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To see how I created our daily schedule for this big shift, click here
Ideas:
Start a virtual book club
Slime! (I know, I know)
Games
Boggle
Scrabble
Yahtzee
Dixit
Rat-a-tat-cat
CodeNames
Sleeping Queens
Make a list of friends and family we’re thinking of and write a letter and have a letter-writing hour each week
Have each kid pick a topic they'd like to learn about and spend 30 minutes each day on that topic
Nature journaling in your yard or even your house (or further if that’s appropriate for your situation)
Knitting kit from we are knitters
Have your kid choose something they’d like to teach (a craft, read a book, cook something) and then write a script and make a video to share.
Movement:
Blog posts and articles:
Books we love:
Santa Claus a Biography
Land of Stories
Tum Tum + Nutmeg
Barefoot Collection of Stories (Grandmother Tales are one of my favorites, but they’re mostly all great)
Peter Cottontail
Gwinna
Mary Poppins
The Percy Jackson series
The Gaither Sisters
Race to the Sun
Harry Potter (alldaylong)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Secret Garden
Crenshaw
Wishtree
The One and Only Ivan
Little House (lovely in many ways and can be a great conversation starter in regards to racism and sexism)
Box Car Children
Movies:
I’m kinda uptight about what my kid watches, but I’m also a bit of a weirdo. I don’t mind swear words, but I do care deeply about the types of role models and messages my kid takes in. You can count on my movie suggestions to have thought behind them, but you can’t count on me to be particularly reverent in a mainstream sort of way.
Playing with Fire
Spiderman - into the Spiderverse
Enchanted
Spies in Disguise
Jane (Jane Goodall documentary)
Wonder
Princess Bride
School of Rock
Enola Holmes 1+2
Troop Zero
Harry Potter (TBH I really love the 1st one and a few others, some of them are way dark for me but my girl is Harry Potter alldaylong and I’ve decided to trust that there’s stuff she’s working out through these stories).
A League of Their Own
Frozen 2
Onward
Apps/software/websites:
Go Noodle (haven’t used it yet but comes highly recommended)
How to Code (videos made by 3rd grader and parent)