Internet Outage Grades 3-5

Reading

Read a book. Then you could:

Write a retelling of the story in your own words.
Describe the characters, setting, main events of a story in your own words. Include your reactions, thoughts, and feelings about what you read.
Write about your favorite part of the story. Explain why it was your favorite part.
Talk about or write/draw what you think the author’s message may be and why. What lessons might the author want the readers to learn?
Pick one of the main characters. Write about the challenges or problems the character faced and how they resolved the challenges or problems. Would you have acted the same? Differently?
Identify a character from the story, and then make the character different in some way. Rewrite the story, being sure to change the story in appropriate ways due to the way you changed the character.
Rewrite the ending.

Write a narrative story, poem, or play. If you write a play, act it out for people who live in your home.
Write about your day. Share:
- What did you do?
- What did those around you do?
- What feelings did you experience? How did your feelings influence how you acted or what you chose to do? Why?
- What would you choose to do differently tomorrow or in the future based on your experience on the day you write about?
Write an informational piece about something you know a lot about or care a lot about.
Write a letter to someone to convince them of something.
Take a walk around your home, or with permission and an adult, a walk around your neighborhood.
- Take pictures or draw scientific illustrations (with labels!) of what you see.
- Identify and make a list of items in your home or neighborhood that are person-made and items that are from nature. Pick one of the objects and write about it in detail without using the actual object’s name; use as much descriptive language as possible with the goal of having another person be able to tell you what the object is.
Draw or write about your walk. Tell in words or pictures:

What did you notice?
What questions do you have about your home or about things in your neighborhood?
How do you think your home was built or other buildings in your neighborhood were made?

Choose a number. Build equations using that number. Example: My number is 4. 4x4=16. 4+4=8. 4-4=0. 4(4+4)=32.
Look for shapes in your home, in magazines, in books. Make a list of the shapes you find. Describe the shapes, telling how many angles, sides and faces (if the shape is 3-dimensional) they have.
Write math problems (addition or subtraction, multiplication or division) about people or things in your house (example: brother ate 7 cupcakes and the dog ate six times as many cupcakes as brother. How many cupcakes did grandma find were eaten in total?)
Look for all the different ways numbers show up in your house. (example, How many pairs do you see? Multiples of ten?)
Create a math game that uses…
- ...cards
- ...a Rubik’s cube
- ...dice
- ...eating utensils, bowls, plates, etc.
Look for a recipe -- in a recipe book or a food box/bag/can. Then…
- ...double, triple, or quadruple the recipe and determine how many units of each ingredient would be needed

Build something out of objects in your home. Write about your process: What did you choose to build and why? What items were required? What tools did you use, if any? What steps did you take to build your finished product?
Monitor and describe the weather.
- Take note of the weather each hour, and write about what you notice.
- Describe the temperature every hour (use a thermometer or invent your own system for determining how hot or cold it is)?
- If there is wind, what is the speed of the wind and from what direction is it coming?
- What precipitation do you notice? Determine a system for measuring the precipitation and monitor the volume over a 12-hour and 24-hour period of time.