

In the book, my co-author and I break down the building blocks for reading into easy tips and activities all parents can fit into their busy schedules.You can hide 100 of something around the room or the school and ask the students to find them. If you like this literacy idea, you will love the 75 tips and tricks I share in Raising A Rock-Star Reader.

All she cared about was how much fun she was having with me. This was such a great after-school activity there was movement, reading, sentence building, and even some math as she figured out how many notes she had, how many I had told her there were in total and the difference. Check out the not so apple pie we made I shared a picture on Instagram. This one asked her if she wanted to bake an apple pie with me this weekend. She was far too fast with my first message, so I made the next two much longer! Make sure you share how many notes you have hidden, so your child knows when to stop looking and start building that secret message. I wanted the bulk of her energy used creating the sentence not finding the notes. I didn’t really hide them so much as scatter them around, so she had to look for them, but nothing was truly hidden.

Make sure to count how many notes you use. Do not forget to use a capital letter and period to signal that those notes are the first and last in your message. Write out a sentence on the post-it notes, one word per note. Swinging is the perfect wind-down after school. While I set the activity up, my daughter was swinging on our Gorilla Gym upstairs. You will need some post-it notes and a marker. Here is now I made our secret sentence scavenger hunt! We have done all kinds of scavenger hunts before like colors, puzzles, and even sight words, but I wanted this one to not only challenge her to find the post-it notes but also to create a sentence. This scavenger hunt started with a really simple question “Mom do you want to play with me?” I followed my 6-year-old up to our Maker Space with the intention of us gluing glitter onto something, but when I saw the post-it notes I suggested “How about a scavenger hunt?” She was game.
