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.
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.