-Students should continue to do 30 minutes of silent reading every day.

-If you don’t have books available, there are online books available on the website 

tumblebooks.com . You can log in by using the username: Harcourt123 and the password: trial.

-Students should continue to try to do 60 minutes of physical activity each day.

-This week students should do 20 minutes of writing a day.  Students can choose to continue on with topics they worked on last week, if they wish.  Other new topics might be:

*What is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to you?  Write about your experience.

*Think of one of your favourite stories from your childhood.  Rewrite it with an alternate ending.

*What is your favourite time of the year?  What do you like about it?

*Write about a profession that you might like to have when you grow up.  Why would you like to have that job?

 *If you could be any famous person for a day, who would you want to be and why?

-Students should spend at least 10 minutes each day working on memorizing their doubles addition facts:

1 + 1 = 2     6 + 6 = 12

2 + 2 = 4     7 + 7 = 14

3 + 3 = 6     8 + 8 = 16

4 + 4 = 8     9 + 9 = 18

5 + 5 = 10   10 + 10 = 20

-Students should also spend at least 10 minutes each day working on their near doubles addition facts. Ex:

1 + 2 = 3     6 + 7 = 13

2 + 3 = 5     7 + 8 = 15

3 + 4 = 7     8 + 9 = 17

4 + 5 = 9     9 + 10 = 19

5 + 6 = 11

-Every day this week students should spend 20 minutes reviewing their 7 and 8 times tables.

7 x 1 = 7                        8 x 1 = 8

7 x 2 = 14                      8 x 2 = 16

7 x 3 = 21                      8 x 3 = 24

7 x 4 = 28                      8 x 4 = 32

7 x 5 = 35                      8 x 5 = 40

7 x 6 = 42                      8 x 6 = 48

7 x 7 = 49                      8 x 7 = 56

7 x 8 = 56                      8 x 8 = 64

7 x 9 = 63                      8 x 9 = 72

7 x 10 = 70                    8 x 10 = 80

7 x 11 = 77                    8 x 11 = 88

7 x 12 = 84                    8 x 12 = 96