1. Visit your local library and take out books to enjoy and read together.
2. Get outside and take walks or just play games like I Spy.
3. Create a journal of something of interest. Could be about a favourite person or animal, or about a vacation you had. Let the children give their ideas and you can support them in finding out more about that topic.
4. A math games booklet with cards and dice was distributed with your report cards in June. Get some dice or a deck of cards and enjoy some of those ideas.
5. Bake or cook with your children and focus on the planning and even the shopping needed to make it happen.
6. Build menus and use flyers to see how much items will cost. Estimate how much money you will need when you shop for the menu.
7. Board games such as Sorry, Scrabble Juniour and Monopoly can be a family fun activity. On-line games such as Oregon Trail, or other educational cites can be fun.
8. Build models of things that interest your child, like a diorama of an idea from a story read.
9. Lego and other building type activities are fun and good for the brain.
10. Art. Lots of painting and drawing and talking about their pictures is another great way to build vocabulary and a great way to encourage creativity.
11. Ask lots of “I wonder” questions and brainstorm how you might find answers. http://aworldofscience.wordpress.com/i-wonder/
12.. Walk around Prince Rupert and create a map of interesting sites.
13. Make patterns out of color, number or buttons.
14. Make your child create lists of things, like all the colors they know, or all the kinds of dogs there are, or all the wild animals they can think of.
15. Have your child think about and tell or write about what you would need to plan a vacation to somewhere wonderful like Disneyworld or just a simple camping trip.