Sunday

1. Sunday Monday Tuesday Friday Thursday Saturday Wednesday August 2014 www.dawn-roginski.com 2 Help your child cut a paper grocery bag into a vest. Decorate it with letter Vs. 1 /Vv/ Is for Vegetables. Allow your child to help prepare a vegetable salad for dinner tonight! 3 Sort old valentines into categories –try size, shape and color to start. 9 Search your home for items that vibrate! Make a list of what you find. 8 How many ways can you make a dollar using quarters, nickels, dimes and/or pennies? (182 is the most!) 5 Use items found around the house to make Vs –twigs, chopsticks, tinker–toys, bobby pins, etc. 6 Tell each other a favorite vacation memory or look at vacation photos and retell a favorite story. 7 Have a vehicle parade – line up all the toy vehicles you can find. Count them. How many vans, trucks and cars do you have? Make a chart showing how many. 4 Visit the grocery store and name all the different vegetables in the produce aisle. Try a new one for snack! 13 Today is Left-Handers Day! Try writing your name with your left hand today (or your right if you are a leftie). 11 Record your family’s voices. Guess whose voice is who’s! 16 Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers . . . Say this tongue twister together 8 times. 12 Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. What are you VERY hungry for? 15 August is the 8th month! Write your name 8 times! 10 Make a vegetable poster. Cut pictures from the grocery ads or draw your own. 14 Visit a local veterinarian's office. Write a thank you note to the vet afterward. 19 Happy Birthday Orville Wright! Make and decorate paper airplanes. Use a tape measure to see how far they fly. 17 Visit the library and look for books about volcanoes! 23 Make an ice cream sundae with vanilla ice cream. What must you do 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on? 18 Add a new word to your vocabulary today. (How about variety – there are a variety of words to choose from.) 22 Make a variety of vegetables out of play dough. Don't forget that some grow on vines! 21 Ask your child to help you vacuum. Can you vacuum some Vs into the carpeting? 20 Sing the alphabet song very loudly, very slowly, and very silly – how else can you sing? (There are a variety of ways!) 24 Read a favorite book today. 31 28 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on this day in 1963. Tell each other about a dream you have had recently. 26 Play a game of volleyball. Let your child keep score with chalk. Who will get the victory? 27 Read a book that has the color violet on the cover. 29 Talk about a time you wore a veil. A wedding? Communion? Play? What happened at the beginning, middle and end of that day? 30 Listen to a CD of Children’s Songs. Identify which part is the verse?? Which is the chorus? (The library has a variety of CDs to borrow.) 25 Pretend to be vultures or – flap your arms, squawk and fly around. What might you be searching for?