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

• Mail a letter. Write a letter to a friend or family member telling them about something you’ve learned since you’ve been doing at-home learning. Also, consider telling them what you like the most about learning at-home and what you like the most about learning at-school.

• Read aloud to someone. Find a good book or article to read then call or facetime a friend or family member and read aloud to them. You can even read to a pet (dog, cat, etc.) if they’ll sit still for you! Set up a schedule this week so your friend, or family member, or pet, can look forward to being read to each day this week.

• Recommend a book. Gather all the books you’ve read that you have in your house. Write a message to a future reader in 2 - 3 sentences telling them what the book is about and why they should read it. Put this message on a wonderfully decorated, colorful piece of paper, fold it up and stick it inside for the next reader to find.

• At the end of the week read over your learning logs for math, science, and social studies. Write three separate well-developed paragraphs summarizing what you learned in each subject this week. Also, be sure to discuss the connections in your learning.

• Writing Prompt: Think about how your community has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Write an essay explaining why it is important to have a strong community.

• Create a chart to record the number of calories contained in each food you eat at every meal (including snacks).

  • Check the labels on packages, cans, or bottles for the number of calories a food or drink contains.

  • Multiply the calories by the number of servings you actually eat. Include the extras, such as butter, salad dressing, ketchup, etc.

  • After recording the calories you consumed each day, find your average daily caloric intake over a five day period.

  • Compare your average to the following U.S. government recommended average calorie intake amounts.

    • Females, ages 9-13, 1600- 2,200 calories per day

    • Females, ages 14- 18, 1,800- 2,400 calories per day

    • Males, ages 9- 13, 1,800- 2,600 calories per day

    • Males, ages 14- 18, 2,200- 3,200 calories per day

• Practice 10 different examples of reading, writing, and solving one-step equations with one variable. (ex. 4x=-12)

• Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.

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

• Using your previous drawing and research on taxonomy and more this week, create a table with the headings of the 6 different Kingdoms (as shown below). Add examples from your earlier drawing and characteristics from research to fill in the chart.

• 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 Australia.

• 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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• Yoga_Poses-Middle_School.pdf