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Monthly Activities – Skill Building

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This calendar can help children acquire the necessary foundation to meet success in school and find learning challenging and rewarding. The suggested basic skill activities take only a few minutes a day. Activities that are too difficult or too easy can be adjusted to meet the needs and age of the child, to the materials available, and to schedules. Each month the suggestion is made to write a letter to someone and to go to the library/read a book. The child, who understands that spoken language can be recorded and feels the importance of communicating ideas, is well on the way to wanting to be a good reader and writer.



August 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2

Tell a story about swimming with a whale.

Write a letter.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Make paper airplanes.

Say/sing nursery rhymes.

Make a mud pie; divide it into five equal parts.

Guess; then count the slices in a loaf of bread.

Learn to wink. Say the alphabet forward and backwards.

Make and send a card to a church member who is sick.

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 See how long you can hold your breath.

Name words that begin like “wink.”

Imitate a cat just waking up.

Write the alphabet on the sidewalk with water.

Tell why wheels are used.

Circle and count all the letters/words you know on a page.

See how many memory verses you can recite.

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Look for a four leaf clover.

Go to the library. Read a book.

Name words that begin like “vase.”

Read numbers from a page of a phone book.

Name words that rhyme with “cat.”

Write your full name, address, and telephone number.

Share your Sabbath School lesson with someone.

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Do a kind dead.

Count your steps from the door to the street.

Estimate one minute.

Tell what you would see if you were a kite.

Count by threes to thirty.

Find four pictures; make up a story about them.

Make a bookmark with a Bible verse on it.

31 Have a water fight.



September 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6

Labor Day Draw your mother/father working.

Count the leaves on a plant.

Name square-shaped things.

Count by fours to forty.

Draw funny animals by using parts of different animals.

Do a kind deed.

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Using red, yellow, and blue, make orange, green, and purple.

Name animals with no legs.

Say the alphabet forward and backwards.

Count the chews in an apple.

Spell your name backwards.

Learn to make/cut stars.

Draw a skunk; give it a name.

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Write a letter to your grandparents.


Imagine you’re invisible.

Name ways to travel.

Sing “This old man.”

Name words that rhyme with “ten.”

Cut paper dolls.

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Tell what you would do with hundreds of shoeboxes.


Name things that are smaller than you.

Draw a map that shows the way to school.

Measure your bed.

Count the licks in an ice cream cone.

Write a letter to someone.

28 29 30 Tell a story about an apple.

Name things that come in bottles.

Name zoo animlas.



October 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4

Name the vowels.

Name the months that have thirty days.

Design a set of letters.

Count by odd numbers.

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Count pieces of popcorn.

Measure the width of doors.

Count by sixes to sixty.

Make a plan for what to do in the case of fire.


Count the bites in a sandwich.

Do a kind deed.

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gather, count, and sort leaves.

Draw sailing ships.

Name words that begin like “zoo.”

Tell the number of days in a year.

Find out why leaves change color.

Name things shaped like a rectangle.

Say/sing memory verses.

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Write a letter. Count the seeds

in an apple or an orange.

Name things that come in pairs.


Name words that begin like “rabbit.”

Think of a story about a dragon.

Make a card for a church member who is sick.

26 27 28 29 30 31 Bob for an apple. Carve/decorate a pumpkin.

Draw and color a harvest picture.

Draw a scarecrow.

Make up a scary story.

Draw the most beautiful creature in the world.

Plant a pumpkin seed and grow the plant.



November 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

Name jungle animals.

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Learn to braid.

O to the library. Read a book.

Count the houses on your block.

Name words that rhyme with “it.”

Count by: 1s to 10 2s to 20 3s to 30

Name the consonants.

Look for pictures in the clouds.

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Measure your wrist and ankle.


Count by: 5s to 50 6s to 60 7s to 70

Show you know: in, under, on, between, through.

Name words that begin like “queen.”

Divide something into eighths.

Do a kind deed.

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Trace around your foot; make a “foot” picture.

Say names for baby animals (chick, kitten, puppy, etc.)

Name words that rhyme with “big.”

Say the days of the week and months of the year.

Name months that have 31 days.


Write a poem.

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Cut a picture into a jigsaw puzzle.

Name things larger than you.

Draw/make a Pilgrim picture.

Draw a very short man with very big feet.

Make a “thankful for” picture.

Write a letter. Give someone a kiss.

30 Imagine you are blind.



December 2008


Show you know: here, there, on, under, over, in.

Find the month with the fewest days.

Imagine you’re grown up.

Find a secret hiding place.


Count the times you say “thank you.”

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Draw your favorite toy.

Name words that begin like “shoe.”

Draw a floorplan of your house.

Say the days and months.

Gargle some water.


Cut out snowflakes.

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Say/sing nursery rhymes.

Count by 1s to 10, 2s to 20, 3s to 30, 4s to 40, 5s to 50, etc.

Sing: “Jingle Bells”

Name things you want for Christmas.

Make a list of what you will give to others.

Count the number of days until Christmas.

Make Christmas cards.

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 String popcorn and measure it.

Count Christmas lights on people’s houses.

Set out an ice cube. See how long it takes to melt.

Make a snowman.

Give someone a kiss.

Sing Christmas carols.

Read the story in the Bible about the birth of Jesus.

28 29 30 31 Have a snoball fight.

Write thank-you letters.

Weigh and measure yourself. How much has you grown?

Make New Year’s resolutions.



January 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3

Name/write the year.

Say the days of the week.

Share your Sabbath School lesson with someone.

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Think of a story about a snowman. Write it down.


Write a poem. Name words that begin like “funny.”

Say; then write numbers to 20.

Count to 100. Draw ten of something.

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Write a letter to someone.

Name as many colors as you can. What’s your favorite colon?


Cut a sandwich into fourths.

Name/draw animals that live in water.

Whistle a song. Do a kind deed.

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Name/draw fruits. What’s your favorite?

Name words that rhyme with “book.”

Make yourself giggle.

Name opposites.

Say/write your full name, address, and telephone number.

Make up a poem using words that rhyme with “blue.”

Draw/find a picture for each letter of the alphabet.

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Count the sections of an orange.

Name/draw words that begin like “monkey.”

Empty the trash. Count backwards from twenty.

Imagine you are enormous. Draw your picture.

Name/draw things that are cold.

Tell someone your favorite Bible story.



February 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Count to ten and back to one.

Set the table. Say words that rhyme with “cold.”

Count the doors in your house.

See if you can hear a pin drop.

Name your mother’s full name.

Share a story about an answer to prayer.

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Make bubbles using detergent and a scissor handle.

Name things that have stripes.

Name words that rhyme with “red.”

Feel your muscles.

Name words that begin like “love.”

Name your mother’s full name.

Make and share a Valentine’s Card.

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Find your city and state on a map.



Divide something in half and share it with a friend.

Say/write the days of the week.

See how long you can yawn.

Do a kind deed.

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 See how much your family spends on groceries.

Cut apart a comic strip and put it together again.

Count the pairs of shoes in your house.


Count the times you say “please.”

Draw a map of your room.




March 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Tell if you think March came in like a lion or a lamb.

Name words that begin like “baboon.” Draw a picture of a baboon.

Count to twenty and back to one.

Look at the clock; tell when one hour has gone by.

Measure the refrigerator, stove, table, and chair.

Imagine you’re skiing. Draw your picture.


8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Name/draw things you wear.

Make or imagine you’re a kite.

Say/write the days of the month.

Make up a story about a horse of a different color.


Sing “Three Blind Mice.”


15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Name words that rhyme with “green.”

Name things that tickle. Draw their pictures.

Think of a story about things that are green.

Say/write the months of the year.

Do a kind deed. Count by 2s to 20.

Make a card for someone in your church who is sick.

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Put a thin piece of paper over a comb; hum some tunes.

Write a poem. Ask your mother/father to tell about their funniest day.

Name words that begin like “donkey.”

Say/write your mother/father’s full names.

Imagine you’re dancing with a bear.

Do a kind deed.

29 30 31 Invent a new toy. Draw it’s picture.

Write a story about spring.

Draw pictures of your favorite flowers.



April 2009


Tell why people say: April showers bring May flowers.

Count to 50 and back to one.

Tell what you’d do with $1,000.

Count the birds you see.

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Measure your room.

Say “I love you” as many times as you can in one minute.


Name words that begin like “puppy.”

Make up a story about something that was lost.

Count change to make a dollar.

Read the parable in the Bible about the Lost Coin.

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Draw your family.

Write a poem. Make up a story about two raindrops.

Name words that being like “seal.”

Find the letters of the alphabet on a cereal box.

Tell the minutes in an hour and hours in a day.

Write someone a letter.

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Draw on the ceiling with a flashlight.


Show you know: up, down, over, in, through, on, off.

Draw a picture to show seven.

Tell the number of weeks in a year.

Draw vegetables. Which is your favorite?

Do a kind deed.

26 27 28 29 30 Find your name in the telephone book.

Imagine you are very small. Draw your picture.

See if you can say: She sells sea shells by the sea shore – 3x fast.

Write your own tongue twister. Share it with someone else.

Write an acrostic for APRIL.



May 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2

Make and deliver a May basket.

Draw a picture of your favorite Bible story.

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tell three wishes you would make. Draw their pictures.

Name/draw farm animals.

Say the days of the week backwards.

Measure your feet and someone else’s.

Dra things shaped like a circle.

Make up a story about a frog on a lily pad.


10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Make/give your mother a Mother’s Day Card.

Name things that are moved by the wind.

Count to fives to fifty.

Draw a rainbow.

Count the licks in an ice cream cone.

Name words that begin like “heart.”

Count your teeth.

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Write and share a poem.

Count by tens to 100.


Name words that begin like “never.”

Draw birds in their nest.

Name things with wheels.

Find a rock. Paint a picture on it.

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Count the pictures on the walls.

Circle and count the word THE on this page.

Name words that rhyme with “boy.”


Name things that come in bottles and jars.

Clean your room.

Draw as many flowers as you can.

31 Count the hats in your house.



June 2009


Make play dough: 4 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 1 ½ cups water.

Find animal shapes in the clouds.

Name things shaped like a triangle.

Count to 100 and back to one.

Count the change in your house.


7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Say/write the days of the week.

Count the windows in your house.

Name yellow things.


Count by tens to one hundred.



14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Flag Day – Draw a red, white, and blue picture.

Make/share a Father’s Day card for your dad.

Count change to make a dollar.

Cut out the letters for your name.

Imagine you are walking on the moon. Draw that picture.

Say words that rhyme with “tickle.”

Make a card for someone in your church who is sick.

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Paint pictures on the sidewalk with water.

Name things that come in boxes.

Count the freckles on your face or someone else’s.

Name words that rhyme with “look.”

Measure a grocery bag.

Write the city and state where you live.

Draw the most beautiful person in the world.

28 29 30 Catch a ladybug or other insect.

Name opposites.

Help a friend.



July 2009


Draw a bug. Sing “America” Design a flag. Count the firecrackers you hear.

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Eat a piece of watermelon and count the seeds.

Draw a picture of what you see out the window.

Make up a story about a balloon.

Name kinds of flowers.

Draw you swimming.

Tell the number of seconds in a minute; minutes in an hour.

Draw a picture to go with your Sabbath School lesson.

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Try to catch a butterfly. Let it go. Draw its picture.


Make up a story about an angel.

Show you know: up, down, over, in, through, left, right.

Imitate a flamingo.

Name things used for opening.

Call someone you love.

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Measure pencils.

Name words that begin like “giggle.”

Make up a very long word.

Measure a newspaper.

Count the Thursdays in 2009.

Build a tent. Count by nines to ninety.

26 27 28 29 30 31 Draw someone’s shadow on the sidewalk with chalk.

Write from 10 to one.

Draw a very fast car.

Say the days of the week and months of the year.

Draw a picture of what you want to be when you grow up.

Write a story about your favorite day of the week.

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