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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, Social
with tips to keep Awareness, Responsible Decision-Making:
pets warm, and the To go with “Many Trips, Many Friends” and “A is
story of a snowy for Animal”: After your child reads the article and
rescue of a young tiger! In completes the activity, explore the interactive
this issue, we also take kids map "Voyage with Sy Montgomery” with them at
on a literary adventure to places closer to the symontgomery.com/about-sy (scroll down to the
equator: Rwanda, French Guiana, and Borneo. bottom of the page to find the map). View videos of
These are just some of the places author and the settings where Sy met her animal friends, such as
naturalist Sy Montgomery visited to meet the “Borneo Jungle.”
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, and journal or draw about
the adventures. The journal entry should include the
To access an interactive version of this place and kinds of animal(s). What are the animals and
your child doing? Afterwards, ask what your child’s
issue online, visit KindNews.org. Check favorite part of their own story was! Encourage your child
out our recommended book list at to learn more about those animals and ways people can
RedRover.org/books. help, and pass that information 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.