2013 School Age Summer Events
CSLP Theme: Dig Into Reading
Week 1: Dig Into the Part – Pyramids
Display: Books about pyramids, mummies, and Ancient Egypt
Books to share:
I Wonder Why Pyramids Were Built & Other Questions About Ancient Egypt by Philip Steele (pp. 12-13: Why were the pyramids built?), How They Made Things Work: The Egyptians by Richard Platt (pp. 4-5: How the Egyptians Made Things Work, pp. 14-15: Stoneworking, pp. 16-17: Pyramids), Mummies & Pyramids by Osborne (Ch. 6: The Age of the Pyramids)
Group Activity: The Tale of the Half-(adjective) Mummy (p. 135 of CSLP manual)
Game: Mummy Wrapping Contest from p. 124 of CSLP manual (split into teams)
Activity: Walk Like an Egyptian Contest (p. 124 of CSLP manual)
Craft: Write Your Name in Hieroglyphics (using p. 138 of CSLP manual)
Week 2: Dig Into the Part – Dinosaurs
Display: Dinosaur Books from J 567.9 section
Books to Share: When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach OR Why the Banana Split by Rick Walton, Dinosaurs by Will Osborne & Mary Pope Osborne (pp. 38-41: Bone-Hunter Mistakes, pp. 80-83: Jack & Annie’s Dinosaur Hall of Fame (longest name), pp. 98-99 More Dinosaur Mysteries), Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
Crafts: Pasta Dinosaur Skeletons [http://busybeekidscrafts.com/Dinosaur-Bones.html] Dinosaur Coloring Sheets [http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.cm/Just_Color_Dinosaurs.pdf]
Game: Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Where’s Your Egg? or Dinosaur Races (small dinos frozen in ice cubes, race down a cookie sheet slope)
Take Home: Dino Dig Word Search (p. 145 of CSLP manual)
Week 3: Dig Into the Earth – Rocks
Books to Share:
Birthstone pages from Diamonds & Gemstones by Ron Edwards & Lisa Dickie, Weird But True Rocks by Carmen Bredeson
Group Activity: Underground Adventure Fill-in-the-Blank Story (p. 235 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Game: Life Size version of Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It’s Off to Read We Go (pp. 236-237 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Take Home Craft: Make Your Own Rock Candy Family Fun Page (p. 233 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Week 4: Animals Underground
Display: Burrowing Animal Books
Discuss: Burrowing Animals (using the list I compiled)
Books to Share: (Let the kids pick 1 or 2)
Honey…Honey…Lion! by Jan Brett, Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett, Hunwick’s Egg by Mem Fox, Wolves by Emily Gravett
Game: Egg Stack (p. 160 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Craft: Origami Rabbit Faces
Week 5: Animals Underground
Discuss: Animals that dig in the sand (especially sea turtles and crabs)
Books to Share: Sea Turtles’ Race to the Sea by Kathy Allen (just a few facts), A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Craft: Sea Turtle Paper Bag Puppet
Game: Hatching Turtles Race to the Ocean (p. 161 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Craft: Origami Crab
Week 6: Insects Underground
Movement Song: “The Ants Go Marching”
Book: Ant and Grasshopper by Luli Gray
Game: Ant Toss (p. 157 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Book: Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Game: Longest Worm Relay (pp. 162-163 of CSLP Children’s manual)
Week 7: Digging Up Trouble with Tricksters
Reader’s Theater: Anansi and the Magic Stick by Eric A. Kimmel
Books to Share: Selections from The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester, Monkey: A Trickster Tale from India by Gerald McDermott or Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon by Gerald McDermott
Activities:
Trickster Tales Acrostic Poems (p. 201of CSLP Children’s manual)
Tricky Photographs using Look-Alikes by Joan Steiner
Tricky Words using Busy Buzzing Bumblebees by Alvin Schwartz
Tricky Nature using
Where in the Wild by David M. Scwartz & Yael Schy
I See a Kookaburra by Jenkins & Page
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Jenkins & Page
Who has these Feet? By Laura Hulbert
Who Has this Tail? By Laura Hulbert
[The idea for Tricky Photographs, Tricky Words, and Tricky Nature came from Beyond the Book Storytimes Blog at http://btbstorytimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/k-2-book-adventure-program-summary.html]
Craft: Paper Bag Puppets (Monkey or Tortoise)
Games: Duck, Duck, Goose or Trickster Says
Week 8: In the Garden
Books to Share: A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston, Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming or The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Craft: Gnome Coloring Sheet (p. 95 of CSLP Children's manual)
Game: Make a Gnome Relay Race (modified Gnome Game on p. 84 of CSLP Children's manual and use template on p. 101.)