Virtual Family Fun Night – a School Event

Description

Are you disappointed that you can’t have a Family Literacy or Math Night this year? This virtual family fun night resource helps schools celebrate together! Seven activities – all of which require only technology access and a paper and pencil – are a great way to engage families in reading and writing while having fun!

Perfect for distance learning.

This resource includes…

• Materials for your family night event in Keynote, PowerPoint, and Google Slides format
• Ideas for implementation and a how-to guide
• Printable, editable PDF invitation
• Graphic for sharing event on social media or in an email. You can add details in your email or post.
• Introduction slides for your event
• Seven fun activities for families to play together. All they need is pencils and paper.
  • Categories: families brainstorm words that fit specific categories and start with a letter of your choosing (5 primary slides and 5 intermediate slides)
  • Scavenger Hunt: families hunt for items in their own home that meet your criteria (27 different items to hunt for)
  • Guess Who? Families answer riddles about book characters (20 different character riddles)
  • Writing Challenge: families write an acrostic poem (12 different choices)
  • Building Words: families build as many words as they can with specific letters (choose from 10 different choices)
  • Guess the idiom: families look at a picture and guess what idiom is being represented (10 different idioms to guess)
  • Jumbled Up! families build words using the adjacent letters from the jumble squares. (10 different slides give you some variety!)

• Each activity includes…
  • A title slide
  • Directions for preparing for the activity
  • Directions for participants
  • Activity slides
  • An example when appropriate

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This resource, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. To use in additional classrooms, please purchase multiple licenses at a reduced price!