LRMS Supplemental Activities

The following provides examples of activities students can accomplish without the use of technology. Many of these activities provide opportunities for families to spend time together participating in engaging and enjoyable activities. READING and WRITING

● Read a story, and then retell or rewrite the story from a different character's perspective. ● Write a short play and perform it for siblings and/or parents. ● Listen to your favorite songs. See how many literary devices you can identify, or come up with your own lyrics put to the tune of the song. ● Read a children's book aloud to your siblings, pet, or parents. Remember to use different voices for different characters. ● Create your own book and/or graphic comic. ● Play short versions of word games like Scattergories, Boggle, Taboo, and Password.

MATH

● Play any strategy or logic games with siblings and/or parents. (Life, Clue, Monopoly, Blockus, Sequence, Labyrinth, Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, and so on) ● Create your own board game. Be prepared to teach your family how to play. ● Quiz your parents on their math skills. Ask multiplication facts, division facts, fractions, or create equations. Make sure you know the answers. ● Figure out the distance between two cities on a map using the scale. Start with short distances and increase the distance. ● Look up the monthly average rainfall and/or temperature in your city or state. Then use these figures to determine the average total rainfall for the year and average temperature during each season of the year.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” -Albert Einstein Additional Learning Opportunities 9. Sketch your pet or other objects around the 1. Eat a food you’ve never tried before. house. 2. Learn to do origami. 10. Make a friendship bracelet and send it to a 3. Build a house of cards. friend. 4. Plan and prepare a picnic in your yard. 11. Watch the sunset and describe all the colors. 5. Make a mosaic using dyed rice. 12. Make a collage out of old magazines. 6. Make a card and send it to a friend or family 13. Plan and budget meals for your family for a member. week or more. 7. Test out paper airplanes. 14. Using sidewalk chalk, create an encouraging 8. Create a photo journal. message on the sidewalk or driveway.

Social Studies

● Play a guessing game that challenges you to identify as many historical figures as you can in a set period of time. You can also play the game by identifying countries, cities, bodies of water, plants, animals, vegetables, authors, fairy tale characters, weather conditions, cars, television shows, or movies. ● Identify where various geographic locations (continents, countries, cities, landmarks, bodies of water, etc.) are on a large map. ● Create a list of historical event. Put them in chronological order. Then list five important events in your personal history and put them in chronological order or on a timeline.

Science

● Build a bridge out of Legos or recyclable items and see how much weight it can support. ● Make a mini greenhouse to grow plants using a clear plastic bottle, soil, and a small plant or seedling. ● Make a compost bin using a large plastic bin with a lid and holes in the bottom, moist old newspapers, worms, staw, sawdust, or shredded leaves, and food scraps. ● Make a bird feeder and observe how birds use their beaks to feed. Make notes of different types of birds and how they feed. ● Test different household liquids (juice, cooking oil, lotion, ink, detergent, milk, vinegar) to see if they will mix with water. ● Draw an outline of a person's face or an object using light and shadow. ● Observe and track how long it takes for a puddle to evaporate.

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