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Can also use construction paper. Can decorate with pieces of cut paper, glitter, markers, paint, etc.

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Use different art materials, construction paper, and popsicle sticks to create your own!

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Use popsicle sticks, toothpicks, string, paper, scissors, tape, and/or glue to make your own sailboat!

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Can also make other plants or stars using the same materials or paint.

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Take a trip to the beach to collect items to make a sensory bin, some items may include:
- sand
- shells
- rocks
- seaweed
- you can also add water and water animal toys

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Paint or color the paper plate, then fold the paper plate in half. Then add feathers, construction paper, or tissue paper for the tail, beak, and wings.

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-Fold coffee filters in half

-Color with markers all over the coffee filters, the more colors, the more colorful!
-Spray coffee filter with spray bottle of water until fully saturated or use your hand to splash the water onto it
-Let dry, rest on paper towel or tray
-Cut out umbrella handles out of construction paper
- Use glue stick to glue the two sides of the umbrella/coffee filter together.
- Glue the umbrella handle to the umbrella!

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Use masking tape or duct tape to secure to closing of the paper towel roll
Filler - Corn kernels, rice, small buttons, or beads
Decoration - construction paper, wrapping paper, feathers, beads, string/yarn, stickers, etc.

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Just twist the baby wipes and rubber band different sections. Color each section of the baby wipe with washable markers, and let dry on a paper towel. Then clothespin the center and add mouth, eyes, antennas, etc.

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This website was created by Mr. G to send updates to parents and offers great resources and information daily, check it out:

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Great resource with lots of suggestions for play that are simple and fun, look under PLAY STARTERS:

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Raise a reader by getting the best book recommendations, reading tips, and discounts delivered straight to your inbox.

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Fun Project to keep as a memorable part of our preschool experience:

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Grab and Go Curbside Crafts    Fridays, June 19-Aug 14, 11am
Langworthy Kids Summer Reading Challenge, June 22-Aug 14,
and more virtual wildlife events! Check out the flyer below for more details:

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Tomaquag Museum - Virtual Children's Hour

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Tomaquag Museum - Virtual Children's Hour

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Every Wednesday we will share a new interactive lesson to be posted here by 10am, accompanied by a resource guide with links to help you explore some more!

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Check Out Episodes of Children's Hour On Our YouTube Channel Now!

Watch episodes of Children's Hour with Educator, Lynsea, and our fuzzy, adorable host, Tummunk, the singing beaver!

Tomaquag Educator, Lynsea Montanari, voices the beaver and makes weekly appearances as a singing teacher, bringing a sense of cohesion and nostalgia for those who've followed Children's Hour over the years.

Watch, learn and sing with Tummunk, the singing beaver! In each new episode, Tummunk will teach children the Narragansett language and culturally relevant facts through segments such as Numbers, Color-time, five fun facts, and 'visits' with Narragansett children.

Click the button below for our YouTube Channel!

Watch episodes of Children's Hour right now!

Click the Icons Below to Watch 9 Episodes from our 2021 Season!

Read What People Have to Say About Children's Hour!

"Tomaquag was a big part of my childhood. I can't count the number of times I walked up there to the museum and poked around. I loved the massive dugout canoe that hung from the ceiling and Princess Red Wing was always so kind. So proud of the award and how hard you've worked to preserve your heritage."
Jennifer Dolan

"We love the work you do and want to thank you for a great summer of Children's Hours! Thanks for being such a valuable resource for our state."
B.V.

"Thank you for your patience, leadership, and grace with all of our noisy children. They absolutely loved the class. For the rest of the day, they were picking flowers, declaring what they were, and eating them out of the backyard - even teaching neighbor friends about it. Thank you for the great investment you make in passing on history and Native American culture and traditions. We are excited and grateful to learn more."
H.D.

"Thank you so much for today. You were absolutely amazing. I've been working with these kids for quite some time and that was the longest I've ever seen anyone have their attention."
Instructor At the Bradley School, 2018

Special Thanks!

A special thank you to our 2020-2021 supporters at the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, Ocean State Charities Trust, the GFWC Women's Club of South County and the Washington Trust Company. This program is also made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this (publication, program, exhibition, website, etc) do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Taûbotne anawáyean (Thank you)!

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Check Out Episodes of Children's Hour On Our YouTube Channel Now! Watch episodes of Children's Hour with Educator, Lynsea, and our fuzzy, adorable host, Tummunk, the singing beaver! Click the Icons Below to Watch 9 Episodes from our 2021 Season! Read What People Have to Say About Children's Hour!

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This can be done with bird seed, peanut butter or sun butter, a pinecone or any type of cardboard, and string. You can also use a Ziploc bag to shake the bird seed onto the peanut/sun butter.

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Weekly Group and 1:1 Session Sign-Up Sheet

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Weekly Group and 1:1 Session Sign-Up Sheet

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Weekly Group will be held at 4:30pm on Wednesday this week.
Weekly check-ins will be held on Tuesday this week. Be sure to open in new window to edit this document.

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Stay up-to-date on the latest news and please remember to fill in the attendance form each day your child would normally attend school, thank you!

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Popsicles can be made without a mold using paper cups or cupcake tray and popsicle sticks. Just blend, pour, and freeze!
(Can also incorporate yogurt, ice cream, or pudding to any of these recipes for a creamsicle)

Watermelon Popsicles

1 cup watermelon
1 cup orange juice
1 cup water
Raspberry Popsicles
1 cup raspberry juice
1/2 cup of raspberries (optional)
Blueberry and Cream Popsicles
1 1/2 cups vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup of blueberries
Mixed Berry Popsicles
1 1/2 cups grape juice
1 cup berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)

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Another digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 40000 of the best children's books.
Classroom Code: ndi2944

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Multiple places within the South County area to enjoy the beautiful Spring weather. Please see the link below and just click the area you would like to hike in for addresses and descriptions of trails. Great areas for exploring nature and being active in the fresh air with your family!

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Goals:
-Engage in rhyming games and songs; can complete a familiar rhyme
-Orally blend and segment familiar compound words
-Recognize and name most uppercase letters
-Produce the sound for some of the letters they recognize
-Understand the sequence of a story (Beginning, Middle, End)
- Answer who, what, why, where, when questions about a story
- With support and modeling write some letters and numbers

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Read and choose a word for each sentence. Then glue the animals and color the picture.

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Printable to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters

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Rhode Island Early Learning Development Standards

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Rhode Island Early Learning Development Standards

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The RIELDS offers fun family activity cards - a fun way that you can support your child's learning using materials already in your home. Please see the attached resource below:

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Goals:
- Verbally count to 20
-Use strategies to accurately count sets of up to 10 objects
-Use toys/objects as tools to solve simple addition and subtraction problems when the total is smaller than 9
-Replicate, complete, and extend repeating patterns
- measure objects by their various attributes (length, height, weight, volume) and make comparisons.

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Fingerprint Counting Activity

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A fun summer treat! Can add any fruit, blocks of cheese, and choice of dip. Your children can practice cutting. You could also do a fruit salad.

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Goals:
-Aim and throw a ball overhand toward a target
-Use arms and legs in a coordinated manner to “pump” on a swing
-Run up to a ball and kick it while maintaining balance
- Use scissors with purpose
-Hold a writing utensil using an adult grip
-Imitate drawing a circle, cross, and other simple shapes

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Website with educational games, printable worksheets, and stories. Very easy to use and also offers mobile resources, such as apps for tablets and iPad. Please follow the link below:

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Free story books, read along books, educational videos, and online games, please check out the link below:

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What a treasure. This site is extremely useful for non readers of all ages. My children just love it. I have shared this site with many of our special needs teachers across our county. Thanks so much for providing such a fun, affordable, and worthwhile product.
Renee
Special Education Teacher, MI
We love TumbleBooks!!! I should add the kids do, too!! TumbleBooks has allowed us to introduce a vast collection of books to students and they W A N T to read. It gives them choice, gives them some control over their own learning, all while at an appropriate reading level. What could be better?
Kathy
Reading Consultant Seth Haley School, CT
I love this site! The fact that the levels of books available are so far-reaching makes this a wonderful site for classrooms---virtually any child can utilize the features on this site. The book report feature is great as well--right along with many of the standards we are teaching in our classrooms, and a great tool for guiding students. The quizzes offer students feedback, and also encouragement as they continue to read. This promotes a feeling of success among students, and furthers their love for literature and reading.
Tammy
Curriculum Coach, SC
This is the best interactive read aloud website I have found. My students and I love it. We can always locate a book easy that connects to what we have been studying. The students love to watch the pictures, and as they progress with their decoding skills they pick out words that they know. When we watch one of these books, I have to pause it after every page so they can find all their sight words that are on the page. The website makes it like have a celebrity reader in our room daily. Thank you so much for your wonderful reading website.
Brandi
Kindergarten, AL

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TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children's e-books, available by subscription to Elementary Schools and Public Libraries around the world. TumbleBookLibrary Premium has over 1100 titles for grades K-6, and includes our unique animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, non fiction books and videos, curated playlists, as well as books in Spanish and French.

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Free activities and math books that parents can read with their child online!

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Trails are open - Kettle Pond Visitor Center is closed

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Contact Information

Refuge Headquarters
50 Bend Road
Charlestown, RI 02813
Phone: (401) 364-9124
Fax: (401) 364-0170

Directions

There are three access points to Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge:

East Entrance - There will be large brown highway signs to guide you, and this is the entrance that the directions above will guide you to. If you are coming from the North on U.S. Route 1 South you will have to double back to travel a short distance heading north on Route 1. If you are coming from the South on U.S. Route 1 North, you will veer off of Route 1 onto Old Post Rd. Enter Charlestown's Ninigret Park and drive through the park to get to our parking area, public restrooms and kayak launch site. Follow the road past the tennis courts, playgrounds, Frosty Drew Nature Center, frisbee golf course, stay straight at the turn for the Charlestown Senior Center, go past the new bark park and you will see a brown sign on your right.

West Entrance - This will be the second entrance coming from either direction. There will be large brown highway signs to guide you, but from the North you will have to double back at Wildflower Road to travel a short distance heading north on Route 1. This entrance is directly off of Route 1 and is just past a gas station and real estate office on your right.

Kettle Pond Visitor Center Entrance - If you are coming from the North on U.S. Route 1 South, just follow the signs and the entrance is on your right. If you are coming from the South on U.S. Route 1 North, you will have to double back to travel a short distance heading south on Route 1. The address is 50 Bend Road, Charlestown, RI 02813.

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Directions & Contact Info - Ninigret - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Refuge Headquarters50 Bend RoadCharlestown, RI 02813Phone: (401) 364-9124Fax: (401) 364-0170 There are three access points to Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge: East Entrance - There will be large brown highway signs to guide you, and this is the entrance that the directions above will guide you to.

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About 7mi long, starts near the University of Rhode Island and ends near Narragansett state beaches. This bike path crosses through Peace Dale, Wakefield, and Narragansett.

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If you know of any other local outdoor places such as fields, parks, or trails that are open, please share them below in the comments section, thank you! We'd love to hear about them.

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YouTube videos designed for dancing and singing that the students enjoyed in class:

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Activities, jokes, games, hidden picture puzzles, and more.

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BrainPlay Poll

Have you ever found a four-leaf clover?

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How can I have fun on a rainy day?

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How can I have fun on a rainy day?

There are lots of ways to have fun when it's raining outside. You could create some art or bake something with a parent. Or escape to a new world with a good book. You could build your own cozy reading fort, turn out the lights, and read with a flashlight. Or you could try balloon tennis. Attach a paper plate to a paint stick or ruler to make your tennis racket. Blow up a balloon and let the games begin!

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The place for children of all ages to play games and discover new jokes, surveys, answers to science questions, and fun crafts and recipes from Highlights.

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Add heavy whipping cream and salt (optional) to a small, tight seal container. Shake the container for 7-10 minutes (parents may need to shake too). Enjoy!

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Preheat oven to 350 deg. Add choice of sauce, cheese, and toppings. Toppings can include olives, peppers, pepperoni, ham, etc. Bake in oven for 10-15min. or until cheese is melted.

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Mix in 1 cup of any of these ingredients:
Cereal
Marshmallows
Dried fruit
Nuts
Pretzels
Small crackers
Goldfish