Fun In The Sun! Activity-a-Day Calendars & Weekly Plans 2017
05.06.2017
Summer 2017 is nearly here and most children will be on an extended break from school. While every child deserves a break from the rigor of school, summer vacation offers exceptional opportunities for children to learn and develop outside the structure of formal school.
Tools to Grow is pleased to offer our annual FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2017 Calendars with over 300 activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories! This year we have provided calendars for the months of June, July, and August 2017.
By providing their child the opportunity to engage in these activities, parents will be offering their children the chance to:
Minimize or Eliminate Learning Loss- Skill regression may occur during prolonged breaks from school. These activities offer opportunities for writing, drawing, generating ideas, and using executive functioning skills (problem solving, planning & organizing).
Maintain Fine Motor Skills- Children with special needs may regress when not participating in therapy. These summer themed crafts & activities provide opportunities to use a variety of tools and materials that build hand strength, pencil control, and eye-hand coordination.
Stay Fit and Coordinated- Build muscles, balance, strength, endurance, and fight childhood obesity.
Create New Life Experiences- Children with more background knowledge have better reading comprehension.
Benefit from Multi-Sensory Learning Experiences- These capture your child’s interest while using touch, movement, sound, and sight to promote learning.
Expand their Role in the Family- Complete simple household tasks that help to boost a child’s confidence while learning daily living skills.
Activity-a-Day Summer Calendar
Summer Activity-a-Day Calendar is a FREE Printable for the summer months of June, July, and August 2017.
So as to offer each child the most relevant and age appropriate activities, this year we have continued to provide you with three different age ranges/grade levels:
1) Preschool - Grade 1
2) Grade 2 - Grade 4
3) Grade 5 and Above
What Skills are Addressed in the Calendars?
For the grade/age levels (1) Prekindergarten - Grade 1 and (2) Grade 2 - Grade 4, each day of the week on the calendar is organized as follows:
- Monday: Fine Motor
- Tuesday: Sensory Fun
- Wednesday: Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Integration
- Thursday: Handwriting
- Friday: Gross Motor
- Saturday: Around the House
For the grade/age levels (3) Grade 5 and Above, each day of the week on the calendar is organized as follows:
- Monday: Fine Motor
- Tuesday: Executive Functioning
- Wednesday: Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Integration
- Thursday: Handwriting
- Friday: Gross Motor
- Saturday: Around the House
Fine Motor Skills involve the use of precise and coordinated movements of the fingers to perform hand use tasks. Fine motor skills are necessary for completing daily tasks such as dressing (using buttons/zippers), feeding (using mealtime utensils), being a student (using a pencil, keyboard, or scissors), and engaging in leisure/play activities (drawing, playing many musical instruments).
Sensory Play involves opportunities to promote the development of sensory processing skills by increasing adaptive or functional responses to sights, sounds, touch, and movement.
Executive Functioning Skills involve the many tasks a child’s brain performs that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help a child learn new information, remember and retrieve information learned in the past, and the use of this information to solve problems in everyday life.
Visual Perceptual Skills involve the ability to understand, evaluate, and interpret what is seen. There are a variety of visual perceptual skills; deficits in one or more of these may have academic and functional consequences for success at school and home.
Visual Motor Integration (VMI) Skills involve the coordination of hand movements based upon the perception of visual information. It is the execution of hand movements guided by what the child is seeing.
Handwriting Skills involve a complex process of recording language by hand, often by using paper and a pen or pencil. The production of legible and efficient handwriting requires intact skills in the areas of postural control, eye hand coordination, visual perception, fine motor control, ocular control, and pencil grasp. Handwriting skills may be strengthened through practice that includes coloring, drawing, printing letters, printing numerals, or forming other symbols.
Gross Motor Skills involve the use of large muscles groups for the performance of functions such as walking, running, jumping, riding a bike and playing sports.
Around the House Skills involve completion of simple household tasks that help to boost a child’s confidence and independence. As a child develops he/she will need to increase their competence in the completion of daily living skills for success at home, school, community, and work environments.
Instructions to a Sun-Tastic Summer!
1) Print out FREE Summer Activity-a-Day 2017 Calendar.
2) Complete activities throughout the months of June, July, and August as indicated on the calendars.
3) Print accompanying detailed Weekly Plans with detailed instructions and Printable Activities for each week!
Summer Weekly Plans & Activities
Are you looking for detailed weekly plans, instructions, and printable resources that accompany the monthly Activity-a-Day Calendar? We have exactly what you are looking for! We have done the planning and organizing for you!
Summer Weekly Plans & Activities are conveniently organized into the same three grade/age categories as the FREE Activity-a-Day Calendars.
This 63 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly plans/ instructions and accompanying activities for children preschool age through first grade.
Activities include:
- Watermelon Paper Craft
- Play Dough Mat & Letters
- Pattern & Cut Fish/Ocean Theme
- Alphabet Practice (Upper & Lower Case Letters)
- Number Practice
- Proper Letter Formation Chart
- Gross Motor Summer Animal Walk Game
- Tactile Ice Cream Puffy Paint Recipe and Craft
- Maze Paths
- Pencil Paths
- Coloring Pages
- Sandpaper Star Fish Craft
- Find the Differences
- Tic Tac Toe
- Goldfish Eye Dropper Bubbles
- Sensory Coloring: Bear Edition
- Hole Punch Art
- Fish Tangram Activity
- And Much More!!
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This 57 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly lesson plans/instructions and accompanying activities for children in the second through fourth grades.
Activities include:
- Coloring Pages (Summer Fun, Rangoli Color Pattern)
- Puffy Paint Ice Cream Recipe and Craft
- Handwriting Practice (A-Z Scavenger Hunt, Riddles, Secret Code, Cryptogram, Summer Story, Write a Letter, Make a List)
- Gross Motor Animal Walks and Spinner Game
- Proper Letter Formation Chart
- Tactile Recipes (Goop)
- Hole Punch Art
- Word Search
- Number Practice
- Find the Differences
- Hang Man
- Paper Clip Pattern
- Sandpaper Craft
- Dress up Paper Doll
- Sensory Coloring
- Mixed up Word Search/Scan
- Fish Tangram Activity
- And Much More!!
This 56 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly lesson plans/instructions and accompanying activities for children in the fifth grade and above.
Activities include:
- Calendar Skills
- Printing Practice (Summer Story, Cryptogram, Word Scramble, Space between Words, Space between Letters)
- Map Skills
- Hole Punch Art
- Word Search
- Prioritizing Skills
- Organizing and Sequencing Skills
- Grocery/Menu Planning
- Mixed up Grocery Items Activity
- Chore List
- Dot Game
- Drawing/Symmetry Activities
- Rangoli Coloring Patterns
- Design Comic Strips
- Managing Time
- Back to School Supply List
- Using a Ruler Activity
- Pencil Control Paths
- Pencil Twirls
- And Much More!!
We hope you have lots of fun and make some great summer memories together from these FREE Summer Activity-a-Day Printable Calendars!! We know these Summer Activities will be a SPLASH!!!
You can print out the Activity-a-Day Summer Calendars and Weekly Plans, as well as check out the other summer resources we have to offer!
Have a wonderful, safe ,and fun-filled Summer!!
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