Tuesday April 14. Set your Routine for the School area in your home. I have a friend who set hers up at her Dining Room table.

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set up a weekly schedule that works for your family
ideas/sample
A Schedule for each day. Set up by age appropriateness.
Date, Schedule for day. Organizational area: papers to do and hand in. Projects to work on. Current Events. Math, Science, Music, Physical Education, Language Arts, History. Use current events and your Kid's Schedule from this year to set up and follow. Use communication from their teachers to complete your model. Set up an email chain with all their teachers.



















Routine is important.


Quotes were something a friend brought to my attention when our kids were in First Grade. She had a clipboard and would add a quote every morning for her kids to see before leaving for school. I adopted this practice and use them to this day. 

Quotes from a 5th Grade teacher’s walls whom I respect greatly. 

Trust but verify. -Ronald Reagan

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. 
-George S. Patton

If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. 
-Hugh Downs

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. 
-Epictetus

Only the educated are free.
-Epictetus

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles. 
-Alex Karras 

True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents.
-John W. Gardener

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time in which you have any control: now. 
-Dennis Waitley 

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. 
Aristotle

Excellence is not a skill, It is an attitude. 
-Ralph Marston 

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian 

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. 
Thomas Jefferson

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. 
-Abraham Lincoln

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. 
-Dale Carnegie

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
-Peter Marshall 

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest of caution. 
-Werner von Braun 

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.  -Les Brown

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from instagram, music and vocals to is your Mama A Llama.

This one is just extra sweet. ♥️ Thank you, Alex! From @savewithstories:

1. “Is Your Mama a Llama?” by Deborah Guarino, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (published by @scholasticinc) - musical mashup by @alexaiono 🎶 🦙
FROM MY OLDER DAUGHTER AND JENNIFER GARNER’S INSTAGRAM


Peterson Car Museum, Ken Miles, Shelby Cobra, Ford vs. Ferrari.
3.https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/events/a31746161/the-petersen-museum-has-online-activities-for-kids/
4. https://www.thehenryford.org/innovation-learning-virtual-series/


"The antiviral that turned around the HIV epidemic came from a sponge that was in a coral reef, in the '80s
try this game.
"NASA wants to help save the World’s Coral reefs/Ocean’s by having you play this App Game
6.https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/nasa-nemo-net-app-game-coral-reefs-ocean-map 

Cincinnati Zoo, Facebook live feed this is very cool, I scrolled down through the posts and there were many. The Baby Wallaby in their Mom's Pouch was very cool.
7.https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/

Spanish classes for Kids
8. On FaceBook, Maria Pechuk, Hola Spanish for Kids. 

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