Optional Daily Activities

Looking for something to do?

These activities will also stay here as a resource for ANY time in the school year when you are feeling like you need something extra to do!

Activities are organized under your suggested schedule of the categories we use to break up each of our past remote learning days.

MAKER TIME:

FITNESS TIME:

INDIE READING TIME:

  • Canadian writers share their kids books online
  • If you are using the public library and have a library card, download the LIBBY app for e-book options
  • Contact a friend from class to get a book recommendation from EPIC
  • Listen to PODCASTS of your choice as suggested during past weeks!
  • Go on to EPIC and read books from the class assignments list.
  • As you read, make a list of words you don’t know and look them up later. Write a short story/poem of your own using these new words!
  • Read in another language
  • Build a fort with a blanket over a table or chairs and do some reading under it
  • On Amazon.ca, if you have the Kindle App, there are lots of free books to read
  • With a library card, use online resources for Burnaby/Vancouver Public Libraries
  • Use Audible for free right now to listen to tons of online audible stories.
  • Use the Burnaby School District’s Tumblebooks Account to access books online. Press the ebooks tab at the top. I sent you an Outlook email about how to access.
  • Higher Level Reading — Project Gutenberg free ebooks
  • Open Library — has non-fiction and fiction options, some great for IP!
  • Complete a word search or a crossword puzzle.

SERVICE and CONNECTION TIME!

  • Escape Rooms: Here are some escape rooms you could do with friends online.
  • Smithsonian Game Center — do one with a friend!
  • Random Acts of Kindnesscould be a great way to help improve someone’s day during our isolation at home. Here are 19 Random Acts of Kindness Ideas for Kids, and maybe just find ways to send random positive messages to family, friends, and adults in your lives. We all need some positive words right now!
  • Play a pen & paper games with family, dots and boxes, sprouts, 24, battleships, Go-Maku, Boggle, etc.
  • Play a card game with family
  • Look through old photo albums together and share memories
  • Play Charades or use the Heads Up app
  • Prepare a mini lesson and teach someone something you’ve recently learned
  • Participate in the 7PM NOISE outside, done by the community to say thank you to our first responders and healthcare workers!
  • Make a homemade gift for family, and learn how to wrap them using Furoshiki, the art of Japanese gift wrapping
  • Prepare a musical performance to share with your family after dinner.
  • Organize a family game activity.
  • Play a round of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Stretch with a family member
  • Create a dinner night, with fancy napkins, table, outfits, menus, decorations, etc. so when you can’t go out, there is something fun to do at home.
  • Make a shopping list for the family
  • Unload or load the dishwasher
  • Sweep or vacuum the house
  • Call a grandparent, family member, or friend to help them feel connected!
  • Help with the laundry — loading, folding, putting things away
  • Dust the house or blinds
  • Clean windows, counters, anything that needs it!
  • Help with the garbage, recycling, or compost runs
  • Wipe doorknobs and high-touch spaces with cleaner
  • Take care of a pet
  • Watch your younger sibling so your parents can have a break
  • Make a dinner for your family so they have a break from it!

GENIUS HOUR TIME:

UNIT/LITERACY/NUMERACY TIME: