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Rhyming and Ready For School 2020 Summer Activities Calendar This cover is the background for the cut out characters on the back page - Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme retelling instructions found on the last page. Helpful Phone Numbers School Information Allen County Education Partnership - 423-6447 www.abouteducation.org East Allen County Schools: 446-0100 Bowen Center-counseling services - 471-3500 www.bowencenter.org Fort Wayne Community Schools: 260-467-1000 Brightpoint- Head Start Early Childhood Programs, Healthy Families, Family Literacy Support - 423-3546 FACE/Enrollment - 260-467-2120 or Early Childhood Alliance - 745-2501 www.myFWCS.fortwayneschools.org On My Way Pre-K - 1-800-299-1627 Special Education - 260-467-1110 Erin’s House-grief/loss counseling - 423-2466 Interpreters for Spanish and Burmese Speakers - 260-467-2009 “First Call for Help”- for help with food, counseling, employment, health care, Transportation - 260-467-1900 support groups, legal aid, clothing and education, dial 211 CHIP, Hoosier Healthwise and the Healthy Indiana Plan - state-sponsored health Visit www.fortwayneschools.org or connect with us! insurance programs for children birth-19 and adults 19-64, Facebook @WeAreYourSchools contact 1-800-889-9949. Twitter @FtWayneCommSkls The Literacy Alliance-adults and children - 426-7323 Instagram @fort_wayne_community_schools Neighborhood Health Clinic-WIC services and affordable medical and YouTube @FWCommunitySchools dental care - 458-2641 Or visit the Family and Community Engagement (F.A.C.E.) Poison Control - 1-800-222-1222 Center at 230 E. Douglas Ave., next to the Anthis Career SCAN-Stop Child Abuse and Neglect - 421-5000 Center Monday-Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by calling Super Shot - 424-7468 260-467-7250. Urban League - 745-3100 Allen County Public Libraries Summer Reading Program Aboite 5630 Coventry Ln. 421-1310 SPARK! Summer Learning Program: Imagine Your Story June 1 through July 31 Dupont 536 E. Dupont Rd. 421-1315 **NEW** Open to all ages Georgetown 6600 E. State Blvd. 421-1320 FREE! Hessen Cassel 3030 E. Paulding Rd. 421-1330 Summer is full of learning and fun at the library! Come Little Turtle 2201 Sherman Blvd. 421-1335 for free STEM, art, music and gaming programs as well as Main Library 900 Library Plaza 421-1200 opportunities to earn books and other great prizes. Teens New Haven 648 Green St. 421-1345 and adults can participate, too, with chances to win gift cards to local businesses. To sign up, visit Pontiac 2215 S. Hanna St. 421-1350 your local library or register online for Shawnee 5600 Noll Ave. 421-1355 even more activities at Tecumseh 1411 E. State Blvd. 421-1360 www.acpl.beanstack.org Waynedale 2200 Lower Huntington Rd. 421-1365 Woodburn 4701 State Rd. 101 North 421-1370 Summer Playground Program-Summer Playground Program Family Fun! for children ages 5 and older, June 8-July 31, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The program sites are: Hamilton, Lafayette, Lakeside, Memorial, and Packard. FREE lunches are provided daily by Fort Botanical Gardens 427-6440 Wayne Community Schools. There will be kickball, basketball, arts Boys and Girls Club 744-0998 and crafts, etc. For information call 427-5966. City Parks Department 427-6000 Free Summer Lunch Program-June 1-July 31, Monday-Friday, City Pools 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free meals are available to children ages 1-18 Jury Memorial 245-0152 years. Lunch program sites are at various parks, centers, churches Free McMillen 427-6704 and some Allen County Public Library branches throughout the Summer Lunch city. For more information call Nutrition Process Center 467-2500. Memorial 427-6702 Program Northside 427-6705 June 1 - Wellspring Interfaith Social Services Summer Fun-for children ages 4-17, June 8-July 17, 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Crafts, music, dance, Euell Wilson Center 456-2917 July 31 field trips, yoga, educational activities, parent activities, etc. FREE Fox Island 449-3180 lunches are provided daily by Fort Wayne Community Schools. Jennings Center 427-6700 Call 422-6618 for information. Lindenwood Nature Preserve 427-6740 The Neighborhood Recreation Center Summer Youth Program- Matea County Park 449-3777 will run June 8-July 31, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. at Weisser, Jennings, Salomon Farm 427-6790 Cooper and McMillen Centers. FREE lunches are provided daily by Fort Wayne Community Schools from 11:15-12:45p.m. Science Central 424-2400 YMCA Metropolitan Office 422-6488 MLK Montessori School Summer Program-for 3-6 year olds, 8:30 Zoo 427-6800 a.m.-3:30 p.m. June 10-July 28. $199 a week (before care is also available). Activities include: biology and science activities, math activities, splash pad, field trips, museums, picnics, gardening, golf and tricycle races. Call 260-423-4333 or email [email protected]. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill Check out this nursery rhyme on YouTube! Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away. small medium large beside away tuffet School Readiness Activities: May 2020 When cooking, talk about the taste and smell of the ingredients you are Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday using. 1 2 Play a game! Hide your child’s favorite toy. Give your child clues using position words including the ones above to help them find it. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 With your child, collect buttons or Cinco de lids from different containers. Use Mayo these objects to make a pattern (large, small, large, small). 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Look for spiders and their spider Mother’s Day webs. Are they small, medium or large? Describe what they’re doing as you watch them. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Memorial 31 Talking with your child is one of Day the best ways to help him/her get ready for school. Using the Are you looking for quality child care for vocabulary at the bottom of the summer? the picture of Little Miss Muffet, For help finding quality child care and more in- talk to your child about what is formation on Paths to QUALITY, call Automated happening in the picture. Act Health Systems Child Care Resource and Referral. the nursery rhyme out! This is a free service for all parents! 1-855-533-7342 Jack and Jill Get Your FREE Library Card Today! Jack and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Check out this nursery rhyme on YouTube! first second top bottom before after June 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 ACPL 2 3 4 5 6 School Readiness Activities: Summer Reading Look at the picture above. Have Program your child explain how he/she thinks begins! Jack and Jill might be feeling. Have your child describe a time when 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 he/she may have fallen and felt the same way. Ask your child if they know what a “crown” is. Talk about the different 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 parts of your body. Have they ever Make a dentist appt. broken a part of their body? for your child! Have your child draw a picture. Then have your child describe how 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 he/she is feeling in the picture. Father’s Day Use terms – before, after, next, now, later, first and last – when talking about your child’s day. 28 29 30 Reading To Your Child • Read to your child every day! In school, your child will talk about feelings, • Ask your child what he/she thinks the book will be about. learn concept words and position words. • Talk about the pictures with your child. The words at the bottom of the picture • Ask your child what might happen next. are examples of the language you can use • Ask your child questions about what happened in the book. while retelling the rhyme Jack and Jill. Check out this nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie on YouTube! Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, Rapping at the window, Crying through the lock, Are all the children in their beds, For now it’s eight o’clock? up down all none jump run night day When your child learns the similarities and differences between colors and shapes, he/she is using the same skills needed to recognize the differences between letters and School Readiness Activities: July 2020 numerals. Talk with your child about the picture from the rhyme Your child will actively play with Wee Willie Winkie. Ask, “What shapes and colors are in the picture?” others in school. Talk with your child about how he/she can move. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Using the words at the bottom of 1 2 3 4 the picture from Wee Willie Winkie, have your child follow directions. 4th of July Play “I Spy” with letters, shapes, numbers and colors. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Three Rivers After reading Wee Willie Winkie, talk Festival with your child about their bed time Parade routine. What time do they go to 10 a.m. bed? Talk about the special things 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 that you do before bed. Read a Fri. & Sat. Three Rivers book each night before bed, Children’s Festival brushing teeth, taking a bath, etc.
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