Little Learners: Love

Show love and learn about caring and sharing in this month's books and activities.  

#READ: Is This Love? by Bob Marley and Cedella Marley 

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Adapted by Cedella Marley, Bob Marley's eldest child, and exuberantly illustrated by Alea Marley, Is This Love?  is a joyful ode to the unshakeable love shared by all those who call one another family. 

Increase pre-literacy skills as you read together: 

  • Sing the book to a steady beat or to the tune of Is This Love? by Bob Marley. 
  • Before continuing with the story, ask your little one to tell you what they think is happening on the page, or ask them to re-tell the story in their own words. 
  • Repeat rhyming words like "know" and "grow" and run a finger under them as you say them. 

#SING: Skinnamarink 

#EXPLORE: One Love, One Heart

Market drawing of a heart
DIY Paper Hearts

Materials 

  • 3-5 sheets of construction paper in different colors 
  • Crayons, pencils, markers or water-soluble paint 
  • Scissors 

Instructions 

  1. Together with your little learner, draw or paint hearts on the construction paper. 
  2. Decorate the hearts however you choose. For example, a heart could have squiggly lines, and another could have spirals. 
  3. When the hearts are complete or have dried, cut them out then cut the hearts in half.  
  4. Jumble the halves and spread them out then ask your little one to match them.  

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#KEEP READING: There's more love to be found in these books!  

 

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