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COURSE REQUIREMENTS
- Completeall lessons and activities.
- Share your thoughts on the Course Discussion Boardwhen required in the lessons by responding to the instructor’s questions. Feel free to offer positive comments to other participants! You must engage with the Discussion Board to pass the course.
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- Complete the Course Evaluation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PARTICIPANTS WILL:
- Identify and plan engaging, developmentally appropriate summer activities for school-age children.
- Integrate social-emotional learning (SEL) and creative expression into everyday play.
- Adapt summer activity ideas to meet the diverse developmental needs and interests of children
- Access and utilize resources to enrich programming.
Course Content
REFLECTION
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INTRODUCTION
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Module 1: Why Summer Matters
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Module 2: Activity Stations – Real Ideas for Real Programs
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Module 3: Adding Emotions to the Mix
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Module 4: Creativity Through Literacy
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Module 5: Tying it all together
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FINAL REFLECTION
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REFERENCES
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Confirm Completion of 2025 Summer Fun for School Age Children
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Activity: Please respond to Question 1 on the course message board: What was your favorite summer activity as a child and why? What were the learning skills associated with your favorite activity?
Activity: Please watch this video and answer question #2: Learning through summer break, why it’s important for children Why is summer learning so important?
Activity: Watch this video and please respond to Question 3 on the Course Message Board Summer Learning Loss How can you prevent summer learning loss in your program? Name 3 hands on activities.
Activity: Please respond to Question 4 on the Course Message Board: https://youtu.be/GPm5waanV6g What’s your favorite activity to do with the young children? What do they learn from this activity?
Activity: Please respond to Question 5 on the Course Message Board: Name 3 things you can do to provide social emotional experiences to your program?
Activity: Please respond to Question 6 on the Course Message Board: Share two ways you include creativity through literacy learning experiences in routine times of day.
Activity: Please respond to Question 7 on the Course Message Board: Consider the challenging part of creating summer activities. What strategy might you try to make better use of summer learning?
Creating a weekly curriculum planning with weather in mind. The days that aren’t appropriate to be outside we come up with similar creative ways indoors. Either playing with soil or as simple as washing toy cars with sponge and water.
Lots of picture books and always engaging the kids on “what’s happening?” And they self express in their own words what they think is happening as a group then we discuss ideas
Emotion based books, emotion discussion at circle time, emotion dramatic play, breathing exercises
Sensory fun, to see same products/items being used by each child in a different way. Their imagination exploration
Craft, dramatic play and nature adventures
Mud kitchen, we were able to be creative without thinking we were getting dirty.
Transforming simple task into story telling opportunities and incorporating wordplay and imagination
social emotional experience like visiting a liabary read a book set a goal for the summer and help the child keep track of it also create cooperative learning games that the child can play with siblings and friends
Summer is important for kids so they can be kids freely playing with nature and getting some sun and fun in
Play outside with nature and go to the beach
Hacer una busqueda de recursos y hacer un plan de actividades para el verano.
Baile, dramatizacion, maquetas, arte, roles de papeles de la historia, drama, cocina.
Carteles de las emociones, musica, libros, area de relajacion, caja de materiales para regulacion cuando sea necesario, peluches, ect.
Jugar afuera, explorar la naturaleza, jugar con tierra, pretender cocinar con material en contrado en la naturaleza, jugar con agua, arena, bache. Socializar con otros, lenguaje, exploracion, imaginacion, creatividad, comunicacion, eschucar, paciencia, sensorial.
Jugar afuera con la tierra y con la naturaleza.
STEM: Explorar en la naturaleza(colectar piedras, palos, hojas, flores ect) y luego clasificar por categorias, colores, tamanos, contar, hacer un collage, pintar, construir u otro dejando que los ninos utilizen su creatividad e imaginacion.