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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

What to do for school when Mama isn't feeling well

I made this list mainly for pregnancy times. The kids can work in a workbook without me, but some of the kids may only have 30 minutes of work in their workbooks. What to do with them the other 9 1/2 hour until Daddy gets home? The list is specific to our house and books and activities in our house. It was designed with ages 4-10 in mind.


What to do for school when Mama isn't feeling well

  • Do Little Saints with boys
  • Read boys a saint story
  • Do flashcards racing across the room
  • Mary Coloring Book
  • Practice writing on the wipe-off board
  • Read Catholic Stories from Science
  • Ds#4 read to girls
  • Play Sparkle
  • Listen to Story of the World CD
  • Play Mass
  • Listen to educational music
  • Play a United States Game
  • Paint Heaven (ask Mama what this might look like)
  • Dd#1 read a hard book outloud
  • Listen to a book on tape
  • Count to 500 by 2's
  • Make up a piano duet
  • Read boys a kids' book
  • Cut out the Digestive System from Construction Paper
  • Make up a cheer for your 5 senses
  • Practice Disaster saftey
  • Make a Tree book with leaf samples & rubbings, draw tree shapes & label
  • Act out the beginnings of Rome
  • Sing Row Your Boat in rounds
  • Read Classical Kids & choose an activity (ask Mama)
  • Do a science project (ask Mama)
  • Have a paper boat floating contest
  • Play Picture This folder game
  • Play Silly Sentences
  • Sew sock monkeys (ask Mama)
  • Agree on a title and everyone make up their own story (in secret) with the same title.
  • Then we'll have an author night and read your stories
  • Make a volocano in the sand box (ask Mama)
  • Play computer games in Kids' Places that are NOT Nick Jr. or PBS Kids
  • Count to 750 by 5's
  • Read a story online http://www.mainlesson.com/
  • Measure the water that comes out of the hose in one minute
  • Look up an artist in Sr. Wendy and try to paint like him
  • Listen to Bethoveen CD
  • Act out Alexandar the Great
  • Have a geography bee
  • Read a bible story & coloring page
  • Listen to Grammar Songs
  • Listen to Latin Songs CD
  • Jewish Holidays coloring book
  • Read boys a history story
  • Play Jepardy (history, science)
  • Play Latin Bingo
  • Ds#3 read to girls
  • Do a craft (ask Mama)
  • Look through activity books
  • Make history paper dolls
  • Play scrabble
  • Put together a Map puzzle
  • Draw 1 small square of our yard
  • Do a worksheet
  • Read boys a Mass book
  • Listen to bible tapes (St. Michael)
  • Do math on the wipe-off board
  • Do an ArtPac project
  • Look up Usborne or Kingfisher and make a Lego building like a different culture
  • Catch a bug & draw it - make a bug book
  • Pull apart a leaf so all veins are intact
  • Play number squeeze
  • Teach the boys to finger crochet
  • Try to sing in harmony
  • Count to 1000 by 10's
  • Memorize a poem and we'll video tape a poetry night
  • Declare it (butterfly) day. Research, draw, craft, act out, look up poems, make poems….
  • make a chart of people's scores jumping rope
  • Play Decimal Street
  • Read boys a science book
  • Write a book of the story of your life using the bound books
  • Online drawing lessons http://donnayoung.org/art/draw1.htm
  • Have a spelling bee
  • Play a Mass folder Game

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