Extension

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.

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.  

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.