• Read a self-selected text. Find time for your reading life!

• If you read a fiction book, think about the story elements. Create a page that reflects the characters, setting, problem, and solution. You can add pictures and make your paper a fun foldable displaying your learning.

• Think about a story you have read or that someone has read to you. How would you change the way the story ends? Rewrite the ending and draw pictures to illustrate the ending.

• After reading your story, think about your favorite part and why it is your favorite. Write to a friend about your favorite part and illustrate it.

• Think about the author’s purpose of a story you read. Why did the author write this story? Why do you think it was important for the author to share this story with us?

• Talk about, draw pictures, and/or write a response to a book you have read or heard.

• Create a timeline and or a sequence map of the events that occurred in a book read or heard.

• Write about the book’s main character and draw a picture. Label the illustration with words that describe the character’s attributes and feelings.

• Create a family tree. While creating your tree, write adjectives to describe each family member.

• Find a recipe to read. “What would happen if you left out an ingredient and/or a step?” Create your own recipe for something that you enjoy eating.

• Go for a walk with a family member or caregiver. Take in the scenery. When you return home, draw an illustration of the thing you most liked about your walk. Write five sentences describing what you saw and how you felt during your walk.

• Phone a grandparent or other family member. Write a short reflection of your conversation and highlight what you liked most about the chat.

• Draw an illustration of a place you would love to visit. Write six reasons why you desire to visit the place you illustrated.

• Read an expository/informational book (nonfiction). Think about the ideas the author presented. “What is the main idea of the book?”. “Why do you think the author wrote this book?”

• Create a daily journal for writing. You can write about your day, a friend, or family member.

*Objects can include things in your house such as q-tips, paper clips, buttons, etc.

• Practice skip counting and arranging a collection of 120 objects into groups (by 10s, then 5s, then 2s).

• Practice adding using a collection of 10 objects. Split the objects into two groups. Say or write an equation (number sentence) to represent the groupings of objects. For example, “I have 10 straws. I can split the straws into a group of 7 and a group of 3. So, 7 + 3 = 10” Put the piles back together and split the objects again in a different way. Repeat until all possible combinations are found.

• Track 3 different times in one day, and tell the time to the hour and half hour.

• Create your own addition/subtraction story and draw it or act it out for someone. (up to 20) (e.g. There are 14 cars parked in the mall parking lot and 5 cars left. How many cars are still in the garage? Or there are 16 birds on the fence and 3 more flew over. How many birds are on the fence?)

  • Draw a picture or use objects to represent the problem. Show how you solved one addition problem and one subtraction problem and make sure to include your number sentence.

• Practice adding “one more” as you set the table, fill a bag for snack, make trail mix or clean your room.

• Practice subtracting one each time as you eat your snack, put your clean clothes away, clean your toy pile, etc.

• Find examples of graphs (newspapers, magazines, websites, evening news, packaging) and explain it to someone.

  • Which category has more, fewer, or the same?

  • Compare two categories and tell how many more or how many fewer.

• First graders should become fluent with these facts (+1, -1, +2, -2, all the ways to make 10, and +10, -10). To practice use objects* a deck of cards, or have them make their own set of flashcards with index cards and drawings

• Start a weather journal to show your teacher when you get back to school. Record each day’s weather with appropriate weather symbols to match. Include: temperature (hot, cold, cool, warm), wind conditions (calm, breezy, windy), sky conditions (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy), and precipitation (clear, rain, fog). Since you live in Texas, you may have many different symbols for each day!

• Observe, describe and draw the appearance of the Moon each night or morning.

• Make a list of the basic needs of plants and animals. What living and non-living things around a plant or an animal does it depend on for survival?

• Walk around your neighborhood and make a list of all the animals you see. Identify and compare the parts of the different animals for your walking partner.

• Walk around your neighborhood and make drawings of 5 different plants you see. Identify and compare the parts of the different plants you have drawn for your walking partner.

• Go outside and identify several different objects. Make a chart with two columns NATURAL RESOURCE and MAN-MADE RESOURCE. List the different objects you find in the correct column. Remember: a natural resource is something we can use found in nature, like rock, soil or water. A man-made resource is made by humans like plastic or steel.

• Keep a “Quarantine Calendar.” Write the date for each day you are home and draw pictures of what you did to keep busy each day. You did three things? Draw a picture for each! You can compare it with your classmates when you get back to school.

• Draw a picture of the Texas Flag and the United States Flag. Write how they are the same and different.

• Talk about our role as a citizen of America, especially at a time like now. Why is it important to do the right thing? Draw a picture of yourself being a good citizen.