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buggy kindergarten calendar

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Back in May when we attended Maddy’s Kindergarten Orientation, we were given this awesome calendar of activities to carry us through the summer months, right up to the first day of school.

The theme is “Catch the Reading Bug” and the goal is simple: get our kiddos in the habit of reading. Do cool activities with them to encourage real reading. Draw with them, explore with them, and play games with them. Visit the library often. Read every day. Write every day.

As a Reading Specialist and parent who already tries to throw in a little learning each day, I nearly jumped for joy when I saw this, and I knew Maddy would totally dig it. Maybe others will, too. Here are the July and August calendars to download.


Our activities began on July 1, so though we’re a day behind (and I’m not sure we’ll manage to do every day–maybe a few activities a week), we got rolling today:

  • Book Cover: Today’s activity was to draw a new cover for a book you have read. We had just finished reading Good Night Dinosaurs by Judy Sierra, so Maddy chose to make a cover for that book. We talked about what belonged on a cover of a book–the title, author, illustrator if there was one, and a picture. We decided that the picture usually gave some clue to what the book would be about.

Good Night Dinosaurs is a book about how different dinosaurs go to sleep and what they do before bedtime. It’s written in rhyme, and the names of the dinosaurs are incorporated in interesting words, like

Mom and Dad diplodocus
(Each one was bigger than a bus)
Chased them off to bed with hisses,
Followed by diplodokisses.

Maddy said she wanted a dinosaur on the cover and she wanted the title to be “just Dinosaurs”. I didn’t argue; it was her new book cover, and she’ll have years to follow rules in school. I was just proud of her for drawing a super dino:

And that was it for today. Any excuse to read, rip a link off of our chain, and to talk about a book is a good day for us. As simple as it may sound, making a new cover for a book does require a bunch of thought and processing for an emerging reader’s mind; she has to think about what the book is about and make that clear to readers. It’s one thing to talk about it but whole other thing to take that second step and actually draw it.

Thanks to MCPS’s Sherwood HS Cluster for developing this super-cool summer calendar for rising Kindergarteners. We love it!

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  1. Multi-tasking Mommy

    July 3, 2009 at 1:55 am

    As a former Kindergarten teacher, I have to say that this is such a fabulous idea!

    My daughter starts JK in the fall. I look forward to doing some of these activities with her!

    Thank you yet again for an incredible resource!

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  2. BranFlakes

    July 3, 2009 at 2:16 am

    That is fantastic! I'm sad that I can't download your file to borrow the ideas, luckily I can see some of them on the photo.

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  3. teachmama

    July 3, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Oh, no! I wonder what the problem is–tell me if you've had the same problem with other files or what you need, and I'll email it to you!

    Reply
  4. BranFlakes

    July 3, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    4shared does work fine. I just got a Mac this week and haven't gotten word or excel for it yet. Actually, I haven't even figured out how to use the Mac too much yet, I'm working on it.

    Reply
  5. Denise

    July 3, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Wow! I'm jumping for joy too! This is the best summer activity calendar I've seen! Thanks!

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  6. Jenny Hendrickson

    July 4, 2009 at 1:14 am

    I LOVE Maddy's dinosaur!! It's AWESOME!!

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  7. teachingyoungchildren

    July 4, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    Thank you for the links – your school must be great to think of all these activities. Of course, it's a little early for us to actually draw new book covers, but the idea is awesome. One thing that made me smile – an advice to read for 15 min. It's more like a couple of hours a day for us, and I hope that it will always be that way.

    Reply
  8. Christy

    July 11, 2009 at 3:28 am

    I love this idea. For some reason, I can't download either of the calendars though. I have no idea why.

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  9. kate

    July 14, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Amy- I have been visiting your site for a while now and am always so inspired- thank you! It is people like you who really help encourage the rest of us to do these things with opur children on a daily basis. You also do it in a way that makes me say, "yes, I CAN DO this, and it can be fun!"- Even though I'm not a formal educator, so thanks again!

    My kids are 2 and 4 years old, but I still think we can incorporate some of these summer assignments, and I look forward to being able to tackle them all next summer with my then 5 year old!

    Thanks, Kate

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