Create a daily home schedule for your kids

Feeling overwhelmed with your new schedule at home?

Many of you may be juggling work of your own, work around the house AND helping your kids keep up with their schoolwork. You made it through the first week, so pat yourself on the back for a job well done! This weekend, take some time to check out this suggested calendar for helping to map out the day for your kids – it may help you organize the routine and take a little stress out of the upcoming week!

Weekday Schedule for School Kids At Home

Breakfast: Start the day with a balanced breakfast to fuel you through your schoolwork!

Activity 1:  Start with math work from school when you are fresh and ready for the day! Or look around your house for numbers and add them up together or multiply them!

Brain Break:  Touch your toes ten times, reach up high to the sky ten times, run in place for two minutes, do 10 jumping jacks… AND REPEAT! Make sure to grab a drink of water when you are done!

Activity 2:  Dive into language arts or phonics schoolwork – or grab a book find a place to be cozy and read.  Draw a picture about your story and write a summary of what you read.

Lunch and Free Play: Give yourself a break, grab a yummy lunch and try to get some fresh air to re-energize you for the afternoon!

Activity 3:  It’s time for science or social studies work from school. Or try a STEAM Activity. The Y’s blog has lots of fun ideas!

Brain Break: Play a quick game or do a few minutes of exercise to rest your brain between activities.

Activity 4:  If you have more schoolwork, bring it on! If not, get creative with an arts and crafts activity or go ahead and take 15 minutes of technology time!

Snack Break: Grab some water and a favorite snack – your schoolwork day is almost complete!

Activity 5: Use your last activity time of the day to finish up any schoolwork for the day. Or change it up, and draw a picture, write a note, or email someone about your day! And you can never go wrong when you grab a book and do some more reading!

Special thank you: https://www.ymcaatlanta.org/blog/learning-resources-map-out-the-day-for-your-kids/

Social Responsibility: Birthday cards for Homeless youth

Did you know that some homeless youth have never gotten a Happy Birthday card in there entire life?

Most of these kids are traveling between homes and don't have a permanent  address. 

A simple home project that helps your kids understand how to make an impact, is creating cards for these kids.

You can simply wish them well and let them know you are thinking of them on their birthday or “just because.” Please sign your first name inside the card, and tell them where you live if you’d like.

Please leave the envelopes unsealed. Write your first name, city, and state in the return-address portion of the envelope and leave the rest blank: we will address them for you.

Put your card(s) in a larger envelope and mail them to:
Braid Mission
Cards of Hope
312 Georgia St., Suite 235Vallejo CA 94590

Monday Math: Post it note math

Guess what? 

You don’t need a worksheet to practice math facts!

This Post-it Math activity is WHERE IT’S AT! Kids need to be active in their learning and this gets them moving.

This is a mental math activity working on small addition facts. We're not looking for quick and rapid recall of these facts, but for your child to be able to use their head or their fingers to solve the problems.

• White paper
• Giant sharpie marker
• Post-it Notes

On the Post-it notes, write the number sentences. Then, write the sum of each equation on the white paper.

Your child's job is to match the number sentence to the correct sum

Special thanks to https://busytoddler.com/2018/09/post-it-math/

Simon says and parts of the body

• Play a game of Simon Says to move more with your body! (Make sure everyone gets a chance to be Simon!)

How Do You Play Simon Says?

Setup

Elect one person the leader.  In this game, he is known as “Simon.”  Have him go to the front of the room, and everyone else stands up faces this person.

Playing the Game

Simon will get in front of the room and call out commands.  If Simon begins the sentence by saying “Simon says…” then everyone is required to do the action.  If he does not begin with “Simon says…” then the players are not allowed to do the action.

For example, if Simon calls out, “Simon says, touch your toes!” then all players must touch their toes.  If a player doesn’t obey, they are out and are eliminated from the game.

If Simon instead calls out “Touch your toes!” (without starting by saying “Simon says..”) then players are NOT supposed to touch their toes.  If anyone touches their toes, they are also eliminated from the game.

The game continues until one player (or a few players) remain.   These are the winners!

• Kids can learn more about the human body! Depending on your child’s age and abilities, have them independently research or work with them together to create a poster of at least 5 cool facts about the human body by looking in books, or online (with guidance!).

Parts of the body lesson plans FREE

Incredible Edibles: PB & J Sushi

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons Creamy Peanut Butter
2 tablespoons Strawberry Jelly
2 slices bread

DIRECTIONS

1. REMOVE crusts from bread. With a rolling pin or large soup can, completely flatten bread.
2. SPREAD 1 tablespoon peanut butter and 1 tablespoon jelly on each slice of bread
3. ROLL each slice into a tight spiral. Cut each spiral into 4 pieces.

NUTRITION

Serving Size (whole recipe), Calories 350 (Calories from Fat 150), Total Fat 17g (Saturated Fat 3g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 270mg, Total Carbohydrate 45g (Dietary Fiber 3g, Sugars 28g), Protein 10g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 4%, Iron 8%.