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Our family's new schedule includes 4, 20 minute round trips a day...at least  . What are your favorite short activities for:
a group of boys 15, 11, and 5yo (10 minutes)
a pair of boys, 11 and 5yo (20 minutes)
individual boy 11yo (10 and 20 minutes)
individual boy 5yo (10 and 20 minutes)
Off the top of my head I'm thinking:
Discussion - character formation, daily readings...
Spelling - I have a card for words for each.
Music Appreciation - I need to pull out my classical CDs.
Story-telling - in the round.
Thanks for helping me to brainstorm!
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Alphabet game.
Choose a category and then everyone takes turns naming something in the category beginning with an A, then everyone names something beginning with a B, etc.
Fun categories are animals, food, cities, literary characters,etc.
If this is played with multiple ages we always let the youngest go first, so they get the most obvious choices out of the way first(ant, bear, cat, dog, etc). Then it is a bit more challenging for the olders to think of something else beginning with that letter.
I spy.
20 Questions.
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If you have any of the Professor Noggin card games, you could adapt them for use in the car (instead of rolling a die to see which question each player answers, they could choose #1, 2 or 3 and then answer that question).
Foreign language CDs (practice or music).
Age-appropriate story CDs (my kids loved Adventures in Odyssey when we had long car trips).
Poetry reading/recitation.
Singing.
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We practice grammar lessons -- name a word and others have to guess the part of speech; pick a part of speech and everyone has to give a word. Sometimes we do Mad Libs in the car.
Theresa, I play the alphabet game by myself in the car sometimes.  
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Thank, ladies! Keep the ideas coming...we have a lot of short car rides to fill  .
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We get books on CD from the library- great literature that I want my kids to know- Paddington Bear, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Peter Pan, etc.
We also own the Music Master's CDs and will listen to those.
I am big on things I do not have to actively participate in, because I don't want to get too distracted from driving.
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I haven't added anything because we are so bad at doing any organized work in the car. The kids often bring something they are working on with them - mostly individual reading. Keep the ideas coming - I need to get more purposeful and productive in my car activities.
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With my 15yo we are...
Listening to talk radio and discussing current events.
Discussing and editing essays. He brings his current essay to the van on a clipboard.
I'm growing quite fond of this one-to-one uninterrupted time in an enclosed environment  . Charlotte Mason short lessons rule  .
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I just discovered the following podcasts that I load onto my little ipod and play in the car (or over lunch):
Classics for Kids (Music appreciation)
Kara's free audiobooks (common domain - loads of classics)
Story Nory (little fiction stories for the younger set)
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- math music/song CD's (we have a favorite scholastic multiplication one)
- second the "I Spy" (reinforce colors, shapes, concepts such as same/different, big/small, etc)
-we have a DVD in our car and will use short films like Disney's American Legends or other related to topic we're studying like Disocver Science, sometimes our Prima Latina DVD
- along the lines of latin: our pronunciation CD
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what great ideas! We have 20-30 minute car trips anywhere we go, and I keep wanting to have quality time in the car. I'm going to try these. Most times I've tried to practice spelling or math facts with my first grader, she balks and whines. She'd rather be goofy with her sister.
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