Hello All,

Below is a list of literacy activities that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory activities that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their math and literacy learning at home.  

Math Activities Week 3

Look at a grocery store flyer. If you had $10.00 to spend, what two items could you buy? What change would you get back?

Fill it Up! Find different sized measuring cups and a large plastic jug. One at a time, estimate how many of each it will take to fill the jug. Test out your prediction. What do you notice?

Simon Says! Find someone to play the game “Simon Says”. Use words like forward, backward, left and right when Simon gives their instructions (e.g., take two hops backwards, take three small side steps left).

What is in the kitchen cupboard? Think of a sorting pattern for the food containers to organize them. Will you sort them by size and shape? Shape and colour? Or something else? Sort them and see if someone can figure out your sorting rule.

Baking in the kitchen (with help)! Choose a favourite family recipe (or learn a new one) to make with the help of an adult. Gather and measure out the ingredients! Follow the recipe directions! Share and enjoy!

Getting active with math! Create a BINGO card with your family and in each square put a simple exercise (e.g., jumping jacks, jog on the spot, dance around etc.). If you complete 20 minutes of physical activity, how much time will you have to spend on each activity if you complete one line in any direction? If you complete two lines? If you complete 20 random exercises? Pick a game and try it out!

LITERACY ACTIVITIES

Read or listen to a story and discuss what happened in the beginning, the middle, and the end.

Choose a word that has a common spelling pattern (e.g. -est, -ike, -eat, -ight, -ow). Write as many rhyming words as you can with the same spelling pattern. Choose one more and do the same thing.

Create a scavenger hunt, with verbal or written clues, for another family member to complete. (e.g. In the room where I sleep find a big blue stuffie).

Create a mini poster to remind everyone in your family to wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

Read a book, poem, or article with your child. Have them tell you what five key words in the reading mean (e.g. feeling words like “embarrassed”, descriptive words like “unpleasant”, action words like “glaring”).

Stay- In Restaurant – have child(ren) create menus for tonight’s meal. Menus can be used that night for “customers” to choose from and children can record the orders on a note pad and then read out the order to the “cook”.

Call, Facetime, message a friend or family member and tell them a joke (or maybe a few). (E.g. Why did the orange stop? Because it ran out of juice. What goes tick, tock, bow, wow, tick, tock? A watch dog.)