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

Make a fort out of sheets and pillows. Write a “How To” paper about how you created the fort. Have someone follow your directions and see how the fort comes out.

Narrative Writing: Ask your child to tell and write a story about a time at school. Be sure to have a beginning, middle, and end and include pictures with each part of the story.

Have your child choose a topic they are interested in. Help your child research this topic online or with books. Have your child write about what they learned from your research. Draw pictures to go with the writing.

How To create a sandwich. Write the steps for making a sandwich (peanut butter & jelly or ham & cheese). Have someone at home follow your directions and see how the sandwich came out.

Read a book with your child and ask them to write a new ending. What do they think would happen next? Reread the book together with the child's contribution.

Write a book about the people in your family? What does a typical day look like in your home?

Read a book with your child. Ask your child to draw a story map of what happened in the story. Remind them to include a beginning, middle and end. They may add pictures to go with their writing.

Ask your child how many words they can think of that start with the same sound? Try playing with words that start with “S”, “T” and “H”.

Read a book with your child. Ask them to identify and describe the main character. What was the main character like? What was important to him/her?

Go for a walk and have your child use positional words to describe where you are. “I am next to the street”, “I am in between the apartments,” “I am across the street from the park,” etc.etc.

Have your child play with words. What word is created when I add “P” to the beginning of “at”, what if I add “C” to the beginning of “at”.

Count and write the steps from your room to the kitchen. Try counting from your room and other locations too.

Explore kids’ yoga (search youTube for “kids yoga” if you need guidance) and see if you can bend your body and make shapes like a triangle or straight and tall like a line. Can you and a sibling or parent create a square or rectangle with your bodies? What about a circle?

While doing physical activities, (hoping, jumping, going up stairs) have your child keep track by counting both forwards and backwards. Then try skip counting. For an added challenge, start on step 4 or hop 4 and see if they can count on from there.

If you have space outside, create a hopscotch path with chalk or items in nature.

Look for patterns in your house and go for a walk and look for them in nature.

When you are on your walk, collect things like leaves, rocks, and sticks. When you get home, count your collections and compare them. (e.g. “I have more _____ and fewer______”).

Explore spatial reasoning as you build with blocks, legos, or other household items such as coins, rocks, shells. Ask questions like, “Which structure is taller? Can you add another piece or take one away-how many do you have now? Does the right side look like the left side (symmetry)?”

Fill different size cups with beans, rice, water or pasta and talk about how much each cup can hold. Which holds more? Which holds less? Try predicting and then pouring contents of one cup into another to check. Line the cups up from “holds the most to holds the least.”

Find 3 household items (brush, comb, spoon or fork, pencil) and compare their lengths. Which item is longer? Which item is shorter? Can you line them up from shortest to tallest?

Build a maze with pillows and practice giving and receiving directions, “go to the left 3 steps, walk back 2 steps, go to the right 2 steps”.

Keep adding pictures to your weather journal. What is your favorite kind of weather?

Inside the house in a container or outside in a pot or the ground, plant some seeds with your child. The seeds can be from a seed packet you purchase or the seeds from the fresh fruits or vegetables you are eating. Your student can keep a picture journal of the growth of the new plant.

Read or listen to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. What senses did the little bear have to use to notice all the things that were wrong in his house?

Find a set of A to Z alphabet cards that have pictures that go along with the letter, as an example. Hold the cards up (in random order or alphabetically) and ask, “Can this make another or have a baby? Crayon? No! Apple? Yes! Lion? Yes! Xylophone? No! Sort the cards into living or nonliving stacks and discuss what each pile means.

Gather several magnets from around the house. Ask your child if the shape or size of the magnet makes a magnet stronger. Ask for a few explanations. Have a bowl of small metal items like paper clips. Demonstrate how a paperclip is attracted to each magnet. Ask your child to predict how many paperclips each magnet can lift and hold. Make a tally chart of the predictions on a piece of paper, then test the magnets.

Cut a piece of medium-grit sandpaper into a 4 inch by 4 inch piece for your child. Provide an assortment of old crayons and direct your child to color a picture on the rough side of the sandpaper, the more colors and the heavier he/she colors, the better. Place each square face down on a stack of paper, and with an iron on high heat, iron the back of the square. Allow a few seconds for the wax to cool. Flip the picture over to see how it has changed due to the heat.

Choose a few items that have been in plain sight in your home daily. For example, the television remote, a stuffed toy, your coffee mug. Place the item in a large box,, a black plastic bag, or a pillowcase. Put your hands in the container, and start describing the hidden object by touch. Your child is allowed to ask yes/no questions. He/She can also look around the room to see what is missing. Your child can become the describer with another object.

Go back and complete any activities from the previous weeks.

Keep adding pictures to your “Quarantine Calendar”. What new skill have you learned?

Pretend to be a police officer and have your child pretend to be lost. Have him/her give you the correct information, like full name and address, so the “officer” can help him/her.

Go on a Scavenger Hunt in your neighborhood then talk about the items with a family member. See if you can find:

• a flag. Why do people fly flags at their houses?

• a bear in a window. People are putting bears in their windows just for you to find them. Why do you think they would do that?

• a license plate not from Texas. What state would you like to travel to?

• a dog. What is your favorite type of pet?

• a plant with flowers. Why do you think plants have flowers?

• a statue. What is the statue made of?

• a service worker, like a postman, delivery person, telephone company, plumbing company or electrical company worker. How do service workers help people?

• 3 different types of transportation. What is your favorite way to travel?

• a street sign. What does the sign tell people?

• a change in the neighborhood, like a new building or a closed store. Why did the change happen? Do you think it is a good or bad change for the neighborhood?

What is your favorite holiday? Draw a picture of your family celebrating that holiday.

What are some rules at your house? Why do you have rules? Draw a picture of you following a rule.

Cut apart large pictures, like those on a calendar, into puzzle pieces and have your child put the puzzles together.

Go back and complete any activities from the previous weeks.

Let’s learn hand clapping games!! https://theinspiredtreehouse.com/activities-for-kids-hand-clapping-games/

Keep raising your heart rates - Go for a walk or jog, ride your bike!

Continue to earn stars on your Family Nutrition & Physical Activity calendar on the link below. See how many stars you can earn this month!

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