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Missions
Complete these fun activities to help prepare your child for success in school and beyond by incorporating the five practices of early literacy--read, sing, talk, write, and play--into their daily lives.

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100 Things To Do Before Kindergarten

List of fun things to do with your child before they enter kindergarten.



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Choose Your Adventure

Help your child expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your kiddos that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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Choose Your Adventure

Help your child expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your kiddos that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Choose Your Adventure

Help your child expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your kiddos that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Choose Your Adventure

Help your child expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your kiddos that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Choose Your Adventure

Help your child expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your kiddos that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Choose Your Adventure

Help your child expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your kiddos that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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Little Explorers

Help your little ones expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your little ones that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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Little Explorers

Help your little ones expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your little ones that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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Little Explorers

Help your little ones expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your little ones that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Little Explorers

Help your little ones expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your little ones that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Little Explorers

Help your little ones expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your little ones that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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50 Pts
Little Explorers

Help your little ones expand their horizons. This can be accomplished by trying something new or seeing things in a different light. Teach your little ones that you don’t have to travel far to explore new things—adventure can be found everywhere!



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Modern Wonders
There are seven modern wonders of the world. Do you know where they are? Enter the name of the country for each of the seven modern wonders.

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Reading Around

Books can take you around the world and back, even if you're only in your backyard! Show us all the fun and exciting places you read by marking each place you read. Get out and read!



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Learn About Smokey Bear
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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Read
Reading together develops vocabulary and comprehension, nurtures a love for reading, and motivates children to want to learn to read. Shared reading (interactive reading) is an important way to help children get ready to read. Reading with children will show how books and written language work and that stories have a beginning, middle and end.

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Campfire Safety
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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Sing
Singing emphasizes many early literacy practices, and it contributes to oral language development by slowing down language and making it easier for children to hear the words. Singing is also a great way to increase children’s vocabulary as children’s songs and nursery rhymes include many new and uncommon words. Songs are a natural, fun way for children to learn language. When children sing, they hear different parts of words, pay attention to the rhythms and rhymes of language, and develop listening skills.

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Nature Adventure
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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Talk
Talking with children helps them learn oral language, one of the most critical early literacy skills. Children learn about language by listening to parents and caregivers talk and joining in the conversation. Talking in a way that encourages children to talk will help them understand what they later read. When children listen to spoken words they learn: how letters and words sound, the meaning of words, how words can be put together to communicate ideas, information and feelings.

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Tree Exploration
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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Write
Just like reading, writing teaches children that print has meaning, letters represent sounds, and written words represent the oral words they use every day. Scribbling and writing help children learn that written words stand for spoken language. For children, writing: begins with developing small finger muscles which will build dexterity for scribbling, then drawing, and eventually writing letters, helps develop hand-eye coordination, and helps build awareness that print has meaning.

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Career Exploration
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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Play
Play is an essential part of childhood and is one of the best ways to learn language and literacy skills. As children engage in many types of play and across many scenarios, they talk with a wide variety of adults and peers, therefore developing their oral language, narrative skills, and vocabulary. When children play, they: develop narrative skills through imaginary play, act out real situations, learn communication, cooperation, construction and much more!

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Wildfire Science
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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Make a Difference
Complete at least two of these Smokey Bear activities and earn a digital badge and treasure box prize!

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