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Activity Guide
JAN/FEB 2024
Teaching kindness while
encouraging good
reading habits in children.
SUPPLEMENTAL ACTIVITY
KIND TIME
Try this at home, and share with your
BRRRRRR! We’re child's teachers:
fending off the cold CASEL Core Competency: Self-Awareness,
with tips to keep Social Awareness, Responsible Decision-Making:
pets warm, and the To go with “Many Adventures, Many Animals” and
story of a snowy “Connect the Countries”: After your child reads the
rescue of a young tiger! In article and completes the scramble, explore the
this issue, we also take kids interactive map "Voyage with Sy Montgomery” with
on a literary adventure to places closer to the them at symontgomery.com/about-sy (scroll down to
the bottom of the page to find the map). View videos of
equator: Rwanda, French Guiana, and Borneo. the settings where Sy met her animal friends, such as
These are just some of the places author and “Borneo Jungle” on Youtube.
naturalist Sy Montgomery visited to meet the
animals of her dreams. She shares how she Ask about your child’s favorite part of Montgomery’s
became friends with gorillas and emus and an story, and why. Can she or he visualize Montgomery
octopus to name a few, what they’ve taught befriending the different animals? Then ask your child to
her, and what we can all do to help. imagine being Montgomery for a week, and journal or
draw about the adventures. Journal entries may include
To access an interactive version of this the place(s), kinds of animal(s), and actions of the
issue online, visit KindNews.org. Check animals and your child. Afterwards, ask what your child’s
out our recommended book list at favorite part of their story was! Encourage your child to
RedRover.org/books. learn more about that animal and ways people can help,
and pass it on to others.
RedRover.org/Readers
Where’s Raja? Did you know that RedRover offers online
RAJA IS HIDING ON PAGE 5!
professional development for educators? Learn more
about the fun and engaging RedRover Readers
program that uses stories and discussion to help kids
learn about animals and practice the steps for
A PUBLICATION OF empathy: RedRover.org/Readers.