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• Ocean Animal Sand Art Pictures• Word Search - Life is a Beach• Color Your Own Fish Beach Balls and then play inside volleyball• Play Tic-Tac-Toe...At the Beach

• Watch Virtual: 10 Most Beautiful Beaches in the World• What beach did you go to growing up? How did you get there? Tell me about your favorite bathing suit? Can you swim? How did you learn? What is your favorite time of day at the beach? What did you collect at the beach – starfish, seashells?

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• Color Your Own Large Wood Popsicle Shapes• Word Search - I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

• Anagram (Unscramble) – Most Popular Ice Cream Toppings• Go out for ice cream!

• What is your favorite ice cream flavor? What new and wacky ice cream flavors can you create? Crazy unusual flavors? Submit your craziest ice cream flavor names to the office to enter the contest BEST CRAZY FLAVOR and win a prize.

• The History of Ice Cream

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• Make homemade Fudge or Duncan Hines Brownies• Purchase a bag of Hershey Kisses – guess how many are in the bag,

count, eat and enjoy! And/or melt and pour over strawberries.• Using M&Ms – sort by color – how many are there of each color? Put

in the order of the colors of the rainbow – ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)

• Separate a Hershey Chocolate Bar into pieces. Using the pieces, separate into different fractions: ½; 1/3; 1/4; 1/12

• Pop Quiz - Name that Chocolate Candy Bar!• Take a trip to your local Cracker Barrel and tour their country gift

shop. They have a great selection of old-fashion candy. Barring no dietary restrictions of no sugar, buy your favorite sugary treat of years ago, sit in a rocker at the front of the restaurant and indulge!

• Read this article together - The Benefits of Chocolate for Seniors

• Do you prefer milk or dark chocolate? What is your favorite chocolate candy bar as a child and now as a senior?

• Reminisce about candy bars from your youth - Visit our own Memory Lane – Candy

• How many food items can you name that use chocolate?

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• Patriotic Butterfly Glitter Mosaic• Patriotic Song Sheets – Lyrics from Your Favorite July 4th Songs

• Pray for our country using prayer card - Pray for Our Nation

• Patriotic Music• What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence

IndependenceDay • July 4

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WEEK THEME AND COLOR OF THE WEEK ADVENTURES, ARTS AND CRAFTS, RECIPES, AND WORD GAMES LINKS FOR LEARNING, MUSIC AND MORE

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BONUS ACTIVITIES: Crossword Puzzles with the Letter “J” Level 1 – I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down in My Heart • Level 2 – Jazzy Words to Throw Around the Joint

FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN JULY TRIVIAFUN AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUESTIONS ABOUT EACH PERSON – REMINISCE, FILL IN THE BLANKS, SHARE YOUR PREFERENCES, BELT OUT A TUNE!1. July 1, 1916 – Olivia DeHavilland, actress (In which famous movie was her character married to Ashley?) 2. July 1, 1934 – Jamie Farr, actor, played Klinger on TV Series Mash (Which war was the setting?) 3. July 1, 1961 – Princess Diana, Princess of Wales (How long was her wedding train?) 4. July 4, 1911 – Mitch Miller, big bandleader (“Sing along with _________!”) 5. July 4, 1927 – Neil Simon, playwright (Which play became a TV series with Felix and Oscar?) 6. July 5, 1810 – PT Barnum, showman, circus founder (What is your favorite circus animal and why?) 7. July 6, 1747 – John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War, Father of the US Navy (Name a vet in the family.) 8. July 6, 1923 – Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the US (Popular slogan “Just Say ____!”) 9. July 6, 1925 – Merv Griffin, talk show host (What time did his show air?) 10. July 6, 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, actor/director (Best known for which movie role?) 11. July 8, 1831 – John Pemberton, chemist, invented Coca-Cola (Preference - Coke or Pepsi?) 12. July 8, 1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American business tycoon (Popular song lyric - “I’d be rich as __________”) 13. July 9, 1819 – Elias Howe, invented the sewing machine (What clothing items did you make on a sewing machine?) 14. July 9, 1956 – Tom Hanks (“Mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”- quote from which movie?) 15. July 9, 1839 – Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Preference - Budweiser, Miller, Michelob, or Corona?) 16. July 11, 1834 – James Whistler, painter, “Whistler’s mother” (Who is it a portrait of?) 17. July 11, 1834 – EB White, children’s author (Spider named Charlotte and mouse named Stuart – What are the book titles?) 18. July 11, 1915 – Yul Brynner, actor (Name his two biggest movies.) 19. July 12, 100BC – Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor – Jesus said “Give to ________what belongs to ________ and give to God what belongs to God.” 20. July 12, 1895 – Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist, “Rodgers and Hammerstein” (Sing a song from The Sound of Music.) 21. July 12, 1908 – Milton Berle, comedian (What was his nickname?) 22. July 15, 1606 – Rembrandt Van Rijn, painter (What is the name of the painting depicting Jesus calming the storm?) 23. July 15, 1850 – St. Francis Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first American saint (She is the patron saint of ______?) 24. July 16, 1907 – Barbara Stanwyck, actress (Which popular western did she star in?) 25. July 16, 1911 – Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (Who was her dance partner?) 26. July 17, 1899 – James Cagney, actor (Famous quote “You dirty ________!”) 27. July 19, 1860 – Lizzie Borden, accused ax murderer (Sing song from childhood.) 28. July 20, 356 BC – Alexander the Great, King of Ancient Macedonia (He never lost a battle – True or False?) 29. July 21, 1899 – Ernest Hemingway, novelist (For ______ the Bell Tolls) 30. July 21, 1924 – Don Knotts, actor (What TV series is he best known for?) 31. July 22, 1890 – Rose Kennedy, mother of Pres JFK (How many children did she have?) 32. July 22, 1940 – Alex Trebek, TV game show host (What game show did he host?) 33. July 24, 1897 – Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator (What is she known for?) 34. July 24, 1936 – Ruth Buzzi, actress, comedian (What comedy show did she star in?) 35. July 26, 1906 – Gracie Allen, actress, comedian (Who was her real-life husband?) 36. July 26, 1909 – Vivian Vance, actress (Who was her TV series husband?) 37. July 26, 1956 – Mick Jagger, lead singer of Rolling Stones (“You Can’t Always Get What you ____”) 38. July 26, 1956 – Dorothy Hamill, Champion of Olympic figure skater (What style haircut did she make famous?) 39. July 27, 1922 – Norman Lear, writer, producer (Meathead; Stifle Yourself – quotes from which TV series?) 40. July 28 1866 – Beatrix Potter, children’s author (_____ Rabbit) 41. July 28, 1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, first husband – JFK, second husband – Onassis (What city did she live in later years?) 42. July 30, 1863 – Henry Ford, auto maker (Name your fav Ford model) 43. July 30, 1947 – Arnold Schwarznegger, weightlifting, actor, Gov of Calif, quote “I’ll be back!” (Which movie is this quote from?)

ANSWERS: 1. Gone with The Wind 2. Korean War 3. 25 feet long 4. Mitch 5. The Odd Couple 6. You decide 7. You answer 8. No 9. 11:30 pm 10. Rocky 11. You decide 12. Rockefeller 13. You share 14. Forest Gump 15. You decide 16. His mother, Anne McNeill Whistler 17. Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little 18. Ten Commandments and The King and I 19. Caesar 20. The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music; High on a Hill; You are Sixteen Going on Seventeen; Edelweiss; Climb Every Mountain, Doe a Deer 21. Uncle Miltie 22. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee 23. Immigrants and unofficially parking spaces 24. The Big Valley 25. Fred Astaire 26. Rat! 27. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41 28. True 29. Whom 30. The Andy Griffith Show 31. Nine 32. Jeopardy 33. First woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane solo 34. Laugh In 35. George Burns 36. Fred Mertz 37. Want 38. Wedge haircut 39. All in the Family 40. Peter 41. NYC 42. You decide 43. The Terminator

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A MOMENT IN TIME: LET’S LEARN, LAUGH, PLAY AND PRAY!ACTIVITY CALENDAR FOR JULYEach week supplement with Mind, Body and Soul and other fun and engaging ideas