Take-Home Backpack: Pre-K-K

Preparation for kindergarten is easy as 1-2-3 with our Take-Home Backpacks! Each backpack contains fun, standards-based activities and immersive books to keep children engaged in grade-appropriate content during school breaks. This ensures children retain what they learned and helps bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction.

Our Take-Home Backpack gives caretakers exactly what they need to help their children build skills in high-risk areas like math, reading, and writing, and strengthen the school-home connection with real-world learning alongside family. Featuring fiction and nonfiction titles, these captivating books keep young readers turning the page to find out what's next!

Designed to be caretaker-friendly and family-focused, this easy-to-use collection of resources covers essential educational concepts and skills needed for kindergarten success.

 Take-Home Backpack: Pre-K-K includes:

• Kindergarten Family Engagement Guide to support caretaker involvement in activities using simple tips and strategies
• 4 Fiction and Nonfiction Readers to peak children's curiosity in subjects like weather (a big hit with cloud watchers), space (a favorite of stargazers), and hands (great for Play-Doh lovers)
• Kids Learn! Getting Ready for Kindergarten to help improve critical and creative thinking skills and encourage social-emotional learning (SEL) at home
• Helps reduce first day anxiety by introducing math and ELA concepts before entering kindergarten
• Provides easy-to-follow tips and strategies for caretaker involvement and making social-emotional learning connections
• Offers manageable and entertaining reading, writing, and mathematics activities children will love
• Includes suggestions for family activities that provide fun, real-world learning opportunities that everyone will enjoy