Get ready to kick off summer fun with The Night Before Summer Vacation activities. They’re great for easing the transition from classroom routines to the sunny adventures ahead! This playful and purposeful pack supports literacy skills while inviting students to imagine and plan their dream vacations. From creating postcards and designing souvenir shirts to “packing” suitcases and crafting trip itineraries, kids will love exploring all the excitement of summer travel.

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

• Create a postcard detailing a dream vacation.
• Sequence a summer day.
• Design a souvenir shirt.
• Design a stamp for a vacation destination.
• ‘Pack’ a suitcase for a dream trip.
• Create a trip itinerary.
• Pair rhyming words from the story.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Sequence how to prepare for a trip.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions 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.
• Play a multi-player vacation game.
• Use digital tools to plan a fun and silly summer vacation.

These vacation-ready activities can be used with the whole crew, at travel-themed stations, or for individual adventures—perfect for differentiating and hitting key learning goals before summer break!

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About the Book and Soundscape

A little girl and her family are getting ready to go on vacation . . . or at least they are trying to. In the effort to pack everything that will be needed, there's bound to be something overlooked, and what that is provides a funny ending to this meter-perfect twist on Clement Moore's classic.

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