Read and write every day! Record the title of the book/text and the pages read each day in your learning log.

• Interview family members. Discover the reading life of each family member by asking each of them about their favorite childhood books, do they remember someone reading to them when they were younger, what was the best book they read in high school? Listen carefully to their responses and record them for story ideas you might use later. Write a story with a main character who has a unique relationship with books.

• Writing Prompt: Inspire someone! Write a brief poem, with an illustration to accompany it, that inspires a family member or friend to do something positive for the community in which you live.

• Find 2 - 3 books in your house that you’ve never read before. Carefully examine the covers and titles of the books. Read the first chapter of each book. Write a brief paragraph explaining why you would or would not want to keep reading each book. Don’t forget to read the book that interests you the most!

• Look for connections. Be on the lookout for connections in what you read, watch, talk about, have studied in school. Choose a unique, creative way to demonstrate those connections in the form of a poem, or painting, or drawing, or story, or song. When you are done write a brief paragraph explaining the connections.

• Generate equivalent forms of fractions, decimals, and percents. (ex. 14=0.25=25%) Practice 3 examples.

• Practice 5 different examples of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.

(ex. Adding: 5+6=11; (-5)+(-6)=-11; 5+(-6)=-1; (-5)+6=1)

• Answer the following (Source: https://openupresources.org/math-curriculum/)

  • A. How much higher is 500 than 400 m?

  • B. How much higher is 500 than -400 m?

  • C. What is the change in elevation from 8,500 m to 3,400 m?

  • D. What is the change in elevation between 8,500 m and -300 m?

  • E. How much less is -200 m than 450 m?

• Research and explain the differences between a bacterial cell (prokaryotic) and a plant and animal cell (eukaryotic). Notice the presence, or not, of the nucleus.

• Go on a “walk-about” and list all the different organisms that you see. Then research (see chart below) our taxonomic classification system and list the names of the domains and kingdoms used to classify organisms. Place all the organisms you listed under the correct kingdom names. Take another walk and try to find organisms in the kingdoms that were blank from your first walk. Then compare them to your research examples.

• Use a map, globe, or atlas to discuss how to use a map. Identify specific places, map tools such as a compass, key, legend, or scale, and use directional terms such as north, south, east, and west to identify other places.

• Locate various physical features near your house and in your neighborhood.

• Make a list of facts that you may already know about the continent of Asia.

• Think about two countries or continents that you have learned about and list some of the political, social, economic, and geographic characteristics for each of those countries.

• Make a list of your family’s cultural customs and traits. Describe how these customs or traits influence your life.

• Think of a place that you would like to visit. Write an explanation of why you want to go there.

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