1 – tools 3 – engage in literacy and math activities regularly 4 – school ready 7 – translate school system
A - Parents appreciate how important music is to literacy skill development.
A - Families have developed a bond with their peers.
K- Parents understand what literacy play is and the importance to child’s learning.
K - Children know a new rainbow song, and new fingerplays.
K- Parents learn new fingerplays/songs etc to teach their children.
S - Parents can create more literacy rich games and activities for their children.
S - Children can identify 7 colours (older children by colour and word)

A. PARENT LEARNING

Opening Activity

• Welcome and introductions
• Draw Me. Instruct everyone to take out a blank sheet of paper and a pen. On the back, have them put their initials. In a moment you will show them a drawing. They will have 20 seconds to begin trying to duplicate the drawing. Their goal is to copy the drawing that you have done. They can start from anywhere in the drawing. When you call time, they will pass their paper to the left. Repeat the drawing and pass the paper again and again. Now have them find their original drawing. The focus of this opening activity is to use teamwork towards a goal. You can have them discuss how they felt. Did their drawing look like it would have had they done it themselves? How was this exercise like a project they might do as a group? What can they learn from others?

Review

• Environmental print — use the handout from homework
• Magic of Print, Language and General Knowledge
• Introduce Literacy Play – Key Message #2

Introduce Topics
Introduction to literacy play/ Phonemic awareness / Rhyme and Rhythm / Singing /Body movement

Rhyme and Rhythm
Any kind of rhythm is setting children up to understand patterns and math. Math is filled with patterns. Some mathematicians have defined math as the study of number patterns in space (Clements, 2001). We live in a world of patterns. They are in the design of a flower and how it is placed in a yard. Patterns are in fabric and in rhythms and how they are placed in music. Sometimes finding patterns appears to be like a game, and other times it is a way in which young children make sense and order out of their world.