Carthage School District teachers and staff have created an educational plan called the “Tiger Ten Day Challenge” to help students continue learning while staying home to stay safe from the Coronavirus.
Posted on the district’s website are two different versions of a calendar of 10 daily activities for the school days between March 23 and April 3.
The activities for the first week are:
• Monday, March 23: Use anything from your home to make a fort or boat that floats. Draw or take a picture of your creation.
• Tuesday, March 24: Write a song or a poem. It can be funny, sad, serious or just plain creative.
• Wednesday, March 25: DEAR day — Drop Everything And Read! If you don’t have any books at home, go visit the lending library nearest you.
• Thursday, March 26: Career Day. Draw or write about a career you are interested in or about a family member’s career.
• Friday, March 27: It’s Friday! Create a menu and assist or prepare the meal. Take a picture or draw you and your family enjoying your creation.
The calendar continues with ideas for the next five days as well.
“We are excited to present you this challenge that will ask you to stretch your imagination, engage with your family and extend your creative thinking while you are at home for the next 10 days,” the district said in a letter posted on its website. “Each day presents you with a new type of activity that will ask you to use a different part of your brain.
“As you finish each day’s challenge, put them in a folder or binder and save them for your teachers or you can post them on Twitter with the #r9tendaychallenge. We can’t wait to see your creativity.”
The calendar and the letter about the program are posted in English and Spanish and the calendar includes search terms children can use to search the internet and help them with projects.
To find the 10-day challenge, parents can go to the district’s website, www.carthagetigers.org and click on the link called Coronavirus Update near the middle of the page, then the link to March 23 to April 3 – two-week plan or by clicking on this link.
