• Find time for your reading life and read, read, read! Find a cozy spot and read to self, read to a stuffed animal, and/or read to a family member! Record your thoughts in a reading journal and track the books you are reading. List the title, author, illustrator, and some thoughts about the book. Try to increase your reading stamina each day (this ties to math this week). How many minutes can you sit and read? What is your ultimate goal?

• Design a thank you card then write a thank you note to a parent, teacher, or community helper such as someone who works in healthcare. Tell the person why he/she is important and special. Explain why you are thankful for what he/she does.

• Write a letter to your teacher or friend about what you will do on your first day after the quarantine (this activity ties to social studies). Where will you want to go that day? What will you want to do? Include how much time you will spend at each place. Be sure to include all the parts of a letter (heading, date, salutation, body of the letter, and a closing).

• Write a letter to your teacher about which community (rural, urban , or suburban) you would rather live in and explain why (this activity ties to social studies).

• Choose an animal to research (this activity ties to science). Read about this animal and think: What does this animal need to survive? What is its habitat like? After you have learned about this animal, write a letter to your teacher explaining what you have learned about the animal. Be sure to include how it meets its basic needs. Make sure you include all of the parts of a letter. If you cannot research an animal, then think and write about an animal you already know a lot about.

• Did you discover that one of the “needs” of a plant is light? How can you prove it? Use plants at your house or ask a parent if you can plant a seed in a cup (for 3 plants). Put one plant outside in the sun, put one plant in a dark closet, and one plant inside the house away from a window but under a light in your house. Watch and record what happens.

  • Graph the results.

  • What conclusions and predictions can you make from your graph?

• Survey your family and graph the information

  • Some ideas include-Do you like pizza? What is your favorite movie? What is your favorite video game?

• Graph the weather for the week (sunny, cloudy, rainy…) and tell someone about your graph.

• Help with the laundry and sort the socks. Make a graph to show how you sorted (color, size, boy/girl, etc.)

• Make a “Stamina Chart” and graph how many minutes you read each day. Is it increasing or decreasing?

Basic needs are what an organism must have to survive. Animals require air, food, water, space, and sometimes shelter. Plants require sunlight, air, water, nutrients (food), and space.

• Take a walk around the neighborhood and point out plants and animals. Ask your child what does a plant need to live? What does a bird, a dog, a cat, a fish need to live? (This activity ties to Math and Reading.)

• Compare a living plant to an artificial plant. What are the differences between the two? What does an artificial plant need? (A shelf and dusting!) What does a real plant need?

• Fold a piece of paper in half and label one side LIVING and the other NONLIVING. Give your child a magazine to cut out pictures. Challenge the student to fill his/her paper up completely and correctly with pictures of living and nonliving items.

• Use a search engine to find a live feed of an eagle cam (or some other live animal in the wild or in a zoo). There are many choices of live feeds that show different stages of eagles with nests and their offspring. Watch the cam for a few days and let your child see what the eagle uses to survive and how life would be different if those things were gone. What does the eagle eat? What does the eagle have to do to protect its offspring?

• Make a list of the basic needs of plants and animals. What living and nonliving things around a plant or an animal does it depend on for survival? (This activity ties to Math.)

• Gather a selection of fruit and vegetables. Cut them open, so the seeds are visible. Have your child collect all the seeds from each fruit or vegetable and place the results in a table that lists Fruit or Vegetable Type and Number of Seeds. Create a bar graph from the results. The seeds can be planted from fresh fruits or vegetables.

• Inside the house in a container or outside in a pot or the ground, plant some seeds with your child. The seeds can be from a seed packet you purchase or the seeds from the fresh fruits or vegetables you are eating. What do plants need to survive? Your student can keep a journal of the growth of the new plant.

• If you have a family pet, what does your pet need to survive? Draw a picture with labels to show what your pet needs.

There are three types of communities: urban with skyscrapers, apartment buildings and crowded streets; suburban with neighborhoods, houses, schools and stores; and rural with farms, ranches and open land.

• Make a three-column chart with the titles URBAN, SUBURBAN and RURAL. List in the correct column the types of things you would expect to see in each community. Which type of community do you live in?

• Make three two-column charts labeled Why I Want to Live There and Why I Don’t Want to Live There. Fill in a chart for Urban, one for Suburban and another for Rural using words and pictures.

• One day life will go back to normal and your family can go anywhere you want to go. Make a schedule for your first day after the quarantine. Where will you want to go that day? What will you want to do? Include how much time you will spend at each place.

• Record a timeline or schedule for what you do in one day.

• Where does everything come from that we buy at the grocery store? Look at different packages in your home to find out where the company is located. Write the name of the companies on a map. For example, the offices for Campbell’s Soup are in Camden, New Jersey. Jell-o has offices in Chicago, Illinois. Trumbull, Connecticut, is the home of Suave Shampoo.

• Create a timeline for someone in your family.

• Now let’s listen to a song about notes and then play a game naming the notes.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gRHgpyRem4

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r9LA60BtTw

  • https://www.classicsforkids.com/games/note_names.php

• Use the link below to have some fun with old school activities! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTxVQLrPs63utt0CA8oDyGyNhLZibJ2_/view?usp=sharing

• Brain Boosters video https://youtu.be/-BsSXJQCBFA

• Videos to help get you moving! https://youtu.be/Uw41-RziKpE