• Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot in your home and read, read, read!

• Read a nonfiction book or have someone read a nonfiction text to you. What was the book mainly about? How did the text features help you as a reader (pictures, captions, maps, etc.) ?

• Choose a topic you are passionate about and create a K,W,L chart with adult assistance. Write K- what you already know about the topic, W-What you want to learn about the topic, and then begin to research the topic. Once you have read several different resources about the topic, add to your KWL chart. Write L- what you have learned about the topic. Then create a brochure or poster that tells someone about the topic you have researched. Be sure to include text features including illustrations and captions.

• Ask your child to write a book about something they know a lot about. Are they an expert in animals, superheroes or your family? Write about it!

• After reading a story, have your child write/ draw about what they heard.

• Provide your child with paper and ask them to write down all the words they can read throughout your home.

• Provide your child with playdough, beans or other manipulatives to use for forming CVCV words (consonant vowel consonant, vowel) like kite,bake.

• Sit outside with writing materials. Encourage your child to write and draw what they see.

• Let your child pick their favorite book. Take turns reading the book. Talk about what happened in the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the story. Retell the story and draw pictures to support the retell.

• Encourage dramatic play/acting-out the story you read.

• Have family members pretend to be a character in the story as your child retells the story.

• After reading a story, parents will read one sentence from that page and have the child repeat the sentence verbally and count the words in that sentence. Next, clap and count the syllables in each word in the sentence.

• While reading a story, engage your child in conversation by asking open-ended questions. Then expand on their comments through back and forth dialogue.

• When reading stories to your child, let them make up the ending, or retell favorite stories with “silly” new endings that they make up.

• Go outside and make observations about your surroundings. Draw and write about what you see. Take your notes and write a poem about your observations.

*Objects can include things in your house such as q-tips, buttons, paper clips, etc.

• Continue to practice skip counting and arranging a collection of 120 objects into groups (by 10s, then 5s, then 2s).

• Find a small collection of coins and count to determine the value. You can also use pennies, nickels, and dimes to skip count.

• Learn to tell time. (1st graders are only expected to read a clock to the hour and half hour). Use these videos (hour and half hour) or find a clock in your house to practice with. What is the same and different about the hour and minute hands? What do they each do? What is the difference between an analog clock and a digital clock?

• Create a basic schedule and practice writing the times to hour and half hour (e.g. 7:30-wake up 8:00 eat breakfast, 8:30-learning from home 10:00 outside play, etc.)

• Have fun with a 2-dimensional shape scavenger hunt around the house. Find circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares. Draw and label the shapes found on the hunt.

• Find 3-D shapes at home with a family member (cylinder, cone, sphere, cube).

• Create your own addition/subtraction story (up to 20) and share with a family member.

• Go outside and count things you see. If you have sidewalk chalk, you can draw sets of objects, practice writing your numbers or even make up more addition/subtraction problems.

  • Record the data when you get home. Try making a bar graph or pictograph of the things you saw.

• First graders should become fluent with these facts (+1, -1, +2, -2, all the ways to make 10, and +10, -10). To practice use objects* a deck of cards, or have them make their own set of flashcards with index cards and drawings.

• Keep adding pictures to your weather journal. Can you predict what the weather will be like this week?

• Everyone has a junk drawer or a catch-all container. Dump out the contents and group the objects by characteristics, like color, shape or texture. Can the objects be grouped more than one way?

• You are a toy inventor. Invent a new toy that produces light or sound. Give your new toy a name and be ready to tell someone what it does. Give your child a sheet of manila paper and crayons and ask him/her to draw the invention.

• Read aloud or listen to Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman. Students can mime the different positional and directional activities of the dogs as they move fast, slow, up, down, in and out throughout the story

• Why do you think hats were invented? Do we need hats inside buildings or our homes? Usually not! Hats are made to help us with the weather. Ask your child to describe several different hats and discuss how they are used. Your child can draw the “perfect hat” that would protect him/her from all weather conditions!

• Children love to mix two different plants or animals to make a new creature. Ask your child to draw a plant or animal that he/she invents by combining two different living things. Discuss the new creature to correctly label all the names of the parts.

• Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.

• Keep adding pictures to your “Quarantine Calendar”. Can you find something different to do this week?

• Go on a Scavenger Hunt in your house then talk about the items with a family member. What is it used for? Where did it come from? What is the story about it? See if you can find:

  • a baby picture of a parent

  • a map

  • a sales receipt

  • a hand-written note or card

  • a clock with hands

  • a cookbook

  • something handmade

  • a ruler, yardstick or tape measure

  • a school yearbook

  • a kitchen tool

• Look to the future. Draw a picture of yourself when you will be 25 years old. What job will you be doing? What will your house look like? What will your car look like? Share your future with a family member.

• Set up a store and play shop-keeper and customer. You can use coins or play money.

• Draw a picture of how you are being a good helper at home. What chores are you doing? What rules are you following? Share your picture with a family member.

• Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.

• Have fun with a few hand jive songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNeWSoLQZA

• Now let’s draw some Easter Chicks. I would like to see your pictures. Send them to cake@lipanindians.net Have fun!! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/122019471137528434/

• Make yours a healthy heart!

• Push up Hockey

• Fast Breaks