2015 School Age Summer Events

CSLP Theme: Every Hero Has a Story

Week 1: Animal Heroes

Share: Information from My Dog is a Hero: Working Dogs with Amazing Jobs by Anita Ganeri

Books : The Incredible Life of Balto by Meghan McCarthy, Dog Heroes by Mary Pope Osborne

Reader's Theater: Balto's Story (manual)

Craft: Dog Origami (p.160 of CSLP Children’s Manual)

Game: Anchorage to Nome Relay (p.82 of CSLP Children’s Manual)

Week 2: Fairy Tale Heroes & Villains

Focus on “The Three Little Pigs” and “Little Red Riding Hood”

Flannel Board: The Three Little Pigs

Book: Little Red Hot by Eric Kimmel

 “In the Hood” from Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer

“Can't Blow This House Down” from Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer

Mad Libs Activity: “A New Fairy Tale” and “So You Want to Be a Villain?” from Happily Ever Mad Libs

Building Activity: build the pigs’ houses using duplos, straws, unsharpened pencils, craft sticks, and dominoes

Game: Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Read We Go! (pp. 236-37 of 2013 CSLP manual)

Reader’s Theater: "The Three Little Pigs" or “Little Red Riding Hood” from You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman

Take Home: Wanted Poster

Week 3: Environmental Heroes

Books: The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps by Jeanette Winter, Actual Size by Steve Jenkins, I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page, Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors by Joyce Sidman

Activity: Bird Songs & Animal Sounds (Apps from Zell Enterprises)

Activity: Animal Tracks ID (from 2012 SRP)

Activity: Bird ID (Flannel Board)

Game: Alpha Chimp Says or Chimp Tag (2015 CSLP Children’s Manual p.87)

Take Home: Mini Nature Hunt (2014 CSLP Manual p. 221), Leaf Prints Craft idea (from internet)

Week 4: Ninjas

Book: Ninja Red Riding Hood by Corey Rosen Schwartz

Craft: Ninja Stars

Game: See other sheet

Activity: Ninja Names (see printout)

Week 5: Firefighters

Talk about fire safety

Play a variety of relay, race, and rescue games (see other sheet)

Week 6: Tall Tale Heroes

Book: You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Tall Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman (Davy Crockett & Paul Bunyan)

Activity: Create an Instant Tall Tale

Week 7: Superheroes

Book: Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod

Activities:

Game: See Game Sheet

Take Home Craft: Superhero Masks

Take Home Activity: Write Your Own Comic

Week 8: Spies

Book: Agent A to Agent Z by Andy Rash

Game: Target Practice (nerf guns) and mine field navigation