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Sample Lesson Plan Activities
For Grades 3-8
Weeks 1, 2, & 3
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WEEK 1 LESSONS
WEEK 1: Monday - Friday for Grades 3 - 8
Language Arts: Week 1
- Take a reading field trip! A good way to start the homeschool year is by taking a reading field trip to the library. The library is one of the homeschooler's best friends!
- Allow children to select books that especially interest them. Quietly read a story together in a corner of the library. Afterwards, have children describe what they liked about the story. Encourage them to retell the story to you, in their own words, on the drive home from the library.
- Ease in to critical reading (analyzing, evaluating, and processing content) by allowing children to read books that interest them, or books that they have selected for pleasure reading.
- For possible reading selections, see Recommended Reading Lists for different ages, gender, and categories. [Note: Links will open for Subscribers.]
- Children can draw illustrations to pictorially describe current books they're reading. Some children may even want to draw several pictures per chapter, to illustrate favorite books.
- Take turns reading chapters aloud to each other. Remember, no matter how old your child, everyone loves being read to!
- Enhance vocabulary skills by using the dictionary for any unfamiliar words in the current books being read. If your child doesn't have his or her own dictionary, now is a good time to invest in one.
- Have fun with the dictionary and increase dictionary skills by playing games with it. See how quickly a certain word can be found. Use the second-hand on a clock or watch, for timing purposes. Have children find a word beginning with a certain letter that is a verb. Find one that is a noun. An adjective, etc.
- To better understand verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, etc., use current, favorite books. Dissect a favorite sentence, categorizing each of the words as articles, verbs, nouns, adjectives. Continue this style of understanding sentences on a regular basis. Finding the parts of speech will soon become second-nature to children.
- Practice spelling skills by selecting words from current, favorite books. Read the spelling words, and the sentences containing the spelling words, from this week's book, and have children print or write them. Now switch. Have children read you some spelling words, print or write them, and have children check them.
- Play the Grammar Gorilla game by selecting Beginner or Advanced (Click here.) [Note: Links will open for Subscribers.]
- Also, use our Daily Creative Writing Idea (featured on our Home page) each day to stimulate creative thinking, writing, and communication skills on a daily basis.
Social Studies: Week 1
- Discuss the things you did this summer, which had a positive influence or impact on the community, neighborhood, friends, or relatives.
- What were the favorite aspects, or benefits, of helping others? In what other ways can one help in the community this month, or in the coming months?
- Read Christin Ditchfield's Serving Your Community or Ellen Sabin's The Giving Book or The Hero Book.
- Discuss the trips you took this summer, or the museums or areas of interest you explored or toured.
- Write about the favorite parts of the summer trips, activities, or explorations. Then draw pictures illustrating these favorite activities from this summer.
- Select another community, neighborhood, culture, or customs to study, research, and learn more about. For instance, a different city, state, or region of the country; a neighboring country and its culture; or a country overseas and its culture.
- Read Burleigh Muten's Grandfather Mountain, Tony Johnston's Any Small Goodness, Diana Granat's Exploring Cultures through Art, Shirley Cook's 180 Days Around the World, and similar books on different cultures.
Math: Week 1
- For math fun and learning, read Christopher Jennison's Baseball Math, Chuck Lotta's Fast & Fun Mental Math, Gregory Tang's Math-terpieces, and John Scieszka's Math Curse.
- Create your own math activities, to enhance or challenge math skills, by using everyday events around the home: baking, cooking, measuring, building, constructing, designing, drawing to scale, grocery shopping, saving and budgeting money, and more.
- Play money guessing games: You have some coins in your pocket that equals 10 cents, but they aren't pennies. What are the coins? You have some coins in your pocket that equals 17 cents. What might the coins be? You have $1.73 in coins in your pocket. What might the coins be?
- Give the coins to children. Have the children "turn the tables" by having you guess the amount of coins in their pockets.
- Have children create their own "piggy bank" and start saving their coins each week. Come up with a fun, creative bank in place of the traditional "piggy bank". Count and tally up the totals each week.
- Do the Hands-On Math Activity on Money-Spending Fun. (Click here.)
- Play Baseball Math (Click here.)
- Play the Funbrain Math Baseball Game. Select from Easy to Super Brain (Click here.)
- Play the Cookie Dough Game to practice reading and writing numbers and numerals, from 0 to 10,000. Select from Easier to Harder (Click here.)
- For math review purposes, browse these math worksheets (Click here.)
- With your child's help, create your own "busy-work" math pages that capture your child's learning style and interests.
Science: Week 1
- Explore and observe nature in and around your home, parks, and recreational areas.
- Or go on a "Virtual Field Trip" to a habitat and see the actual animals, birds, reptiles, plants, and flowers. Then follow up with the suggested activities there. Remember to send us a photo, too. (Click here.)
- Discuss the different types of animals, birds, and plants that you see. Discuss their habitats and environment, such as woodlands and forests, freshwater lakes, salt water oceans, deserts.
- Use a sketchbook to draw pictures of nature observations, animals, and habitats.
- Go on a hunt for living and nonliving things. Is a plant a living or nonliving thing? Explain why. Is a rock a living or nonliving thing? How many living and nonliving things can you spot?
- Collect special rocks, shells, leaves, flowers, etc. Start a nature collection and add to it each week.
- Read Michael Chinery's Animal Habitats, Emily Stetson's Create a Wildlife Habitat for Urban and Suburban Small Spaces, Richard Spilbury's Great Outdoors: Saving Habitats, and Laurie Toupin's Freshwater Habitats and Life in the Temperate Grasslands.
- Make a forest diorama to complement your animal habitat study. (Click here.)
- For worksheets, if desired, use printouts such as Freshwater Habitats (Click here) and Rainforest (Click here.)
- Have children use the computer to create their own worksheets or science pages about their favorite animals and habitats.
- Select a favorite animal and habitat to study and create activities around, such as: a report and illustrations of the animal and habitat, sculptures of the animal and habitat, dioramas, table-top displays, backyard replicas of the animal and habitat.
- Play "Drag & Drop Animal Habitats" (Click here.)
Safety & Life Skills: Week 1
- By now, all children will know their full name, address, their parent's or caregiver's full names, and telephone and cell phone numbers.
- One of the most important, and delicate, subjects to handle is "stranger danger." Regardless of a child's age, it can be difficult for children to know who is their friend and who is not.
- Contact your local law enforcement about "stranger danger" or "safe kids" programs they might offer. Encourage your community to create a program to help children learn more about protecting themselves.
- As parents, read articles such as "Stranger Danger" (Click here.)
- Engage professionals in law enforcement, child psychology, and child safety who can speak to your homeschool groups on how to handle this topic with children of various ages.
Art & Music: Week 1
- Make a forest diorama to complement your animal habitat study. (Click here.)
- Draw or paint illustrations of animals and habitats, make sculptures of animals and their habitats, or create table-top displays of animals and habitats. Use creativity and imagination by incorporating outdoor, natural materials into the artistic displays.
- Bring art and music into every subject area as often as possible. The more fun and "hands-on" the activities are, the more your children will enjoy them and learn from them.
- Sing or hum happy tunes while working around the home or when involved in projects.
- Forgotten the lyrics to favorite children's songs? Search the songs by alphabet and enjoy some daily sing-alongs! (Click here.)
- Listen to classical music or soothing music when involved in artwork or crafts.
- Learn more about classical music by (Clicking here.)
- Read about the benefits of classical music by (Clicking here.
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WEEK 2 LESSONS
WEEK 2: Monday - Friday for Grades 3 - 8
Language Arts: Week 2
- Remember that the library is one of the homeschooler's best friends! Visit each week and continue to allow children to select the books that interest them.
- Discuss your children's favorite books or stories with them. Continue to have them retell stories to you, in their own words. This helps you determine their reading-comprehension levels and comprehension of vocabulary words.
- Attend any Reading Programs, Mystery Club Programs, Pre-Teen Book Clubs, or other events hosted by your local library or bookstore for your child's age group.
- Read interactive stories online, then do the activities. Visit the Elementary Library (Click here) [Note: Links open for Subscribers on Lesson pages].
- Print out the activity sheets from the online interactive stories (from above sites). Have fun doing the activities together. Help children create their own simple stories, such as those in the Elementary Library.
- Have children create their own stories by using writing software such as The Amazing Writing Machine by Broderbund or Paint, Write, and Play by the Learning Company.
- Play a game to better understand the parts of speech. Create silly sentences by choosing nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and articles from a jar. Write the words on slips of paper ahead of time, put them in the jar, and have children pull them out, then create silly sentences. Refresh your memory of the parts of speech by clicking here.
- Create stories online and learn the parts of speech by playing "Mad Libs" (Click here).
- Practice picking out the parts of speech by clicking here.
- Continue taking turns reading chapters of favorite books aloud to each other. And take turns sketching images that come to mind while listening to stories.
- For possible reading selections, see Recommended Reading Lists for different ages, gender, and categories.
- Also, use our Daily Creative Writing Idea (featured on our Home page) each day to stimulate creative thinking, writing, and communication skills on a daily basis.
Social Studies: Week 2
- Do you know who discovered and settled your city, town, or community? Who were the first settlers in your area? When did they settle there, and where did they come from? What impact did the early settlers have on your area?
- To learn more about the early explorers and settlers in your area, visit your local museum or historic society. Ask the museum's curator if he or she could answer your questions on your community's early explorers and settlers. Ask him or her to show you photos, exhibits, and artifacts about those early explorers and settlers.
- If allowed in your museum, take photos of exhibits, or ask for flyers about the exhibits. Then create your own photo exhibit of the early explorers and settlers from your community.
- For your personal exhibit, use heavy poster board, cardboard, or foamboard. Mount the photos or flyers on the display board. Write descriptive captions on white, or colorful, index cards. Mount the captions beneath or near each photo.
- On white or colorful paper, write additional details about your area's early explorers and settlers, when they settled in your area, why they settled there, and the impact they had on your area.
- Take several close-up photos of your exhibit from different angles. Keep the photos and descriptions for your homeschool portfolio. Those who see your portfolio in the months or years ahead will be surprised by all you've learned about your area's history!
- If you need additional information on the early explorers and settlers in your community, visit your local public library. Ask the librarian to show you the section of books on your area. Many are often written by local authors. See if you can meet the authors, talk with them, and have your picture taken with them, to add to your exhibit.
- Determine what else was going on in your country and nation during the time your town was being settled. Read history timelines by clicking here.
- Create your own timeline based on your community's settlements and events through the years. See "How to Make a Timeline" by clicking here.
- Read America's Early Settlers: Moments in History by Shirley Jordan or the Early Settlers Series by Bobbie Kalman, such as Early Village Life or Early City Life.
Math: Week 2
- Discuss Numeration Systems. See Inventing and Writing Numbers by Clicking here.
- Read Brenda Opie's Addition, Subtraction, Place Value, Other Numeration Systems to enhance adding and subtracting skills, and to read more on numeration systems.
- On paper, show a variety of numeration systems, such as tallies, counting systems, and numbering systems. Then create your own numeration system, by devising a way to count and indicate the number of objects on paper.
- Discuss Prime Numbers and Prime Factoring. For explanations and examples of Prime Numbers and Prime Factoring,
Click here.
- For challenging math fun, read Hard-to-Solve Math Puzzles by Derrick Niederman, and Math Practice at Home by Wes and Amy Tuttle, on prime numbers and prime factoring, plus many more math skills.
- Discuss Composite Numbers and Rational Numbers. For explanations and examples of Composite Numbers, Rational Numbers, and Irrational Numbers, Click here.
- For virtual, interactive Prime Factoring practice, Click here. For worksheet Prime Factoring practice,
Click here.
- For additional practice with composite numbers, rational and irrational numbers, integers, and more, read Homework Survival Guide: Math by Teri Crawford Jones, and Math Practice at Home by Wes and Amy Tuttle, to better understand prime numbers and skills in prime factoring, plus many more math skills.
- For those whose "least-favorite subject" is Math, read Math Game 1 and Math Game 2 by Tori Jung. Use the fun, puzzle-based adventures in both books to learn more about rational and irrational numbers, fractions, Fibonacci Numbers, and more.
- For tips and strategies on how to memorize math facts, try Math Smarts: Tips for Learning, Using and Remembering Math by Lynette Long.
- For Math review purposes or worksheets to complement lessons, browse these math worksheets (Click here).
- For Math fun and practice, play online Math games, such as Baseball Math (Click here).
- Play the Funbrain Math Baseball Game. Select from Easy to Super Brain (Click here).
Science: Week 2
- Have a discussion on how parents care for their young. Then discuss the different ways that animal parents care for their young.
- Read Animal Parents by Jeremy Cherfas, Animals and Their Young: How Animals Produce and Care for Their Young by Pamela Hickman, and the Baby Animals Zoobooks Series.
- Go on "Virtual Field Trips" to visit the zoo several times this week (Click here).
- Watch Live Zoo Animal Videos! (Click here.)
- Play Animal Games! Click here for Jungle Animals, Safaris, Animal Tracking, and more.
- Make a collage. Draw, color, or print out animal pictures. Cut them out and paste onto poster board. Decorate the collage with images, drawings, or paintings of the animals' natural habitats or surroundings.
- To learn more about various animals and to increase reading comprehension, read the pages under "Mammal Reading Comprehensions" (Click here).
- Make "Animal Trivia Cards" by drawing and cutting out pictures of animals featured on the above page ("Mammal Reading Comprehensions"). Paste their pictures on construction paper or poster board. Add fun facts about the animal to the back of the cards. Hold up each card with the picture for others to see. Ask them to tell you three facts about the animal they see on the card.
Safety & Life Skills: Week 2
- Review your family's Home Safety Rules. Read more on safety and take part in safety activities this week by clicking here.
- Take a Walking Tour through your home and discuss safety tips for each room. Don't forget the porch, garage, yard, or other areas surrounding your home.
- Read the Safe Kids tips (Click here). Use the pictures to inspire poster ideas or bulletin board ideas.
- Create a Safety Bulletin Board in your kitchen or family room. Cover all the areas of safety that you and your child can think of. Include them on your Safety Bulletin Board in a creative, colorful, and helpful style.
- On large pieces of paper, draw or paint representations of each room in your home, as well as areas outside the home. In each room, illustrate the areas that present possible safety issues or that need special safety considerations. Discuss how to properly handle each issue, according to your family's Home Safety Rules.
- Read Safety at Home by Lucia Raatma. Discuss the safety procedures and safety tips to practice in your home.
- Color and discuss the Safety Coloring Sheets listed under Activities for Kids (Click here).
Art & Music: Week 2
- Create a movie of your artwork. See examples here and listen to the descriptions by artists (wait for images to load fully). Then upload your images into the timeline for your own video (Click here).
- Get "Inside Art": Take an adventure in art history. Read the stories, view the artwork, and click on the Who, What, How, and Where (Click here).
- After viewing the above two Web sites, begin your own painting, drawing, or other type of artwork.
For art ideas, Click here.
- Make interesting paper crafts for fun! Select buildings, houses, animals, and more. Then create your own paper crafts (Click here).
- Bring art and music into every subject area as often as possible. The more fun and "hands-on" the activities are, the more your children will enjoy them and learn from them.
- Continue learning more about classical music by (Click here).
- Listen to classical music or soothing music when involved in artwork or crafts.
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WEEK 3 LESSONS
WEEK 3: Monday - Friday for Grades 3 - 8
Language Arts: Week 3
- "Smart Ideas: Smartest Card Campaign." September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. Help to increase awareness and support for your local public library. Visit the Public Library Association by Clicking Here. [Links will open for Subscribers: See Note in Overview above.]
- Remember that the library is one of the homeschooler's best friends! Visit each week and continue to allow children to select the books that interest them.
- September is National Literacy Month. The ability to read and comprehend affects children in all areas of education. Try these Reading Skills Activity Books: Reading Comprehension Card Games by Elaine Richard; Funnybone Books: Reading Skills by Dan Greenberg; and Independent Activity Pages For Reading That Kids Can't Resist! by Vicki Whiting.
- Another way to build reading comprehension and problem-solving skills is to read many mystery-solving books and who-dunits. Try Stories to Solve and More Stories to Solve by George Shannon. Also, Great Whodunit Quick-Solve Puzzles by Jim Sukach and Case Closed! 40 Mini Mysteries for You to Solve by Jurg Obrist.
- Now, create your own mystery stories for others to solve. Add clues to help readers solve the mystery. Include the solution to your mystery on the last page of your story. Read Writing Mysteries, Movies, Monster Stories, and More by Donna Guthrie.
- For young readers, read these online stories and discuss, then play Word Games and more at the end of stories Click Here).
- For older readers, or readers of all ages, read these online stories and discuss (Click Here).
- "Story Circle Activity" for any age level. Cut a large circle out of poster board. Cut into five, equal, wedge-shaped pieces. On one piece, write the beginning to a story of your own creation. On another piece, write what happens next in your story. On the third wedge, write a problem, or conflict, that occurs in the story. On the next two pieces, write the resolution, and then the end of your story. Put the pieces back together in order, tape them together, and read your Story Circle out loud. Create more Story Circles and use them to expand into more complex stories.
- Book Report Page. This lined, organized form makes book reports fun. Includes space for Title, Author, Characters, Setting, Main Events, Problem/Conflict, Conclusion, and What I Liked about This Book. Or make your own attractive Book Report Page, with colorful stickers or decorations (Click Here).
- Play "Anagram Sleuth" reading and puzzle-solving game online (Click Here).
- Create "Wacky Web Tales" online and practice the parts of speech (Click Here).
- Practice "Spelling Match" online and select the appropriate grade level (Click Here).
- Use our Daily Creative Writing Idea (featured on our Home page) each day to stimulate creative thinking, writing, and communication skills on a daily basis.
Social Studies: Week 3
- Holidays and calendars. As Fall approaches, several holidays will be coming up. Discuss some of the Fall holidays, such as Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, along with the history and meaning of each holiday.
- See a list of some holidays by Clicking Here.
- "Holiday Calendar Activity." Make a "Holiday Calendar" and decorate. On the "Holiday Calendar," note the reason for the holiday and how your family -- or other families or cultures -- celebrate the holiday.
- Keep the "Holiday Calendar" for handy reference. When holidays are approaching, discuss the ways you'd like to celebrate them, or to learn more about them.
- Visit the library to find age-appropriate books on the holidays. Make crafts and artwork that reflect the holiday. Bake treats or prepare meals that complement the holiday.
- Learn more about different holidays with these books: Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, History, Fascinating Facts by Lee Bennett Hopkins and 180 Days Around the World: Learning about Countries and Cultures Through Research and Thinking-Skills Activities by Shirley Cook.
- Select a holiday in a different country or other culture to study and research. Create a research paper on that particular holiday, culture, and customs.
- Use the Report Planner to help you organize and write your report (Click Here).
- Use the Venn Diagram to help you compare different types of holidays, how they are alike and how they are different (PDF file for printing: Click Here).
- Craft books that you might want to keep on-hand for holidays are Easy-To-Do Holiday Crafts by Sharon Dunn Umnik and Best Holiday Crafts Ever by Kathy Ross.
Math: Week 3
- Read Math for All Seasons by Gregory Tang and solve fun riddles and puzzles, using problem-solving skills. Also, read Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, and On Time: From Seasons to Split Seconds by Skurzynski.
- Solve Deductive Reasoning Puzzles (Click here) and (Click here). Then create your own similar reasoning puzzles.
- Hands-On Math Activity. Make a Mobius Strip and read why it is a fascinating display of topology (Click here). Then view animated, 3D versions of colorful Mobius Strips (Click here). Now, fill out a Report Sheet on your experience with Mobius Strips (Click here).
- Hands-On Math Activity. Read about Origami Math (Click here). Then create a variety of Origami projects by following the Origami basics (Click here).
- Geoboard Activities: Use this virtual geoboard to do these geometry activities (Click here).
- Do Magic Square Math using Addition (Click here).
- Do Magic Square Math using Subtraction (Click here).
- Take these fun Math Challenges for the whole family (Click here).
- Do Fraction Addition practice (includes Answer sheets) by Clicking here.
- Do Fraction Subtraction practice (includes Answer sheets) by Clicking here.
- Play online Math games (Click here).
Science: Week 3
- In conjunction with your Social Studies "Holiday Calendar Activity," discuss the approaching end of Summer and the beginning of Fall. Are there already signs of this in your part of the country? Are the crops taller or showing signs of needing to be harvested? Or are leaves drying up, or is the grass losing its green luster? Search for other signs marking the end of the growing season or end of summer.
- Determine when the fall equinox begins (September 22) and mark it on your calendar. Plan a special end-of-summer bash for the last day of summer (September 21). Savor those last minutes of the last day of summer.
- Study the changing seasons and the reasons for the change. Explain that the seasons change as the earth rotates around the sun. Summer is the time when our area of the world receives more direct sunlight and heat. As the earth tilts away from the sun, we receive less heat, and the earth grows cooler, as we move into Autumn.
- Read "What Causes the Seasons" by Clicking here and "Reasons for Seasons" by Clicking here.
- Use a globe to demonstrate the changing seasons. Set the globe in a patch of warm sunlight streaming in through a window, with your area of the world facing the sun. Feel the warm spot on the globe where the sun touches it. Slowly turn the globe away from the sun. Feel how the warm spot has now cooled. This is similar to the earth tilting further away from the sun in the fall and winter.
- Go on a "Seasons Scavenger Hunt" (Click here.
- Read Complete Book of the Seasons by Sally Tagholm and read and do Elementary Science Activities for All Seasons by Julia Spencer Moutran.
- Complete "Seasons Worksheets" if desired (Click here).
- Do a Seasons Crossword Puzzle (Click here) and Seasons Word Search (Click here).
- Make a leaf collage. Go for a nature walk and identify leaves and trees in your area. Collect green and yellow leaves to glue onto poster board or construction paper to form an attractive leaf collage. Label the different types of leaves you collect. Use these printouts for identifying leaves and trees (Click here).
- Make a leaf rubbing. Collect assorted leaves, place plain white paper on top of the leaf, then color over top with crayons of different colors. The image of the leaf will be visible on the paper. Label the backs of the leaves, then test others on their leaf knowledge. Display leaf rubbings on bulletin boards.
Life Skills, Health, Safety: Week 3
- Encourage children to help prepare meals and provide their own ideas for family meals. If they'd prefer to have pizza every night, explain why that's not healthy.
- Read about the different types of vitamins and minerals that our bodies need in Vitamins and Minerals for a Healthy Body by Angela Royston.
- Also, read Diet and Nutrition by Patsy Westcott; The Edible Pyramid by Loreen Leedy; and Eat Healthy, Feel Great by Martha Sears.
- Visit "Kid Chef" for some cooking tips and recipes for kids (Click here).
- Take the "Kid Chef Quiz" by Clicking here.
- Enter your favorite recipe to "Kid Chef" by Clicking here.
- For books with cooking tips and recipes, try Kids Cook! Fabulous Food for the Whole Family by Sarah Williamson; Betty Crocker Kids Cook!; and The Everything Kids' Cookbook by M. S. Sandra.
- Encourage experimentation in the kitchen with recipes and meal-planning. Take photos of dishes, then compile a cookbook of favorite recipes. Include the photos in the cookbook, and illustrate the cookbook with drawings of kitchens, cooking, and dining.
- Have children clean up after cooking, baking, and experimenting. Assign them responsibilities with everyday meal planning, preparation, and cleanup.
- For a treat and to celebrate the end of summer, make cupcakes that reflect summertime fun. On the top of one, create a sun. On another, a pink flower. On another, a beach ball. Use creativity to design summertime-fun cupcakes.
Art & Music: Week 3
- Make Organic Art by "spilling" paint onto a large sheet of paper. What does your "spilled paint art" look like to you? Allow to dry, then add details to your artwork with paint or markers to better define what your organic artwork represents to you. See Instructions: (Click Here).
- View this Timeline of Art. Select an era and try to duplicate the art, such as Cave Paintings or Cubism or Abstract Art (Click Here).
- Make a Color Wheel with Primary and Secondary colors, then another with Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary colors. Refer to your color wheel when painting, coloring, or designing (Click Here).
- Visit "Inside Art" to continue learning more about art history. Read the stories, view the artwork, and click on the Who, What, How, and Where (Click Here).
- After viewing the above Web sites, work on your own creations, paintings, drawings, or other types of artwork.
For art ideas, Click Here.
- Choose a musical instrument to learn to play. Read "How to Choose a Musical Instrument to Play" (Click Here).
- Contact music instructors in your area and interview them. See if they would be a good fit for teaching your children how to play the instrument of their choice. Read "How to Pick the Right Music Teacher" (Click Here).
- Listen to different musical instruments: Click Here.
- Continue listening to classical music or soothing music when involved in artwork or crafts.
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More Activities
- Remember to visit these areas, too. [The following links open for Subscribers.]
- "Virtual Field Trips" (Click here).
- "Hands-On Activities" (Click here).
- "Worksheets Page" (Click here).
Time Required for Teaching
For this age group, here's an average of how many minutes per day are normally spent on teaching the core skills: Reading, Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science.
Younger Elementary Ages: About 60 to 75 minutes per day
Middle-School Ages: Between 1 to 3 hours per day
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