January 2016 Optional Homework Calendar

Sun

Mon
Practice your
multiplication daily
if you can!

3
Play a card game
with someone in your
family.

10

Tue

Wed

Every day - Read by

yourself or to
someone in your
family.

When you print

sentences, use
capitals, periods and
dont forget to add
detail!

4
Write down all the
natural resources
you know of. What
natural resources
are around your
home?

5
How does todays
weather impact
living things?

11

Thu

6
How does todays
weather impact nonliving things?

12

13

Practice spelling
some words that you
find difficult.

Practice writing as
many words as you
can in cursive.

17
Compare technology
now to when your
parents were
growing up.

18
Make 15 subtract.
with re-grouping
questions and solve
them. Have someone
mark them.

19
Practice the 3, 4, 5
and 6 times tables.

20
Find an interesting
article online or in
the paper. See if
you can make any
connections to
topics in class.

Pretend you are a

weather reporter.
What would you
report for todays
weather?

24

25
Write 3 extremely
descriptive
sentences. Make
sure they are not
run on sentences!

27
What are some
technologies used by
Aboriginal peoples in
the past?

2
Do aerobics for 20
minutes! Get
someone in your
family to help you
and do it with you.

8
Count by 9s to 90, 9
times. Write this
down as fast as you
can. Can you
see a trick?

9
Play a board game
with someone in your
family.

14

15

16

Think of the word

knowledge. Now
try to talk about
that word for at
least 1 minute. (oral
presentation)

Write 15 addition
with re-grouping
questions and solve
them. Have someone
mark them.

Write down
everything you know
about Aboriginal
peoples.

Sat

Choose the times

tables that are
hardest for you.
Write them out and
try to memorize
them!

Write a story that

has at least 65
words. Have
someone help you
edit it.

Cut words out of a

newspaper to make a
story or a poem.

Ask an adult first.

26
Look at the spoons,
forks and knives in
your kitchen. Create
a bar graph showing
how many of each
you have.

Fri

Skip count by 3s,

4s, 5s and 6s. How
fast can you do
these?

Draw a
thermometer. Mark
todays high and low
temperature on it.

Find something
around your house.
Now talk about it as
if you are a sales
person! Try to sell it

21

22
Review all of the
multiplication facts
9x9.

23
Practice the 6, 7, 8
and 9 times tables.

28
Make a list of
everything you have
learned about
weather so far.

29
Try this website:
www.mathplayground
.com/index.html

30/31
Debate whether or
not there should be
vending machines in
schools. Give 2
points for each side!