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

• Create a photo collage of (or draw) 5 healthy treats to enjoy instead of candy.

• What rhymes? Say two words to your child and have them give a thumbs up for a rhyme or a thumbs down for words that don’t rhyme!

• Practice singing and writing the alphabet. Sing it multiple times in different voices (like your best monster voice) for a little variety!

• Put 10 objects in a bag. Pull an object out and say and write the beginning sound. Try to find matches!

• Write uppercase and lowercase letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bag. Have your child pull a letter from the bag and name it. Match uppercase with lowercase letters

• Help your parents with a chore! Draw and write about what you did.

• Practice and model fair ways to play. Act out different scenarios and how to communicate effectively.

• Draw and label 3 things that begin like the word “flower.”

• Help an adult make a meal. Draw and label your picture.

• Play “Write the room” and write down familiar words around your house.

• Have your child draw or paint a picture and tell you a story about their picture. Write down what your child says and read the story back to your child.

• After reading a story, have your child draw a picture about their favorite part. Ask them to tell you about their picture and write down what they say.

• Put shaving cream on a hard surface and encourage your child to write their name or letter-like forms (lines top to bottom, left to right, circles, curves, slanted lines) using their finger.

• Provide your child with playdough and practice with your child rolling the playdough into snake-like strips. Use the pieces to shape letters and their name.

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

• Let children hold the book and use the pictures as visual cues to retell the story. Talk about what happened in the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the story.

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

• Have family members pretend to be a character in the story as you retell the story

• Read books that include rhyming words like The Cat in the Hat. As you read the story, pause for rhyming words and allow your child to fill in the missing word in the sentence with a word that rhymes.

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

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

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

• Play board games that involve counting (e.g. Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Connect Four) or make up your own game.

• Draw a picture and count groups of items in the picture (e.g. how many family members? toys? pets?)

  • Write the numeral beside each set.

  • Compare the sets. Do you have more toys or pets? How do you know? Explain to someone.

• Create patterns using toys, pictures, words, or movements. (e.g. stuffed dog, stuffed cat, stuffed dog, stuffed cat, ____, ______ what comes next OR clap, clap, stomp, clap, clap, stomp, ____, _____, _____ )

• Draw a picture of your family members in a line and tell the position of each person. (Who is first, next, last?)

• Have fun identifying shapes in your home (e.g. window-rectangle, plate-circle)

• Use sticks/straws and playdough to make shapes.

  • You can even measure and work with an adult to make homemade playdough--recipe).

• Describe the shapes of food when eating such as how many sides and corners do you see? (e.g. graham crackers-rectangles--4 sides and 4 corners, Nilla wafers-circles-no sides and no corners).

• Create a picture by cutting out circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles (e.g. create a rocket, a train, etc.)

• 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.

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