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LeapFrog Summer Camp Week 1: Out & About

Summer Learning Activities for Kids: Out & About

Help your camper get to know their immediate surroundings—it's the first step into social studies. Once they learn their neighborhood, they'll be ready to learn about the larger community. Eventually, they'll learn to connect and compare their own experiences and places to others.

This week, campers will explore places in their neighborhood and community and think about the roles various people play (mail carrier, police officer, salesperson, librarian, and so on). Learning about the people and places in our world helps children to become global citizens.

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neighborhood passport printable

Neighborhood Passport

Have campers log the places they visit this week in their Neighborhood Passport. At the end of the week, they'll have a record of the places they've been. Use the passport as the starting point for discussions. Talk about the different places in your neighborhood and how each place has a different purpose (parks for play and exercise, libraries for discovering books, etc.). Explain how the people in those places help the community. If you like, add blank pages and continue the activity through the summer.
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i shrunk the room activity

I Shrunk the Room!

Campers will create a model of their bedroom. Creating maps and models of their surroundings (their room, neighborhood, etc.) helps kids put their world in context. Talking about their model can help them understand the relationship of navigational words like up/down to map words like north/south and supports mathematical concepts of directionality and spatial relationships.
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famous places race activity

Famous Places Race

This printable activity introduces children to famous places located in different regions of the United States. Activities such as this one help to build crucial familiarity with North American geography.
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around the world art activity

Around the World

Encourage your camper to think about land, sea, air and space travel with this interactive art project. Methods of transportation are part of early social studies education, helping kids think about the physical and human environment.
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putting pandas on the map printable

Putting Pandas on the Map

This printable prompts children to find map locations using a letter-number grid. Mastering map skills is an important step in developing a geographical and cultural understanding of the world.
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out and about certificate

Expand Your Horizons!

Congratulations on your excellent exploring this week! Has your family passed by parks, museums or libraries with the intention of visiting "some day"? Now's your chance! Commit to visiting someplace new this weekend with your camper. Encourage them to find a souvenir of your destination. Explain that souvenirs are reminders of the places you've been. They don't have to cost money, they just need to represent the place in some way that's personal.
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Extra Credit

Get more mileage out of this week's theme with these additional activities:

  • Play You Are Here to make maps meaningful.
  • Make a community playmat with your child from an inexpensive shower curtain liner. This creative activity builds map skills and can help your child become more aware of the purpose of various buildings in your community.
  • Newer U.S. quarters are full of interesting information about the States! Start a quarter collection and learn more about the States of America. Do you know what a Scissor Tailed Fly Catcher is? Or where you can find one?
  • Whether you're taking a family trip this summer or just dreaming of one, planning for it encourages your child to visualize different scenarios. Prepare for four adventures with this travel planning printable and brainstorm the different items needed for the beach, mountains, jungle, and desert.
  • Take Things That Go with you on one of your outings this week. Each time your child sees one of the vehicles on the printable, she colors in a bar. At the end of the day, she'll have a chart. Explain that charts are a way to summarize information in pictures.
  • Solve the Neighborhood Crossword with words of things you find all around you.
  • Measure your mileage on car trips to demonstrate how measurements are used in the real world.
  • Play the License Plate Game to learn about states.
  • Measure and record items around the house: the height of a chair, the length of a rug, the width of a newspaper and so on.
  • Print this US map coloring page. Color it according to the legend to discover how varied the landscape is from coast to coast.
  • Navigating involves understanding where you are and where you want to go. Learning how to describe these movements is an important step in language development and autonomy. For young kids just learning navigational words, try this simple navigation printable.
  • Toddlers learn about the world through their senses. Use this curiosity to encourage an early interest in multicultural experiences.
  • Make up a scavenger hunt of things you can find in your neighborhood (something with 3 wheels, something silver, a feather, a seashell, a smooth stone, and so on).
  • Your Neighborhood Passport describes some of the places you've been this week. Write (or draw) about someplace you've never been but would like to go. What do you imagine it will be like?

What Is LeapFrog Summer Camp?

If you think that learning should always be in season, you’re right! Studies have shown that when students return to school after a long summer vacation, they've lost about one month’s worth of learning.†

LeapFrog Summer Camp is designed to keep the learning going all summer long through exciting weekly themes and free, do-anywhere learning activities that explore geography, writing, science, art and more. Sign up to receive a Summer Camp email every other week.

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