What to do

Specifically for kids: especially for kids with any learning disability, they need to keep up their reading and practice literacy and numeracy skills.

Here are some things you can do to keep their brains working:

1. Keep a journal.
   
2. Keep track of money spent: how much per day or per month does your family spend on groceries, transportation, housing, entertainment?
   
3. Create a dream location: locate your holiday destination(s) on a map, find your location on Mapquest or Google maps.
   
4. Create some skits about cottage life. Write a play. Do some improv play.
   
5. Write a creative story about where you are or would like to be this week.
6. Write about Fridays, or Someone Who Understands.
   
7. If you have access to Internet &/or TV, do an Olympic Project.
   
8. Create a bird watching list, take photos, make a scrapbook, study insects, rocks, trees.
9. Visit the MNR info page and collect pamphlets and flyers about wildlife, ponds, turtles.
   
10. Create a scavenger hunt.
    
11. Do book talks as a family.
12. Create a written or verbal Reading Response.
13. Ask kids to earn computer time by writing an essay.
14. Purchase writing books and drawing pads, bring new coloured pencils or crayons.
15. Buy the kids a disposable camera and teach them photography.
    
16. They can used the photos for a scrapbook for memories.
    
17. Blow bubbles.
    
18. Create a slide show or video of cottage events.
19. Scrabble, Monopoly, Backgammon, Sorry, card games, activity books (Soduko or crosswords!) NOT computers and computer games.
    
20. This is a great time to do a BIG puzzle - set it up out of the way and work on it when you feel like it.