Saturday, October 5, 2013

Additional Homework Activities for this Month!

If you are looking for extra home practice for your child or would like a challenge for your child, check out these great ideas below!  Each month, new ideas will be posted as optional homework activities.  
You have the choice to do any or all of these activities. It covers a lot of subjects and will change each month. If the activity is underlined, click on it to go to that page. If you can print or bring in what you've been working on I would love to see it! Have fun!!

Reading 
* Pick a book and time yourself reading it. How long was your 1st time? Read the same book again. What was your 2nd time?
* Read a book of your choice. Write down the name of the book and one question you have about the story.
* Look around your home for all the things that have words on it that you can read. Make a list of things you could read
* Listen to someone read for 15 minutes. Draw a picture of what you imagined while they were reading.
* Read a book about fall or Halloween.
* Read The First on the Moon
Math 
* Go outside and grab an armful of leaves. Count all the leaves you grabbed and write the amount.
* Practice telling what time it is. One afternoon, write down what you were doing at: 4:00 5:30 7:45
* Go outside and collect a bunch of leaves. Put them into groups of 10. How many groups did you get? How many leftovers?
* Find a deck of playing cards. Pick two cards at a time and write an addition number sentence to find the sum. Repeat this 5 times. Hint: Take out the face cards.
* Write down when your started Trick or Treating. What time did you finish? How long did you Trick or Treat for?
Science
* Visit the NASA for Kids website.
* Find 5 different leaves and write down the differences and similarities you see.
* We have done the K and W of the KWL chart. Write down the L part for things you have learned about Sun, Moon and Stars.
* Go to space place and explore.
Writing
* Write a short story starting with the line, “Once I went for a walk on the moon.”
* What is the best thing about the Fall Foliage Festival and why?
* Make up a rhyming poem about the season fall.
* Write a description of what you are going to be for Halloween. Use lots of adjectives (describing words)!
* Make a list of as many fall words as you can. Then write a sentence using some of those words
Technology 
* Visit the Warner Fall Foliage website to see pictures from the festival and to see what's happening next year
Gym
* Go for a walk outside for ten minutes. Every time you step on a leaf do a jumping jack. Write down how many jumping jacks you did.
* Time yourself running from one end of your yard to the other. Try again and see if you can do it faster. Record your fastest time.
* Go outside and play shadow tag with someone or things out in the yard.
* Go for a walk and time how long you walk for.
Art
* Look at the moon and stars this week. Draw a picture of what you see.
* Create something that shows what is special about the season fall.
* Find two different leaves. Make leaf rubbings by putting a paper over the leaves and rubbing an unwrapped crayon sideways over the paper. Write down what is the same and what is different about these two leaves.
* Make a Halloween mask. It can be made of anything you have around the house, paper, socks, old t-shirts. Be creative and have fun.
* Draw a picture with a pumpkin in it- what is happening in your picture?
Music
* Make up a song or rhyme about space. Some words to include might be moon, stars, astronaut, explore.
* Write a list of 5 special sounds that you hear in the fall.
* Make a list of 5 spooky sounds you might hear around Halloween.