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Summer Explorations

Looking for summer activities? Here are some suggestions from our staff that will provide your child opportunities to explore with their minds and bodies. Enriching children's minds with images and experiences that will assist with academic tasks during the school year, giving them something to "draw upon" for writing, reading, math, and the arts.

Visit our local libraries in Kitsap County: www.krl.orgwww.school.discovery.com/clipart
  Read stories to your child several times a week, preferably 20-30 minutes each day or evening.

Explore a local park such as Fay Bainbridge State Park or 
 our jewel, Mt. Rainier National Park. Pack lunch & camera.
 www.nps.gov  for info and picture

Want to be a pilot? Go to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. 
 www.museumofflight.org  for info and picture
 

Pike Place Market is a host of sounds, smells, sights and people. 
Ride the ferry, walk up the "hill climb" steps and eat lunch there!
  www.pikeplacemarket.org for info and picture
 

The Seattle Aquarium has exhibits, touch tanks and interactive 
displays. It's a short walk from the Seattle ferry.
  www.seattleaquarium.org for info and picture
 

Bigger animals? Hop on a bus or drive up to Seattle's Woodland 
Park Zoo and say hello to baby Hansa...she's a cut-up and loves
attention. www.zoo.org for info and picture
 

Math and Munchies!  Use your math facts and fraction power and www.michcampgrounds.com
help your child cook easy treats.....pudding & berries are a "cooler"
for summer afternoons. Try easy biscuits, rolling and patting dough for dexterity.

Writing!!!!  Buy a postcard each week and have your child write a note to a friend. 
Even a few words for kindergartners is terrific.   www.postcardsfrom.com/, clipart

Traveling is an opportunity to use maps. For older students, ask them to help figure mileage, gas requirements, time considerations and fares. Younger students benefit from learning about maps, what information they contain and which way is UP!
www.plcmc.org/forkids/mow
 

Family Math by Stenmark, Thompson and Cossey is a good book of math activities for children and their parents to do together.

If you could only pick ONE thing for summer, use our public library each week, get books and read on the floor.  Enjoy each other.

See you in September!

The Wilkes Staff