Read to or with your child for 10-15 minutes a day simply for pleasure. Engage in a conversation about what you read and why you liked it.

Printable Workbook:

• 1st Grade: English and Spanish

Offline Activities - 2 per Week

• Find 2-D shapes at home with a family member (circle, triangle, rectangle, square, rhombus, hexagon).

• Find 3-D shapes at home with a family member (cylinder, cone, sphere, cube, rectangular prism, triangular prism).

• Go for a walk and ask your child to tally the number of cars of each color. At the end of 10 minutes your child can write a math problem with these numbers. 4 blue cars + 4 green cars = 8 cars;5 white cars and 2 drove away. Now there are 3 white cars;

• Have your child count by tens up to a given multiple of 10 (30, 40, 50, etc.) while doing jumping jacks, skipping, clapping, singing, etc..

• Ask your child to split a set of objects into two groups. Put the piles back together and split the pile again in a different way. Repeat until all possible combinations are found.

• Measure a jump! Mark a starting point on the ground, jump, then mark the landing point. Select a non-standard unit (ex: shoe-lengths or pencil-lengths) to measure the length.Jump two more times, then ask your child to compare the three jumps which were “shortest” and “longest.”

• Have your child go on a scavenger hunt to find real world objects that are partitioned into equal parts (halves, thirds, fourths, etc.). Examples could include window panes, road ways, dressers, pizza, or sandwiches.

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Activity Direction/Notes

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• Sid the Science Kid: Class Pet and Hermit Crab Investigation

Offline Activities - 1 per week

• Go outside with a notebook. Draw at least 1 plant and 1 animal. Write about: What does each of those plants or animals need to survive? Sentence stem: "_______ needs ______ to survive."

• During the early morning or in the evening, go outside with a notebook. Draw the appearance of the moon each night. Discuss and draw your prediction: What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow?

• Week 3:Weather: Make a weather calendar for the week. What does the weather look like today? Is it hot, cold, windy, sunny? Draw a picture in the morning, afternoon and night. Write about: What kind of weather is your favorite? Sentence stem: "My favorite weather is..."

• Work with a parent to prepare a snack together. At the beginning, take a picture of the ingredients, and at the end, take a picture of the prepared snack.Discuss: What did you like about making this snack? How would you change it to make it better?

• Get a notebook. Take some magnets off your refrigerator. Go around your house and test to see what responds to a magnet. On the left side of the notebook, draw pictures of things that did not respond to the magnet. On the right side of the notebook, draw pictures of things that did respond to he magnet. Discuss: How were the things that responded to the magnet different from the things that did not respond to the magnet?

• Fill up a bucket or a sink with water. Grab some items around your house and put them in the water. Do they sink or float? Make a T-chart with items that sink on the left and items that float on the right.Discuss: What did you notice about items that sink? Items that float?

• Go outside. Get a collection of 3-5 rocks. Draw them in your notebook. Draw or write about their color, shape and size. Sort the rocks in order based on of those traits Discuss: how you sorted the rocks

OFFLINE ACTIVITIES - 1 per week

• Describe your day to a household member, and ask them to write down what you say. Be to include what you did during the day, things you liked, things you didn't like. Ask the writer to start by writing the date and then to write what you say. You design a cover, and at the end of our "Shelter in Place," you'll have your very own priimary source diary of this historical event.

• Who are the helpers in your community? Draw a picture of five the people you see who are helping the community as you go through your day. Write their job underneath their picture. Be sure to include those you see in your neighborhood, on TV, in shows, and those you know exist. Create a book by putting together all the pictures you draw. Create a cover with a title.

• Ask someone in your family to tell you her story/history. Remember three things he or she shares and tell someone else in your family. Then draw a picture of that person doing the three things you remember and present it to the person you interviewed.

• Create a community of your own and decide who is in charge and who does what. Create a graphic organizer that shows the chain of command in your imagined community.

• Describe what a scientist does to a family member. Explain how scientists help our community.

• Think about all the symbols of our nation. Create a book that contains drawings of all the symbols of our nation that you can think of. Title the book. Then share the book with a family member and explain what each symbol represents.

• Take a walk and see if you can see any bluebonnets or other wildflowers. Point them out to whoever is walking with you. Ask the person accompanying you to take your picture in the wildflowers if it is safe.

• Think about someone living in the city. Then think about how someone lives on a farm. Create a T-chart that lists the many different and similar ways someone lives in the city from someone living on a farm.

• What is your favorite holiday and why? Explain to someone why that holiday is celebrated and why it's important to you.

• Name the people you know who demonstrate good citizenship. Then draw pictures or write about how they demonstrate that citizenship..is it through honesty? Courage? Being Fair? Being Responsible? Taking up for others? Write a thank you note to that person to give to them when possible.

• Talk to your parent(s) and ask how you can be a helper at home during this time. Ask them to give you more responsibility. Then follow through and help in the way(s) they've suggested.

• Who is the President of the United States? What is his job? What is his job during the crisis we're having as a nation? How do you think he's doing? Draw a rectangle and break it into five parts. Assign a number between 1-5 to each part. Rank how the President is doing on the scale of 1 to 5. Then color each box to the number you decided. Show this to a family member, and explain your reasoning.

• Think about a movie you've seen in which the character had to take on some kind of responsibility for his or her community. Draw a picture of that character taking on that responsibility and what he or she may have had to sacrifice to be a good citizen.

• Describe the jobs of the following people to someone in your family: policeman, doctor, truck driver, nurse, teacher, HEB stocker. Right now, which one do you think is most important and why?

• Watch "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" on KLRU. Discuss the challenge Daniel experiences during the show. Then discuss how he demonstrates good citizenship with someone in your family.

• Watch Sesame Street on KLRU. Draw a picture of one of the characters you see in the show who demonstrate good citizenship. Put their name at the top of the drawing. Share what they did with a family member.