Table Time Activity: I Have a Dream
Skill Check
The goal this week is to learn more about Martin Luther King Jr’s famous speech and to help your child to imagine and express their own dreams.
Growing My Skills
Discuss with your child ways they can begin to pursue this dream, what roadblocks they may meet along the way, and how to move past them.
Relaxation Time Activity: Vashti Harrison’s Books
Skill Check
The goal this week is to learn more about Black History and about inspirational Black role models.
Growing My Skills
Read the book together.
(Dream Big Little One by Vashti Harrison – Book or Read Along
Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison – Book or Read Along)
Discuss with your child what dreams these figures fulfilled and which ones your child would most like to emulate.
Creative Time Activity: Coloring Pages
Skill Check
The goal this week is to learn more about Black Historical figures while while working on fine motor and grip skills during a creative coloring activity.
Growing My Skills
Read the informative blurbs on the coloring pages to your child and discuss what makes these figures role models.
Movement Time Activity: Let’s Celebrate Black History Song!
Skill Check
The goal this week is to get up and dance to this catchy song while learning more about Black History Month.
Growing My Skills
While the Muppets sing their song, act out the things they mention (like piloting a plane or stopping at a stop light).
Mealtime Activity: Traffic Light Snack
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help children learn that the inventor of the traffic light was a notable Black historical figure, Garrett Morgan.
Growing My Skills
Ask your child to invent something with their imagination and describe it to you.
