There are five different practices that help build early literacy skills, and today we’re going to talk about one of our favourite tools for building reading skills (and life skills!) with your babies: board books! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Board Books
It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new weekly scavenger hunt! We’ll be bringing you a new list of items for children to find every Monday morning and as part of Summer Reading Club programming the scavenger hunts are now a contest! Continue reading Fantasy Scavenger Hunt
Looking for another literacy activity to do at home? Can’t get out to go camping? Just in time for the long weekend, we have this fantastic camping dramatic play activity for you! Transform your living room into a campsite and let the kids play. Continue reading Literacy at Home: Camping Dramatic Play
It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new weekly scavenger hunt! We’ll be bringing you a new list of items for children to find every Monday morning and as part of Summer Reading Club programming the scavenger hunts are now a contest! Continue reading Celestial Scavenger Hunt
We’ve got an incredibly simple literacy at home activity for you this week that helps to build letter recognition, and practice both reading and writing! Most children start out learning the alphabet by spelling their names. For this activity, they only need to be able to make their first initial! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Letter Tic-Tac-Toe
It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new weekly scavenger hunt! We’ll be bringing you a new list of items for children to find every Monday morning and as part of Summer Reading Club programming the scavenger hunts are now a contest! Continue reading Science Fiction Scavenger Hunt
We’re back with another song collection for you! These ones are all about frogs and are great to use with preschoolers. Singing is one of the five practices that build early literacy skills – and singing with your child is a great way to build another early literacy practice into your day – playing! Continue reading Literacy at Home: 3 Songs for 3-5s
Captain Julye is taking part in the Journey Through Space and will be reporting back each week in her Captain’s Log. Check out her challenge for week one! Continue reading Captain’s Log: Journey Through Space Week 1
It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new weekly scavenger hunt! We’ll be bringing you a new list of items for children to find every Monday morning and as part of Summer Reading Club programming the scavenger hunts are now a contest! Continue reading Home Base Scavenger Hunt
The theme for Summer Reading Club this week is Home Base so our weekend fun is all about the Earth! We’ve got two different activities for to keep you and your child busy this weekend – one which is a bit more science focused and one which is just plain fun. Continue reading Summer Reading Club Activities: Bug Hotel & Confetti Planet Earth
