The InvestiGator Club Parents Home Page

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Each InvestiGator Club classroom gets a free online classroom membership. Ask your child's teacher for a parent membership code. After you input the code and have registered, you are an official member of The InvestiGator Club and you can take advantage of all the parent education resources.

What's the Buzz All About?

After you have registered using the classroom membership code, you will have access to:

- Online Investigations for you to explore with your child

- Monthly Activity Calendars with preschool activities for you to share with your child every day of the week

- Parents as Teachers - Parent tips and education articles

- Parents Toolbox - a helpful list of books, magazines, and other general resources for the early childhood community

Welcome to your InvestiGator Club online membership! In the Parent's section, you will find articles, activities and resources that will help you relate to your young child.

Monthly Activity Calendar

February 2010

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1 Rosalita's name begins with the letter R. What other names can you think of that start with R?	2 Hide several blocks or balls around the house. Send your child on a "treasure hunt" to find and count them.	3 Read a story with your child. Then have your child draw a picture of what happened first and last in the story.	4 Have your child draw a picture of his or her favorite winter activities.	5 Have your child find five red objects around your home.	6 Clap out the number of syllables in your child's name together.
7 At the grocery store, let your child select one new fruit or vegetable for you to bring home and try together.	8 Chuck Wood loves numbers. Draw the numbers 1 through 10 and have your child trace over them.	9 Make a snowman with your child. If you don't have snow, make a small one out of cotton balls.	10 Using a brush or comb, let your child give you a new hairstyle.	11 Act like a tree with your child and stretch your arms out as far as you can. Then wave your "branches" in the air.	12 Make paper hats and decorate them together.	13 How many words can you and your child think of that rhyme with hug, kiss, and love?
14 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Make a list of the things you love about eachother.	15 Look at a comic strip in a newspaper with your child. Have him or her come up with a story to go along with the pictures.	16 Act out a favorite nursery rhyme together.	17 Help your child look through an old magazine and cut out pictures that begin with the letter F. Then make a collage.	18 Jump start your day by doing ten jumping jacks together. Count them aloud.	19 Great Auntie Lu loves telling stories. Help your child come up with a new ending to one of his or her favorite stories.	20 Have your child make up a silly rhyming song about his or her name.
21 Help your child sort small items, such as beans or buttons, into groups of three.	22 JT takes his harmonica with him wherever he goes. Help your child make their own musical instrument from items you can find around the house.	23 Play a game of "Simon Says" with your child.	24 Members of The InvestiGator Club are always curious. Take a closer look at your child's favorite fruit. What words best describe it?	25 Help your child create patterns using blocks or buttons... or even socks and shoes!	26 Take turns drawing numbers on eachothers backs. Can you guess the number?	27 Make a list together of things that grow and things that do not grow.
28 Bundle up and take a late-winter walk outside together!