Automation for family · Runs every Sunday at 16:00
Kids activity ideas
Ten home game ideas based on what your children learned this week. Your assistant runs it every Sunday at 16:00 and tells you when something needs your attention.
Kids activity ideas — Sep 20
Automation run • Sep 20
Kids activity ideas
Output
Maya, here are ten home games drawn from this week's school updates for Juniper and Rowan, designed so both can play together using common household items. Even with a full week at Harbor & Pine, these require no special shopping or preparation.
From Mr. Okafor's third grade newsletter (seed dispersal and perimeter) and Ms. Ortiz's sixth grade notes (plate tectonics and ratios):
- Seed Parachute Drop: Build falling seeds from coffee filters, scrap paper, and paper clips. Drop them from the stairs to see which design glides slowest.
- Living Room Perimeter: Use shoes or a belt to measure room boundaries. Rowan calculates the ratio of length to width while Juniper counts total shoe lengths.
- Pangea Puzzle: Draw and tear cardboard into continents, then race the clock to reassemble the single landmass.
- Kitchen Fault Lines: Spread peanut butter on a plate and slide graham cracker plates across it to observe mountain buckling and subduction.
- Backyard Seed Hunt: Gather five plant seeds outside and sort them by travel method, such as wind, animal fur, or water.
- Scale Model Drawing: Pick three mugs or kitchen bowls. Sketch them on paper at exactly twice their measured height.
- Blanket Topography: Stack cushions and quilts into ridges and valleys, then draw an aerial map showing elevation lines.
- Ecosystem Relay: Juniper names a local herbivore while Rowan must name an Oregon predator before taking three giant steps forward.
- Fraction Dice Match: Roll two dice to create proper fractions. The higher ratio wins the round.
- Cardboard Bridge Test: Rest a strip of cardboard across two soup cans and stack coins until it buckles under weight.
Automation steps. Your assistant follows these 3 steps each time it runs, using your connected email and calendar.
- 01
Each Sunday, read the week's teacher updates and class newsletters and turn what my children are learning into ten game ideas we can play at home, right for their ages so siblings can join in, using only things we already have.
- 02
Skip anything we played recently.
- 03
Ask me their ages and which updates to read the first time.
Adjust the automation in chat
Tell your assistant what to do differently and it sets up that version for you.
- Focus primarily on outdoor games in the yard.
- Include activities Rowan can lead independently for Juniper.
- Limit materials to recycled cardboard, scrap paper, and tape.
Results arrive as a message from your assistant. Each run posts to your conversation with your assistant, and can email you too. The automation keeps a log in your knowledge base and reads it before each run to see what has changed.
Adjustable schedule
Runs every Sunday at 16:00 by default. Pick another time when you add it, or ask in chat for a custom schedule.
Only useful reports
When nothing needs attention, the run says so in a line or stays quiet. When there are findings, you get them with a link to the full run.
What it does on its own
Generates game ideas from classroom newsletters on its own. Changes nothing. An automated run has no tool that sends, posts, shares, or deletes anything.
This automation reads your email and calendar. Connect Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 to Fieldwork. The automation uses whichever you connect.
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Questions about this automation.
- How do I set this up?
- Open your assistant on the Agents page in Fieldwork, locate this automation in the job library, and select Add. If your email account through Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 is not connected yet, the card will prompt you to connect it before starting the Sunday 4:00 PM schedule.
- What does it do on its own versus waiting for me?
- It reads school updates and writes activity suggestions completely on its own. It never drafts outgoing emails to teachers, contacts anyone, deletes files, or alters your calendar.
- Where do the game ideas arrive?
- The ten game suggestions appear directly in your Fieldwork chat conversation and can also be sent to your inbox. If no class updates arrived during the week, the assistant posts a short note letting you know.
- How does it learn which school newsletters to read?
- On the initial run, your assistant asks for your children's ages, current teachers, and the email addresses that send their class newsletters. You can update these details or add new subjects whenever you want by chatting with your assistant.
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No training on your data
Neither we nor our model providers train on your data. Inference runs with zero retention wherever the provider supports it.
Access
Agents only see what the person asking can see. Conversations, files, apps and connections stay private until shared, and admins have no way into conversations.
Encryption and isolation
Data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Each user's code runs in its own microVM, and secrets reach models by name only.
Continuity
Continuous backups, replicated to a second region. Data is exported on request and deleted within 30 days of a contract's end.