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1500 Senate Street PO Box 11469, Columbia, SC 29211 Telephone: 803-734-8666 http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina's intellectual landscape. Dear Parents, Guardians, and Caregivers: South Carolina Day by Day The South Carolina State Library is proud to introduce the South Carolina Day by Day Family Literacy Activity Day by Day Calendar. You will be excited to watch your child open Oh let's see up to a whole new world through books, reading, and arts and crafts. The activities that fill this calendar are What does the calendar say? selected to support the areas of learning that should help your child become ready for school and ready for We can practice reading reading. Our goal is to help provide you with the tools Learn about healthy eating that make spending time together easy and fun, while at We're Carolina dreaming the same time serving as a guide for learning new things about our state and our world. In addition to suggesting Every day activities using materials found in your home, we provide Now more than at any other time, our children need to lists of books and music which you can find at your local be exposed to the power of literature as they begin their Day by Day library, along with many other educational resources. journey to adulthood; as they experience the transforming Day by Day The South Carolina State Library, public libraries across possibilities of a piece of literature that truly speaks to Oh let's see the state, and our partner organizations are here to assist the heart. In these often difficult times, when many of and support you as your family transitions through the our young people wonder whether there will be a world What does the calendar say? early learning years to the school years. We hope that this for them to grow up in, we need to expose them to those calendar is a springboard to provide your family with a voices and ideas that can sustain them. Learning ABCs and 123s Doing fun activities love of learning to span a lifetime. There is an African proverb that says: when an elder dies the village loses a library. In societies that draw on oral Singing makes it a breeze Sincerely yours, traditions to pass down their literature, the storytellers, Every day griots, grandmothers, and grandfathers were the living libraries that passed on the myths and stories that Day by Day David S. Goble explained natural phenomena, the history of the nation, Day by Day South Carolina State Library Director the exploits of warriors and rulers, and the fables and proverbs that taught people how to act and interact with Oh let's see one another. What does the calendar say? Our own literary traditions, reflecting the need that all of us have to affirm our existence and bring order to our South Carolina history lives, are not that far removed from the oral traditions Beautiful landscapes naturally of our ancestors. We no longer sit around the campfire It's all a part of me drawing strength from the wisdom of our elders. The wisdom of our “Tribe” is now written. Though As I learn every day youngsters have any number of distractions, everyone still loves a tale well told, or a story well written. Literature is personal and powerful. Parents, teachers, librarians, and all of us who care about children and children’s literature might be the last line of defense — the new age griots — connecting children with literature. We really don’t know what will strike a child’s or a young person’s fancy, so we have to expose the youngsters who come before us to as wide a range of literature as we can and let them make the choice. We must gather all of our children around the campfire and find those tales and those stories that will strengthen and sustain ourselves and each and every one of them.

Joyce Hansen Award-winning author of many books including One True Friend and I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly.

Children love to learn, and your child learns best when doing fun, interesting things with you. This All children are learners. They are unique individuals, and they learn and develop at different rates. Children calendar gives you enjoyable and educational activities that will help you get your child ready to succeed in learn through play, and by exploring the world. From age two to five, your child's motor skills, language, thinking, school. Many of the activities use only common household items or things you can find outdoors or in your and social development change dramatically. Understanding these changes will help you encourage your child to neighborhood, or you can simply play with your child. “Play” is a child’s “work.” Remember, the things you learn and get ready for entering school. Good learning experiences are crucial for preparing a child for success in Aboutlearn with joy,the you’ll calendar remember forever. Guidelinesschool and in life.

• Every month comes with a booklist (and there are others in the back), but these books are just suggestions. Pick Toddlers watch and imitate their parents. They want to learn to use things. They like stories, songs and rhymes, and books you think you and your child will enjoy, or let your child help choose. This will often get them excited to read! they like to look at books. They tend to play next to, but not with, others. • Just like the booklists, the activities are suggestions. You can change them to better fit your child or you can What is my toddler learning about words? make up your own activities. Tips for using the calendar • TODDLERS Toddlers listen (Eighteen and repeat months words. to two years old) • If a book or activity is not interesting to your child, stop and try something else. The whole point is to make • They know how to hold a book. learning fun. • They can turn the pages in a book. • Young children love to read the same books over and over, and doing so gives them a certain assurance and confidence. Read a book as many times as your child wants; soon he or she may be telling you the story. What is my toddler learning about numbers? • Remember that every child learns at his or her own pace. If you're doing these activities with more than one • Toddlers do not yet understand numbers but will repeat them (“One, two, three...”) child, make sure you recognize and praise each child's effort without comparing them to each other. • Numbers can be included in stories and rhymes: “Three blind mice…” • Reading out loud and talking about books is one of the most important things you can do to get your child How does my toddler communicate? ready for reading and success in school. Do it as often as you can! • Toddlers are just learning to talk, so it is hard to understand what they are saying. • Toddlers are just learning how to speak softer or louder. • They don’t cooperate or share well, but they are beginning to notice other people’s There are always new books and music at your library for you and your child to explore. Most libraries also have moods and feelings. programs for young children, such as story times, puppet shows, and summer reading programs. You can also Give your toddler a good start: access the Internet for free and find out information about health and wellness, child safety, school readiness, • Show your child picture books. Don'tand family-friendly forget to eventsuse your going libraryon in your area. If you have trouble figuring out where to start, ask a librarian. • Read stories and poems out loud every day. They will be happy to help! • Listen to music and sing rhyming songs. • Play with alphabet toys (such as blocks or letter shapes). • Show your child how to sort objects by color, size, and shape. There is a lot of good information that wouldn't fit in this calendar. Use the links and resources listed in the back • Encourage your child to repeat sounds and words. of the calendar to learn more. There are also organizations in your community that offer a wealth of information. • Spend time with your child in the natural world; touch and talk about what you see. This calendar provides contact information for many of these organizations, but be sure to check for others that • Let your child play with textures such as sand, mud, finger paints, and puzzles. Thismay be is near just you. the beginning Remember to have fun with your child as they read, learn, and grow! Preschoolers learn from play. They are more independent, and they are beginning to have friends. They are imaginative and talkative. They understand rules and consequences. What is my preschooler learning about reading and writing? • PRESCHOOLERS Preschoolers know (Three that printed and words four-year-olds) have meaning and may recognize some words. • They can print their name. • They can draw pictures. What is my preschooler learning about numbers? • Preschoolers understand how to count and may be able to count to ten or higher. • They recognize coins but may not know their values. How does my preschooler communicate and get along with others? • Preschoolers can talk in short sentences. • They want to make friends and will play in groups. • They can ask questions and explain things to others. • They take turns in conversation.

• Read daily with your child, and talk together about what you are reading. • Encourage your child to tell stories with words and pictures. • Listen to music and encourage your child to sing songs. • To Encourageget your make-believe preschooler play. ready for Kindergarten: • Offer opportunities for sorting, matching, counting, and comparing. • Play word games (spoken and written). • Talk about and illustrate the differences between different living things, and encourage questions about the natural world. Dear Parents, Guardians, and Caregivers: South Carolina Day by Day The South Carolina State Library is proud to introduce the South Carolina Day by Day Family Literacy Activity Day by Day Calendar. You will be excited to watch your child open Oh let's see up to a whole new world through books, reading, and arts and crafts. The activities that fill this calendar are What does the calendar say? selected to support the areas of learning that should help your child become ready for school and ready for We can practice reading reading. Our goal is to help provide you with the tools Learn about healthy eating that make spending time together easy and fun, while at We're Carolina dreaming the same time serving as a guide for learning new things about our state and our world. In addition to suggesting Every day activities using materials found in your home, we provide Now more than at any other time, our children need to lists of books and music which you can find at your local be exposed to the power of literature as they begin their Day by Day library, along with many other educational resources. journey to adulthood; as they experience the transforming Day by Day The South Carolina State Library, public libraries across possibilities of a piece of literature that truly speaks to Oh let's see the state, and our partner organizations are here to assist the heart. In these often difficult times, when many of and support you as your family transitions through the our young people wonder whether there will be a world What does the calendar say? early learning years to the school years. We hope that this for them to grow up in, we need to expose them to those calendar is a springboard to provide your family with a voices and ideas that can sustain them. Learning ABCs and 123s Doing fun activities love of learning to span a lifetime. There is an African proverb that says: when an elder dies the village loses a library. In societies that draw on oral Singing makes it a breeze Sincerely yours, traditions to pass down their literature, the storytellers, Every day griots, grandmothers, and grandfathers were the living libraries that passed on the myths and stories that Day by Day David S. Goble explained natural phenomena, the history of the nation, Day by Day South Carolina State Library Director the exploits of warriors and rulers, and the fables and proverbs that taught people how to act and interact with Oh let's see one another. What does the calendar say? Our own literary traditions, reflecting the need that all of us have to affirm our existence and bring order to our South Carolina history lives, are not that far removed from the oral traditions Beautiful landscapes naturally of our ancestors. We no longer sit around the campfire It's all a part of me drawing strength from the wisdom of our elders. The wisdom of our “Tribe” is now written. Though As I learn every day youngsters have any number of distractions, everyone still loves a tale well told, or a story well written. Literature is personal and powerful. Parents, teachers, librarians, and all of us who care about children and children’s literature might be the last line of defense — the new age griots — connecting children with literature. We really don’t know what will strike a child’s or a young person’s fancy, so we have to expose the youngsters who come before us to as wide a range of literature as we can and let them make the choice. We must gather all of our children around the campfire and find those tales and those stories that will strengthen and sustain ourselves and each and every one of them.

Joyce Hansen Award-winning author of many books including One True Friend and I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly.

Step, Run, Totter Baby steps, Toddler totters Child runs headlong — into books! —Linda Lucas Walling

Around the State Okra Strut, Irmo (Lexington County) Apple Festival, Westminster (Oconee County) Harvest Day Festival, Inman (Spartanburg County) Harvest Hoedown Festival, Aynor (Horry County) Aiken’s Makin’, Aiken (Aiken County) Yemassee Shrimp Festival, Yemassee (Beaufort County) Gold Leaf Festival, Mullins (Marion County)

South Carolina Spotlight: Betsy Byars has written over sixty books for young people. She began her writing career five years after her graduation from Queens College in Charlotte by publishing short magazine articles. As she began to read to her children, her interest in writing for young people began. Her first book, Clementine, was published in 1962 and since then she has authored many award winning books including the Newbery Medal winner The Summer of the September: Letters Swans. Betsy lives with her husband Ed on an air strip in the upstate of South Carolina.

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A is for Apple Make an ABC F is for Fort N is for Noodle Do you have your Eat an apple and book to work on Make a fort with your Help your child spell library card? count the seeds. all month child out of pillows their name or make the Visit your local library! Criss Cross Apple Sauce Fold over paper or cut up and blankets. alphabet using spaghetti. C is for Cat. Read Spiders crawling up your back pieces of paper until you The Cat in the Hat Spiders here, Spiders there have 26. Together, write together. Spiders even in your hair the letter on the top of each Cool breeze, tight squeeze page. Fill in your book with Now you've got the shiveries drawings or cut up pictures all month long!

Q is for Quilt All Letter Day! E is for Exercise B is for S is for W is for Wash G is for Draw a family quilt Point out the letters Do a few simple Bumblebee Sign Language Make paint with Grandparents on paper and have each you recognize in signs exercises with your child, (Put your hands together like Explain the idea of sign shaving cream and a few Tell your child a story about family member decorate one throughout the day. such as jumping jacks or a bee hive and say...) language to your child. drops of food coloring. Let their grandparents or have or more squares. touching toes. The square This is my bee hive, They already know how your child paint with it in a grandparent tell a story dance is South Carolina’s folk but where are the bees? to say hello and the tub during bath time, about their childhood. dance. Do a square dance if Hidden inside where nobody goodbye by then wash it all away. you know it. Talk about why sees, One, two, three, four, waving. exercise is important. five (Pop fingers up while Teach them counting) They bzzzzzzz how to say away to the trees! “I love you.”

L is for Leaves M is for Music H is for Hat V is for P is for Vowels! O is for Origami Take a walk outside Teach your child to Try using different Vegetables Pat-a-cake Check out Chicka Origami is the and find leaves. Try to find sing the alphabet to the tune household objects as hats from Japanese art of making Name a vegetable that Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Chicka Boom Boom ten different kinds of leaves of . and see how long you can your library. Create a objects by folding paper. Mary Had a Little Lamb starts with each letter of the baker's man, and three different colors of Try using the same tune keep them on your head. coconut tree with only Help your child make a alphabet. Bake me a cake leaves. to sing this Mother Goose Draw self-portraits with your as fast as you can. vowels at the top of the tree. paper airplane. rhyme: Great A, little a, child where you are each Roll it, and prick it, bouncing B! The Cat’s in the wearing a silly hat. and mark it with a "B" cupboard and can’t see me. And put it in the oven Make up some hand motions for Baby and me! together.

D is for Dig T is for U is for Uno Y is for Yellow I is for Ice Z is for Zoo K is for Kite Fill a small container Treasure Hunt Learn to count to Point out the yellow Melt ice cubes and Help your child spell Draw and decorate with dirt and hide objects Find objects around the ten in Spanish. objects you see throughout talk about temperature. out their name with an a kite, or make a small kite in it. Have your child dig to house that start with each the day. Have your child think of two animal for each letter. Draw by gluing two popsicle find the objects. letter of the alphabet. 1. uno 6. seis things that are hot and two these animals to make a zoo. sticks into a cross and 2. dos 7. siete other things that are cold. gluing paper cut in a 3. tres 8. ocho diamond shape on top. 4. cuatro 9. nueve 5. cinco 10. diez

Make salt dough J is for Jump X is for R is for Ring National International Honey Month Use the dough to Play some jumping X-marks-the-spot Around the Rosie Mushroom Day of Peace: spell out your initials or games with your child, like Find your country, state, and Teach your child the Month September 21 your name. Don’t forget to leap frog, jump rope, or city on a map. Draw a map rhyme and actions. wash your hands! jumping jacks. of your neighborhood. Ring around the rosie A pocketful of posies "Ashes, Ashes" We all fall down!

BOOKS TO READ! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth A, B, See by Tana Hoban Away From Home by Anita Lobel C is for Caboose by Traci N. Todd Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel A is for Artist by Ella Doran Bruno Munari’s ABC by Bruno Munari AlphaOops! The Day Z Went First by Alethea Kontis Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales SuperHero ABC by Bob McLeod F is for Fiesta by Susan Middleton Elya Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC by June Sobel Max’s ABC by Rosemary Wells On Your Toes: A Ballet ABC by Rachel Isadora ABC by Dorling Kindersley P is for Palmetto: A South Carolina Alphabet by Carol Crane

Step, Run, Totter Baby steps, Toddler totters Child runs headlong — into books! —Linda Lucas Walling

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BOOKS TO READ! Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews Five Little Ducks by Raffi Weather/El Tiempo by Kathleen Petelinsek Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Ten Puppies by Lynn Reiser and E. Russell Primm Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr. Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards 3, 2, 1 Go!: A Transportation Countdown Days and Times / Días y horas by Kathleen Petelinsek and E. Russell Primm Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert by Sarah Schuette Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss 1 2 3 by Tom Slaughter Marcos Counts: One, Two, Three / Uno, dos, Los números / Numbers by Clare Beaton tres by Tomie De Paola How Many Elephants? by Selby Beeler Farm Life by Elizabeth Spurr Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose ¿Es hora? / Is It Time? by Marilyn Janovitz by Leo and Diane Dillon Five Green and Speckled Frogs Mrs. Gorski, I Think I Have the Wiggle Count! by Denise Fleming Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker by Priscilla Burris Fidgets by Barbara Esham Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three by Pat Mora 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle How Many Birds? by Don L. Curry Net Numbers: A South Carolina Number Book by Carol Crane One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting Five Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow My Very First Look at Numbers by Christiane Gunzi 10 Minutes til Bedtime by Peggy Rathmann by Feet Book by April Pulley Sayre Bats on Parade by Kathi Appelt and Jeff Sayre GetSponsored Smart by theabout Center Antibiotics. for Disease Control, Cat Count by Betsy Lewin Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres My Very First Book of Numbers by Eric Carle by Tana Hoban Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work is a campaign Ten Red Apples by Virginia Miller Counting Book by Yuyi Morales Monster Musical Chairs by Stuart J. Murphy to help you learn about when is the right time for antibiotics. Antibiotics don’t fight viral illnesses like colds. For more information look for the link in the back of the calendar and Get Smart!

Born in Manning, Margaret "Peggy" Parish made writing stories — including fiction, nonfiction, and craft books — for children her life's work. By far, her most popular and well-known books are the Amelia Bedelia books: a housekeeper who takes all of her employers' instructions literally resulting in comedy that delights children even today! Peggy Parish was also a supporter of the Harvin Clarendon Public Library and a statue of October: Numbers AmeliaSouth BedeliaCarolina is located Spotlight: in front Peggy of the library. Parish Sculpture created by Jim Chacconas. Photo courtesy of Harvin Clarendon Public Library.

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Fire Safety Vegetarian Popcorn Poppin' Sing One Potato, Take a walk and Help your child write Talk about the 5 levels Month Month Month Two Potato count acorns. out the numbers from of the food pyramid 1 to 10. Use this sheet (grains, fruits, One potato, two potato, throughout the month to vegetables, dairy, and meat). Three potato, four, practice counting. Count fruits or vegetables at Five potato, six potato, mealtimes. Seven potato, more!

How tall are you? Count the socks in Count by fives and Show your child a Help your child sort Look for the Visit the library! Measure each your house, singly tens as high as your clock and count the coins into groups by number 5 today Find a Shel Silverstein member of your and in pairs. Talk child can go. hours. Explain the size. Talk about size Sing book and a copy of Wheels family at the beginning of about things that come number of hours in a day. and which is bigger. 5 Little Monkeys on the Bus to read and sing the month and again at the in pairs. Talk about the number 12 Jumping on the Bed. together. Also check out The end. Did they grow? meaning noon and midnight. Little Elephant with the Big Earache by Charlotte Cowan M.D.

Use the rhyme Three Show your child what Have your child find Count from 1 to 10 in Exercise with your Draw a picture of Help your child count Little Ghostesses. time it is during the all of the numbers on English and Spanish child by hopping or the family members their fingers and Draw a picture of morning, afternoon, an item that comes in with your child. Sing doing jumping jacks. who live with you. toes. Use the Mother a cat, a ghost, and a piece evening, and bedtime. a box, such as cereal. Diez Deditos. Count as you go. Then practice counting them Goose rhyme This Little of toast! Talk about some of the Unos, dos, tres deditos forward and backward. Piggy with your toes. routines you have at those Cuatro, cinco, seis deditos times of day. Siete, ocho, nueve deditos Y uno más son diez

Take a walk Explain what a dozen Spend the day Talk about how much Play Which is bigger? Sing This Old Man all Show your child how together means. Count the counting doors and a penny, nickel, dime, or What comes next? the way up to ten. Do to measure a cup, half number of eggs in windows. and quarter are worth using numbers 1 to 10. the hand motions or cup, and quarter cup Talk about animals with two a carton. Save the empty and how many of each are in make up your own! of water. Use salt dough to legs and with four legs. carton for future projects. a dollar. make numbers.

Singing day! Play I Spy with Talk about birthdays. Bring a set of Count the number of Did you know? Both the South numbers. Point out your child's measuring cups seeds in a pumpkin or Carolina Jazz Sing songs with The South Carolina birthday and those of or spoons into the an apple. Festival, in Cheraw, numbers: The Ants Go State Fair is the largest other family members on a bathtub. Practice counting Chesterfield County and the Marching, Five Little Ducks, event in the state, having calendar. Talk about the ages and measurements. Congaree Bluegrass Festival and One Potato, Two Potato. been held annually since of your family members. in Cayce, Lexington County 1869. Each October, take place in October. people of all ages come to Columbia to participate in the exhibits as well as livestock competitions and entertainment. BOOKS TO READ! Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews Five Little Ducks by Raffi Weather/El Tiempo by Kathleen Petelinsek Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Ten Puppies by Lynn Reiser and E. Russell Primm Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr. Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards 3, 2, 1 Go!: A Transportation Countdown Days and Times / Días y horas by Kathleen Petelinsek and E. Russell Primm Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert by Sarah Schuette Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss 1 2 3 by Tom Slaughter Marcos Counts: One, Two, Three / Uno, dos, Los números / Numbers by Clare Beaton tres by Tomie De Paola How Many Elephants? by Selby Beeler Farm Life by Elizabeth Spurr Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose ¿Es hora? / Is It Time? by Marilyn Janovitz by Leo and Diane Dillon Five Green and Speckled Frogs Mrs. Gorski, I Think I Have the Wiggle Count! by Denise Fleming Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker by Priscilla Burris Fidgets by Barbara Esham Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three by Pat Mora 10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle How Many Birds? by Don L. Curry Net Numbers: A South Carolina Number Book by Carol Crane One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: A Counting Five Little Monkeys by Eileen Christelow My Very First Look at Numbers by Christiane Gunzi 10 Minutes til Bedtime by Peggy Rathmann by Feet Book by April Pulley Sayre Bats on Parade by Kathi Appelt and Jeff Sayre GetSponsored Smart by theabout Center Antibiotics. for Disease Control, Cat Count by Betsy Lewin Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres My Very First Book of Numbers by Eric Carle by Tana Hoban Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work is a campaign Ten Red Apples by Virginia Miller Counting Book by Yuyi Morales Monster Musical Chairs by Stuart J. Murphy to help you learn about when is the right time for antibiotics. Antibiotics don’t fight viral illnesses like colds. For more information look for the link in the back of the calendar and Get Smart!

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The term “Gullah” (or “Gee-chee” in Georgia) describes communities of people who live on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. The unique blend of the West African Theculture, Gullah combined Culture with European and Native American influences, resulted in the distinct culture that is known as Gullah. Gullah traditions are the customs, beliefs, and ways of life that have been passed down among Sea Island families. Making sweetgrass baskets, quilting, and knitting fishing nets are a few of the crafts that parents and grandparents teach children. Folklore, stories, and songs have also been handed down over the years. In June, the Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival highlights the unique artistry of over 100 basket makers over the two day celebration. Local residents perform a variety of entertainment consisting of Gullah/Geechee culture songs, dance, storytelling, and skits. Artists and crafters showcase their paintings and handmade crafts. Local restaurants and food vendors provide an assortment of authentic Lowcountry foods throughout the festival.

Storyteller and author Ronald Daise and his wife Natalie perform around the country with their SouthSea Island Carolina Montage performances, Spotlight: which include Ronaldsinging, dancing, and Natalieand storytelling Daise focused on Gullah heritage. Natalie and Ronald also starred in the award winning Nick Jr. show, "Gullah Gullah Island" and continue to share the joy of learning about the Gullah culture through books, music, and crafts. They live in Beaufort, South Carolina with their children.

November: Family “ Come Jine We” for a down-home celebration called Penn Center Heritage Days, showcasing the unique cultural legacy of the Gullah people and history of Penn School on St. Helena Island. Penn Center's current mission is to Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesdaypreserve and promote the Sea Thursday Island history, culture, andFriday environment. Saturday

Does your family Talk about what Put on some music Spend time drawing Cut out the pictures Find objects in your Take time to read have special favorite family means to you. and dance with your pictures of the from yesterday and home that start with together. Visit the foods? Spend time Have an older adult family. members of your make them into the same letters as library if you can. cooking a meal together. tell your child a story from family. Do some live nearby puppets by taping them to each family member's name. Find three books about their childhood. and others far away? Talk popsicle sticks or straws. Put families to read together. Ask about the difference. on a puppet show about your a librarian if he or she has family. any favorites!

Write a poem Talk about some of Have your child Talk about Have a family story Mother Goose Celebrate family about a family of the animals in your name one thing that Veterans Day time and read a book Time! volunteer day. Can turkeys. neighborhood and makes each member together. Have each you spend some Explain what the word Chook, Chook, Chook, whether they are a part of a of your family special. person pick a favorite story. time helping out a family veteran means. Chook, Chook, family. member? Do you have Good morning, Mrs. Hen any veterans How many chickens have you got? in your Madam I’ve got ten. family? Four of them are yellow, And four of them are brown, And two of them are speckled red, The nicest in the town.

Play a game as a Ask your child to set Help your child draw Sing You are Talk about what Learn a family Trace your hand to family together. If the table and have a picture of an animal My Sunshine kinds of foods are in nighttime poem from make a turkey. Draw you don’t have one, them tell you who home. Talk about the the same family. Mother Goose: a family of turkeys for You are my sunshine. make one up! will sit at each place. You can different kinds of homes that When little Fred went Thanksgiving. My only sunshine. make a heart for each place animals have. to bed, he always You make me happy setting. said his prayers. when skies are gray. He kissed mama and then You never know dear papa, and straightaway how much I love you. went upstairs. Please don’t take my sunshine away.

Talk about some Have your child tell Trace the handprints Talk about the Have each family Have each family Help your child write of your family you a story about of each family history and meaning member list one thing member draw a a letter to a family traditions or create a something they have member and label of Thanksgiving. that makes them feel self-portrait. member. new one. done with another family them. grateful. member.

Take a walk or Let your child pick Tell a Story Adoption Month Child Safety Family Stories National Native go out somewhere out books for family Have your child Month Month American as a family. members to read to make up a story about their Heritage Month them. favorite animal family. BOOOKS TO READ! A Birthday Basket for Tia by Pat Mora A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza What Mommies Do Best/ What Daddies Do Best by Laura Numeroff In My Family/En mi familia by Carmen Lomas Garza The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet S. Wong Bee-bim Bop by Linda Sue Park The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster The Daddy Mountain by Jules Feiffer Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch Princess Penelope by Todd Mack Big Sister, Little Sister by Leuyen Pham Olivia by Ian Falconer Bebe Goes to the Beach by Susan Middleton Elya Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer Just Grandpa and Me by Mercer Mayer Abuela by Arthur Dorros Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats Sunday Week by Dinah Johnson and Tyrone Geter

Take a walk or Let your child pick Tell a Story Adoption Month Child Safety Family Stories National Native go out somewhere out books for family Have your child Month Month American as a family. members to read to make up a story about their Heritage Month them. favorite animal family. BOOKS TO READ! My Friend Jacob by Lucille Clifton Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson I Will Surprise My Friend! by Mo Willems The Lonely Moose by John Segal The New Girl…and Me by Jacqui Robbins Across the Alley by Richard Michelson Where are You Going? To See My Friend! by Eric Carle and Kazuo Iwamura Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel A Weekend with Wendell by Kevin Henkes Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle Two Good Friends by Judy Delton My Cat Beany by Jane Feder Pete and Roland by Bob Graham Making Friends by Fred Rogers I’m Not Oscar’s Friend Anymore by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Stevie by John Steptoe Fast Friends by James Stevenson I Know a Lady by Charlotte Zolotow Ernest and Celestine’s Picnic by Gabrielle Vincent My Best Friend Moved Away by Nancy Carlson Help!: A Story of Friendship by Holly Keller People by Peter Spier Animal Friends: A Collection of Poems for Children by Michael Hague Be Gentle! by Virginia Miller Boo's Dinosaur by Betsy Byars

Page by Page, Page by Page Come Along and Set the Stage Climb Up Jack’s Beanstalk JumpHear Aesop’s into Animals Books! Talk Watch the Hungry Caterpillar walk And become engaged! Page by Page, Page by Page Come Along and Set the Stage Thing One or Thing Two Horton Hears a Who Fish Colors of Red or Blue Page by page!

Jacqueline Woodson spent her early childhood in Greenville and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. SouthHer award-winning Carolina books Spotlight: for both children and Jacquelineyoung adults feature Woodson African-American characters and tell compelling stories. She says “I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.”

“‘The right book for the right child at the right time’ isn't just a slogan. It's a reminder that every child has likes and dislikes that we want to respect when choosing books. Silly or scary, bulldozers or ballerinas- we need to know the child and know the books in order to make choices that will create enthusiastic readers.” December: Friends — Fran Hawk, South Carolina author of children’s books including Count Down to Fall

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National Help your child The word friend Each of you draw a Use salt dough to Sing together Visit your library make snowflakes by picture of a friend make letters of the Tie Month begins with the about your Check out books cutting them out of and write one nice name or initials of a letter F friends about snow and winter. paper. String them together word underneath. friend. Talk about winter in South to make a garland to hang Talk Insert each person’s name. Carolina and winter in other in the window, or tape about this Tune: BINGO places. individual snowflakes in and then find I have a very special friend the window. other things and can you guess her that begin name-o ? with F. J-U-L-I-E J-U-L-I-E J-U-L-I-E And Julie is her name-o

Draw a picture or Make up a story With your child, Have your child Sing The Tell your child a story Invite one of your make a card to give about friends with pretend to be learn about a friend Friendship Song about one of your child’s friends over to a friend. your child by taking snowflakes, by asking them friends. to play or meet them Make new friends turns and each telling a snowballs, and snowmen, questions about their family, and their parents at a park or but keep the old. little bit. and then melt. pets, likes, and dislikes. other location. One is silver and the other gold. Can you sing it in a round?

Tell a story about a Talk about why Spend some time Celebrate Haiku Have your child tell Make a holiday Sing Friend special meal you had friends are important. together reading poetry you a story about a or winter card for of Mine with friends, then books about friends, snowflake that makes a friend. You may want to check out Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb make a meal together. sharing, or holidays. friends. If Not for the Cat by Jack Will you be a friend of mine, Prelutsky from the library. a friend of mine, a friend of mine? Will you be a friend of mine and (insert an action) around with me? (Name) is a friend of mine, friend of mine, friend of mine, (Name) is a friend of mine, who (insert same action) around with me.

Help your child Help your child write Make a puppet show Make up a rhyme Follow the Are you Chubby Little practice zipping their a description of a about friendship. about friends and Leader Game having a family Snowman coat and take a walk. friend using words Draw an outline of clap out the beat. Everyone marches in a circle celebration? Write a poem about a Talk about any animals you that start with the letters of boys and girls who are your or line and chants: chubby little snowman. see outside who seem like that friend’s name. friends. Attach to popsicle Talk about your special Follow the Leader friends. sticks or straws. family celebrations or wherever he goes traditions. What he does next, nobody knows! What does the leader do?

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Talk about how On wax paper, have Talk about Help your child come Talk about New Year’s Sing I'm a Great Read a book and animals can be your child squirt Winter clothes up with New Year’s Eve and practice Big Snowman substitute your child’s friends too. If glue, using one resolutions. Silly ones counting backwards name for a name in and playing outside Tune: possible, relate this to a pet continuous stream of glue, are ok! from ten. I'm a Little Teapot the story. with friends I'm a great big snowman, or other animal your child into a design. Sprinkle with Tall and fat. knows. glitter. Allow up to five days Sing: Putting on Mittens Here is my tummy. to dry. Peel from wax paper Tune: The Farmer in the Dell Here is my hat. and hang. Thumbs in the thumb place, Fingers all together. Raisins for my eyes, This is the song we sing, And a carrot nose, In mitten weather. I'm all snow from head to toe! The Certified South BOOKS TO READ! Max Goes to the Doctor/Max va al doctor Bath Time! by Sandra Boynton Carolina program My Daddy Is a Pretzel: Yoga for Parents and by Adria F. Klein Clifford's Bathtime by Norman Bridwell is a new, exciting Kids by Baron Baptiste Does a Lion Brush? by Fred Ehrlich The Potty Train by David Hochman, Talking Book Services cooperative effort Oliver’s Fruit Salad by Vivian French Zack At The Dentist by Jonathan London Ruth Kennison, and Derek Anderson among producers, and Jack Medoff The South Carolina State Library’s Talking processors, Sadie's Sore Throat by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Mother Goose Manners by Harriet Ziefert Book Services is a free service for all The Moose with Loose Poops Healthy Snacks by Schuh and Mari and Pascale Constantin wholesalers, retailers, and the South by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt South Carolinians, regardless of age, who Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) Katie Caught a Cold by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Lewis Lee Boo Hoo Bird by Jeremy Tankard are unable to read or use standard print to brand and promote South Carolina grown Peeper Has a Fever by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping Good Egg by Barney Saltzberg materials as a result of temporary or and produced products. Our goal is for consumers to be able to easily identify, find, The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating by Julie Markes Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal permanent visual or physical limitations. and buy South Carolina products. Look for Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers More information is available at the SC Monsters & Kids! by Edward Miller by Lawrence E. Shapiro the Certified South Carolina logo in your by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain State Library or contact 800-922-7818 or My Food Pyramid by DK Publishing Vera Goes to the Dentist by Vera Rosenberry Once Upon a Dragon: Stranger Safety for supermarket, roadside market, community, Gregory, the Terrible Eater Have You Seen My Potty? Kids (and Dragons) by Jean Pendziwol 803-734-4611. Deaf and hard of hearing or state farmers market or wherever you by Mitchell Sharmat by Mij Kelly and Mary McQuillan individuals should dial 711-734-4611. shop and remember to Buy South Carolina because, Nothing's Fresher. Nothing's Finer.

January: Health and Safety Louis Braille was born and passed away in the month of January. He was the inventor of Braille, a system of one Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday toFriday six embossed points used bySaturday the blind and visually impaired for reading and writing.

Sing together! Make a colorful egg During bath time talk Show your child basket! Draw 10 ovals about the importance I like to eat, eat, eat the correct way to and color them your of being clean. Make apples and bananas wash their hands favorite colors. Help your up your own bath song! I like to eat, eat, eat apples Sing the hand washing song! child to cut them out. Then and bananas Wash your hands, find a cup or something deep Now change the Wash your hands, enough to put them in. Use Before you eat, vowel sound to A: them to practice counting A good health rule, I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples That's hard to beat. from one to ten. and ba-nay-nays For better work, I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples For better play, Eat three good meals, and ba-nay-nays Every day.

Talk about the Help your child list Everyone dance Talk about when to Focus on grains and Exercise by playing Visit the library and importance of or draw a fruit for together and you wash hands, then things that are green. tag or jump rope. If choose books about limiting the number each color in the can make up your quiz your child How many different it is too cold outside, good health and of sugary foods you eat. rainbow. own tune. during the day by asking grains and things that are do some sit-ups together. eating well. Ask the librarian Have a “No Sugar” day after each thing if they did. green can you count and can If you have a baby, practice to help you find a cookbook today. you eat? bouncing the baby on your for children. knees. You can use the repetition to practice your alphabet or counting.

Find out your child’s Can you look at Talk about seeds, Read “My Nose” by Concentrate on Draw pictures of Take the pictures favorite vegetable, a map of South plants, and how Dorothy Aldis: showing your child different vegetables from yesterday and and cook a meal that Carolina and find out different vegetables It doesn’t breathe; how to brush their and save them for put them on popsicle includes it. where all the crops grow? are grown. It doesn’t smell; teeth really well. tomorrow’s activity. sticks or straws to make a Discuss with your family It doesn’t feel Learn the toothbrush rhyme: puppet show about eating if you can visit a roadside So very well. healthy. Invite everyone in market stand this month. I am discouraged I have a little toothbrush, the house to participate. With my nose: I hold it very tight. The only thing it I brush my teeth each Does is blows. morning, And then again at night.

Help your child make Talk about how Mother Goose Sing: Are Make a Talk about Practice a noisemaker out of important vegetables Little Miss Muffet You Eating healthy snack! being safe. Street Safety pasta, cereal, or any are to being healthy. Sat on a tuffet, eating her Tune: How about Ants on a Log? Make sure everyone in You can go outside, or if it bits of something hard by Try to eat 3 different Frere Jacques curds and whey. Are you eating You'll need 3 things: celery the family knows their is too cold, stay inside. Talk placing some in a paper cup vegetables today. There came a big spider Are you eating sticks, peanut butter, and name, address, telephone about the right way to cross and taping another on top. Who sat down beside her Healthy foods? raisins. Fill the center of number, and what to do in a street: hold hands, look Use it to read the rhymes on the celery stick with peanut And frightened Healthy foods? case of emergency. Be sure left, then right, then left. this page! butter. Place a few raisins on Miss Muffet away. For your body needs them top to be your ants. If your important information is in Point out all the safety signs A science moment: For your body needs them child cannot eat peanut butter, a child’s backpack or along the way. You can even What are curds and whey? Everyday you can also use low fat cream tote bag. make signs for inside your Today we call it cottage cheese! Everyday. cheese. Eat and enjoy! house.

Let your child make Play a game outside, Exercise by giving the Make a Moo! Moo! Mother Goose! Let your child cut out their own pretend like Tag, Kick the children a sequence or draw pictures of Nutrition Train! Cows provide dairy Up in the first-aid kit for Can, or Hide and of two things to do. various foods they like The body works like a and milk makes your body Green Orchard dramatic play with a box, Go Seek. If it is too cold to “Jump up, then sit down.” and are healthy for them, “nutrition train.” Along the and bones strong. Can you There is a green tree, cotton balls, Q-tips, popsicle be outside, then exercise Increase to three things. way, whatever children eat then glue them on a paper drink two glasses of milk The finest of pippins sticks, and cut-up gauze (or by putting on music and “Touch your nose, turn gets loaded onto the train. plate and talk about them. today and talk about all the that ever you see. toilet paper). dancing fast. Talk about around, then sit down.” Bad foods slow the train down. Healthy foods speed different bones in your body? The apples are ripe, some of your favorite songs. Also sing Head, Shoulders, the train up and help it And ready to fall Knees, and Toes to keep that work right. Make your own And Reuben and Robin energy up! Nutrition Train. Draw the good things that are part of shall gather them all. the train! The Certified South BOOKS TO READ! Max Goes to the Doctor/Max va al doctor Bath Time! by Sandra Boynton Carolina program My Daddy Is a Pretzel: Yoga for Parents and by Adria F. Klein Clifford's Bathtime by Norman Bridwell is a new, exciting Kids by Baron Baptiste Does a Lion Brush? by Fred Ehrlich The Potty Train by David Hochman, Talking Book Services cooperative effort Oliver’s Fruit Salad by Vivian French Zack At The Dentist by Jonathan London Ruth Kennison, and Derek Anderson among producers, and Jack Medoff The South Carolina State Library’s Talking processors, Sadie's Sore Throat by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Mother Goose Manners by Harriet Ziefert Book Services is a free service for all The Moose with Loose Poops Healthy Snacks by Schuh and Mari and Pascale Constantin wholesalers, retailers, and the South by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt South Carolinians, regardless of age, who Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) Katie Caught a Cold by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Lewis Lee Boo Hoo Bird by Jeremy Tankard are unable to read or use standard print to brand and promote South Carolina grown Peeper Has a Fever by Charlotte Cowan M.D. Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping Good Egg by Barney Saltzberg materials as a result of temporary or and produced products. Our goal is for consumers to be able to easily identify, find, The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating by Julie Markes Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal permanent visual or physical limitations. and buy South Carolina products. Look for Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers More information is available at the SC Monsters & Kids! by Edward Miller by Lawrence E. Shapiro the Certified South Carolina logo in your by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain State Library or contact 800-922-7818 or My Food Pyramid by DK Publishing Vera Goes to the Dentist by Vera Rosenberry Once Upon a Dragon: Stranger Safety for supermarket, roadside market, community, Gregory, the Terrible Eater Have You Seen My Potty? Kids (and Dragons) by Jean Pendziwol 803-734-4611. Deaf and hard of hearing or state farmers market or wherever you by Mitchell Sharmat by Mij Kelly and Mary McQuillan individuals should dial 711-734-4611. shop and remember to Buy South Carolina because, Nothing's Fresher. Nothing's Finer.

Let your child make Play a game outside, Exercise by giving the Make a Moo! Moo! Mother Goose! Let your child cut out their own pretend like Tag, Kick the children a sequence or draw pictures of Nutrition Train! Cows provide dairy Up in the first-aid kit for Can, or Hide and of two things to do. various foods they like The body works like a and milk makes your body Green Orchard dramatic play with a box, Go Seek. If it is too cold to “Jump up, then sit down.” and are healthy for them, “nutrition train.” Along the and bones strong. Can you There is a green tree, cotton balls, Q-tips, popsicle be outside, then exercise Increase to three things. way, whatever children eat then glue them on a paper drink two glasses of milk The finest of pippins sticks, and cut-up gauze (or by putting on music and “Touch your nose, turn gets loaded onto the train. plate and talk about them. today and talk about all the that ever you see. toilet paper). dancing fast. Talk about around, then sit down.” Bad foods slow the train down. Healthy foods speed different bones in your body? The apples are ripe, some of your favorite songs. Also sing Head, Shoulders, the train up and help it And ready to fall Knees, and Toes to keep that work right. Make your own And Reuben and Robin energy up! Nutrition Train. Draw the good things that are part of shall gather them all. the train! BOOKS TO READ! The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane Derolf The Deep Blue Sea: A Book Of Colors by Audrey Wood and Bruce Wood Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann Freight Train by Donald Crews Red Is a Dragon: A Book of Colors Black History Month Purplicious by Victoria Kann All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka by Roseanne Thong and Grace Lin To commemorate and celebrate the contributions Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colorsby Petr Horacek The Pink House by Kate Salley Palmer to our nation made by people of African descent, Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young Little Green by Keith Baker Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book February is celebrated as Black History Month. Andy Warhol’s Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni by Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole This tribute dates back to 1926 and is credited to Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors? by Jane Yolen A Piece of Chalk a Harvard scholar named Carter G. Woodson who by Jennifer A. Ericsson and Michelle Shapiro My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss Why Is Blue Dog Blue? by George Rodrigue initiated “Negro History Week” during the sec- Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett ond week of February. The son of former slaves, My Colors/Mis colores by Rebecca Emberley Vincent's Colors by Vincent van Gogh and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri Woodson dedicated his life to ensuring that black My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo history was accurately documented and the con- by Maya Christina Gonzalez Luka's Quilt by Georgia Guback Leon the Chameleon by Melanie Watt tributions of black Americans highlighted. The Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh Carlo Likes Colors by Jessica Spanyol The Little Green Island with a Little Red House by Sharon Lovejoy week was extended to a month of observance Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni during the bicentennial year.

February: Colors Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; Thirty-one the others date, excepting February, twenty-eight; Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday But Thursday in leap year we assign, February,Friday twenty-nine. Saturday

Sundays are Today’s color Each day has a color. The color of the The color of the The colors for Today’s colors are rainbow days is orange Point that color out day is gray day is blue like today are the neon—which are to your child and Sing the Name as many fruits and Castles are often gray and the sea colors of the traffic very bright shades Finding Colors then look for that color song. At the end of each their colors as you can. Start made of stone. Can you draw Sing lights: red, yellow, and during the day. A Sailor Went to Sea Can you think when you verse, see what you can find with orange! a castle and then make up a and use hand motions. green! might have seen neon colors? A sailor went to sea sea sea of that color. story about the family that Talk about what the colors Can you make up a rhyme Start collecting buttons if lives in the castle? To see what he could about neon colors? see see see mean and how they guide you can and use them for For little ones, try bouncing But all that he could you to cross the street safely. your crafts at the end of the see see see Play Red Light, Green Light. them on your knees to the month! Was the bottom of the deep rhythm of all the neon colors blue sea sea sea. you can think of! Make a giant heart Today’s color The color of the Today’s color The colors for Today’s color Try and visit the for your library or is brown day is white is black today are silver is pink library today! librarian. Take it to Can you do the Make little snow men out Together play the and gold Pigs and piglets are pink. Find as many books with them the next time you visit Teddy Bear Miss Mary action rhyme? For young of white cotton balls and hand rhyme. For Can you make a paper plate colors as you can. and tell them why you love Mack Do you remember the ones, try bouncing them practice your counting. young ones, just try clapping pig family and give them your library! friendship song from up and down and clapping hands together. December? Sing it together. names that start with P? Check out Bill Martin Jr.’s hands. What are your favorite Brown Bear, Brown Bear and things that are white? If you have several people, Crockett Johnson’s Harold try singing the song in a and the Purple Crayon. Read round. them out loud together.

Make Valentine The colors of the Today you get to Today’s color Today’s color The color of the Today’s color cards together day are orange pick the color of is plum is tan day is dark green is lavender Give them to people in your and black the day! Little Jack Horner Think of all the animals that Talk about all the kinds of Have you ever smelled a family or to your friends. Can you think of an animal Point out things with your Sat in a corner are shades of tan and brown. trees you can think of and plant called lavender? that is orange and black? color. Help your child write Eating his Christmas pie. Read The Happy Hedgehog what trees do for us. If you There is an old song called Give a name to the animal their name using their He put in his thumb by EV Rieu. can, take a walk outside Lavender’s Blue, Dilly Dilly. and then tell a story about favorite color. Cut it out and And pulled out a plum to see the trees. If you are Ask if anyone knows the the animal. If you can, draw hang it up! And said “what a good boy indoors, try making up a song. Sing a few verses a picture to go with your am I!” rhyming game for words that together. story. have to do with trees.

Make paint Today’s colors are The color of the Can you make a The color for the Today’s color The colors today You can use: crimson and gold day is lime green butterfly out of day is navy blue is red are black and A sprinkle of drink mix like Let’s make a baggy fish! Talk about all the things shades of purple? Spend some time looking Take a walk and collect pine white Kool-Aid and water, or Take a brown paper bag that grow! How many are Try making different shades through magazines or books needles or pine straw. When Spend time cutting up a shaving cream, cold cream, and fill it with newspaper. lime green? of purple paint and then and seeing all the things that you get back, dip the pine newspaper or magazine Tie the end of the bag with or yogurt and food coloring. paint some butterflies. are navy blue. What is your needles in red paint (see looking for black and white a twist tie or rubber band. You can use fingers or favorite? Talk about why this ideas at beginning of the Cut the end part into two letters. Glue onto paper or brushes and make a rainbow! fins. Then decorate your fish shade of blue is called navy week) and use them to paint a paper plate for your very Talk about when you see a using crimson and gold. blue. a picture. own name plate. rainbow.

Make bubbles Today’s color Love Your Bake for Family South Carolina Spotlight: Tom Feelings with dish soap is yellow Library Month! Fun Month Tom Feelings was an award-winning visual artist and illustrator of children’s books. and water Think of all the flowers Originally from New York, he lived around the world including Columbia, SC where he which might be yellow or What colors are your taught Art at the University of South Carolina. It was during that time he published The bubbles? have yellow in them. Did Middle Passage, one of his most well-known books and the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award you know the state flower of winner. In his own words, Feelings said, “When I am asked what kind of work I do, my Sing a song about bubbles South Carolina is a Yellow answer is that I am a storyteller in picture form, who tries to reflect and interpret the lives while you play in the tub. Jessamine? Have you ever seen one? and experiences of the people who gave me life.” You may want to read his Caldecott Honor books — Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book and Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book. Mr. Feelings passed away in 2003. BOOKS TO READ! The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane Derolf The Deep Blue Sea: A Book Of Colors by Audrey Wood and Bruce Wood Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann Freight Train by Donald Crews Red Is a Dragon: A Book of Colors Black History Month Purplicious by Victoria Kann All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka by Roseanne Thong and Grace Lin To commemorate and celebrate the contributions Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colorsby Petr Horacek The Pink House by Kate Salley Palmer to our nation made by people of African descent, Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young Little Green by Keith Baker Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book February is celebrated as Black History Month. Andy Warhol’s Colors by Susan Goldman Rubin A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni by Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole This tribute dates back to 1926 and is credited to Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors? by Jane Yolen A Piece of Chalk a Harvard scholar named Carter G. Woodson who by Jennifer A. Ericsson and Michelle Shapiro My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss Why Is Blue Dog Blue? by George Rodrigue initiated “Negro History Week” during the sec- Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett ond week of February. The son of former slaves, My Colors/Mis colores by Rebecca Emberley Vincent's Colors by Vincent van Gogh and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri Woodson dedicated his life to ensuring that black My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo history was accurately documented and the con- by Maya Christina Gonzalez Luka's Quilt by Georgia Guback Leon the Chameleon by Melanie Watt tributions of black Americans highlighted. The Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh Carlo Likes Colors by Jessica Spanyol The Little Green Island with a Little Red House by Sharon Lovejoy week was extended to a month of observance Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni during the bicentennial year.

Make bubbles Today’s color Love Your Bake for Family South Carolina Spotlight: Tom Feelings with dish soap is yellow Library Month! Fun Month Tom Feelings was an award-winning visual artist and illustrator of children’s books. and water Think of all the flowers Originally from New York, he lived around the world including Columbia, SC where he which might be yellow or What colors are your taught Art at the University of South Carolina. It was during that time he published The bubbles? have yellow in them. Did Middle Passage, one of his most well-known books and the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award you know the state flower of winner. In his own words, Feelings said, “When I am asked what kind of work I do, my Sing a song about bubbles South Carolina is a Yellow answer is that I am a storyteller in picture form, who tries to reflect and interpret the lives while you play in the tub. Jessamine? Have you ever seen one? and experiences of the people who gave me life.” You may want to read his Caldecott Honor books — Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book and Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book. Mr. Feelings passed away in 2003. BOOKS TO READ! Rain by Manya Stojic The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming Snowflake Bentleyby Jacqueline Briggs Martin Lionel in the Summer by Stephen Krensky Around the State Patchwork Tales Storytelling Festival, Rock Hill (York County) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews Eternal Hide-and-Seek Spring is Here by Lois Lenski Canoe Days by Gary Paulsen Night steals behind the trees. Lowcountry Cajun Festival, Charleston (Charleston County) The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert Jamboread Family Reading Festival, Spartanburg by Gail Gibbons Sun drops down, spins around, One Mitten by Kristine O’Connell George (Spartanburg County) Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck wins the game at dawn. Mushroom in the Rain by Mirra Ginsburg by Lisa Westburg Peters Hummingbird Festival, Woodford (Orangeburg County) —Linda Lucas Walling Round the Garden by Omri Glasir Countdown to Fall by Fran Hawk South Carolina Book Festival, Columbia (Richland County) Snow by Uri Shulevitz A Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up Journey by Robert Sabuda Aiken Farm Festival, Aiken (Aiken County)

Congaree National Park is located about 20 minutes from Columbia and offers guided tours, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, and picnic facilities. There are also children's activities including crafts and games. To the east, you’ll findLee State Natural Area located in Lee County. Nestled in a floodplain forest along the designated state scenic Lynches River, visitors can participate in many outdoor activities exploring the nature trails, artesian springs, millponds, and sandhills. Deer, raccoons, and red foxes are among the permanent residents. Both parks are free of charge and wonderful places for March: Seasons families to explore!

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Cook your favorite Teach your child Soak a cotton ball With your child, Trace the hands of Talk about rainy Kite Day! meal together. Talk that there are four with water and put pretend to be baby those in the home weather and show Make a mini kite about why it is your seasons. Help them a popcorn kernel in birds or other animals to make the outline your child how to with paper, popsicle sticks, favorite. learn the names of each one it. Place in a paper cup and born in the spring. of mittens. Color them all use an umbrella. Practice and string. Use different and what it looks like as the cover with plastic wrap. different colors! saying and spelling the word colors and tape them to your seasons change. Secure with rubber band. umbrella. window. Talk about what Put it in a window where you think it feels like to hold it will get sun. Check every a kite and what the wind day to see if the seed has feels like. sprouted. Talk about how plants grow.

Take a walk Talk about the Help your child Mother Goose Say a word and have Play Simon Says Visit your different clothes you pick out something your child tell you the outside Time! Take turns with local library! wear each season. green to wear. opposite (big, small, See what you can find to Rain, rain, go away, your child. Pick out some books about Do animals wear clothes? Spend some time talking happy, sad). count: sticks, pieces of Come again another day, the four seasons: Summer, What is your favorite furry about shamrocks and things flowers that have fallen, Little Johnny wants to play. Winter, Fall and Spring! animal and why? that are connected to leaves, or acorns. Can you Rain, rain, go to Spain, Also bring home some Dr. St. Patrick’s Day. see any signs of spring? Never show your face again. Suess books because it’s his birthday month! You can also use your child’s name and make up hand motions!

Talk about daylight Draw a picture of Find things that Sing a Song Make a picture of Pretend to be Talk about how some savings time and why your favorite season. are red, orange, or of Spring! your family or friends falling leaves! animals migrate we “spring ahead” an Share about why it is yellow, like leaves in and what you can south for the Winter. Tune: Talk about why leaves fall off hour. Have your child help your favorite! the Fall. Twinkle, Twinkle do outside in the Summer. Explain south by showing Spring, spring is coming the trees. you reset your clocks. Draw them, color them, or your child on a map or soon, Grass is green and cut pictures from magazines. globe. flowers bloom. Birds

returning from the south, Bees are buzzing all about. Leaves are budding everywhere, Spring, spring is finally here!

Try and have a picnic Pretend it’s winter It’s March into It’s Youth Art Month. Sing a rainy What seasons do Spend some time today at a local park, and drink your Literacy Month Create your own day song! the frogs like? What talking about healthy in your yard, or even favorite warm drink. piece of art. about butterflies? foods. What is your Practice your marching! It’s raining, inside your house! Talk about the fun things Pretend to be a frog and a favorite seasonal food? It’s pouring, you did over the winter. butterfly! The old man is snoring. He got into bed and bumped his head and couldn’t get up in the morning.

Have some fun in Talk about how the Practice jumping and Draw a picture of a Talk about how Music in Our Theodore Suess the bath. You can weather changes in hopping on one foot. tree as it goes through you feel during the Schools Month Geisel was born talk about all the fun each season. Make up a rhyme as all four seasons. different seasons. March 2, 1904. things to do in the water. you hop and jump. What are your favorite Make up your own songs things to do each season? about being in the water.

BOOKS TO READ! Rain by Manya Stojic The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming Snowflake Bentleyby Jacqueline Briggs Martin Lionel in the Summer by Stephen Krensky Around the State Patchwork Tales Storytelling Festival, Rock Hill (York County) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews Eternal Hide-and-Seek Spring is Here by Lois Lenski Canoe Days by Gary Paulsen Night steals behind the trees. Lowcountry Cajun Festival, Charleston (Charleston County) The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert Jamboread Family Reading Festival, Spartanburg by Gail Gibbons Sun drops down, spins around, One Mitten by Kristine O’Connell George (Spartanburg County) Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck wins the game at dawn. Mushroom in the Rain by Mirra Ginsburg by Lisa Westburg Peters Hummingbird Festival, Woodford (Orangeburg County) —Linda Lucas Walling Round the Garden by Omri Glasir Countdown to Fall by Fran Hawk South Carolina Book Festival, Columbia (Richland County) Snow by Uri Shulevitz A Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up Journey by Robert Sabuda Aiken Farm Festival, Aiken (Aiken County)

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returning from the south, Bees are buzzing all about. Leaves are budding everywhere, Spring, spring is finally here!

BOOKS TO READ! Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss Max's Words by Kate Banks Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee Library Lil by Suzanne Williams and Steven Kellogg Stella Louella's Runaway Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book by Alexander Stadler The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians by Carla Morris Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk The Bird, the Frog, and the Light: A Fable by Avi Jeremiah Learns to Read by Jo Ellen Bogart The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting Petunia by Roger Duvoisin Amber on the Mountain by Tony Johnston The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco Read for Me, Mama by Vashanti Rahaman I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel Fix-it by David McPhail How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson The Old Woman Who Loved to Read by John Winch Wild about Books by Judy Sierra “L” Is for Library by Sonya Terry Our Library by Eve Bunting Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen The Library by Sarah Stewart The Shelf Elf by Jackie Mims Hopkins

Augusta Baker is one of those names that should be spelled out in dazzling lights in every single children’s room in every single library in the United States. Storyteller,South Carolina author, compiler, Spotlight: activist, Augusta and children's Baker librarian, her influence on programming and collection development policies in public libraries is legendary. The stories in her collections are fine examples of “the tellable tale” and her book on storytelling is likely the most influential book on storytelling in libraries ever published. In 1980, Ms. Baker moved to Columbia, SC and served as USC's storyteller in residence for 14 years. Her legacy lives on through an annual storytelling festival in her honor and the connections made with the public library and the university. Around the State! Stone Soup Storytelling Festival, Woodruff (Spartanburg County) Come See Me Festival, Rock Hill (York County) Azalea Festival, Pickens (Pickens County) Taste of Blackville, Blackville (Barnwell County) Rice Festival, Walterboro (Colleton County) World Grits Festival, St. George (Dorchester County) Annual Historic Pendleton Spring Jubilee, Pendleton (Anderson County) Jubilee Arts Festival, Bennettsville (Marlboro County)

April: Reading A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen – A Celebration of Stories is a two-day festival held every year in April. The Richland County Public Library in Columbia hosts the festival in honor of master storyteller Augusta Baker. It includes many Sunday Monday Tuesday eventsWednesday for families featuring local Thursday and regional storytellers,Friday and other special guests. Saturday

Read a story and ask Point out the name Mother Goose What is April Turn off the Can you work on Find a newspaper or your child to tell you of the author and Time! Fool’s Day? TV day! writing your own any item with print. what happened at the illustrator of a book. story together? You See how many words Hey diddle diddle Tell a story about someone Spend some time today beginning, middle, and end. Talk about what each person can work on it all month. your child can pick out. The cat and the fiddle, who plays a trick or joke. reading. does. The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Use a cookbook to With your child, Walk through your Find a square, circle, Have your child draw Read to your animal, Go to the make something look at the pictures house or outside. See and triangle. Make a picture of their stuffed animals, dolls, library to new! Try and choose in a book and guess if you can find items up some poems or a favorite character or family! Do you celebrate National a healthy recipe. what happens. Then read it with the first letter of your story about these objects. from a book. know any fairy tales? Library Week! together to see if you were child’s name. right. Check out books about reading, poetry, or some fairy tales.

Read a story and Point out signs Draw a large outline Read two books to Practice singing the Write out each letter Can you draw a then act it out using throughout the of your child’s name. your child before bed. ABCs. Talk about of the alphabet. Cut mouse like in Library puppets, dolls, or day and read them Have them color it Ask your child about letters and words. them out in squares Mouse? stuffed animals. together. and tell you each letter. their favorite part of each one. and tape them to your clothes and body. Call out a letter for your child to peel off of you until they are all gone.

Take a walk and Label items in your Create a rhyming Help your child Find a book with few Sit down as a family Draw or find a picture collect leaves, house. Practice saying poem about a child make and decorate a words (try Donald and read a story. of your favorite fruit flowers, and other the words together. who learns to read. bookmark. Crews.) You tell one and your favorite small objects. Make a collage version of a story, and let vegetable. Make up a funny with them when you get your child tell another. story about these two! home.

Find some pictures Sing the alphabet Celebrate Together, make up a Cut a straw into a few Celebrate Put on some music from a magazine or song in as many Earth Day! poem about visiting pieces. Let your child “Day of the and dance. If you pamphlet. Lay them languages as you the library. tell you a different have some jazz music, Wear something green. Children/ out in a row and tell a story know. What’s your favorite story about each piece. spend some time listening to Talk about the things you Day of the Book” about them. letter? it and talk about it. will do to be more Earth (El día de los niños). Visit friendly today. your library if they are having a special program. BOOKS TO READ! What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? The Poky Little Puppy At one time, many distinct groups of Native Americans lived in South by Robin Page by Janette Sebring Lowrey Carolina with locations across the state still bearing those Indian place A House for Hermit Crab names. The Native Americans played an important role in the state’s Around the State! by Eric Carle The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss Children’s Book Week sponsored by the history and many tribes are still active today. The Federal government Children’s Book Council Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton Walter the Farting Dog by William recognizes the Catawba Indian Nation, and the State of South Carolina recognizes the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Upper SC, the Pee Dee Tribe Spoleto Festival, Charleston You See? by Bill Martin Jr. Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray (Charleston County) Jamberry by Bruce Degen of SC, the Santee Indian Organization, the Beaver Creek Indians, Wac- Lola by Loufane Gladys Rosa-Mendoza Find the Bird by Phil Roxbee Cox camaw Indian People, Chaloklowa Chickasaw Indian People, Eastern Gullah Festival, Beaufort Flotsam by David Wiesner (Beaufort County) The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Piggies by Audrey Wood and Don Wood Cherokee, Southern Iroquois and United Tribes of SC, Natchez Tribe of Make Way for Ducklings SC, Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians, Pee Dee Indian Nation of Kidz Fest, Darlington (Darlington County) Good Night, Gorilla by Robert McCloskey Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo by Karma Beaver Creek, and the Piedmont Indian Association. There are a total of Family Fest, Greer (Greenville County) Wilson and Douglas Cushman 30 different tribal entities in the state. The South Carolina Commission by Peggy Rathmann Pat the Bunny Railroad Festival, Central on Minority Affairs is the official Indian Affairs Commission for the state (Pickens County) Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw by Dorothy Kunhardt Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for and continues to have a Coordinator for Native American Affairs to serve Strawberry Festival, Slater Buoys and Gulls by Lucy A. Nolan Corduroy by Don Freeman Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen the special needs of the Native groups. (Greenville County)

“ I had quite an adventurous childhood growing up in South Carolina. I got trapped in a secret tunnel, was chased by counterfeiters and once I even found a haunted showboat in a deserted bayou. Oh, wait, that was Nancy Drew. But I felt like I was right there with her, shining my flashlight into moss-covered mansions and searching for clues in crumbling walls. Send your kids on the adventure of a lifetime. Open a book.” May: Animals — Lucy A. Nolan, South Carolina author of Mother Osprey and the Down Girl & Sit chapter book series

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National Egg National National Bike Mother Goose World Turtle Day Children’s March and sing: Month Barbecue Month Month Day Book Week The Bear Went Over the Mountain and The Ants Go Marching!

Make an Count the number Sing This is the Play leap frog with Write out the Do you know any Get out your salt animal collage of different animals Way the Farmer your child. Talk alphabet. Help your animal rhymes? Think dough and make some you can find on packaging, about why it is called leap child think of an animal for about monkeys, ducks and animals or insects. Cut out pictures of animals Rides clothing, or other things in frog! each letter of the alphabet. frogs and sing some together. or draw some pictures and your home. This is the way the farmer paste them on a big piece of rides, the farmer rides, paper. the farmer rides. This is the way the farmer rides, So early in the morning.

Help your child Sing The Itsy Bitsy Our state bird is the Pretend to be big zoo Together, make Take a walk and see Can you visit the make a card for Spider with your Carolina Wren and animals and little zoo a list of animals if you can see any library? Check out Mother’s Day — you can child. Do the hand motions. the state dog is a Boykin animals. found in words like coward, butterflies. Can you tell a books and music about include grandmothers or Talk about how spiders spin Spaniel. Draw a picture of catastrophe, or crabby. story about what you think animals. Also look for books godmothers, or friends’ webs. what you think these look they are doing? by Mo Willems. mothers. like.

Make a poster about Let’s pretend. Start Together, write a Sing Old MacDonald Make up a fingerplay Practice the sounds Mother Goose insects and bugs. with E words: poem about your pet Had a Farm. Sing as to The Quiet Mouse. that animals make. Time! Don’t forget to include elephants, eagles, and eggs. or what your favorite many animals as you Once there lived a quiet mouse. What’s your favorite? Dickery, dickery, dare, colorful ones like ladybugs Can you think of others? animal does all day. can think of! He lived inside a quiet house. The pig flew up in the air: and butterflies. When all was quiet as could be The man in brown, OUT POPPED HE! Soon brought him down, Dickery, dickery, dare.

Make up some hand motions!

Draw a picture of a Dance to songs with Take turns The man who wrote What animal would Read some animal Talk about how eggs turtle and tell a story animals in the title pretending to be The Wizard of Oz you be and why? books…maybe Head come from chickens. about it. like Hound Dog or The Lion different animals and guess was born this month. Draw to Toe or The Very Hungry Decorate an egg with Sleeps Tonight. which animal the other a picture of the lion! Catepillar by Eric Carle. markers. Don’t forget to use person is pretending to be! it before it spoils!

Make thumb print Talk about the names Enjoy some milk What animals live Use a paper bag to Pretend to be dogs Play Which is Bigger? animals! of baby animals: today and talk about in the jungle? Do make a tank and then and cats with your using animals. kitten, puppy, lamb, colt, etc. cows! you know what sounds they draw fish for your tank. Talk child. What kind of sounds make? about how fish breathe in do these animals make? water. BOOKS TO READ! What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? The Poky Little Puppy At one time, many distinct groups of Native Americans lived in South by Robin Page by Janette Sebring Lowrey Carolina with locations across the state still bearing those Indian place A House for Hermit Crab names. The Native Americans played an important role in the state’s Around the State! by Eric Carle The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss Children’s Book Week sponsored by the history and many tribes are still active today. The Federal government Children’s Book Council Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton Walter the Farting Dog by William recognizes the Catawba Indian Nation, and the State of South Carolina recognizes the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Upper SC, the Pee Dee Tribe Spoleto Festival, Charleston You See? by Bill Martin Jr. Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray (Charleston County) Jamberry by Bruce Degen of SC, the Santee Indian Organization, the Beaver Creek Indians, Wac- Lola by Loufane Gladys Rosa-Mendoza Find the Bird by Phil Roxbee Cox camaw Indian People, Chaloklowa Chickasaw Indian People, Eastern Gullah Festival, Beaufort Flotsam by David Wiesner (Beaufort County) The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Piggies by Audrey Wood and Don Wood Cherokee, Southern Iroquois and United Tribes of SC, Natchez Tribe of Make Way for Ducklings SC, Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians, Pee Dee Indian Nation of Kidz Fest, Darlington (Darlington County) Good Night, Gorilla by Robert McCloskey Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo by Karma Beaver Creek, and the Piedmont Indian Association. There are a total of Family Fest, Greer (Greenville County) Wilson and Douglas Cushman 30 different tribal entities in the state. The South Carolina Commission by Peggy Rathmann Pat the Bunny Railroad Festival, Central on Minority Affairs is the official Indian Affairs Commission for the state (Pickens County) Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw by Dorothy Kunhardt Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for and continues to have a Coordinator for Native American Affairs to serve Strawberry Festival, Slater Buoys and Gulls by Lucy A. Nolan Corduroy by Don Freeman Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen the special needs of the Native groups. (Greenville County)

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

National Egg National National Bike Mother Goose World Turtle Day Children’s March and sing: Month Barbecue Month Month Day Book Week The Bear Went Over the Mountain and The Ants Go Marching!

Make up some hand motions!