Read a text of your choice. It might be a book you have at home, one you brought home from school, or a book online. Find time for your reading life each day!

Read a fiction book of your choice. Then, write to a friend, the author, or one of the characters about the book. Tell them what you liked about the book. “What was your favorite part and why?”

Read a fiction book of your choice. Then, pretend you are the author or one of the characters in the book. Write a letter to yourself from the author or character.

Read a fiction book of your choice. Draw a sketch of one of the characters. Choose five adjectives that describe the character. Write to explain why you chose each adjective. Give examples from the text. Use text evidence!

Read a text of your choice. Find a family member or friend to discuss the book with and explain what part of the text is confusing.

Write a review of a movie that is based on a story.

Before, during, and after reading a book, research the book, and its author.

After reading a fiction text, decide which character you would want as a friend. Discuss or write about why you would want this character as a friend. Does this character remind you of anyone in your life? How?

Keep a journal or diary of all the texts you are reading (including books that are read to you). Include a brief summary of each text, any personal connections made, or connections made to other texts. Draw an illustration to support your writing and the text you read.

Reflect on a fiction story read or heard. Think about how the text might change if the main character were a different age or gender. Write how this would change the story.

Write a biography of a character who most interests you from a story you have heard or read.

Discuss with a family member or friend or write about how a story you have read might change if the main character had made a different decision.

Pick the most important line from a text. Write about why that particular line is important. Justify your selection with evidence from the text.

Read an article or nonfiction text. Write a short jot as to why this nonfiction text interests you and what you learned from reading it.

Read an article or nonfiction text. Write a short response as to the author’s purpose for writing this text.

Review an advertisement through the mail, an email, online, in a magazine, or newspaper. Write a short description of the advertisement and the author’s purpose for writing it. Be sure to notice the font and images used.

Create your own advertisement for your favorite restaurant, candy, or snack.

As you are reading a book, use sticky notes or paper to jot down key elements of the story. After reading, review your notes/jots and discuss your thinking with a family member or friend.

Ask a family member if you can interview them. Find out what year they were born and what city they were born in. Then research what events happened in their birth city during their birth year. Write a summary of your findings.

Think back to your first day of school this year. Write a reflection essay about how you felt that day.

Write a letter to your teacher describing your favorite things about their class and your least favorite things about their class. After you complete your letter, re-read your letter and look for places you can revise and edit.

Phone a grandparent or family member, and write a reflection of your conversation, highlighting what you liked most about the chat.

Act like a journalist and collect information from a family member about their workday. Jot down notes. Sample questions include: Where do you work? How long does your commute take? What are your hours at work? Do you have friends at work? What do you normally eat for lunch? What is your favorite part of your work day? Name five adjectives that describe your workday.

Write a letter to your class about a fun time you all shared together in PE or Music.

Essay Prompt: Think about all of the cool people you know and have learned about. If you could switch places with one of these people, who would it be and why.

Watch this video and do the following activities:

• Draw an array (arrangement) for multiplication facts up to 10X10

• Make arrays or find some around your house (e.g. muffin tin, eggs, etc.) and take a picture of them and write the multiplication fact each represents.

• For the same array, write a division fact. (e.g. I have 12 cookies and 4 people in my family. How many cookies does each family member get?) Draw a picture and write the equation to match.

Locate a nutritional facts label on a food product. How many calories, fat, sodium, and carbohydrates are in the product? Record your findings. Use this template if you need help organizing the information.

Create a word problem using the nutritional facts label. Solve the word problem.

Locate the temperature of the first months of the current year and order them in ascending form. Create a line graph to show how temperatures have been fluctuating. Create a word problem using the data gathered about temperatures. Solve the word problem.

Practice telling time to the minute on an analog clock.

Fact Fluency-3rd graders should know their multiplication facts up through the 10s. To practice use objects (beans, macaroni, paper clips, q-tips, etc.), or a deck of cards, or have them make their own set of flashcards with index cards and drawings. They can also fill in a multiplication chart (see example on the left).

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). Make a key for your symbols. 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.

Ride your bike, skip a rope or bounce a ball. Talk about how force (a push or pull), motion (the change in an object’s position) and energy (what is needed to do work or cause change) work together during the activity. Where else do you see force, motion and energy in everyday life?

The Energy Transfer Game: Walk around your house and look for different appliances and devices that change electricity into some combination of heat, light, and sound. If you say, “A flashlight produces light” it is worth one point. A hair dryer produces heat and sound, so it is a two-pointer. A TV can produce light, sound, and heat, a three-pointer. Students can jot their answers and tally points on scratch paper.

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

Talk about our role as a citizen of America, especially at a time like now. Why is it important to do the right thing? Make a four to six panel comic strip of yourself being a good citizen

Make a map of your house or neighborhood. Remember to make a map key or legend for your symbols.

Use a map, globe or atlas and describe to someone how to use a map. Identify specific places and map tools like compass rose, key, legend or scale, and use directional terms like north, south, east and west.

Valentine’s Day was in February, March 17th was St. Patrick’s Day and Easter falls in April this year. What is your favorite holiday or celebration? Write a paragraph or two to tell about your favorite day and how you celebrate it.