Mathematics Activities

• Budget Activity- https://www.connectionsacademy.com/resources/instructographics/budget-worksheet-for-kids

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2013/10/15/the-5-most-important-money-lessons-to-teach-your-kids/#792ca13d6826

• Budget your MONEY; Get a piece of paper and write down a pretend budget amount, as if you had a job and got paid each week. Your pretend paycheck can not go over $200. Now make yourself out a grocery list. Include food, bathroom items, and put gas in your car.

• Go to https://www.splashlearn.com/counting-money-games and click on your grade level to practice with money.

• Locate a nutritional facts label on a food product. How many calories, fat, sodium and carbohydrates are in the product? Record your findings.

• Create and review math fact flash cards

• Create arrays from items at home such as socks, legos, rocks, etc.

• Find 2D and 3D shapes outside and inside the home

• Create a word problem using the nutritional facts label. Solve the word problem.

• Notice the clock- Play a game at a certain time. Begin with easy times (7:00) and get progressively more difficult (7:30 and 7:45)

• Bake with your child- Read the instructions on the back of the box and allow them to measure ingredients.

• Fractions- Take anything that is a whole- a sandwich a pizza, an apple. Cut into fractions: 2/2, 4/4, 3/3, and so forth. Talk about what each fraction is. Then work to determine equal shares among a group of kids. How many pieces would each child get?

• Math Games at home (just a few ideas)

• Yahtzee (basic addition)

  • Connect Four (problem solving, developing strategies)

  • Puzzles (spatial awareness)

  • Card Games (have players flip cards and greatest or least number wins)

  • Monopoly (money)

  • Battleship (coordinate graphs)

• Grocery Flyer Math

  • Rounding—round the price of each item to find an estimate of the total bill.

  • Adding and Subtracting Decimals— Add and subtract the prices of items listed in the flyer.

  • Planning—find a recipe and plan a meal. Then figure out the cost of the items.

  • Geometry—identify any 3D shapes you can find.

  • Least to Greatest – cut out coupons and order from least to greatest.

Online Resources Available

• https://www.pearsonrealize.com

  • Pearson Bounce Pages - makes worksheet interactive (Click here for Tutorial)

    • Apple App

• https://www.istation.com/ (Each student has an individual log in. School domain- primary.central.tx)

• https://www.khanacademy.org

• https://learn.khanacademy.org/khan-academy-kids/ (app available)

• https://www.quizlet.com/

• https://www.mentoringminds.com/

• https://tynker.com

• https://xtramath.org

Reading Language Arts Activities

• 25 minutes of reading

• After reading ask the following questions. What was the story about? Who are the characters and what changes do they undergo? How do the characters interact with each other? What was the most exciting part of the story and how was it resolved or how did it end? Tell your parent, guardian, or friend about the story in a way that makes sense to them, even though they did not read the story.

• Draw a picture of the most important idea from a tv show or story you have read and share it with someone at your home. Ask them to give you feedback from your explanation of the show or story.

• As you read make connections to yourself, other books, or the world.

• Write for 15 minutes

• Write to the author or a character in the text about a part of a story you have read. Tell them what you liked about what you read.

• Write a summary of the reading.

• Choose the 4 most important events that happened in your book and make them into a comic strip.

• Choose a character from the book and write an acrostic poem about them.

Online Resources Available

• https://www.istation.com/ (Each student has an individual log in. School domain- primary.central.tx)

• https://www.khanacademy.org

• https://learn.khanacademy.org/khan-academy-kids/ (app available)

• https://www.storylineonline.com

• https://www.starfall.com

• https://es.centralisd.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=320786&type=d&pREC_ID=731554 (elem library)

• https://www.tumblebooks.com/

• https://www.TrueFix.com ( login: centrale username: bulldog)

Science Activities

• Observe living organisms. Identify and describe the structures and functions that help them survive in their environment.

• Observe interactions between living and nonliving elements in an ecosystem. Record and explain the interactions between some living and nonliving elements.

• Illustrate and compare the life cycles of tomato plants, frogs, and lady beetles.

• Take a virtual field trip to the zoo https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animal-cams-videos

Online Resources Available

• PBS Learning Media-Butterflies bit.ly/PBSButterfly

• PBS Learning Media-Bird Migration bit.ly/PBSBirdMigration

• PBS Learning Media-Habitat Basics bit.ly/PBSHabitats

• https://www.brainpop.com/

Social Studies Activities

• Draw a map of your community and label important landmarks. Ex: schools, businesses, etc.

• Build a diorama of your community using legos or any other household items. Include important landmarks in your community. For example, your home schools, restaurants, businesses etc.

• Look around your home and create a list of wants and needs. Discuss these wants and needs with your family and determine what is truly most important.

• Think about the character traits of a good citizen. Draw a picture of yourself and list all of the character traits that make you a good citizen.

Online Resources Available

• https://www.brainpop.com/

• https://www.youtube.com/user/studiesweekly?app=desktop

Mary Renfro- Reading intervention-renfrom@centralisd.com