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. Ask each family member about a time they had to display courage or take a risk. Listen carefully to their responses and record them as story ideas you might use later. Write a story that is inspired by their responses. The theme of the story should be related to displaying courage or taking risks. Be sure to share the story with them when you are finished.

• Writing Prompt: Inspire someone! Write a poem or a song that is meant to inspire a friend or family member to show courage or persevere. You may choose to pair this poem with an illustration that helps the reader better appreciate the message of the poem.

• 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.

• Converting a Fraction to a Decimal (Source: https://www.openmiddle.com/) Directions: Using the digits 1 to 9, at most one time each, place a digit in each box to make a true statement.

• Generate equivalent forms of various fractions, decimals, and percents. Practice 5 examples.

(ex. 14=0.25=25%)

• 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?

• Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing rational numbers.

(ex. multiply -7 25)

• Draw a food web using the area around your house. Use arrows showing the flow of energy in your food chain..

• Summarize how energy flows from the Sun through all living systems. Tell how radiant energy from the Sun is transformed into chemical energy through photosynthesis and what happens when consumers eat producers or other levels of consumers.

• Draw a comic strip about a historical event that you have learned about this year.

• Make a list of five important historical figures that you have learned about this year. Add a summary about something important that each person did. If you need to research them, find multiple reliable sources online to confirm that your research is accurate.

• Think of an important historical document that you have learned about this year. Make a poster about the document, explaining why it was important and what it accomplished. Find a one-sentence excerpt from the document and include it on the poster, with an explanation in your own words of what the excerpt means.

• Find a political cartoon about a current event. Analyze it and explain the point of view of the cartoon. Then, create your own political cartoon about an event, current or past that you learned about.

• Create a cause and effect chart to explain the causes of a historical event.

• Create a cause and effect chart to explain the effects of the introduction of the Railroad on Texas.

• Create a timeline of any major events in Texas history’s past. Include events, dates, explanations, and an illustration to represent it.