Here are some other fun ideas

• Go on a nature scavenger hunt

• Play board games as a family

• Pretend to travel the world by watching virtual tours

• Teach your kids important life skills (sewing a button, laundry, changing a tire)

• Bake something delicious

• Build an indoor track for toy cars out of boxes, wrapping paper and paper towel tubes, etc.

• Have a "beach day" in the backyard

• Play hide-and-seek

• Make homemade play-doh

• Host a March Madness basketball tournament for your family with 1-on-1 games

• Go through old photos and videos and create some photo books

• Implement "quiet time" once a day so everyone can have their own space for a bit (this will help lessen the bickering... at least for a while!)

• Rent movies being released on-demand instead of in theaters (i.e., "Trolls World Tour")

• Create a family art gallery where everyone contributes a piece of art

• Use Dominos or cards to do addition and subtraction facts

• Play War or Peace with a deck of cards (flip two cards and add, subtract, or multiply them to find your number to compare)

• ● Play board games (good for counting practice and 1-to-1 correspondence)

• ● Play Concentration with cards ● Play BINGO with teen numbers, hundreds, and thousands (write teen numbers on a piece of paper with calling cards)

• ● Make a collage with different shapes

• ● Practice writing numbers with correct number formation

• ● Play Guess My Number by doing greater than or less than a number guessed - use big numbers if you can!

• ● Use math while cooking! There’s a ton of great use of numbers

• ● Go outside and take a notebook. Draw and write about what you find.

• ● Write a personal narrative about that time school was closed and you had to do schoolwork at home!

• ● Read Read Read! Read to a sibling, read to a relative, read over the phone, read to a stuffy!

• ● When you read, ask questions like: Who are the characters? Where does the story take place? What happens in the beginning? Middle? End? What’s the problem in the story? Solution? Does this book remind you of another book you’ve read?

• ● Write and draw your own book about your class, your family, your favorite things to do!

• ● Find 5 words you didn’t know, and learn what they mean! Practice spelling them.

• ● Make lists of words with the same endings: -at words, -ug words, etc.

• ● Play Hangman (or play by building a snowman—guessing it before all parts are drawn on the snowman) with mystery words or sentences

• ● Examine words in your cupboards. Make a list and then graph the results - which did you see most often?

• ● Plan to interview someone about what life was like when they were little. Write down 5-10 questions that you will ask them. Take notes about their answers. Then, write and draw a story about life as a kid in their time

• . ● Write or find a poem and draw an image that reflects the main idea

• ● Create a junk sculpture using whatever found materials, write a page about what it means or represents (trash to treasure).

• ● Favorite Books: Reread a favorite fiction book from your own collection.

• ● Draw a map of your favorite room in your house. Add all of the details that help make it your favorite room.

• ● Design your dream house!

• ● Create your own homemade microscope ○ Materials: Plastic cup (clear cup is best, though not required), clear plastic wrap, pair of scissors, rubber band, water, something to look at ○ Assembly: ■ Cut a small hole into the side of the cup (big enough to accommodate your specimen), ■ Put plastic wrap over the open top of the cup and use rubber band to secure it (should be tight across the top, like a drum) ■ Pour a little water onto the plastic drum at the top of the cup. There should be enough so there is a small pool of water. ■ Slide the specimen (i.e., leaf or twig or piece of yarn) into the hole at the base of the cup■ Look through the puddle of water to see the specimen magnified ○ Questions for discussion: What did you notice? Did you see anything new? Why does this work? What happens when there is more light? What happens if there is more water or less water? What happens if the plastic at the top is not so tight, but is sagging?

• ● Make a "bucket list" of the ten things you would like to do this summer