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In this workbook, you will find many activities to do with your child and lots of good books to read together.
These books can be borrowed free of charge from your neighbourhood branch of the Hamilton Public Library.
No child is too young to have a library card of their very own. There is no minimum age and no charge. A
library card is a key that unlocks the world of information and imagination.
This workbook was made possible by a grant from the Early Years Challenge Fund provided by the Ministry of
Children and Youth Services of Ontario to the Hamilton Public Library. Additional funding was provided by The
Hamilton Community Foundation, The Share the Stories Funding Program, Special Gifts Fund: Hamilton Public
Library, National Book Service and the Community Action Program For Children.
The following community partners worked together to make this project possible:
Table of Contents
Library Basics
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Library Basics
Library Card
Library cards are free to anyone living in Hamilton. Children 13 years of age and under, require the
signature of a parent or guardian to get a library card. Adults require two pieces of identification, showing
their name and current address.
Lost Cards
Your library card is like a credit card. You are responsible for any item borrowed on your card. Report a
lost card to your nearest branch immediately.
Returns
Materials may be returned to any branch of the Hamilton Public Library. Always check your receipt to
ensure accurate due dates. Most materials can be borrowed for 21 days but there are some popular
materials such as magazines and videos that have a shorter due date.
Overdue Notices and Bills
Overdue service charges are charged for each day that an item is late. Charges are based on the type of
material borrowed. If a child borrows adult materials, they will be charged adult charges.
Be on your school playground area 10 minutes before the bell rings. You dont want
to be late your first day of school. Remember to take a healthy snack for snack time
with your new friends. If you will be staying all day, remember to bring a lunch.
Once the bell rings line up at the Kindergarten door with the other children and wait
for your teacher to come and get you. Line up one child behind the other.
The teacher will come for you and you will enter the school.
Wave to your parents and tell them you will see them at the end of your school day.
When inside the school, always remember to use a quiet voice. There will be lots of
other children in your new school, you do not want to be loud.
As you walk down the hall to your class, keep your hands to yourself, always look at
the front of the line. Do not run or play in line. It is always a good idea to look at
your teacher.
Once in your classroom, you will hang up anything you brought with you (coat,
jacket, school bag, etc.).
The teacher will likely ask you to go and sit on the floor in the carpet area. You will
listen as your teacher reads you a story or tells you what you will be doing. Your
school day is full of lots of fun, playtime with your new friends, story time and so
much more.
When your school day is over, you will get ready to go home. Make sure you have
helped the teacher clean up and all the toys are put away. You will be able to play
with them again the next time you are at school. Get all your things together that
you will be taking home.
Now it is time to go home. Your parents will be waiting for you outside.
Activity: Rainbow
Instructions:
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Read and enjoy the poem Rainbow Paintbox with your child.
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Make your own rainbow. Cut out the cloud in this booklet and colour it.
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Each piece of the rainbow is named. Say the names of the colours of the rainbow.
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Join the shapes. Colour each of the shapes. For example, colour the Blue Triangle blue. Draw a line
joining each one of the shapes that is the same.
Materials
1.
Scissors
2.
Crayons
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Rainbow Paintbox
I can see a rainbow,
when the rain has gone away.
All the colours of the rainbow
I can name them all for you today:
Red there is, a rosy red, a red so bright and bonny,
and orange as a tiger lily, so bold and tawny,
Yellow as the blazing sun, that gives us all our light,
and green as grass beneath our feet,
blue as the sky so bright.
Theres indigo, as dark as night,
and violet like flowers.
These are the colours nature paints
the sky with
after showers.
Blue Triangle
Green Square
Orange Rectangle
Purple Circle
Purple Circle
Blue Triangle
Green Square
Orange Rectangle
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Red
Orange
Yellow
Blue
Green
Purple
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Parent-Tips
v Go on a colour hunt.
Take your child grocery shopping with you. Look at the different coloured fruits and vegetables.
Say the names of the colours with your child and say the name of each fruit or vegetable.
v Fill empty jars with water. Mix water with food colouring to make coloured water.
Children who are read to are more likely to love books and to be good readers. Here are more
stories with colours and shapes that can be borrowed from your local public library.
Elmers Colors *
Floppy In The Dark *
In My World
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Mouse Paint
One Grey Mouse
Planting A Rainbow
Red Is Best
Spot Goes To School
The Blue Balloon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar *
David McKee
Guido van Genechten
Lois Ehlert
Charles Green Shaw
Ellen Stoll Walsh
Katherine Burton
Lois Ehlert
Kathy Stinson
Eric Hill
Mick Inkpen
Eric Carle
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Borrow the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr. from your local library. Ask your child to
look at the picture on the cover and have your child predict what the book will be about based on what
they see.
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Before you read the story turn each page and have your child name the animals and colours.
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Have your child draw a picture of their teacher to end the story.
Materials
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Scissors
2.
Crayons
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A brown bear
A blue horse
A white dog,
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A red bird
A green frog
A black sheep
A yellow duck,
A purple cat,
A goldfish
My Teacher
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Parent-Tips
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Encourage your child to use household objects or toys to make other patterns:
i.e. spoon, fork, spoon, fork, spoon, fork or doll, truck, doll, truck, doll, truck
Children who are read to are more likely to love books and to be good readers. Here are more
stories with lots of repetition and patterns that can be borrowed from your local public library.
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Activity:
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Instructions:
1. Read and enjoy the story with your child.
2. Cut out the finger puppets and dramatize the story with your child.
3. Cut out the ThreeBilly Goats pictures, and the three pictures of the wolf.
4. Arrange the pictures in a pattern: Troll, Goat, Troll, Goat, Troll, Goat, Troll, Goat. This is called
patterning
Materials
1. Scissors
2. Crayons
3. Tape for Finger Puppets
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Cut out the finger puppets and dramatize the story with your child.
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Cut out the Three Billy Goats pictures, and the three pictures of the Troll.
Arrange the pictures in a pattern: Goat, Troll, Goat, Troll, Goat, Troll.
This is called patterning.
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Parent-Tips
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Encourage your child to find household objects or toys and name their colours.
i.e. spoon, fork, spoon, fork, spoon, fork or doll, truck, doll, truck, doll, truck
Children who are read to are more likely to love books and to be good readers. Here are more
stories with lots of repetition and patterns that can be borrowed from your local public library.
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Your child will feel wonder and curiosity about the world and demonstrate awareness of
their environment.
Activity: Family
Instructions:
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Put your family in the flower garden. Place a photo of each of your family members in one of the flowers in
the garden. You may want to draw in their faces instead and you may need to add more flowers for
additional people in your family!
Materials
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Crayons
Scissors
Glue or tape
Family photographs
Family
Our family comes,
from many homes,
Our hair is straight
our hair is brown,
our eyes are blue,
Our skins are different
colours too.
Were girls and boys,
were big and small,
were young and old,
were short and tall.
Were everything
that we can be
and still we are
a family.
We laugh and cry,
we work and play,
we help each other
every day.
The worlds a lovely
place to be
because we are
a family.
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A picture of me
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My Family
Parent-Tips
Talk to your child about their family history.
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Children who are read to are more likely to love books and to be good readers.
Here are more stories with lots of repetition and patterns that can be borrowed
from your local public library.
Carrying *
Celebrating *
Come On Daisy *
Franklin In The Dark
Gifts
Handas Surprise *
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Owl Babies
Where The Wild Things Are
Whose Mouse Are You?
Gwenyth Swain
Gwenyth Swain
Jane Simmons
Paulette Bourgeois
Jo Ellen Bogart
Eileene Browne
Laura Numeroff
Martin Waddell
Maurice Sendak
Robert Kraus
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Your child will demonstrate understanding and care of the natural world
Activity: Seasons
Instructions:
1. Read and enjoy the poem Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall with your child.
2. Ask you child to tell you what season it is. Is it winter, spring, summer or fall?
3. Look outside the window and talk about the weather. Is it raining? Is it cloudy? Is the sun shining? Is it
hot? Is it cold? Is it snowing?
4. Talk about what clothes to wear in each season.
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5. When does it rain? In the summer? In the winter? In the spring? In the fall?
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Materials
1. Crayons
2. Scissors
3. Tape or Glue to finish the finger puppet
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Parent-Tips
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In the fall go for a walk and collect signs of fall such as dried leaves and nuts
Children who are read to are more likely to love books and to
be good readers. Here are more stories with colours and
shapes that can be borrowed from your local public library.
Paulette Bourgeois
Elmers Weather *
David McKee
Mick Inkpen
Mud Puddle
Robert Munsch
Lois Ehlert
Graeme Base
Debbie Harter
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