Dear parents,
As you know, this school year we decided to dedicate health-related activities to eye hygiene and mobile device usage.
There is no doubt that mobile devices help us to study, entertain ourselves. But there is a necessity to limit the screen time and find some activities that would help to switch off your attention from the screen and let your brain and eyes rest.
I prepared a list of the screen-free activities and in case you are interested, feel free to apply them in your daily life.
| before 3 years old | from 3 to 6 years old | from 6 to 9 years old |
| For teachers | ||
| Work with classroom teachers and students to track screen time for a week, and set individualized goals to decrease it | ||
| Celebrate Screen-Free Week to limit screen time and promote physical activity at school and at home | ||
| Work with teachers to pass out pledge cards, physical activity logs and other resources to help students set goals and track activities during the week | ||
| When the week is over, congratulate students by passing out certificates of achievement. Perhaps the class with the highest participation earns an extra recess! | ||
| For parents | ||
| Screen time chart | ||
| For kids | ||
| Listen to an audiobook | Make an obstacle course in your hall with yarn and tape | Make a scene in a cardboard box of the ocean, or a jungle |
| Play with sensory bags or boxes | Make a curving line of dominoes and knock the first one so they fall down in a row | Draw a picture of a desert island with all the things you would want on it |
| Play with playdoh or clay. | Paint sea shells or rocks | Write down ten things you love about each person in your family to surprise them |
| Make a spiderweb in a doorway with painters tape and throw scrunched up newspaper balls at it to see how many you can catch. | Draw your own puzzle on poster board, color it and cut out the pieces | |
| Plant some seeds -this could be as a part of our project on food waste and gardnening | ||
| I Spy – Describe something in the house so the other players can guess what it is | ||
| Alphabet Game – Name animals, foods or athletes starting with the letter A, then B and so on | ||
| Interqctive game using screen | ||
| Amaizing food detective | ||
| Healthy food game |