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We highly recommend helping families create routines they can do daily while not in school, such as:
- Daily Home Reading Routine
- Reading Strategies for Families
- Helping Families Choose Books
- Repeated Reading Routine
- Fluent Reading Fun
- Visualizing or Making Movies While Reading
Grade | What I’m Curious About (Voice & Choice) | Reading/Oral Language | Social Emotional Skills | Writing/Drawing | Math |
PK | I’d Like to know more about... Do some research with a family member to find out facts about something you are curious about. Draw a picture and label it to show what you learned. Share something you learned or created that you are excited about with a family member. Describe what you learned or created. Use lots of details. | Storytelling with Picture Books Use a picture book as a storytelling prompt. Look at each page and use the pictures to tell the story. What details do you notice? Who are the characters? What is happening in your story? Find one of your favorite things. Use your senses to describe it to a family member. What does it look, feel, and smell like? Use full sentences. | Create a story with your family! Each family member participates by adding one word or sentence at a time. What kind of story will your family create? Work together to create a drawing for the story. | Choose a color and write your name making sure to say each letter as you write it. Then, choose another color and trace over your letters. Continue choosing more colors to trace your name with until it looks like a rainbow! (Easier: Write the first letter of your name using each color of the rainbow. Harder: Write your last name too) | Find different shapes around your house. Name each shape when you find it. Count how many different shapes you found. |
K | I’d Like to know more about... Do some research with a family member to find out facts about something you are curious about. Draw a picture and label it to show what you learned. | Read a book to a family member, a stuffed animal, or a pet. See how many opposites you and your family can come up with. Look out the window of your car, around your house, at the grocery store, or while on a walk as a family. 1) The first person says something they see, for example, "I see a TALL tree." 2) The next person says the opposite of that, "I see a SHORT dog." | Create a story with your family! Each family member participates by adding one word or sentence at a time. What kind of story will your family create? Work together to create a drawing for the story. | Make a card and give it to someone as a gift. Add lots of details. | Find different shapes around your house. Name each shape when you find it. Count how many different shapes you found. |
1 | Curious Moment: What can you Create? Use your imagination this week to create and build! Look around your home to find materials to build with: Legos, Duplos, Play-Doh, blocks, boxes, wood, paper, blankets, sticks, string, sand, mud, etc. 1) Design and build with your materials. It can be anything! 2) Talk to your family about what you made. 3) Draw a picture in a journal or on a piece of paper and write a sentence or two about what you built and why you like it. | Partner Read with a Family Member Read a book with a family member. Take turns reading a sentence or a paragraph at a time. Be a good partner and give support. You can also use the book to take turns telling the story using the pictures. Reading and Storytelling Adventures: Retelling a Favorite Book Reading and talking about books is fun. Retelling is a great way to talk about a favorite book in a new way. 1) Read a favorite story together. 2) Talk about what happened in the book. 3) Go back to the beginning of the story and tell what happens on each page. (Touch the pages as you go!) 👍🏻Remember: Retelling is about explaining the story without worrying about or actually reading the words. 4) Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story and write a sentence about why you love it. | We have to work every day to learn new things and keep trying even when it's hard. Being able to say we don't know how to do something, YET, is powerful. Complete this sentence: “ I can’t _____ YET… But if I _____, I will be able to.” Our brains grow so much when we make mistakes and try new things. Try something new or something that is hard to do today! | Storytelling: Share a Favorite Family Memory 1) Talk to a family member about one of their favorite childhood memories. Ask them to tell you the story and to share lots of details. 2) Draw a picture of the story. 3) Retell the story aloud to your family member for practice. 4) Write down the story or your favorite part of the story. | Have fun as a family playing outside with chalk and numbers. 1) Use chalk to draw a large number line. 2) Write numbers 0-10 on the number line. 3) Take turns thinking of addition or subtraction equations to solve (ex. 3+4= or 10-6=). Use rocks or other items as counters if needed to help you solve the equation. If you have older kids, practice coming up with multiplication or division equations (ex: 2X4= or 10/2=). 4) Start at one number of the equation and hop the other number. You will end up on the sum. (For 3 + 4, you start at 3 and hop 4 spaces.) Mix it up - skip, walk, bear crawl, or make up your own movement. 5) You can keep track of your equations in a journal or on a piece of paper. Interview a family member about how they use math at work and at home. What kind of math do they use? How often? |
2 | Curious Moment: What can you Create? Use your imagination this week to create and build! Look around your home to find materials to build with: Legos, Duplos, Play-Doh, blocks, boxes, wood, paper, blankets, sticks, string, sand, mud etc. 1) Design and build with your materials. It can be anything! 2) Talk to your family about what you made. 3) Draw a picture in a journal or on a piece of paper and write a sentence or two about what you built and why you like it. | Reading and Storytelling Adventures: Retelling a Favorite Book Reading and talking about books is fun. Retelling is a great way to talk about a favorite book in a new way. 1) Read a favorite story together. 2) Talk about what happened in the book. 3) Go back to the beginning of the story and tell what happens on each page. (Touch the pages as you go!) 👍🏻Remember: Retelling is about explaining the story without worrying about or actually reading the words. 4) Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story and write a sentence about why you love it. | We have to work every day to learn new things and keep trying even when it's hard. Being able to say we don't know how to do something, YET, is powerful. Complete this sentence: “I can’t _____ YET… But if I _____, I will be able to.” Our brains grow so much when we make mistakes and try new things. Try something new or something that is hard to do today! | How well do you know your community, the people and places around you? 1) Talk about your community with your family. What makes it special? Who are some of the people and places that help your community? It could be a worker like a teacher, police officer, farmer or a place like a park, school, or grocery store. 2) Draw a picture or sketch of the person or place in your community that is special to you and your family. 3) Label your drawing, describing the person or place. 4) In your journal or a piece of paper, write about the person or place you drew. Why is it important to you? What can you do to be a community helper? | Have fun with geometry (the study of shapes) at home! 1) Look around your house for shapes you know (A circle? Square? Cube? Rectangle?) 2) Collect your shapes together in one place. 3) Trace one of your shapes onto a piece of paper. 4) Partition (split up) your shape into 2 equal parts. Older students can label the fraction. 5) Trace another shape and partition it into 4 equal parts. 6) Describe what you did to your family member. What shapes do you see? How do you know the parts are equal? 7) Ready for a challenge? Trace those same shapes to make a bigger shape or picture! Can you label all the shapes you made? |
3 | Curious Moment: What can you Create? Use your imagination this week to create and build! Look around your home to find materials to build with: Legos, Duplos, Play-Doh, blocks, boxes, wood, paper, blankets, sticks, string, sand, mud etc. 1) Design and build with your materials. It can be anything! 2) Talk to your family about what you made. 3) Draw a picture in a journal or on a piece of paper and write a sentence or two about what you built and why you like it. | Listening to Stories: "Catching the Moon" Listen to a story. It could be a story a family member tells you, a book on tape, or a podcast. Think about the characters in the story. Did anything in the story remind you of something in your life? What did you think about the story? Create a book review that will inspire a family member to want to read the book. Share what you liked about the book and why it is special to you. | We have to work every day to learn new things and keep trying even when it's hard. Being able to say we don't know how to do something, YET, is powerful. Complete this sentence: “I can’t _____ YET… But if I _____, I will be able to.” Our brains grow so much when we make mistakes and try new things. Try something new or something that is hard to do today! | Storytelling: Share a Favorite Family Memory 1) Talk to a family member about one of their favorite childhood memories. Ask them to tell you the story and to share lots of details. 2) Draw a picture of the story. 3) Retell the story aloud to your family member for practice. 4) Write down the story or your favorite part of the story. | Math Card Games 4 Versions of War: Use a deck of cards to play math games. Remove the face cards in the deck and then divide the cards by the number of players. Keep cards face down.Each player flips the card on top of their pile over. Whoever has the highest card wins, takes all the cards, and adds them to their deck. You can then try it by each player flipping to cards and adding them together. The highest sum wins. |
4 | Talk to a family member about who their heroes are. Think about who some of your heroes are. Research and learn more about your hero. What makes them special? | Listen to a podcast and think about the story elements. Who are the characters? What is the setting? What is happening? | Create a special family handshake. Include lots of cool movements. See if you can memorize and teach the handshake to everyone in your family. | Read a book together or listen to a story online. Talk about the book with your family member. Draw a picture together and label it to show the main points of the story. | |
5 | Talk to a family member about who their heroes are. Think about who some of your heroes are. Research and learn more about your hero. What makes them special? | Create a book movie trailer that would get your friends excited about reading a book you enjoy. | Walk around your house and reflect on any acts of kinds you remember in different spaces. Did someone cook you a meal, buy groceries, tuck you in, help you put your clothing away, give you a hug…? Then write a thank you note or make a poster for someone in your family who has been kind to you. | Think of a favorite family story. Interview each family member to hear their memory of the story. Write the story down, from the different perspectives and share it with the whole family. | 1) Create a menu and a shopping list. (Older children can write the list and estimate how much they think each item will cost.) 2. 🛒Go to the store together or pull things from your cupboard. Talk about how you select the right ingredients and have older children keep track of the cost of items as you add them to your shopping cart or put them on the counter. (It is a great opportunity to estimate and round to the nearest dollar.) 3.💲Calculate the total cost of the meal and then talk about how you would calculate the cost per person. 4. 🍳Make your meal together. |
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