Friends,
A huge big thank you to all of you for creating fabulous learning environments for your children! Below are other sites and ideas you might find useful and fun.
www.scholastic.com/learnathome
Some other fun things to do at home
Interview a family member.
Measure the area of each room in your home.
Graph the types of birds that frequent your yard or windows.
Be completely silent for 60 minutes (good luck with this one), then write about the experience.
Write and mail a [real] letter to your teacher or principal or classroom friend. Address the envelope yourself.
Build a “fable fort” out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day while you create stories to tell your family over dinner.
Learn morse code and use it to communicate with your siblings through walls and floors.
Alphabetize the spices in your kitchen.
Stay up late and stargaze.
Call a grandparent or older relative. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days.
Determine and chart the times that different liquids require to turn solid in the freezer.
Design and create puppets that perform a show.
Construct a family tree.
Learn ten new big words. Write them in marker on your bathroom mirror.
Draw a map of your home.
Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts two people in your family, your neighborhood, or temple.
Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick.
Learn, practice, and tell three new jokes.
Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and wind instruments.
Learn to shine a pair of shoes.
If you have stairs, walk up and count them. Walk down and count by twos. Walk up and count by threes. Continue through tens.
Write a poem on your sidewalk using chalk
Measure the length of your bed using five different kinds of units.
Call a person who speaks a language you do not. Ask them to teach you five common words or phrases.
Create and use a secret code.
Build a paper airplanes with your family. See whose will fly the farthest.
Set a clock three hours ahead. Whenever someone needs to know the time, help them figure it out by subtracting.
Write down every adjective ( describing word) you say for one full day. Ex: cold, yellow, strong,…)
Design a map of every state ever visited by people in your family.
Write or tell a story.
Using paper, tape, and string, design, build, and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet.
Imagine, create, and fly a full size flag that tells the world about you.
What an exciting list! No young children in my house but that won’t stop me from trying some of these… thanks!!
I love the list and will also plan to try out a few of the ideas.
Fun!