Lesson Plan: Hooray for Summer!

A guide for using our resources

Children will identify ways to stay safe this summer.

Vocabulary: shade, sweaty

Health and Safety Focus: summer safety

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Sensory language brings summer to life in this charming book about the joys of the season.

• Help make the vocabulary words from this issue “stick” with these quick ideas!
  • shade: During outdoor time, have children point out spots where there is shade.
  • sweaty: Ask children what activities make them sweaty. Can they describe how it feels to be sweaty?

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. Find the heading. Underline it.
2. Find the picture where the girl is wearing a life jacket. Put a ✓on it.
3. In the aqua box, find the word that means “out of the sun.” Circle it.
4. Look at the sidebar. Put an ✘ on the thing that helps keep your eyes safe in the sun.

Skill: sun safety

Materials: paper plates; scissors; any art materials (crayons, paint, markers, stickers, and so on); hole puncher; yarn, ribbon, or elastic cord

• A sun visor helps protect your face from sunburn. Kids can make their own visors to wear during outdoor time—or any time!
• Give each child a paper plate. Help kids cut a half-moon shape from the plate. Let them decorate the underside of the plate any way they like.
• Next, punch a hole on each side of the visor, at the points. Thread yarn or ribbon through the holes and tie at the back to fi t. For a more sporty look, you can use elastic cord.