motor skills.

Please share your comments and feedback about this newsle er by emailing me at

[email protected].

Director,

Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

(571) 264‐3216

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Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

Supporting Home-Based Early Care and Education

Monthly Fun To Learn at Home Activity Guide

Let’s Read Together!

Reading together helps develop a child’s early language and comprehension skills.

Reading together can help develop a lifelong apprecia on for books.

Bugs! Bugs!

Bugs!

By Bob Barner

In the Tall, Tall Grass

By Denise Fleming

Waiting for Wings

By Lois Ehlert

Glasswings A Butterfly Story

By Elisa Leven

Never Touch A Spider!

By Rosie Greening

The Very Greedy Bee

By Steve Smallman

Bug Zoo

By Andy Harkness

Beetle Bop

By Denise Fleming

Some Bugs

By Angela DiTerlizzi

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Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

Supporting Home-Based Early Care and Education

Monthly Fun To Learn at Home Activity Guide

Let’s Sing & Dance Together!

Music is fun way for children to transi on between ac vi es.

You can sing with your child while preparing to go out for a walk, while taking a stroll outside, before a meal or at bed me. Don’t worry about the tune or words, it’s the moment that ma ers.

Song #2: Hey, Ladybug

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Hey, lucky lucky lady!

Hey, lucky ladybug!

Hey, lucky lucky lady!

Hey, lucky ladybug.

Fly up high in the sky.

Hey, lucky ladybug.

Fly low down in the garden.

Hey, lucky ladybug.

Li le, lucky black spots.

Hey, lucky ladybug.

Fly with your red wings.

Hey, lucky ladybug. (repeat)

Song #1: Bug’n Roll

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Dum, diddy diddy doo Dum diddy dum (repeat) Oo‐oo‐oo!

Bug’n roll

The ants in the grass all March, march, march March!

March, march, march (repeat) The ants in the grass all March, march, march March!

All day long

The bees around the flowers buzz, buzz, buzz. The fireflies at night all blink, blink, blink. The caterpillars in the field all creep, creep creep.

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Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

Supporting Home-Based Early Care and Education

Monthly Fun To Learn at Home Activity Guide

Let’s Draw & Paint Together!

Crea ve, open‐ended art taps into three key developmental areas for young children. First, it allows an emo onal outlet. Sec‐

ond, it builds execu ve func on. Third, it helps build, strengthen, and refine motor skills.

Foot Pain ng and Prints

Place a large sheet of paper on the ground. Have your child sit in a chair while you use a paint brush to paint the bo om of their feet. Allow your child to walk on the paper or to make designs with their toes. Your child should sit and soak their feet in soapy water to get them clean and then wipe dry with a towel.

Tissue Paper Paint

Have your child tear the ssue paper into small pieces. Then have your child place the torn ssue paper in a bowl and s r with a paintbrush. A er the water is colored, remove and discard the ssue paper and use the colored water for paint. Give your child a sheet of white paper. Allow your child to paint freely on the paper.

See Through Mural

Tape large sheets of cellophane to a window. Allow your child to paint liquid tempera paint on the cellophane.

Your child will be able to see their translucent designs.

Twist Pain ng

Have children stand near a table and squeeze three or four dots of liquid paint directly onto the table top. Paint drops can range from pea size to dime size. Have your child place paper on top of the paint drops and twist the paper with the heels of their hands about 1/2 turn. Have your child pick up their papers and see their designs.

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Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

Supporting Home-Based Early Care and Education

Monthly Fun To Learn at Home Activity Guide

Let’s Build Something Together!

Float Your Boat

Use aluminum foil to build a boat that floats. Use 10 inch pieces of aluminum foil to build boats that float and hold as many pennies (or other lightweight objects) as possible before sinking.

Roller Coaster

Design a marble run by se ng up cardboard tubes in diﬀerent ways to make the marbles roll at diﬀerent speeds. Using pool noodles, marbles, and other materials set up a roller coaster that includes a series of tricks, light turns, loops and twists.

Strike Up the Band

Design and make musical instruments. Create an instrument that has two or more ways to make a sound that can be heard for a distance of at least 30 feet.

Trouble with Bubbles

Make a bubble wand using pipe cleaners, drinking straws, string, wire, paper cups, or pipe es. Make a bub‐

ble wand that is a 3‐D geometric shape, like pyramids, cubes, rectangular prisms or cylinders.

Design challenges are meant to improve young children’s Science, Technology, En‐

gineering, and Math, (STEM) skills. Grab an empty box, cut windows and doors into it, give your child some construc on paper and glue, and then step back and let him

or her build his imagina ve best.

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Hopkins House Preschool

Distance Learning Academy

Supporting Home-Based Early Care and Education

Monthly Fun To Learn at Home Activity Guide

Let’s Go On A Trip Together!

Let’s Go to BuƩerfly World!

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Let’s Go to The Bug Zoo!

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Virtual field trips allow young children to explore and discover the larger world around them. Use a globe or map to show your child the des na on; talk with them about the things they see;

ask them to tell you how a lion sounds, or how tall a giraﬀe is, or what a monkey likes to eat.