Clovis Unified School District

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Activity Calendar	
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March 2019		1 With your child, keep a record of
the moon this month. Look at the moon every night and draw what it looks like.	2 Write your child’s name vertically.
Have her use each letter in her name to begin a line of a poem.	

set a weekly goal. Write it down. Invite other family members to do the same.	4 Have your child
out the
average age of family
members. (Add up
ages, divide by number
of family members.)	5 If your child could be a famous person
in history, who would he be? Why?	6
chore chart. Everyone
can check off jobs as
they finish them.	7
Challenge. Name a
state, province or
country. Who can call
out the capital first?	8 Encourage your child to sort her
books by subject. She can use the library’s system or invent her own.	9
with a white candle.
His picture will appear
when he paints over it
with watercolors.	

time to spend one on one with your child today.	11	joke book. Write one or two
jokes per page. Staple the pages together.	12 Concentration with math flash cards.
Problems with the same answer (9 x 2, 15
+ 3) make a pair.	13
one wish, what would
it be? Ask her!	14
risks as long as they
don’t affect his safety.
For example, have him
try a new food.	15
Everyone should curl
up with a good book.	16
Check out a book
about science.	

with different amounts of water. Have your child tap them with a metal spoon and listen to the tones.	18
a word and put the
letters in alphabetical
order. Can your child
figure out the word?	19
new words that she
thinks should be in
the dictionary.	20
Later, ask him to retell
it to you from memory.	21
homework. Give
genuine compliments
and helpful criticism.	22
family members are
achieving their weekly
goals. Celebrate
everyone’s successes.	23
dirty pennies with
ketchup. Explain that
this is a chemical
reaction.	

origami with your child.	25
service to do with
your child. Consider
donating gently-used
clothes or toys.	26
loves. If she could have
any animal as a pet,
which would it be?
Why?	27
child. Locate one place
mentioned on a world
map.	28
your child.	29
child. See how many
stars you can see.	30
half. Dip the cut edge in
a shallow pan of paint.
Press on paper for fruit
prints.	

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March • April • May 2019

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Let your child help you make a family

Have a family Geography

Let your child draw on paper

Create a	Play a game of	If your child	Encourage your	Have a family	Visit the library	
family		could have just	child to take	reading night.	with your child.	

Play Alphabet	Talk with your	Read a story	Look over	At dinner,	Let your child	
Mixup. Choose	child about	to your child.	your child’s	talk about how	clean some	

Look for a	List animals	Watch the	Play a game of	Tonight, take a	Help your child	
community	your child	news with your	tic-tac-toe with	walk with your	cut an apple in	

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Give your child a hug today.

Talk about the importance of

Find a new way to say “I love you”—

Have 20 minutes of DEAR (Drop

Play Math

Just for

Look at the

Exercise with

Encourage your	Ask your child	Have your	Have your child	Does your child	Play a game	
child’s creativity.	to name five	child solve silly	rub two stones	need some	with your child	

Today is	Teach your	Share your	On a piece of	Encourage your	Learn where	
Earth	child how to					

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May 2019	
exercise with your child every day this month.	2
out a math problem
without using pencil
and paper or a
calculator.	3 Play
your
spy s
Let your
what
turn	I Spy with child. Say “I
omething orange.” child guess
it is. Then it’s her to spy.	4
Day. Go outside and
observe the clouds with
your child.	

games with your child, such as Connect 4, dominoes and Uno.	6 Praise your child for something he
did well today. Make your praise as specific as possible.	7 Teach your child this stress-relieving
strategy: Breathe deeply while slowing counting to 10.	8
year project? Help
her break it down into
small steps.	9
at the dinner table
tonight.	10
letter today to a distant
relative or friend.	11
out a book on insects.
Together, find and
identify some in your
backyard.	

or bike ride today. Ask your child to spot something he hasn’t seen before.	13 to tell you the three best things about
herself.	14 dawdles, chal- lenge him to complete
a task before you can count to 25.	15 child’s curiosity with questions like:
“Why do you think ... ?” and “What might happen if ... ?”	16
reading a book, ask her
to discuss it with you.	17
tonight. How many
food groups can he
include?	18
Museum Day. Talk with
your child about the
value of museums. Visit
one locally or online.	

reading picnic together. Take some books, a snack, and a blanket to sit on.	20	the Golden Rule: Treat
others as you would like to be treated.	21 in 1881, Clara Barton founded the
American Red Cross. Learn more about her with your child.	22
of how to get from
your home to school.	23
manners today. Remind
your child to say please
and thank you.	24
children’s book with
your child. Then, read
the book together. How
are they different?	25
sidewalk chalk. Do
math problems outside
together.	

something to take apart—a ball point pen, a flower, an old toy. Encourage him to figure out how it works.	27 child to draw a picture of a person she
admires.	28 about dates for year-end tests. Make
sure your child gets enough sleep the nights before.	29 that you want him to do his best, but
he doesn’t have to be
the best.	30
the values that are
important to you.	31
perimeter and area of
her bedroom.		

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Parent & Child	®
Activity Calendar	
Sunday		Monday		Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday		Friday	Saturday	
	
Fool’s Day by doing something silly with your child.	2 Give every letter of the alphabet a
monetary value. A = 1¢, B = 2¢, etc. Who  can write down the most valuable word?	3
fruits and vegetables
for healthy bodies. Let
your child help you
prepare and eat some.	4
in sign language or in
secret code.	5 Ask your child to rank homework
assignments from easiest to hardest. Have him work on the hardest one first.	6
Everything And Read)
time today.	

the side of a clear jar. Set it outside. After a week, have your child check how many inches of rain you’ve had.	8 Ask your child if she ever had
a dream that really scared her. What was it about?	9
dict
spel
wor	Help your child make a personal ionary with his ling or vocabulary ds.	10 Jeopardy. Say a number and see who
can come up with a problem for which it is the answer.	11 fun, serve a backwards dinner
tonight. Eat dessert first.	12 weather forecast today. Compare where
you live to the rest of the country.	13 your child. Try touching your toes,
doing sit-ups, running in place or stretching your arms and legs.	

build a nest. Collect bright yarn and fabric scraps. Put them in a mesh bag and hang the bag on a tree.	15
Ask unusual questions.
“What would you bring
to a picnic in space?”	16
things she has learned in
school this month.	17
math problems, such as
“How many hours are
there until the last day
of school?”	18
together for a few
minutes. Can he feel
the heat generated?
This is due to friction.	19
new books? Organize
a book swap in your
neighborhood.	20
today. It can be an
active outdoor game
or a quiet board game.
Let her choose.	

friendly recipe. Help your child make that dish today.	22	Day.
As a family, think of
something you can do
to protect the earth.	23
take his pulse. Then
have him jump up and
down 50 times and take
it again.	24 heros with your child. Talk about why
you admire them.	25 cardboard, have your child write a quo-
tation or draw a scene from a book. She can use it as a bookmark!	26 child to put on a talent show. You
provide the popcorn and the applause.	27 your town gets its water. Brainstorm
ways you and your child can conserve water.	

help with a household chore today. Remember to thank him when he finishes.	29 child about the importance of
recycling.	30 International Jazz Day. Find a radio
station that plays jazz and listen to it with your child.		
April 2019		

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