• Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot and read, read, read! Record your thoughts in a reading journal and track the books you are reading. Read and write every day!

Record the title of the book/text and the pages read each day in your learning log. Hopefully you’ve been reading a lot during this time. Books, poetry, articles and maybe you have even discovered new genres to enjoy! Perhaps you are finishing up a book this week or you’re starting a new one - the most important thing to remember is that a good book is like a good friend.

Spend time each day writing in a reading response journal (in addition to your learning log).

• • The reading journal entry might include:

1. Title and author

2. Summary

3. Theme

4. Explain how you personally connected to a character or situation in the book/text

5. Explain what other book/text this is similar to, what other text(s) does it remind you of?

• Writing Prompt: Choose one book/text that you have read (it could be one you read or a book your teacher read to you) and respond to the text. This can be an article, book, poem, or any other text. You can respond any way you wish! This means you can write a poem, a letter, a short story, or an expository essay, or an argumentative essay. You choose. Whatever genre you choose, your writing should demonstrate you understand the meaning/theme of the book/text and explain any connections you had to the text.

*Note: If you are looking for online reading resources, check out Scholastic Learn at Home for incredible videos and texts including fiction & nonfiction!

*The following activities connect to the social studies activities below.

• Savings-Pose the following questions:

  • What does it mean to save?

  • What if something you want to buy costs more than you have in your piggy bank or wallet/purse?

  • What are the benefits of saving?

• Solve the following problems:

  • If a video game system costs $300 and Brenda saves $50 per month, how many months will it take Brenda to save enough to buy the video game system?

  • Brad saved $16 a month for 8 months. What is the total amount Brad saved?

• Resources-pose the following questions and solve:

  • Every year Tina buys 4 bushels of apples to make applesauce. This year, the apple crop was smaller so the price went up from $9 a bushel to $12 a bushel. How much more money will Tina spend this year?

  • Last week, Jerry made 16 jars of dill pickles and sold them all for $5 a jar. How much money did he make? This week, Jerry made 20 jars of dill pickles and sold them all for $4 a jar. How much money did he make this week? How does the amount Jerry made this week compare to what he made last week?

The different parts of organisms have different functions. A function is the part’s use or purpose, like pointed teeth are for tearing meat. Each organism has a structure of its own. A structure is how all the parts are put together, like the structure of a robin is different from the structure of a flamingo.

• Take a walk and observe some plants. Take a leaf from two different plants. Back at home tape each leaf to a piece of paper. Have your child draw the rest of the plant around the leaf. Talk about how all plants have leaves to collect the sunlight. Plants have a stem or trunk to hold the leaves up to get sunshine. Underground there are roots to take in water for the plant. Some plants have big colorful flowers.

• Compare the structures of different plants. Is the leaf long and narrow or short and wide? Are the edges smooth or bumpy? Are all leaves the same color? Draw pictures of three different leaves. Does the plant have a green stem or a brown trunk? Draw a plant with a stem and a tree with a trunk. Pull up a weed and look at its roots. Draw a picture of the weed you pulled.What is the function of a leaf? What is the function of a stem? What is the function of a root? How do each of these structures help the plants survive?

• Compare a cactus to a flowering plant. Make a T-chart with CACTUS and the name of the flowering plant at the top. Complete the chart by comparing the different parts of the two plants to each other. How do each of these structures help the plants survive in their environments?

• Look at pictures of birds. All the different beak and wing structures have different functions.

  • Why do some birds have long thin beaks, like a hummingbird, others have curved sharp beaks, like an eagle, and some have thick, short beaks, like cardinals? Hint: find out what each bird eats.

  • Why do some birds have long, thin wings, others have short, wide wings and still others have useless wings? Hint: find out where they live.

• Draw a picture of a bird and a fish. What do they have in common? What is different? How do their body parts help them to survive where they live?

• Think about the characteristics a lizard has that help it live in a desert environment. How does its body covering help it in the hot, dry desert? Do any of the body structures help it avoid predators? Write about an animal that lives in the cold climate, like a penguin or a polar bear. What structures do they have that help them survive?

A free enterprise system of economy allows people to buy and sell goods and services with little control by the government. The benefit of this system is that it helps producers and consumers. A producer is a person or business that makes or sells goods or offers a service. A consumer is a person or company that buys or uses goods or services.

• Describe how you are a consumer in the community.

• If you could be a producer or provide a service in your community, what would you do? Draw a picture of your storefront or business card advertising your company. How would your business improve the community?

A free enterprise system is based on supply and demand. Supply is the number of items that are offered for sale. Demand is the number of items consumers want to buy.

• What are some supply and demand issues you have heard about during the quarantine? How do you feel about people that buy more than they need of an item?

• When the supply is high, like too much gasoline, and the demand is low, everyone is staying at home, why do you think the price of gasoline can go down?

• When demand is high, like not enough peaches at the Peach Festival, and the demand is low, everyone wants fresh peaches, why do you think the price of a basket of peaches can go up?

Maybe you are making some money by doing chores or you get an allowance. You don’t have to spend all your money. The money a person earns but does not spend is called your savings. Suppose you walk a neighbor’s dog for a week. You earn $5.00, but you buy a comic book for $2.00. If you subtract $2.00 from $5.00, you have $3.00 left. Your leftover $3.00 is money you can save for later. Many people make a budget to help them save. A budget is a plan that shows the money you make (income), the money you spend (expenses), to money you might give away (donations) and your savings. A donation is money you give to a group or charity. Maybe you donate to the offering at church or you give to the animal shelter.

• Is there something you would really like to buy but you have to save up for it? Make a simple budget that can help you save the money and watch your spending.

Warm weather makes me think of water. Water makes me think of the ocean. So, I thought it would be fun to do a guided drawing of sea creatures, so here we go!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvdq2ezQTsU

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVb6f04VDA

Workout with Captain America, Iron Man, and all the Avengers!

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNyCw2WboS_UgRrOq6bT9EZnikZP5VTqq

• https://youtu.be/1UiZbtRGG_8