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

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.

Create a pretend post office at home. Provide your child with envelopes, cards, old bills and have fun writing and distributing mail to family members.

After reading a story, have your child draw a picture about what they think would happen next. Ask them to tell you about their picture and write down what they say.

Draw a picture of your family. Write a story to go with it. Caregivers may write your child’s words.

At the end of the day, talk about the day’s events. Have your child write about what they did throughout the day.

Play a word game, saying the first part of a compound word and asking your child to provide a variety of second words that make compound words (e.g., say “sun” and encourage responses like “flower

Go on a Letter Hunt around the house and point out words that begin with the same letter. For example, I spy an object that starts with a letter “s”, (sofa, sister, snack, soda). Then go around and find other objects that start with the letter “s”.

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.

Talk about the first sound in your child’s name. Look for other objects in books or around the house that begin with the same sound. Do the same with the names of family members or friends.

Think of the letters in your first name. Collect an object that starts with the sound of each letter.

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?

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______”).

Play “Hide and Seek” with a stuffed animal and a family member. Describe where your stuffed animal is hiding using the words, “above, below, beside, next to, behind,” etc.

Ask your child to bring one book, two pencils, and three sheets of paper. After you have collected the materials, have your child count them all together. Take one of the items away and ask, “How many now?”

Gather the laundry and have your child help you sort by color.

• When the laundry is done have your child help match socks and teach him/her the word “pair”.

Have your child set the table. “If we have 6 people in our family, how many plates do we need?” Then see if your child can “partition” or separate the set into individual pieces--”one for you, one for you…”

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?

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.