Activities:

Adult:  Initial each box when activity is finished

1. Our current PYP unit is about Families.  Interview a parent or grandparent about the family they grew up in.  Write at least 5 questions and answers.

2. Make a bar graph of the ages of the members of your family.  Separate the ages into odd and even numbers.

3. Take action to help someone in your family.  Draw a picture to show what you did. Label your picture or write a story to explain.

4. Show your appreciation by writing a thank you letter to some-one in your family who has been caring to you.  Challenge:  make a thank you note card instead of a letter and decorate the front.

5. Use your creativity to write a Name Poem.  Write your name down the side of the paper.  Add a fun word that begins with each letter.

6. Make a Word Wall collage:  cut out at least 10 word wall words from a magazine, catalog or newspaper.  You could also cut out individual letters to spell at least 5 word wall words.

7.  Make up new words to a familiar song.

8.  Make a list of rhyming words for 5 Word Wall words.

9. Practice counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 120 as fast as you can!

10. Make a grocery list of 10 items.  Go to the store with a parent or look for ads; write down the prices of these items.

11. Practice telling time to the hour and half hour.  List six

bedtimes to the nearest hour or half hour.

12. Find an item from an advertisement that costs $1.00 or less.  Glue the picture on a paper and record 10 combinations of coins to equal the amount.  Use dimes, nickels or pennies.  Example:

D N N P P P P = 24 cents