• Which week had the most helpful and kind acts?
• Which week had the fewest helpful and kind acts?
• Were there any weeks that had the same number of helpful and kind acts? How does it feel to see all this helpfulness and kindness in our family?
• What are three ways you could be helpful or kind to a fried or family member? (Give scenarios if the children are slow to come up with their own: “Let’s say Mom has a runny nose. What is something you could do to be kind?” “What if Kesha accidentally dumped out the crayon box? What could you do to be helpful?”
• Who is willing to share something kind or helpful they did or saw today?
• Older students can graph helpful and kind acts weekly and/or monthly. The blank graphs for older students will accommodate bar graphs or line graphs. Periodically check in, compare and discuss:
• Which weeks/months had the most helpful and kind acts?
• Which weeks/months had the fewest helpful and kind acts?
• Were there any weeks/months that had the same number of helpful and kind acts?
• Why do you think one week/month had more helpful and kind acts than the others?
• What are three ways you could be helpful or kind to a friend?
• How has seeing all the ways we are helpful and kind impacted you?
• What one word best represents how it feels to be kind or helpful? (You can also ask for a color, song, animal, etc.)
• Who is willing to share something kind or helpful they did or saw today?

• Sheet music. You can print off sheet music here.
• Paint. Use acrylic or craft paint.
• Paint brushes
• Music.(see above)

• Use a paper towel roll with wax paper held over one end with a rubber band.
• Let your children decorate them.
• You can also put small holes in them to make it sound more like the instrument.

• Start by filling the plastic eggs with your choice of noise making items – dried beans, rice, pebbles, sunflower seeds, popcorn, and beads all work great! Different objects will make different sounds, so play around with mixing and matching to create a variety of instruments and music!
• Place the filled plastic egg in between two plastic spoons, and use tape to bind the handles together.
• Continue to wrap the plastic egg and spoons with tape until the entire thing is covered.

• Three bowls of varying sizes
• Sugar
• Water
• Metal Spoon
• Plastic Cling Wrap

1. Start by covering the three bowls with cling wrap.
2. Place the rice on the top of the drum. The rice will dance when you drummed on it, but it wont move when you just used your voices.
3. You can discuss the different tones coming from each drum and way that might be the case.
4. You can show visually how sound is really a wave vibrating.
5. You can also try sugar. Try humming and watch the sugar crystal hop! It is exciting to see the concept of sound waves click in your child's head!

• Metal whisk
• Wooden spoons of different sizes
• Muffin tins
• Tin cans
• Metal cake pan
• Metal bowls, two different sizes
• Green metal flower pot
• Kiddie pool

1. Fill your pool with just enough water to allow for scooping
2. Add your musicial items and then it is time to make some music! 
3. You can fill the items with varing amounts of water to change to pitch and tone.
4. Discuss with your children how the amount of water changes the sound!

1. Allow your children to use up some of their energy.
2. Help your children learn the musical alphabet.
3. Help children learn what the different keys on the piano look like.
4. Get outside to enjoy the wonderful warm weather.

• Walking along each key and saying the letter names
• Call out a letter name to your child and have them jump on the key that has that letter
• Have your child do patterns by calling out letter names and having them repeat it back by stepping on the keys that have those letters
• Sing the letter names starting at the lowest C all the way up to practice pitch and range (i.e., they should sing higher as they go up or lower as they come down)
• Count the number of keys
• Skip over notes on the keyboard. Great time to talk about intervals, or distance between notes, but in beginner piano, they are usually called skips.
• Have your child write the letter names on each piano key

• 2-3 Celery stalks, cut into various lengths for different bugs
• 1-2 mini cucumbers, halved lengthwise with seeds scooped out, cut into various lengths
• ½ cup cream cheese
• 10 cucumber slices
• 1 cup cherry and/or grape tomatoes (various colours)
• 1 bunch chives, cut into 1” lengths
• 5-7 black olives
• 10 whole cashews

1. Prepare the vegetables. Refer to preparation photo above for a visual guide showing the many ways you can prepare the ingredients.
2. Scoop seeds from mini cucumbers. Help your bugs stand upright by slicing a flat edge on the bottoms of mini cucumbers and celery sticks. 
3. Vegetable bugs. Fill celery stalks and/or mini cucumbers with cream cheese, using a piping bag or spoon. 
4. Snails: Start with a fruit or vegetable round for the shell. Stick chilled googly eyes onto the tomato, cashew, or grape “heads”. Insert chives or thin-sliced apples (with skins on) for antennae.
5. Caterpillars: Stick chilled googly eyes onto cherry tomato or grape “heads”. Add chive or apple antennae. Make the body with a line of cherry tomatoes, grapes, blueberries, or cereal.
6. Dragonflies and butterflies: Stick chilled googly eyes onto grape or tomato “heads”. Or place cereal eyes into peanut butter. Add chive or apple antennae. Use sliced strawberries or halved cucumber slices for wings. Use cereal, blueberries, grapes, or cherry tomatoes for the body.