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Additional Resources and Activities Additional RESOURCES Index Welcome to Wornick’s Menu. We are excited to Kindergarten Sixth grade share a wide variety of optional activities for your family to enjoy. Please explore as many or First grade Seventh grade as few as your family would like, and we hope you will share a picture of your time together; Second grade Eighth grade email to [email protected]. Third grade Everyone Fourth grade Elementary school Fifth grade Middle School Everyone Go on a virtual museum tour: Check out Wide Open School from What can you make? Investigate https://www.travelandleisure.com/a Common Sense Media: the 40 best art projects for kids. ttractions/museums-galleries/muse https://wideopenschool.org/progra Art Projects ums-with-virtual-tours ms/family/ Free audio books https://www.audible.com/ep/kids-a Explore the National Parks using DIY Terrarium for Kids udiobooks Google Earth: https://www.cbc.ca/parents/play/vie Google Earth: National Parks w/diy-terrariums-for-kids Jewish learning anywhere, anytime https://www.jewishinteractive.org/ki Attend a virtual concert from ds-learning-at-home classical to rock. Visit NPR Visit Outschool: Live Online Classes for Children 3-18 Create a family time capsule. https://outschool.com/ https://mandyspartyprintables.com/ Let NASA bring the universe in to 2018/12/24/free-printable-time-cap your home sule-ideas/ https://www.nasa.gov/specials/nas aathome/ Everyone 77 (simple) STEM activities for Find an art lesson Play an indoor game families https://artinaction.org/free-lesson-p https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/5057 http://dailystem.com/resources/ ortal/ 8/stuck-inside-games/ Enjoy virtual entertainment from Be a photojournalist Cook together the City of San Mateo https://sites.google.com/view/covid https://www.foodnetwork.com/recip https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/42 19photoessayproject/home es/packages/recipes-for-kids/cooki 47/Virtual-Recreation ng-with-kids/recipes-kids-can-make Make a STEAM Bored Jar for 5 Make your own comics Fold some origami minute activities that you can do https://www.makebeliefscomix.com https://www.origamiway.com/ anytime of day https://leftbraincraftbrain.com/stea /Comix/ m-bored-jar/ Elementary school Make T-Shirt Yarn from an Old Tee Join children’s illustrator Mo Listen to the author of “The Dot” https://www.instructables.com/id/H Willems in his studio for daily and “Ish” Peter H. Reynolds read ow-to-Make-T-Shirt-Yarn-From-an- Lunch Doodles! his books Old-Tee/ https://www.facebook.com/Peter HamiltonReynolds Do some science at home with the Exploratorium’s Science Try out this fun list of 100 Ways to Snacks! Ready for a good book. Check Play from the Boston Children’s out Operation Storytime Museum! https://www.bostonchildrensmuseu Use your imagination and try an m.org/learning-resources/100-ways activity at Creativity Corner, a -play place for pretend play. Join Camp Galileo Anywhere and explore all of the fun daily activities. Play some music with Chrome PJ Library family activities https://galileo-camps.com/galileo- Music Lab https://pjlibrary.org/familyactivities anywhere/ Middle School Follow a cyber robotics course Discover some cool science Design a Rube Goldberg. When https://gocoderz.com/amazon-futur experiments at the Exploratorium! you are finished, take a video and e-engineer-available-courses/?utm share it with Mrs. Haire. _source=Email_Campaign&utm_m https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ru edium=Amazon&utm_campaign=2 be-goldberg-the-father-of-invention Draw with author and illustrator 020 s/ Jarrett J. Krosoczka https://www.youtube.com/studiojjk Learn a new language at Duolingo Curious about science. Check out Stuck at Home Science to design Take a virtual field trip at The experiments with household items. Nature Conservancy. You can visit a coral reef, the Borneo rainforest, or China’s great forests. Learn about the birthplace of music http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/joshua smith8/502/virtualtour/start.html Kindergarten Watch an episode of Mindful Kids Pick an animal from the San Play Double Compare You will and practice mindfulness! Diego Zoo website. Watch the need a deck of playing cards with live video. Then draw a picture of the face cards removed. Each the animal and write a sentence player gets half the deck. Both Take a walk outside. Try to see if about something you saw in the players turn over their top two you can hear 10 different sounds. video! (There is short video cards, and the person with the before the live cam begins.) highest card wins both cards. Mail a hug: Bring your coloring creations to life https://www.theleangreenbean.co Do a lego challenge: m/mail-a-hug/ https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/ in 3D augmented reality with the lego-challenge-calendar-ideas-ki Quiver-app - ds/https://littlebinsforlittlehands.c http://www.quivervision.com/ Author’s Read - Alouds om/lego-challenge-calendar-idea https://www.weareteachers.com/virt s-kids/ ual-author-activities/ First grade Practice Yoga With A Cosmic Go on a scavenger hunt: Take the Lego Monster Kids Yoga Adventure https://primaryplayground.net/sc Challenge Squish the Fish avenger-hunts/ https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/ lego-monster-challenges/ Listen to stories or see a movie Make octopus hotdogs Play charades with your family. from the San Mateo Public https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/670 Here are some good Library. All you need is your 59/make-octopus-hot-dogs/ ideas!https://kidactivities.net/cha library card. rades-ideas-for-kids/ https://cityofsanmateo.kanopy.co m/kids Get Active Indoors! https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/746 Mail a hug: Make Rainbow Foam Dough https://www.theleangreenbean.co https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com 34/indoor-kids-activities/ m/mail-a-hug/ /foam-dough/ Second grade Learn to draw with writer and Love to listen to stories? Love Bring your coloring creations to illustrator, Dav Pilkey, author of math? Visit Tumble Math to hear life in 3D augmented reality with Dog Man and Captain Underpants. stories read about math. the Quiver-app - tumblemath.com/home.aspx http://www.quivervision.com/ Visit Dav Pilkey at Home Dr. Seuss experiment: Read Take the Lego Space Challenge Build paper airplanes and see Bartholomew and the Oobleck and which design flies the farthest, the then make a batch of oobleck. 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For a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= http://jugandoconlaluz.org/ free subscription: l0cCuDOR8uA https://time.com/tfk-free/ Bring your coloring creations to life Challenge your family: Design in 3D augmented reality with the Play cards while learning math marble runs and see who can build Quiver-app - https://www.weareteachers.com/m the most challenging. http://www.quivervision.com/ ath-card-games/ https://buggyandbuddy.com/paper- plate-marble-maze/ Build an indoor fort! Go on a listening walk https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/7776 https://tinkergarten.com/activities/li 2/indoor-forts-for-kids/ stening-walk-2b6b4ebf-23b9-4a0e- a7d3-01a75f28eb8f Fourth grade You are learning about rocks and Visit Wonderopolis and investigate Build an indoor tent and camp in minerals, what about rock candy? all of the things you are curious your living room Learn how to make this delicious about. Why are flamingos pink? https://www.instructables.com/id/E rock. What is the Big Crunch Theory? asy-Indoor-Tent/ https://mommypoppins.com/kids/ho Who was the Pirate Queen? w-to-make-rock-candy-with-kids Hear Gold Rush stories http://explore.museumca.org/goldr Challenge yourself to engineer one ush/ Design a Lego marble run of the 10 Day Challenges at The https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/le Tech Interactive. go-marble-run/ Make a seven layer density column https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= KgZ7JtmOgHI Fifth grade Take a virtual visit to some of San Dive into some art: Choose one of these 45 indoor Francisco’s amazing sites, https://artinaction.org/free-lesson-p activities including SFMOMA. ortal/ https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/6282 https://sf.curbed.com/2020/3/27/21 9/active-indoor-games/ 196781/virtual-tour-san-francisco- museums-cultural-institutions-hom Visit the Harry Potter Digital e Escape Room Make a Kahoot game for your https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/ family 1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUqOcXkw https://kahoot.com/ hGTfii4CM_CA3kCxImbY8c3AABE Design and build a mancala game A/viewform?fbclid=IwAR10iBRN3qf and then play with your family. wd779mRqPvQcq2eaJErTczzMxuI https://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/m CYRBl5zRIepN-Kj4UTAYk Build an indoor tent and camp in embers/lesson65.html your living room https://www.instructables.com/id/E asy-Indoor-Tent/ Sixth grade Visit the Kennedy Space Center on Visit the California Academy of Take a virtual tour of the Facebook Live for cool space Sciences Smithsonian Natural History presentations. https://www.calacademy.org/acade Museum https://www.facebook.com/pg/Kenn my-at-home https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virt edySpaceCenterVisitorComplex/po ual-tour sts/?ref=page_internal Go back in time and see some of the earliest archeological Play Break the Bank or Dollar in a discoveries Glass to learn financial http://www.bradshawfoundation.co management Write a card to your classmate, m/ http://bizkids.com/games/ send them by mail. 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