Looking for educational activities that your child can enjoy at home?  These learning activities have been organized by grade level bands:  K/1, 2/3, and 4/5. 

We also encourage all kids to read independently each day.

Activity Menus for K-5 students

Activity Menus for ENL students

Grade K/1:

Listen to our librarians read aloud stories just for kindergarten and first grade students.  This link will be updated regularly.

Looking for a book to read online? Listen to our librarian booktalks for K/1 here.  COMING SOON

Grade 2/3:

Listen to our librarians read aloud stories that have been picked especially for second and third grade students.  This link will be updated regularly.

Looking for a book to read online? Listen to our librarian booktalks here. This link will be updated regularly with new recommendations.

Having trouble reading at home? Ms. Keim, reading specialist at Central School talks to third graders about reading at home and setting reading goals. Be sure to watch all the way to the end to hear some silly jokes and riddles!

Grade 4/5: 

Listen to our librarians read aloud stories just for fourth and fifth grade students.  This link will be updated regularly.

Looking for a book to read online? Listen to our librarian booktalks for 4/5 here. This link will be updated regularly with new recommendations. 

Found a tricky word in your book? Ms. Rosenberg, reading specialist at Central School, chats with fifth graders about using context clues to figure out the meaning of new vocabulary words. 

K/1:  

Coming Soon!

2/3:

Can you find the big word with Mrs. Pastore, our Elementary Literacy Coach?  All you need is a piece of paper and scissors, and your Notes From Home notebook.  Want to play more?  Try these letter combinations. 

4/5: 

Can you find the big word with Mrs. Pastore, our Elementary Literacy Coach?  All you need is a piece of paper and scissors, and your Notes From Home notebook.  Want to play more? Try these letter combinations.

Try the Oatmeal Problem with Mr. Forcinito, the Math Specialist at Chatsworth Avenue School. Watch this Oatmeal Problem presentation and refer to this handout.

Grades K and 1

• Practice counting the doors and windows in your house with Ms. Travers, Math Specialist. 
• Build repeating patterns with Mr. Forcinito, Math Specialist.
• Sort items at home with Ms. Travers, Math Specialist.
• Anthony Forcinito teaches us about telling time.
• Anthony Forcinito makes a real world number sentence.
• Geygy Travers asks you to count as high as you can!
• Lauren Clarke (Math, Central) shows you how to use non-standard measurement. 
• Lauren Clarke (Math, Central) helps us to make a bar graph.

Grades 2 and 3

• Create fun emoji math stories with Donna Schore, Math Specialist
• Anthony Forcinito helps us count our coins. 
• Donna Schore takes on a tough opponent playing GO FISH.
• Geygy Travers shows us how to skip count. 
• Antony Forcinito: Shows how to cut the sandwich into equal parts of either halves or  quarters...
• Anthony Forcinito: create a bar graph to show the favorite colors of everyone in your  family. 
• Geygy Travers:Draw a self portrait.

Grades 4 and 5

• Donna Schore    MAS: Fraction True or Not True    
• Donna Schore    MAS: Play a game of Fraction tic tac toe.    
• Donna Schore    MAS: Fair Share Fractions    
• Donna Schore    MAS: Factor Capture    
• Play a math game about factors with Selina Hedigan, Math Specialist.
• Play The Fraction Game with Donna Schore, Math Specialist.
• Can you guess a number with 10 questions with Donna Schore, Math Specialist?
• Anthony Forcinito: Play ​Multiplication Top It ​ using a  deck of cards.
• Lauren Clarke (Math, Central) helps us to make a line graph.
• Lauren Clarke (Math, Central) asks us to estimate volume using containers at home.
• Lauren Clarke (Math, Central) interviews people about math in everyday life.
• Lauren Clarke (Math, Central wants you to use multiplication to calculate values of coins.
• Selina Hedigan (Math, Murray) makes mathematical expressions using items in her kitchen.
• Selina Hedigan (Math, Murray) hunts for 3-dimensional shapes
• Donna Schore: Estimate and measure the length and width of a room in your home.
• Selina Hedigan: Estimate and measure the length and width of a room in your home.

Try these video recordings by the Mamaroneck Mindful Teaching group.

Want to find a good book to read? On this flipgrid page, our librarians read-aloud some of their favorite stories, and "booktalk" some titles that kids can read online. Click the "Welcome!" tab to select the appropriate grade level.

Check out this page of author events that you can find online!

Public Library Resources:

Mamaroneck Public Library: Library Card Application

Biblioteca de Mamaroneck: Solicitud por una Tarjeta

Larchmont Public Library: Library Card Application

K/1: 

Go outside and look down!  What will you find?  Join Mrs. Pastore, our Elementary Literacy Coach as she makes an important discovery in her own yard.  

2/3:

What creature made the holes in Mrs. Pastore's garden?  Why do some creatures live underground?  Join Mrs. Pastore, our Elementary Literacy Coach as she develops her own hypothesis based on clues and facts found in books and diagrams. 

All Grades

• Joe Brady    (Murray)   Mr. Brady's listening tour of NYC    
• Joe Brady    (Murray)    Mr. Brady's listening suggestions- Elton John    
• Steph Chinn    (MAS)    Learn to BEATBOX    
• Steph Chinn    (MAS)    Mr. Chinn Trumpet demonstration    

Grades K and 1

• Make your own musical instruments and move to the beat with Ms. Zimmerman, the music teacher at Chatsworth.   
• Practice singing your music vocabulary songs with Mr. Brady from Murray Avenue School.  Staccato...Staccato!  
• Make you own lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle with Ms. Zimmerman, the music teacher at Chatsworth. 
• Moves to the music with Mr. Chinn, the music teacher at Chatsworth.
• Sing "Yes, Indeed!" with Ms. Matsushita, the music teacher at Central. 
• Joe Brady gets moving to the beat with some fun music.
• Erica Zimmerman encourages you to Listen and sing along with Over in the Meadow. 
• Steph Chinn helps us sing the Gorilla Song. Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Aah, Aah, Aah!
• Steph Chinn shows us how to make our own musical instrument.
• Kayo Matsushita uses a box to create a drum!
• Joe Brady plays Willaby, Wallaby, Woo. 
• Erica Zimmerman interviews a musician.
• Steph Chinn: Write new lyrics to Twinkle, Twinkle
• Joe Brady: Moving to the music in presto and largo
• Steph Chinn: Find Brainpop on library page
• Joe Brady: Mr. Brady from Murray teaches song from class, “Fuzzy Little Fellow”
• Kayo Matsushita: sing the song “Going to the Zoo” using the book.
• Kayo Matsushita: Learn about the half note pattern using the song “Going to the Zoo”.
• Joe Brady: Learn the Hand Jive!
• Erica Zimmerman: Teach your family a new way to play Closet Key and use the words piano and forte.

Grades 2 and 3

• Kayo Matsushita: 3rd grade recorder lesson 2 (My Father’s house)    
• Make your own instrument with Ms. Zimmerman, the music teacher at Chatsworth.   
• Read music with Mr. Brady from Murray Avenue School.
• Kayo Matsushita makes her own drum.
• Joe Brady shows us how to find the letters on the piano.
• Erica Zimmerman teaches us about the four family of instruments.
• Kayo Matsushita helps you to learn about half note patterns with “Going to the Moon.”
• Steph Chinn leads students in the Window Song.
• Steph Chinn wants you to make or find an instrument!
• Steph Chinn plays LOUD and soft with Miles.
• Kayo Matsushita wants you to echo her drum beat.
• Kayo Matsushita invites Bob Dylan to sing along to “This Old Man.”
• Erica Zimmerman: How many words can you create using the letters of the musical alphabet? 
• Steph Chinn: Change Lyrics to Twinkle
• Kayo Matsushita: Play a movement game using notation.
• Mr. Brady from Murray teaches how to make great music using only the black keys on a piano.
• Joe Brade: Accessing the online school library to learn how to read and write music.
• Steph Chinn: Alternative to recorder notes
• Erica Zimmerman Teach your family how to play Poison Pattern. Grade 2 only and Grade 3 only
• Kayo Matsushita: Experience twice as fast and twice as slow using quarters, eighths and half notes.
• Joe Brady: Using musicnotes.com to learn the notes to your favorite song.

Grades 4 and 5

• Erica Zimmerman    Chatsworth: Review the rhythmic values and rhythm syllables for sixteenth, eighth and quarter notes.  Create your own four beat pattern using these note values.     
• Steph Chinn    MAS    Write a 4 measure rhythm pattern    
• Steph Chinn    MAS    Identify instrumentation    
• Learn about Alicia Keys with Mr. Brady from Murray Avenue School.
• Learn more about the four families of instruments with Ms. Zimmerman, the music teacher at Chatsworth.  
• Erica Zimmerman has us listening closely to the sounds of the instruments.
• Joe Brady discusses the elements of music.  
• Steph Chinn asks students to research a musician.
• Steph Chinn wants you to create a homemade instrument.
• Kayo Matsushita uses a tennis ball to explore 2/4 meter with the song “Dinah”. 
• Kayo Matsushita uses a tennis ball to explore 3/4 meter with the song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”. Kayo Matsushita uses a tennis ball to explore 4/4 meter with the song “Fifty States of Rhyme”. 
• Joe Brady asks students to learn more about Broadway. 
• Erica Zimmerman changes the lyrics of a song.
• Erica Zimmerman asks you to Research your favorite band! 
• Kayo Matsushita: Experience the style and rhythms of the Calypso music through singing, moving and playing an instrument.
• Mr. Brady from Murray invites a special guest to perform. Then interviews the guest in part 2.
• Steph Chinn: Write a 4 measure rhythm pattern and  perform
• Joe Brady: Accessing the online school library to learn about Beethoven
• Steph Chinn: Listen to music and write down instrumentation 
• Kayo Matsushita: Listen to the Calypso song in 5/4 called “Turn the World Around”.
• Joe Brady: Using musicnotes.com to learn my favorite song.

Grades K and 1

• Ms. Arango (Art, CHATS) draws a robot using shapes.
• Aaron Stone (Art, MUR) discusses how to make a picture from a shape. 
• Nancy Revich (Art, CNT) draws her favorite toy in her notebook. 
• Kirsten Yizar (Art, MAS) helps us imagine the world of another planet.'
• Nancy Revich (Art, CNT) teaches us to draw from the point of view of an ant or a giant. 
• Nancy Revich: Design your your own cake in your notebook. Add lots of decorations.
• Chelly Arango helps you design your own papel picado. (instruction sheet)

Grades 2 and 3

• Chelly Arango helps you design your own papel picado. (instruction sheet)
• Nancy Revich  Create a Surrealism Collage that tells a story.    
   

Grades 4 and 5

• Nancy Revich   Create a collage inspired by local artist Michael Albert.
• Chelly Arango (Art, Chat) shows us how to sketch our bedroom. 
• Nancy Revich: There have been postage stamps featuring many famous people. Design a postage stamp that is about you or someone you admire.
• Kirsten Yizar (Art, MAS) draws with her eyes closed!
• Chelly Arango: Choose an object from your room and draw it … Handout
• Aaron Stone looks out his window.
• Aaron Stone:Draw a picture of your shoe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10CagKvtDaT0wAIQCTB77MrTBDYZQECB1/view

Check out this page of PE activities you can do with your Mamaroneck teachers!

All Grades

• Scott Miele  (MAS) Water Bottle Flip Challenge    
• Erika Krokus (Central) Indoor Gaga Ball game    
• Erika Krokus  (Central)  Heads or Tails Fitness Game    
• Erika Krokus  (Central)   Yoga session 2 with Mrs. Krokus    
• Kathleen Dwyer  (Murray)  Family Yoga (episode #3)    
• Kathleen Dwyer  (Murray)   Sit to Be Fit Video    
• Robert Rainaldi  (Murray)   Fitness Game    
• Scott Miele  (MAS)  Card Shark Fitness    

Grades K and 1

• Kari Cooke   Laugh a Little....then, practice the underhand and backward tosses!  Olufemi Wheeler    Volleyball Game   
• Practice your catching skills with Mrs. Dwyer, the physical education teacher at Murray.
• Exercise with Mr. Wheeler, the physical education teacher at Central School.
• Kari Cooke (PE, MAS) takes a movement break. 
• Kathleen Dwyer (PE, MUR) feels her heart walking the stairs. 
• Kari Cooke makes her heart pump by doing stairs.
• Kathleen Dwyer offers a bonus session of Family yoga. (13 min)
• Kathleen Dwyer draws her favorite fruit and dances to a song she enjoys.
• Erika Krokus uses stairs to become active.
• Kathleen Dwyer offers a second bonus session of Family yoga. (13 min)
• Kathleen Dwyer offers a second bonus session of Family yoga. 
• Kari Cooke draws her favorite fruit and turns it into a puzzle.
• Kathleen Dwyer starts a game of Freeze Dance.
• Sports Movie recommendations by Kathleen Dwyer.
• Looking for healthy and unhealthy food options with Femi Wheeler.
• Working with a jump rope with Kathleen Dwyer.
• Kathleen Dwyer introduces us to her pal, Murphy, and asks us to count our steps as we walk.
• Kathleen Dwyer shows us some fun yoga poses.
• Femi Wheeler: Bear-crawling activity with a call and response from the teacher. 
• Pat Romano recommends: Cosmic Kids Yoga.
• Kathleen Dwyer: Practice your yoga poses. (settings)
• Erika Krokus: Alphabet Fitness
• Kari Cooke: Freeze Dance

Grades 2 and 3

• Karl Zenie  (PE, MUR) Fitness Circuit   
• Scott Miele  (PE, MAS) Underhand Throwing Review   
• Scott Miele  (PE, MAS) Review of Musical Exercises   
• Karl Zenie  (PE, MUR) Stairs, Push-ups, Crunches   
• Karl Zenie   (PE, MUR) Cotton Eye Joe   
• Karl Zenie   (PE, MUR) Soccer Pass   
• Karl Zenie   (PE, MUR) Step Ball 1   
• Scott Miele  (PE, MAS) Spatula and Toilet Paper Flipping   
• Scott Miele  (PE, MAS) Spatula and Toilet Paper Challenge 2   
• Scott Miele (PE, MAS) Toilet Paper and Spatual Challenge 3    
• Karl Zenie (PE, MUR) dribbling a ball.
• Femi Wheeler (PE, CNT), practice juggling at home.
• Femi Wheeler (PE, CNT) leads us through three non-locomotor movements. 
• Scott Miele (PE, MAS) provides a lesson on dribbling skills. 
• Erika Krokus, (PE, CNT) gets an outdoor workout using a jump rope. 
• Scott Miele reflects on his favorite physical activity.
• Femi Wheeler uses a deck of cards to help him exercise.
• Femi Wheeler plays toss a sock.
• Kathleen Dwyer offers a second bonus session of Family yoga.
• Chris Kumrow: Pick your three favorite non-locomotor movements (example; squats, planks, burpees), and match each movement to a song
• Femi Wheeler: Movement concept game, requiring students to practice previously learned positions. for March 25th
• Femi Wheeler: bear crawl activity, with call and response from teacher for March 24th
• MAS PE: Scott Miele Lesson
• Scott Miele: With help from an adult, make a healthy snack to enjoy. Talk about what makes it a healthy choice.
• Erika Krokus: Alphabet Fitness

Grades 4 and 5

• Renee Glickman   52-Card Sweat    
• Renee Glickman   Fitness Bingo    
• Renee Glickman    Kindness Project    
• Scott Gilberti  (PE, MAS)  Take a look around your house and try to use the Yoga Positions you know to match the household item!     
• Scott Gilberti   (PE, MAS)  Find a shoe that has laces and prepare to practice these skills!   
• Robert Rainaldi   (PE, Murray)  Chair workout     
• Robert Rainaldi  (PE, Murray)  Monday 3/30    
• Scott Gilberti  (PE, MAS)   Please watch my favorite outside physical activity and show me 100 of your favorite sport skill.     
• Scott Gilberti (PE, MAS) cooking with fractions.
• Rob Rainaldi (PE, Murray) takes us through an interval workout. 
• Erika Krokus (PE, CNT) does interval training outdoors.
• Scott Gilberti (PE, MAS) helps us put together a first aid kit.
• Renee Glickman gets us started in our daily exercises. 
• Rob Rainaldi helps us to put together a med kit. 
• Erika Krokus shows us how to get exercise using the stairs.
• Kathleen Dwyer offers a bonus session of Family yoga. (13 min)
• Kathleen Dwyer offers a second bonus session of Family yoga. 
• Rob Rainaldi shows us how to get some exercise with hopping.
• Renee Glickman helps us to start to look at our skeletal system.
• Renee Glickman wants you to compare food labels.
• Renee Glickman explains the health triangle. 
• Renee Glickman asks us to list the benefits of exercise. 
• Renee Glickman bends her body into shapes from around the house.
• Renee Glickman balances her plate with healthy foods.
• Sports Movie recommendations by Kathleen Dwyer.
• Scott Gilberti: If you have a jump rope go to a safe space and Jump for 5 minutes
• Scott Gilberti: Find drinks with food labels (e.g., Juice, Gatorade, soda, water).
• Erika Krokus: March Madness Challenge
• MUR PE: Count your steps and stairs with Rob Rainaldi 
• MUR PE: Rob Rainaldi helps you to find your heart rate.
• Erika Krokus: Alphabet Fitness
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This list includes many creative ways for families to encourage a love of writing: Ways Parents Can Support Writing at Home.

K/1:

Encourage your students to build words using magnetic letters.  

• 25 ways to use magnetic letters at home (English)
• 25 maneras de usar letras magnéticas en el hogar (español)

2/3:

Which or witch?  Homophones are hard, but you can laugh instead as Jessica Young, the author of Paws on Deck, reads aloud from one of her books.  Then, if you like, you can do her homophone activity found here.  

4/5: 

What is the word of the day?  Check out the Daily Buzzword at Merriam-Webster, then explore the site for more word games. 

Try some of the sites linked on our Elementary Math Resources page.

DreamBox offers colorful math challenges for kids in all grades and has announced free access for 90 days through this offer.

Khan Academy Math provides free math practice.

Do you love to draw?  Do you love the author/illustrator, Mo Willems?  Watch his daily lunch doodles here at 1pm each day while schools are closed.  

Go Noodle offers fun and musical movement breaks!

The Body Coach TV with Joe Wicks

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Active at Home with NY Road Runners

Mrs. Weller’s Kitchen  (character ed discussions)

Live Stream for Kids: Singalongs: music and mindfulness with Emily Arrow live at 1pm this week.

Brain Breaks and Breathing: Try these recommended videos. Thanks to Audrey Goldenberg.

More recommendations for wellness and mindfulness activities from our district social workers.

Parenting Article from the NYTimes website:  Schools are Closing for Coronavirus. Now What?

Brain Pop video explanation of COVID-19 that emphasizes hand washing.
https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/

Mystery Doug/Mystery Science video about germs.
https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs?loc=mini-lesson-button#slide-id-8055