Challenges

Challenge Yourself at Home

Are you always finishing your homework early?  Are you looking for fun activities on the weekends?  Here are several things you can work on during your spare time.  Students who complete ten of the listed activities throughout the school year will receive a special certificate of participation and the opportunity to pick out of the prize box.  Many worksheets come with an answer key so be sure to correct them at home before turning all materials in. 

Read a Fun New Book

Read a new book each month from the list below.  Click on the worksheets that go with each book so you can print them at home.

Because of Winn-Dixie

The Boxcar Children

The Wizard of Oz

Where the Wild Things Are

The Bald Bandit An A to Z Mystery

The Polar Express

Inkheart

Bridge to Terabithia

Holes

Writing Prompts

Choose a writing prompt from the list.  Look for it listed on the right and print it out.  

If I were an artist..........

Dear President Obama, 

Dragon Alliterations

Emotions Poem

Rock Poem

Social Studies

Choose an assignment from below.  Click on the right for the worksheet that goes with it.

State Similes

Map Skills Illinois

Coastal Landforms

Lakes

Economics

President Poem

Science

Choose an assignment from below.  Click on the right for the worksheet that goes with it.

Research Amphibians

Research Reptiles

Research Fish

Float or Sink Experiment

Paper Towel Experiment

Volcano Experiment

Evaporation Experiment