• Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot in your home and read, read, read!

• Go outside and make observations about your surroundings. Draw and write about what you see. Take your notes and write a poem about your observations.

• Imagine that you have the opportunity to interview a local hero such as a policeman, firefighter, teacher, nurse/healthcare worker, doctor, principal, or first-responder. What would you ask him/her? Write down a minimum 5 interview questions. Write a letter to this person explaining why you chose him/her to interview and why you think they are a local hero.

• Choose a topic you are passionate about and create a K,W,L chart. Write K- what you already know about the topic, W-What you want to learn about the topic, and then begin to research the topic. Once you have read several different resources about the topic, add to your KWL chart. Write L- what you have learned about the topic. Then create a brochure or poster that tells someone about the topic you have researched. Be sure to include text features including illustrations and captions.

• After reading a book of your choice, discuss your reading with an adult, write at least a half-page response to the reading including a summary of what you read and connection to the reading.

• Discuss stories that have been told in your family. Pick a story and write it down and include illustrations to go with your story. Consider writing about special traditions of your family.

• Imagine that you have the opportunity to interview someone famous. What would you ask him/her? Write down 5 interview questions. Write a letter to this person explaining why you chose him/her to interview.

• Create a comic strip with an interesting character and setting. Think about what your plot of the story will be. Consider the characters, setting, problem, and solution. You may want to map out the plot before writing your story. It might also be helpful to write your story down first, then turn it into a comic strip or graphic novel.

• Choose an informational text such as a book or an online article to read. Think and write down questions, opinions or ideas you have about the text as you read. Choose one of your opinions or ideas. Write a paragraph to elaborate on your opinion or idea. Possible prompts include:

  • The important part about this text is _____.

  • I’m realizing ____.

  • This makes me think ____.

  • What surprises me about this text is ____.

• Respond to your reading by writing about the main idea of your selected text. Possible prompts include:

  • The most important point in this page/section/text is_____. I knew that because of_____.

  • I learned______after reading this (sentence/paragraph/passage/page). The details that best support the main idea of this text are _____, _____and______.

  • The text provides these specific details: _____, _______,and______. The generalization I can make from these details is______.

• Keep adding pictures to your weather journal. Can you predict what the weather will be like this week?

• Everyone has a junk drawer or a catch-all container. Dump out the contents and group the objects by characteristics, like color, shape or texture, etc. Create a bar graph of the results. Can the objects be grouped more than one way?

• Pose the question to your child that we need to pack a picnic lunch for a summer beach visit, but we must choose things that will not melt in the hot summer sun. Have your child sketch the picnic items and describe why they will not melt.

• A mixture is a combination of substances that keep their original properties and can be separated, like a fruit salad. A solution is a mixture where one substance is evenly mixed throughout another substance, like chocolate milk.

  • Ask your child what some of his/her favorite food items are. Use an example such as chocolate chip cookies and have your child brainstorm some of the ingredients, including flour, baking soda and chocolate chips. Draw and label the parts of his/her favorite foods and describe similarities to and differences from other examples. Is his/her favorite food a mixture or a solution? How do you know?

  • Your child may not realize how many solutions he/she comes into contact with on a daily basis. Have your child make a list of foods, drinks, or anything else that he/she knows is a solution and that can be seen in his/her daily life. Examples can include putting a flavored powder drink into water or putting sugar into tea.

• Why do you think hats were invented? Do we need hats inside buildings or our homes? Usually not! Hats are made to help us with the weather. Ask your child to describe several different hats and discuss how they are used. Your child can draw the “perfect hat” that would protect him/her from all weather conditions!

• Draw an electrical circuit that has 1 switch, 3 buzzers and 4 light bulbs.

  • Trace the path in red that turns on one buzzer and two light bulbs.

  • Trace the path in green that only turns on the 4 bulbs.

  • Trace the path in blue that turns on both buzzers.

• Have your child think of his/her favorite foods. Can he/she pick just one favorite? Trace the food back through the food chain to the Sun. For example, if Johnny’s favorite food is chicken nuggets, Johnny would trace his food back first to the chicken, then to the grains, and finally to the Sun. Johnny should write the chain and be sure to include the arrows showing the direction the energy is flowing from the Sun to the grains to the chicken.

• Have your child name as many organisms as possible that:

  • begin their life cycles as eggs.

  • all animals that spend their lives in water.

  • have hair as adults.

  • don’t look like an adult in an earlier life stage.

• 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.

• Children love to mix two different plants or animals to make a new creature. Ask your child to draw a plant or animal that he/she invents by combining two different living things. Discuss the new creature to correctly label all the names of the parts.

• Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.

• Keep adding pictures to your “Quarantine Calendar”. Can you find something different to do this week?

• What is your child’s favorite period of Texas history? Ask him/her to draw a picture from an event in Texas history and share the information with a family member.

• Go on a Scavenger Hunt in your house then talk about the items with a family member. What is it used for? Where did it come from? What is the story about it? Which are primary sources? Which are secondary sources?

See if you can find:

• • a baby picture of a parent

  • a map

  • a sales receipt

  • a hand-written note or card

  • a clock with hands

  • a tool from the garage

  • a cookbook

  • something handmade

  • a ruler, yardstick or tape measure

  • a school yearbook

  • a kitchen tool

  • a driver’s license

• Look to the future. Draw a picture of yourself when you will be 25 years old. What job will you be doing? What will your house look like? What will your car look like? Share your future with a family member.

• Draw a picture of how you are being a good helper at home. What chores are you doing? What rules are you following? Share your picture with a family member.

• Cattle brands were used to mark cattle so animals could be separated from a larger herd or identified if stolen. Design your own cattle brand. You can use your three initials or come up with a name for a ranch.

• 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?

• Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.

• Jumping Skills Cards

• Muscular Strength and Endurance

• Push up Hockey