Kits Will Keep Learning Going

posted 5/3/24 -- Children need ongoing opportunities to gain experience and practice essential skills. This is especially true during the summer months.

Did you know that children can lose up to two months of knowledge and skills that were learned throughout the school year, if they do not practice them over the summer?

To help reduce summer learning loss and to encourage parent engagement, your Head Start child will be coming home with a backpack filled with hands-on learning materials.

Bags will be distributed the week of May 20, 2024.

Each bag will include the following, based on the famous children’s author Eric Carle:

• Eric Carle drawstring backpack.
• Children’s picture book to encourage early literacy and language development. (Photo contains one possible book)
• Lacing card to increase fine-motor (small muscle) skills.
• Mini puzzle.
• Dry-erase marker, eraser, and sentence strip to encourage printing their name and other fun activities.
• Caterpillars for color recognition, patterns, counting, etc.
• Tongs and pom poms to build those fine motor (small muscle) skills.
• Pack of white paper for drawing, cutting, etc.
• Eight pack of crayons.
• Watercolors for painting.
• Scissors to build those fine motor (small muscle) skills.
• Activity guide.

We encourage families to take the time to continue to work on kindergarten readiness skills to reduce summer learning loss and have fun with your child this summer! Have a safe and fun summer!