Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot and read, read, read! Read to self, read to a stuffed animal, and/or read to a family member.

Go on a nature walk (this activity ties to science this week). Find an object you want to further investigate (leaf, rock, flower, etc.). Draw a picture of the object and color it. Now, label your picture and write about your nature walk. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture. Tell someone about your picture and explain why you chose this object.

Think about your morning routine (this activity ties to social studies this week). What do you do first? Then what do you do? What about after that? Draw a picture(s) of your morning routine and color it. Now label your picture(s) and write about it. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture(s). Use words such as first, next, last, before, after, yesterday, today and tomorrow in your writing.

Think about your nighttime routine (this activity ties to social studies this week). What do you do first? Then what do you do? What about after that? Draw a picture(s) of your nighttime routine and color it. Now label your picture(s) and write about it. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture(s). Use words such as first, next, last, before, after, yesterday, today and tomorrow in your writing. Tell someone what your favorite part of this routine is and explain why!

Think about an animal you are interested in learning about or think about a pet (this activity ties to science this week). What does this animal need to survive? Draw a picture of your animal and write to explain what this animal needs to survive. How is the animal like you and how is it different? Write to explain.

As you go on your Living/Non-living walk, take pictures of the objects you find or draw pictures when you get home. (This ties to the science activity below)

• Take the pictures and sort them by living/non-living

• Graph the pictures or objects.

• Challenge- turn your real graph into a bar graph by using this template and coloring in for the objects you identified. (Consider using one color for living and one color for non-living.)

• Tell someone about your graph (either the object/picture graph or the bar graph)

  • Which one has more? How many more?

  • Which one has less?

  • Are any equal or the same?

  • Make a question about your graph.

Survey your family and graph the information

• Some ideas include-Do you like pizza? What is your favorite movie? What is your favorite video game?

Graph the weather for the week (sunny, cloudy, rainy…) and tell someone about your graph using the example questions above.

Help with the laundry and sort the socks. Make a graph to show how you sorted (color, size, boy/girl, etc.)

Go on a walk outside and identify different objects.Discuss if each object is living (needs energy, has young, dies) or nonliving (anything not living).

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. (This activity ties to Math.)

Find a small box or container. Have your child draw pictures of all their favorite things. Cut apart the images. Can we keep all the things we love best in a toy box? A puppy? A friend? No! A toy box cannot give living things what they need to grow. Direct your child to sort the nonliving items, like a toy, by putting them in the box. Living things stay outside the box. (This activity ties to Math.)

Look at pictures of two different animals. How are the animals alike? How are the animals different?

Compare the leaves of different plants. How are the leaves alike? How are the leaves different?

Make a list of the basic needs of plants and animals. What living and nonliving things around a plant or an animal does it depend on for survival?

Take a walk around the neighborhood and point out plants and animals. Ask your child what plants need to live. What does a bird need to live?

Compare a living plant to an artificial plant. What are the differences between the two? What does an artificial plant need? (A shelf and dusting!) What does a real plant need?

Fold a piece of paper in half and label one side LIVING and the other NONLIVING. Give your child a magazine to cut out pictures. Challenge the student to fill his/her paper up completely and correctly with pictures of living and nonliving items. (This activity ties to Math.)

Use a search engine to find a live feed of an eagle cam (or some other live animal in the wild or in a zoo). There are many choices of live feeds that show different stages of eagles with nests and their offspring. Watch the cam for a few days and let your child see what the eagle uses to survive and how life would be different if those things were gone.

What does the eagle eat? What does the eagle have to do to protect its offspring?

Talk about the order in which we do things, like brushing our teeth or getting dressed. Do you brush your teeth then put the toothpaste on the brush? No! First we put the toothpaste on the brush, then we brush our teeth and last we put the toothbrush away. Which do you put on first - the shoes or socks? Talk through different daily activities using words like first, next, last, before, after, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Show your child three to five pictures of him/herself. Ask your child to put the pictures in order from youngest to oldest. The activity can be repeated adding another picture or two each time.

Ask your child to draw pictures of routines he/she does every day, like eat dinner, take a bath, are read to. Have your child arrange the activities in order and tell you what time of day this routine takes place. (This activity ties to Reading.)

Challenge your child to give you directions for a task, like making a sandwich. Follow the directions as you are told, allowing your child to make corrections as he/she realizes a step was left out or given at the wrong time.

Talk about how we measure and record time. Use a calendar to look at days in a week, weeks in a month, and months in a year.

Let’s do some sing alongs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPA6ZXvcY0U&vl=en

Now let’s move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOvhASO-dZM

What we eat is important too! Have some fun this week with what you eat! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOv2nRedXqwV9Gp73UX-MZOw50OmQc5k/view?usp=sharing

Brain Boosters video https://youtu.be/-BsSXJQCBFA

Videos to help get you moving! https://youtu.be/Uw41-RziKpE