Write the week's spelling words on the board and have each child copy them on a piece of paper. Show the students a few scrabble tiles and ask them to locate the value of each letter. You can write the letters and their respective values on the black board as the students discover them. Now have your students add up the value of each spelling word. For example, the word steak would equal nine points while the word blast would equal seven. You can make the activity a race, and award the child who completes the values of all the spelling words the fastest a small prize.
Discuss with the students what constitutes a living object. Students must understand that for something to be classified as living, it must be able to use energy in some way. It must also have the ability to grow and reproduce. Any object that does not meet these standards is considered to be non-living. Give each child a notebook, pencil and a magnifying glass. Take the class on a walk outdoors and give the children the freedom to search out objects and categorize them in their notebooks as either living or non-living. You may also request an explanation next to each entry to make sure the children understand why something is living or non-living. For example, a child may state that a rock is non-living because it cannot grow or use energy in any way. A frog is living because it grows from a tadpole into a frog and reproduces to create new tadpoles.
When studying Colonial Williamsburg, teachers and homeschooling parents can create a word search to review words associated with the time period. The word search should include words like military, thimble, pewter, revolution, quill, petticoat, constitution and independence. Copy the word search and give each child a copy. The activity can be done at the students leisure, or you can have the children race to see who can find all of the words the fastest. If you aren't great at creating your own word search, you can print out one of the word searches from the website History (see Resources).
Learning about the human body is an important part of health class. Children can review terms associated with the human body by playing a game of Simon Says. Teachers can line the children up and call out a command that the children must follow, but only if the words "Simon Says" were spoken before the command. Each child who follows the command without hearing the words "Simon Says" is out. The activity continues until only one child remains. Some sample commands that can be given are "Simon Says to touch your patella," "Simon Says to move your mandible from left to right" and "Simon says to sit on your gluteus maximus."