Summer Backpack Buddies 2015

Summer Backpack Buddies 2015

Wednesdays 6-7 pm, June 17th-August 12th (age recommendation 4-12)

10009277_573735542755567_9190602791007564506_nGoals:

  • Provide opportunities for math, language, and early literacy skills practice.
  • Provide opportunities for social communication skills practice
  • Increase self-esteem and confidence in academics

Parent Roles:

  • Support and encourage your child’s participation as needed
  • Observe in background, follow-through working on skills at home
  • Provide input/feedback to teachers following class regarding concerns, goals, and effective behavioral strategy ideas for your child

Structure and Activities:

  • Circle time “silly shakes and stretches”; Greetings: Name recognition, letter/word recognition, matching, socialization
  • Smart Board songs, activities OR Individual book sharing
  • Storytime with focus goals (For example: We will learn colors and animals, We will name the 5 W’s from this story…)
  • Learning center activities (sorting, patterning, counting, number identification, word matching/selecting/naming, rhyming, word work; writing; sensory activities, art projects/fine motor, story retelling/comprehension…) Activities will be differentiated according to individual student needs

Children are welcome to stay after class concludes for socializing and playtime IF a GiGi’s Playhouse Board member, program coordinator or teacher is able to stay also. This program is not possible without our generous volunteers, so please be respectful of the time and prep work involved by RSVP’ing with regrets, when possible, by the morning of class. Thank you for your understanding!

Please RSVP to Mary Carroll at mcarroll@gigisplayhouse.org