🎲 What Should I Do?
Write interview questions and interview your grandparents/family members in person or Skype/FaceTime
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Math & Money
- Work on math facts (orally, with flash cards or math facts sheets)
- Solve oral word problems
- Create the floor plan for a house
- Determine a budget for allowance money
- Count money
- Practice making change with money
- Measure things: for cooking or baking, the heights of people, the lengths of rooms
- Find the perimeter of a room
- Set a dollar amount and pretend to shop with a catalog or online
- Practice telling time
- Find the area of surfaces in your house
- Record everything you do in one hour
- Create 'Estimate and Check' activities, like guessing the number of beans in a jar and then counting them
- Identify geometric shapes in your environment
Reading & Writing
- Write a letter to a pen pal by paper or email
- Write a Thank-You note
- Read to a sibling
- Write a story
- Write poems, limericks, or haiku
- Write a letter to your grandparents
- Write interview questions and interview your grandparents/family members in person or Skype/FaceTime
- Classify your collection of books
- Arrange your book collection in alphabetical order
- Write down the names of everyone in your class and alphabetize by the first letter
- Write a play
- Use a dictionary to learn a new word (write them in a booklet if you'd like)
- Practice handwriting or calligraphy
- Make lists of nouns, adjectives, or other parts of speech
- Make a book
- Read a story and summarize it: Somebody / Wanted / But / So / Then...
- Go to the library if it is open
- Practice Spanish
- Learn and practice words in a new language
Games & Puzzles
- Play board games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, Chess, Pictionary or Trivial Pursuit
- Play other games like Charades, Mad Libs, and card games
- Solve a crossword puzzle
- Play math card games
- Play word sound games (What words can you think of that have the sound ch-?)
- Play rhyming word games
- Play counting games
- Play alphabet games (Make an oral list of animals from A to Z)
- Learn a joke
- Play the 'Who am I?' game
Social Studies & Geography
- Make a map (of the school, your bedroom, the city, an amusement park, another planet)
- Learn the names of the States and Capitals
- Learn the names of Countries and Capitals
- Plot points on a map
- Learn the names of politicians
- Learn the role of politicians
- Make a family tree
- Research a person and complete a biography report
- Find some interesting information about a holiday
- Choose a destination and map out how you could get there on the subway
- Research a new country
- Complete a map of a country or territory
Science & Nature
- Watch the phases of the moon
- Look at the stars and find constellations
- Keep a weather journal
- Check the temperature and record it hourly or daily
- Use a rain gauge to determine the amount of rain
- Work in the garden or plant seeds
- Water your houseplants
- Care for the plants
- Research a new animal
- Do a science experiment
- Bird watch (draw and/or research the birds that you see)
- Go on a 'Sidewalk Safari' (bring a journal to draw what you see)
Arts, Music & Creativity
- Make a puppet show
- Learn a new song
- Practice a musical instrument
- Take a music lesson
- Learn to operate a camera
- Do crafts: knitting, hand knitting, crochet, weaving or needle point
- Keep a scrapbook
- Choreograph a dance routine
- Arrange flowers
- Make a birthday or holiday card
- Make a birthday or holiday gift
- Make and hang holiday decorations
Life Skills & Home
- Fold the laundry
- Perform an Act of Kindness
- Organize the recycling by material
- Make a list of your favorite foods
- Make your bed, brush your teeth, or take the trash out without being told
- Help clean up after dinner
- Load the dishwasher
- Learn to do your own laundry
- Care for your pets
- Polish the silverware
- Plan a menu for your own restaurant
- Write the shopping list
- Start a collection (stamps, fossils, leaves)
- Organize your belongings
- Make your own lunch
- Make a list of things you do not want for lunch
- Learn your address and phone number
- Call a friend
- Help clean your house without being asked
- Help your family plan a vacation
Physical Activity
- Do some physical activity: play basketball, soccer, swim, or ride your bicycle
- Take a walk through your neighborhood