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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Blast Off to Learn New Words
   Boost vocabulary by taking an imaginary trip into space. After a lunar "landing," children return to Earth with a galaxy of new words.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   Celebrate Life
   Birthdays hold a special place in families' hearts. Celebrate that special day with two breathtaking birthday-themed books by talented author-illustrator Debra Frasier.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Cooking and Creating in the Kitchen
   After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Tip & How-To
   Engaging the Five Senses to Learn About Our World
   The outside world shapes children's development through experiences that they have, which include using their five senses—hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch. Drawing a child's attention to the five senses and discussing them increases understanding of and communication about the world around us.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Printout  |  Learning New Skills
   Exploring the Five Senses
   This printout helps engage children in the thinking about how their five senses contribute to their understanding of and communication about their world.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Fantastically Fun Word Families
   Use the Word Mover tool to play with word families and listen for rhyme, then sort real and nonsense words, alphabetize the words, and create a story or poem using the words.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Activity & Project
   Friendship: Exploring Similarities and Differences
   After reading a book about friendship, children will reflect on one of their own friendships and look at how they are like their friends and maybe how they are different.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   Guys Read
   Get the guy in your life excited about books with these great suggestions for boy readers.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Tip & How-To
   How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
   Practicing Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills outside of school will give kids the tools that they need to understand, infer, connect, categorize, synthesize, evaluate, and apply the information they know to find solutions to new and existing problems.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
    The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.

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