Summer Literacy Calendar – Family Activities

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
 Mother
Goose Day!mothergooseday-jj15 Read a Mother
Goose book.
Make a
paper plate
goose.goose-jj15-3
 Sing your
favourite
nursery
rhymes
while in
the car
or playing
at home.
 Bird Day!bird-day-jj15Go for a
nature walk,
listen and look
for birds outside.
Look at a
bird book
and talk
about the
types of
birds there
are.
bird-tube-jj15Make 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.
bird-feeder-2-jj15Make a bird
feeder; toilet
paper tube rolled
in honey, then
in bird seed.
card-jj15Make a card
and mail it out
to someone
special.
pancake-jj15Make
sunshine
pancakes
together.
 Sing ‘You Are
My Sunshine.’sun-jj15
sun-print-jj15Make a
handprint
sun.
 Visit the
library to
get books
about
spring and
the sun.
Dance Like a
Chicken Day!dance-jj15
chicken-foot-jj15Make 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.flower-jj15
spring-jj15 Read a
book about
spring.
 Sing ‘I’m
Bringing Home
My Baby
Bumblebee.’bee-jj15
B-jj15Talk about
things that
start with the
letter B.
Make a
bumblebee
egg carton
craft.bee-egg-jj15
Play
‘Simon
Says,’
doing
animal
actions.
Talk about
the best
thing that
happened
today.
 Create
a family
tree!family-tree-jj15
abc-jj15 Sing the
Alphabet
Song!
Make letter
shapes with your
body by bending
and twisting.man-jj15
book-jj15 Swap your
favourite
book with a
friend.
 Make bread
dough letters
out of frozen
dough for snack.K-jj15
Create an
alphabet
book using
drawings
and
magazine
clippings.

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