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Math Activity Calendar.
June is Turn-Off-the-TV math month! Enjoy learning activities
all month long and avoid the summer slide with DreamBox Learning!
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Have a Race Day.
Use a stopwatch to
time sprinting races
with friends. Then,
practice recording your
times on a spread sheet.
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World Environment Day.
Reduce water with
shorter showers. A
four-minute shower
only uses 20-40 gallons of water.
12 Baseball Invented in 1839.
Invent your own ball
game using a sack of
buttons, a string, a
cardboard box and a
rubber ball.
6 National Yo-Yo Day.
The Chinese invented
the yo-yo roughly
2,500 years ago. What
year would it be 2,500
years ago today?
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Cut the Cake Day.
If you cut a cake four
times what’s the largest number of pieces
you can get?
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Scrapbook the Spring. Use
shapes and colors to
incorporate math into
your spring-themed
scrapbook.
27 Make a Paper Airplane Day.
Fold four different
paper airplanes and
let them fly! Time
which one stays in the
air the longest.
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8 Eat Grapes Until Your Belly
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Aches Day. The world re-
cord for eating grapes
is 133 in 3 minutes.
How many is that per
second?
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Flag Day.
Design your own flag
to fly high on the door
of your room.
15 Bowl ‘til You Drop Day. If
you bowl a strike,
a spare and a six in
three continuous
frames, how many
points will you get?
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First Day of Summer. The
summer solstice is
the longest day of the
year. How many hours
of sunlight will you get
today?
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Radio Patented in 1896.
Create your own
wacky radio broadcast, with news,
weather, sports and
even commercials.
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Repeat Day. Repeat Day.
Do your favorite
things over and over
again. Climb a tree.
Paint a picture.
Climb a tree again.
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Set the Table Day. Setting
the table is a great
way to learn math
skills like categorizing
and patterns.
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Kiting in the Park Day.
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X Marks the Spot Day.
Binocular Birding Day.
Identify birds by listening to the pitch and
patterns of their songs.
Go to birdnote.org for
more information.
Fun with Photo’s Day. Go
outside and take 50
pictures of your friends,
your pets, the trees,
and anything else you
can find outside.
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11 Spare Change Day. Add up
your pennies, nickels,
dimes, and quarters
and enjoy some ice
cream with your parents.
How many inches of
string will you need to
make your kite fly 100
feet in the air?
Create a treasure
map for your friends
by writing down the
number of the steps
from your treasure.
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Comb the Sand Day.Visit
the beach and search
out a conk shell, a
seashell, and
a sand dollar.
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LEON Day. LEON is
NOEL spelled backwards. It means it’s
only six months until
Christmas. How many
days until Christmas?