Summer Literacy Calendar – Family Activities

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
					Mother Goose Day! Read a Mother Goose book.	Make a paper plate goose.
Sing your favourite nursery rhymes while in the car or playing at home.	Bird Day!Go for a nature walk, listen and look for birds outside.	Look at a bird book and talk about the types of birds there are.	Make a paper towel tube bird; feathers and googly eyes.	Talk about what colour birds are, the sounds they make, where they live, what they eat, etc.	Make a bird feeder; toilet paper tube rolled in honey, then in bird seed.	Make a card and mail it out to someone special.
Make sunshine pancakes together.	Sing ‘You Are My Sunshine.’	Make a handprint sun.	Visit the library to get books about spring and the sun.	Dance Like a Chicken Day!	Make a footprint chicken.	Talk about the lifecycle of a chicken: what they eat, what they do, etc.
Go for a nature walk: observe, talk about and draw what you see.	Draw a flower and label all of its parts.	Read a book about spring.	Sing ‘I’m Bringing Home My Baby Bumblebee.’	Talk about things that start with the letter B.	Make a bumblebee egg carton craft.	Play ‘Simon Says,’ doing animal actions.
Talk about the best thing that happened today.	Create a family tree!	Sing the Alphabet Song!	Make letter shapes with your body by bending and twisting.	Swap your favourite book with a friend.	Make bread dough letters out of frozen dough for snack.	Create an alphabet book using drawings and magazine clippings.

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