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Week of July 2

7/2: Download Wild Kratts Baby Buddies and Wild Kratts World Adventure apps

7/3: Create a Wild Kratts Nature Journal

7/4: Suggested children’s books for the Fourth of July
7/4: Red, White, and Blue Tag activity
7/4: Fourth of July related crafts

7/5: Write-it-Wednesday: Watch Wild Kratts: “Pangolin Rescue Mission” and complete a wildlife journal entry.

7/7: Chocolate Day! Experiment and decide on your favorite chocolate recipes.

7/8: Rainbow created by water activity
7/8: Suggested rainbow reading: What Makes a Rainbow?: A Magic Ribbon Book by Betty Ann Schwartz
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Week of July 9

7/10: Watch Sid the Science Kid: “Growing Plants”
7/10: Suggested books about gardening

7/13: Temperature Scavenger Hunt activity
7/13: Even more weather-related activities

7/14: DIY ice cream recipe (get ready for National Ice Cream Day on July 16!). Bonus: add fruit.
7/14: Even more ice cream related recipes

7/15: Archaeologist Ice Excavation activity
7/15: Archaeology suggested reading: Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning by Cindy Neuschwander
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Week of July 16

7/16: Don’t forget the Wild Kratt’s Alaska: Hero’s Journey movie screening at 2pm at Alamo Drafthouse – Cedars.

7/18: Wild Kratts Adventure: Discovering Senses activity
7/18: More sense-related activities

7/20: Download and print a Moon Journal
7/20: Moon-related activities
7/20: Suggestions for books about the moon:
• The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn M. Branley
• Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story by Mark Kelly
• The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons

7/21: Download Wild Kratts Creature Power app

7/22: Ice Volcanoes activity
7/22: Suggestions for books about volcanoes for pre-k through second grade
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Week of July 23

Week of July 23

7/23: Listen to African Savannah music while reading! Suggested books:
• Baby Animals in Savanna Habitats by Bobbie Kalman
• Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab by Barbara Bash
• Over in the Grasslands: On an African Savanna by Marianne Berkes

7/24: Amelia Earhart Day suggested reading:
• Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
• A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David A. Adler

7/28: Green Julius Smoothie recipe
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Week of July 30

7/30: Wild Kratts Math Adventure Animal Habitats activity

7/31: International Friendship Day reading

JUNE

“Let’s Explore” was June’s theme.

• June Activity Calendar

• See how lima beans grow: Watch The Little Gardener’s Growing Plants video

• DIY Nature Cat activities: Make a composter | Sprout bean seeds and make a bean pot | Create a pine cone bird feeder

• Nature Cat’s Great Outdoors app: Download this on-the-go toolset that will inspire your child to explore nature — in the backyard, at a local park or even looking out the window. Every day, Nature Cat has a new daily adventure that lets kids use tools to record and share their observations in fun, creative ways!

• Build a house: Cyberchase: Build geometry skills by constructing a 3D house from Botopolis.

• RECIPE One-ingredient ice cream

• RECIPE Crispy parmesan green bean fries