Topic: Daily Lit Bit

Explore your library website for exciting digital materials like ebooks, audio books, digital magazines, and more. Look for online programming opportunities too.

Form a "virtual" book club. Guide the students to meet and discuss the book online. Encourage students to post comments and observations, or answer prompts.

Have a conversation with the child about the books they are reading. Invite them to keep a reader's notebook. Regularly assign writing or drawing activities for them to complete in their notebooks.

Have children brainstorm different foods for every color of the rainbow. Have the child write down the color name, the food name, and have them draw a picture of the food.

Play a variety of musical selections that clearly match or express different moods. Ask the children to sit and listen and talk about how the music makes them feel.

Gather a few books and magazines that feature other places and cultures. What are the similarities and differences? How can books help us travel to new places?

Try baking bread together, with your child in charge of reading the recipe.

Find authentic ways for the child to write on your behalf. Have them write a shopping list, type your text message, or write down directions.

Take a walk outside. Together, point out various objects along the way, and name the objects by color.

Draw a trunk of a tree with bare branches. Cut out a dozen leaves and each time your child gives joy to someone else have them write what happened on a leaf and then attach the leaf to a branch on the tree.

Teach the child the words to the rhyme, “Three Little Kittens.” Use craft sticks or socks to create puppets to act out the rhyme. Talk about nursery rhymes and how animal characters act like people.

Create a pizza out of art supplies. Think of what materials you have on hand that could represent your favorite toppings.

Have the child pick a color and then brainstorm objects from their daily life that are that color. Have them write down their thoughts on a page. Keep going with different colors.

Ask the child to think of people who have helped them. Have the child send a letter to people to share kind words. Have the child reflect how they felt remembering the experiences of kindness.

Choose some fiction books about animals and read them together. Talk about the illustrations in the stories, and the details that surprised you.

Reach out to friends or relatives who have different food traditions. Have your child interview them about about those traditions. If possible, get recipes and try cooking them with your child.

Gather objects such a crayons, blocks, refrigerator magnets, or the contents of a junk drawer. Have the child sort all the objects by color then have them create a color label for each pile.

Arrange a telephone call, email exchange, or video chat between the child and someone in your life who has made a difference in the community. Have the child prepare some questions for the interview.