Coronavirus Break, The First Monday

So, it’s the first official day of no school, and I have to work. Add to that the fact my husband has online meetings all day for his school, and I found that I had to ‘lesson plan’ for my children today. For those of you looking for ideas, here’s what they are (hopefully) doing:

I have the girls playing school today. Added bonus, they may not even notice they are learning. I left them a list of tasks, and I’m letting them pick which order they do them in. Here are their tasks:

Math: my oldest must go through her math flashcards 3 times, and my kindergartener has a math game to do. (If you don’t already have math flashcards, you can have your kid make their own!) My kindergartener’s math game is a bunch of number papers, with operation signs. She got them from her teacher, but they would be super easy to make.

Social studies: my girls love doing the National Parks Junior Ranger programs, so I asked them to do at least 2 pages in the booklet I printed off for the park we are (hopefully) going to in June. You can find a list of ones you can mail in at this lady’s blog page: http://craftknife.blogspot.com/2018/06/heres-every-national-park-junior-ranger.html

Gym: Both of my girls are dancers, and have been wanting to do the splits for a long time, so I asked my oldest to lead stretches for both of them.

Music/Writing: I asked my oldest to practice piano, and my youngest to practice tracing letters (I have a laminated book of upper and lower case letters for her to trace – I’ll post it in the craft section at a later date).

Chores: My youngest has a massive clothes pile to tackle, so she’ll work on folding those. I asked my youngest to pick one area of her bedroom to clean. I of course gave her some lovely suggestions. I asked them to clean for 30 minutes

Reading: My oldest was asked to read one book to her younger sister, and my youngest gets to read one Superkids book to her older sister.

Lunch: if they get hungry before their Dad gets out of his meetings, I left a jar of peanut butter and some tortillas on the counter. They get to make tortilla roll ups and can play restaurant (“You can order anything you like, as long as it’s a peanut butter roll up!”)

Art: both girls have gotten some craft sets from Christmas that we had been saving for use during spring break, so I’ve got those all set for them.

Recess: Play with your favorite toys!

So, there you have it. I have no idea how it’s going at home, but my husband would have texted by now if the house wasn’t still standing. Stay tuned to find out!