Family Activities

Large group family activities support the social environment for learning.

Community Builds at centers and schools encourage parent-child collaboration.

Family field trips open doors for parents and broaden family access to rich experiences.

comm-build-2Community Builds

Community builds are center-based family literacy programs. A brief reading or facilitated discussion establishes the topic for the day.  Each family works together to  reinterpret the topic with a hands-on project.  The projects are assembled into a neighborhood, and each family discusses their contribution to the whole.  Each family leaves with their own creation and  follow-up materials.

museumresoucechildFamily Field Trips

There are two kinds of family field trips:

Trips that LLF supports to Family Days presented by museums, libraries, or other local cultural organizations.

Trips designed by LLF to explore themes within neighborhoods, museums, gardens or landmarks.

In each case, LLF briefs parents on what to look for and provides children with manipulables to help them focus. At the end of the tour, children create a work of art while parents and adults talk about ways to use the experience to further enrich and extend children’s learning.