Supplemental Options

These are optional activities for those times when your child is done with their work for the day, but you still want them to be productive and learning.

Physical Reading Activities

  • Read to self at least 20 minutes every day

        • Use the 5 finger rule to know if a book is a "good fit book" for your student. To do this, open to any page of the selected book and have your child begin reading. When they either can't read a word correctly or don't understand a word, put one finger up on your hand. If they can read one page with less than 5 fingers raised, then it's considered a "good fit book". If more than 5 fingers are raised during that page, then they should select a different book.

  • Ask questions about what they read

        • What were the important events that happened?

        • How did this story make you feel?

        • How does this story remind you of your own life? What connections can you make to the story?

        • What predictions did you make while reading? Did they turn out to be true?

        • How did the pictures help you understand what you read?

  • Write about what they read

        • Write a summary from beginning, middle, to end

        • Describe/draw the characters

        • Describe/draw the setting or important events

        • Write an alternate ending

        • Write a sequel

        • Write a letter to one of the characters or the author

  • Act out what they read

  • Read to a family member

  • Be read aloud to by an adult or sibling

Online Reading Activities

Physical Math Activities

  • Practice basic math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)

  • Create math problems for a family member (make sure that everyone can solve them!)

  • Do Sudoku or other number puzzles

  • Practice skip counting by 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9

  • Measure things around the house

  • Make up story problems to be solved

  • Practice reading a clock or telling how much time passes between two times of the day

Online Math Activities

Physical Writing Activities

  • Make up a story

  • Write a letter to a friend

  • Email Mrs. W or another teacher

  • Make a grocery or to-do list

  • Keep a daily journal

  • Write the rules to a favorite game

  • Write about your opinion of things (whether we should be back at school, what the best movie is, whether you like being "home-schooled"...)

  • Research facts about an animal or event and write them down

  • Write a story about a picture

Online Writing Activities

  • Typing Club

  • IXL - Under Language Arts

  • Type a story in Google Docs

  • Email Mrs. W or a friend

  • Draw using Art Hub for Kids, then write a story to go with the picture!

Online Science Activities

Online Social Studies Activities