Splash into Summer!! Activity-a-Day Calendars & Weekly Plans 2019

05.07.2019

Tools to Grow is pleased to offer our annual FREE Activity-a-Day Summer 2019 Calendars with over 100 activities designed to maintain academic knowledge, battle summer boredom, and make family memories!

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 2019.

So as to offer each child the most relevant and age appropriate activities, this year we have continued to provide you with three suggested age ranges/grade levels:

1) Level 1: Preschool - Grade 1

2) Level 2: Grade 2 - Grade 4

3) Level 3: Grade 5 and Above

What Skills are Addressed in the Calendars?

Level 1 and Level 2 Calendar and Plans are organized as follows:

Monday = Fine Motor
Tuesday = Sensory Fun
Wednesday = Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Integration
Thursday = Handwriting
Friday = Gross Motor
Saturday = Around the House

Level 3 Calendar and Plans are 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 for a Sun-Tastic Summer!

1) Print out FREE Summer Activity-a-Day 2019 Calendars.

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 a complete NO PREP summer packet?

Are you looking for detailed weekly plans, instructions, and printable resources that accompany the 2019 monthly Activity-a-Day Calendar?

We have exactly what you are looking for! We have done the planning and organizing for you! Simply Print and Go!

Summer Weekly Plans & Activities are conveniently organized into the same three levels and suggested age ranges as the FREE Activity-a-Day Calendars.

Level 1 = Preschool - Grade 1

This 84 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly plans/ instructions and accompanying activities for children preschool age through first grade.

Activities include:

Therapy Putty Exercises
Yoga Poses
Watermelon Number Puzzle
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!!

2) Level 2 = Grade 2 - Grade 4

This 73 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly lesson plans/instructions and accompanying activities for children in the second through fourth grades.

Activities include:

Fingerprint Art
Therapy Putty Exercises
Sorting Coins
Coloring Pages
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
Sensory Coloring
Mixed up Word Search/Scan
Fish Tangram Activity
And Much More!!

3) Level 3 = Grade 5 and Above

This 75 page Printable PDF includes detailed weekly lesson plans/instructions and accompanying activities for children in the fifth grade and above.

Activities include:

Yoga Poses
Calendar Skills
Fingerprint Art
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
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 amazing summer memories together with these FREE Summer Activity-a-Day Printable Calendars!! We know these calendars will take the stress away from planning activities and allow for some great summer memories together!

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 here.

Have a wonderful, safe and fun-filled Summer!!