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

• Start a letter exchange (pen pal) with a family member or classmate. Practice writing addresses on a blank or recycled envelope. Make sure your letter has a heading, date, greeting, salutation, closing, and signature.

• Imagine that you have the opportunity to interview a local hero such as a policeman, firefighter, teacher, nurse/healthcare worker, doctor, principal, or first-responder. What would you ask him/her? Write down a minimum 5 interview questions. Write a letter to this person explaining why you chose him/her to interview and why you think they are a local hero.

• Practice spelling all family member’s names. Practice writing them in cursive.

• Pick a favorite book and rewrite the ending.

• Think about your favorite movie and write a commercial for it.

• Write 4 to 5 interview questions for someone in your household. Then interview them. Write a mini-biography for this person.

• Read your favorite book to someone in the house. Write questions for your audience to answer after you have read the story aloud.

• Practice reading and writing sight words.

• Create a new illustration for a part of a story you have read. Tell someone about your illustration.

• Find an informational text such as a newspaper, magazine, or non-fiction book, then identify the features and graphics that help provide information to the reader. What was your book mainly about?

• Time yourself reading a story. Then practice reading it a few more times. Finally, time yourself reading it again to see if you can decrease your time. Which words cause you to slow down?

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

• Choose a topic you are passionate about and create a K,W,L chart. 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.

• 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.

• Go on a Shape Scavenger Hunt. Find 2-D shapes at home with a family member (circle, triangle, rectangle, square). Classify and sort the shapes based on the number of sides and number of vertices (corners). Describe your shapes using the sentence frame, “My shape is a _____ and it has ___sides and ____vertices.”

• Find 3-D shapes at home with a family member (cylinder, cone, sphere, cube) and describe using geometric language. Use this video for guidance (e.g. “the cube has __faces and ____edges”) .

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

• Use a deck of cards or dominoes and pick two-then decide whether to add or subtract and create a number sentence (equation) to match.

  • Create a word problem to match your number sentence (equation).

• Create equal groups of *objects or household items and use repeated addition to determine the total amount.

• Practice telling time on an analog clock. Is it am or pm?

• 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

• 2nd graders should become fluent with the facts within 20 (using strategies such as doubles such as 6 + 6, 4 + 4, 10 + 10 and using tens such as if” I know that 7 + 3 is 10, then 7 + 4 is one more than 10, or 11”). 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.

• Have your child think of his/her favorite rides at an amusement park or carnival. What makes the rides so much fun or exciting? Have him/her describe the motion and speed of the rides. Compile a list of the rides on paper under categories of ROLLING, SLIDING, SPINNING, FAST, and SLOW. If your child was to design a new ride, what characteristics would it have?

• 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!

• On a walk around your house or neighborhood, collect rocks, Determine ways the rocks can be grouped and sorted. Be sure to include color, texture, weight, and size!

• What would happen if you put a note in a bottle, secured the top back on, and threw it into the ocean? What would happen if you put a note in a different bottle, secured the top back on, and threw this bottle into a lake? Most lakes are freshwater and the ocean is saltwater. In the freshwater lake, your bottle would sink and be lost. In the ocean, your bottle could be washed thousands of miles away. What would each bottle go through during these travels? Where in freshwater we could throw a message in a bottle, so it might not get lost?

• Have your child think of his/her favorite foods. Can he/she pick just one favorite? Trace the food back through the food chain to the Sun. For example, if Johnny’s favorite food is chicken nuggets, Johnny would trace his food back first to the chicken, then to the grains, and finally to the Sun. Johnny should write the chain and be sure to include the arrows showing the direction the energy is flowing from the Sun to the grains to the chicken.

• 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/

• Fitness Circuits

• Push up Hockey

• Fast Breaks