Enrich literacy and social-emotional skills with The Kissing Hand activities. This packet is ideal for back-to-school and Mother’s Day celebrations, and includes engaging resources that complement the heartfelt narrative of the book and soundscape. Dive into a thoughtful, creative experience that connects children with love and reassurance themes in memorable ways.

With The Kissing Hand activities, you can engage children in literacy and social skills in engaging and meaningful ways. By tracing, coloring, and writing acrostic poems and sentences with story vocabulary, children expand their vocabulary and learn language structures. By illustrating personal experiences of bravery or nervousness, and by sharing thoughts about loved ones, whole-group prompts and activities promote empathy and self-expression. Furthermore, tasks like comparing and contrasting characters on a Venn diagram enhance analytical skills and foster cooperative learning.

The activities provide timely and thematic support for back-to-school and Mother’s Day. When it is back-to-school time, writing and drawing about the first day of school or making bravery badges can ease the transition and build a sense of community in the classroom. Mother’s Day activities include writing facts about mom, creating thumbprint cards, and crafting heartfelt cards using digital tools. Through shared experiences and expressions of affection, these activities celebrate these occasions and strengthen family bonds and classroom camaraderie.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Trace and color Chester.
• Illustrate times you were brave or nervous.
• Write and draw about your first day of school.
• Write and draw about events from the story.
• Sequence the story.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Define story vocabulary.
• Compare and contrast characters with a venn diagram.
• Write an acrostic poem.
• Write about someone you love.
• Write facts about your mom.
• Create a thumbprint card.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension and discussion questions included for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Design bravery badges. 
• Use digital tools to create a heartfelt card. 
• Work collaboratively to create a kissing hand.

With The Kissing Hand activities, literacy and social-emotional learning are seamlessly integrated. They are a perfect way to enhance classroom engagement and celebrate special occasions such as back-to-school and Mother’s Day with their creative and thoughtful activities.

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About the Book

As school begins in the forest, Chester Raccoon refuses to go. To ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand, which reassures him that she loves him whenever he feels afraid. This children's classic has touched the lives of millions of children and their parents, especially at times of separation, whether starting school, entering daycare, or heading to camp. 

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