Reading
10 point activities
1) Read your baggie book. Practice reading with expression! Make your voice change by going up and down, and stopping and periods and pausing at commas. (baggie books will be starting next week)
2) Read from a different book. (our reader, library book, other books at home.) Make sure that this is a “just right” book.
Spelling
10 point activities
1) Use your spelling words and word wall words in a story.
2) Alphabetize the words.
3) Divide each word into syllables.
4) Make a set of flash cards for studying your words
5) Write the words and an antonym for each word.
6) Write each spelling word backwards for three times.
7) Locate the spelling words in your textbooks and other reading materials. (write down the source and its page number)
8) Make a poem out of the words.
20 point activities
1) Make a cartoon using your spelling words.
2) Type the words on your computer at home and use three different types of fonts
3) Write down 10 words from your take home reading book that end with the ending –ing and –ed.
4) Can you find your spelling words in the newspaper or a magazine or a story? Write down the sentence that they are in.
5) Make a crossword puzzle out of your spelling words. Have someone find the words!
6) Write the words in a code. Provide a key to your code.
30 point activities
1) Classify each word according to its parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb)
2) Cut pictures out of a magazine or a newspaper that represent that word and make a collage of all the words.
3) Write a tongue twister for each spelling words.
4) Write the definition of each word using a dictionary.
5) Write an article for a newspaper using the spelling words.
6) Write a note to your teacher using the spelling words.
7) Look in a story, on T.V., in your house…for 5 words that you do not know. Write the definition of the words using your school dictionary or get help from mom and dad. Use your own words to write the definitions.
Math
10 Points
1) Practice your flash cards! (or mad minute test)
2) Practice counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s,. Time how long it takes you to do the first time. Try it again 2 more times and try to beat your time.
3) Make a calendar for the current month. List the activities that you have planned with your family for the month.
3) Where do you see patterns in your house? Write down the patterns that you find.
4) Where do you see rows and columns in your house? Write down where you see them.
5) Look at a painting in your house. What shapes do you see in the painting?
20 points
1) Cut out pictures from newspapers and magazines and make number stories with them.
2) Find 5 items in the newspaper that cost less than a dollar.
3) The tooth fairy gave you $100 to spend. What will you buy? How much will all of your items cost?
4) Go to a restaurant and add up your food. (to the nearest dollar) Do the same for your family members. How much all together did you spend?
5) Find and write down 5 objects in your house using a scale that weigh more than 5 pounds, less than 5 pounds, and about 5 pounds.
6) Take a ruler or a tape measurer and measure 5 items in your home. Write down their length in centimeters and inches.
7) Find 5 objects in your house that are the shape of a rectangle, a square, a circle, a triangle.
30 points
1) Find 5 objects in your house that are a sphere, a cone, a pyramid, and a cube.
2) List temperatures in the weather section of the newspaper from lowest to highest or highest to lowest. Make a graph showing the temperatures.
3) Find 10 numbers in your house. Where are they? What do they represent? Why are they there?
4) Look at the clock. Write down everything that you do in one hour.
5) Use a piece of fruit and cut the fruit into fractions: ½, ¾,
6) Use a measuring cup to pour the following measurements:
Writing
20 points
1) Make a collage about yourself using pictures or words. Write about what you created.
2) Watch your favorite T.V. show. Write at least 3 sentences about the show. What happened? Now, write a different ending.
3) Find a picture of an animal that you think would make a good pet. Write a story about what would happen if you brought the animal home or to school.
4) Find a picture of an animal that you think would NOT make a good pet. Write a story about what would happen if you brought the animal home or to school.
5) Using a magazine or a newspaper, cut out words or pictures to complete the following sentences: I want…, I like…, I dislike…, or I wish…
6) Find a picture of something or draw something and write the adjectives, verbs, and nouns that describe that photograph.
7) Find an interesting picture in a magazine. Just look at the picture. Write down 10 questions that you have about the picture.
8.) Write a letter to a friend or family member. Make sure that you include all of the parts of a letter.