READING
- Read in any language!
- Build a fort with blankets. Read in your fort alone or with a friend or stuffy.
- Choose an event in your book. Illustrate the scene.
- Design a new cover for your book.
- Ask someone else to read to you for at least 20 mins. Follow along as they read.
- Find 2 difficult or new words in your book. Find their definitions and draw or write their meanings in your own words.
- Choose a scene from your book. Act it out in front of an audience.
- Write a 5 or more sentence review of your book.
- Write a paragraph connection to your book.
- Read in the bathtub. Make sure there’s no water in it!
- Connect your book to another book. Write or draw how they are connected.
- Read a recipe you’d like to make.
Time for Kids Digital Library – Free for kids right now. Free access to a library of four grade-specific digital editions of TIME for Kids.
https://www.litworld.org/ – Strengthening kids and communities through the power of stories.
https://www.liveit.earth/– Weekly Inquiry Units with Environmental Focus
https://coolprogeny.com/2020/03/operation-storytime/– List of authors and artists sharing their work or talent online
MATH
- Create flash cards for multiplication facts to 144. If you already have them, choose 20 and see how fast you can go through them.
- Play 20 mins of math games on the blog.
- Play a math facts game with dice or cards. Face cards are all 10 or Jacks are 11, Queens are 12, and Kings are 13.
- Find a grocery flyer. Choose 6 items. Add them together to find the price before tax.
https://solveme.edc.org/ – Online Algebra puzzles for kids
https://www.gregtangmath.com/ – A variety of Math related games based on the author’s best selling books
Ken Ken Puzzles — Similar to Sudoku but even more fun! Select difficulty and types of operations. Play online or via the iPad app.
http://www.sumdog.com/ – Practice Math Computation through online games
WRITING
- Write a story.
- Write a script.
- Email someone you know. Write in any language!
- Write an episode of your favourite show.
- Write a different ending to a book, TV show, or movie.
- Watch a show and write a summary of what you watched. Add as much detail as possible.
- Write a shopping list for someone.
- Interview someone. Write 5 interesting questions to ask. Write down their answers. Check your work for spelling and caps.
EXTEND & CONNECT TO OUR BIG IDEAS
- Build a model.
- Research the history.
- Find a non-fiction book about it at the library.
- Draw a diagram with labels.
- Create a timeline.
- Write a story that includes important facts.
- Ask 3 interesting questions. Answer them with details.
- Find an article and write 5 interesting facts.
- Find a YouTube video. Write or draw something new.
- Create a comic.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
- Write about a strategy you used this week. Was it effective?
- Make a list of calm down strategies you can use.
- Write about something you did well this week. Why were you successful?
- Write about something you wish had gone differently.
- Write a meta moment story.
- Draw a picture without words about a feeling you had this week.
- Think of ways to rethink “I made a mistake”.
- Think of ways to rethink “I can’t do it”.
- Think of ways to rethink “this is too hard”.
- Write an encouraging letter to someone.
Other Enrichment
31-Day-Spring-LEGO-Calendar – Use your Creative Thinking Skills to make new LEGO creations each day
https://wonderopolis.org/ – Wondoroplis asks and investigates interesting questions about the world. With multi-disciplinary content that purposefully aligns to Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the STEM Educational Quality Framework, and Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
Learning from the Smithsonian – The Smithsonian Learning Lab offers teachers and parents access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. Includes pre-packaged collections that contain lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators. Includes self-directed learning modules for teens and tweens.
STEM Activities at Home – A variety of STEM activities to try at home.