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Chart and graph the weather!
This week, observe the weather each day, keeping track of what you observe with tallies in a table. At the end of the week, display your results in a color bar graph.
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Counting coins
Learning to count change is an important skill that many children find challenging. One way to help is to practice counting to 100 by 1s, 5s, and 10s.
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Crazy captions
What’s going on in this picture? Captions are used to tell readers what’s happening in a photo.
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Create a comic book
Learn about story structure and writing dialogue by creating your own comic book.
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Create a family memory book
Making a book of family memories is an enriching activity that will result in a treasured keepsake.
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Does it sink or float?
In this activity, you’ll make predictions about whether objects will sink or float, test the objects, and chart the results.
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Draw a story map
A story map is a diagram of the events of a story in order. Making a story map is a fun art project that helps kids learn sequencing (how to distinguish the order of events), which helps with reading comprehension.
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Feelings collage
Learning to identify and express feelings helps kids build social skills. Make a collage with images of people expressing different emotions.
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Find all 50 states!
Learn geography with a game you can modify and play again and again!
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Jumping raisins
Who knew raisins could be so entertaining? With a little tap water, soda water, and a handful of raisins, your kitchen will become a laboratory for testing and understanding how buoyancy works.
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Living things and nonliving objects
In this early science activity, kids explore what makes living things different from nonliving objects.
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Make a letter collage
Explore letter sounds by making a series of colorful collages.
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Make a mold garden
Use bread and water to grow various types of mold and learn about bacteria.
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Make a name puzzle
In this activity, kids make a puzzle that helps them learn to spell and recognize their name.
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Make a paper quilt
Develop creative-thinking and problem-solving skills with this fun-filled math activity, which can be spread over a few days — or even a few weeks.
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Make a pop-up book
Write a story and illustrate it in 3-D! Note that the finished book will open bottom-to-top (like a calendar) rather than right-to-left.
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Make a reading tree
Keep track of the books you read by creating a reading tree. Create a trunk with branches and add each book as a leaf. Wait till you see how much you’ve accomplished!
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Make a self-portrait
Use a mirror to take a close look at the placement and shapes of your facial features — and then put your own artistic spin on your self-portrait.
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Make a word-family flip book
Making a fun flip book is a good way to practice reading related words.
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Make an accordion book
In this activity, your child writes and illustrates a simple story, then binds it with a ribbon to create a keepsake book. This would make a great gift for a grandparent, too.
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Making hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics was a writing system in which words were simple drawings of the thing being described. This activity teaches kids about ancient Egyptian pictograms and how writing has evolved.
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Sorting beans
Using an ordinary bag of mixed beans, you can practice sorting, categorizing, making patterns, adding, counting, and comparing. These are important math skills!
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Water glass music
With this fun and simple activity, you can play a familiar tune and create your own song!