Learning Fun in the Summer Sun June 4 & 5
Calvert County Public Schools Suggested Summer Learning Activities for Families HAPPY SUMMER, CCPS FAMILIES! Summertime is the perfect time to explore the world around us. After all, school is not the only place where we can learn. Look around, learning opportunities are everywhere! To spark a few ideas, we’ve included activities across a wide range of subjects. Perhaps you’ll enjoy a book under a shade tree, notice the stars in the evening sky, look up the strange bug in your garden, look for math patterns in a favorite song, or organize a fun water obstacle course. Feel free to pick and choose a few activities each week that seem interesting and fun! Consider keeping a journal or notebook to keep track of your activities. NOTE: Learning continues all summer long! JULY and AUGUST activities can be found on the CCPS website. Visit calvertnet.k12.md.us
CANDY ART The first U.S. postage Sign up for Write about a time you Money Tracker: Make up a new kind of Keep track of how many stamps were designed disagreed with someone. Then, candy. Design the wants and needs your family in 1847. Be a summer reading at rewrite the same story, but from wrapper for your new purchases over the course of philatelist. Design your the other person’s perspective. candy. calvertlibrary.info the week. own stamp. TIME IT! Pick an activity and BOOK DRAW time yourself doing it. Can you Dw ra the character Take a Tour: beat your best time? Swim Word game! How from your favorite Take a drive to visit Maryland Learn more about across the pool, run to the many smaller words can book. historical landmarks (physically or chemistry while you make mailbox, hop on one foot... get you find in the virtually). yummy bread! creative! word watermelon? Write down all the Gather the family and play an BUILD IT! DRAW IT! Find something things you’re proud of outdoor game. Hoops anyone? Use Legos or blocks small enough to yourself for doing right Perhaps a game of water to create a put in your pocket. now while you are home Museum Day! balloon toss? What about a structure. Draw a Visit the African American Write or tell a story from school, and all the things that are special neighborhood game of picture of your History Museum Virtual kickball? about it. about you. building. Exhibits.
How long does it take Word Collector Start a word collection. Listen Answer a question: How you to run all the way long does it take an ice cube LET’S GET COOKING! for words you don’t know and Use a recipe to make something. around your house? Use look for new words in your Dancing Raisins - to melt outside in the Measure out the ingredients a stopwatch to mark the reading. Write them Watch the video. What's going summer heat? In the carefully. Maybe even try time. Then try to beat down! Add a star next on with these dancing refrigerator? In an air- doubling or halving the recipe. to the word each time you use raisins? How could you test to see conditioned room? your best time. it! if you are correct?
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SYMMETRY in NATURE BIGGER NUMBER Find a recipe at home in a Lie on your back in Use the energy of Do you know what CHALLENGE! your yard and cloud cookbook, on the back of a box the sun to cook a symmetry is? While riding in the car, start the watch for 15 minutes. If you’re not sure, look game by finding a number (on a in the pantry, or even on the What can you see? hot dog or make up the word. Then see if license plate or road sign). Point internet if you have access. Write down everything out the number and say, “I you can find things in Determine how much of the you see and turn it s’mores. challenge you to find a number into a story. Use your nature that have greater than ___.” Your ingredients you would need if symmetry. Keep a journal opponent looks for a number you doubled, tripled, and imagination and be of all the things you descriptive! Share your that is greater and then quadrupled the recipe to feed found that were challenges you to find a number story with a family more people. symmetrical. that is greater. member or friend.
Think of how you were MAKE IT YOUR SONG Family Photo Album: feeling at the beginning, Start a journal with Make a chart to keep Sing your favorite Look through a family middle, and end of this a friend or relative. track of all the books song. Sing it again but photo album with your school year. Create a Take turns writing in you read this make creative one family. Write captions for playlist that shows your it all summer long. summer. your favorite photos to mood/feelings based on You can even do this changes such as tempo capture the family story. the events occurring at by mail or e-mail. (speed) or dynamics those times. (volume).
Keep in touch! A Letter of Gratitude Scavenger Hunt RECYCLED MUSIC Write a letter to a friend Write a note to a friend, Go on a grammar scavenger Native Plants – Design and create an or relative. Let them hunt. In a book you’re coach, teacher, or family look for native plants in know you are thinking reading, find and list ten instrument using your yard or on a about them. What can member expressing your nouns, ten verbs, and ten recycled materials hike. What native plant you say that will make appreciation. Mail the adjectives. Use those words would you add to your yard such as water bottles them smile? Mail your letter to the person. to write a short story. if you could pick or paper towel rolls. letter! one? Why?
Water Balloon Targets The nonstop dance Play water tag with the Family Folklore: Attach the numbers 17, 9, and 24 challenge garden hose. Put a bucket of to three baskets or inside of 3 hula Ask an older family Choose 5 songs you like and objects nearby. Players try to Birthday hoops. Use a Sharpie to write member to share a dance to them. The get objects from the bucket Constellations equations that equal 17, 9, or 24 challenge? Don’t stop What stars were in the sky the family story or on balloons. Fill the balloons with without being “tagged” by the dancing AT ALL during any night you were born? How water. Throw each balloon at the person spraying the garden tradition. of the songs. about for someone else in your correct target. hose. family?
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