Activity Ideas Organized by Skill Sets (Within Each Subject Area)

Beginning Literacy

• Syllables
  • Clapping and Counting
  • Speedy Syllables 
• Fluency and Sight Words
  • A Moving Sight
  • Fluent Reading
  • Tricky Sight Words
• Phonological Awareness and Phonics
  • Adam Names the Animals
  • The Animals make Sounds for Adam
  • How Many Words in a Word?
  • Noah and the Animals
  • Rhyme Time
  • What’s in My Soup?
  • Beginning Sounds
  • Nonsense Words
• Prepositions
  • Which Way is Up?
• Adjectives
  • All About King Saul
  • Describing My Own Flock!
  • Wow Words
  • Spying the Right Card
  • Little Baby, Big Meaning
  • The Adjective Game
• Verbs
  • Different Types of Verbs
  • To The Future – Basic
  • Should or Shouldn’t Follow the Rules
• Homonyms 
  • Is That What You Meant To Promise?
• The 5 “W” Questions
  • The 5 W’s
• Comparative Words
  • Comparing the Crowd
  • Good Better Best
  • More or Less?
  • Wants Vs. Needs
  • Sets of Superlatives
• Story Comprehension
  • Listen Up!
  • A Picture Perfect Recipe 
  • Sad Problems Happy Solutions
  • Scrambled Stories
  • Stone Stories 
  • The Main Idea
  • Travel Sized Stories
  • Settings and Characters
  • What Is The Main Idea?
• Alphabet and Letters
  • Organizing Words with the Alphabet
  • ABC
  • Alphabetical Order
  • What’s Your Name?
• Suffixes
  • Remember the Past
  • What Do You Do?
  • Puzzling Endings
• Writing Rules
  • Writing Error-Free
  • Can We Have the Recipe?
  • Invitation Punctuation 
  • Follow the Directions
  • Why Do We Need Leaders?
  • Writing to Friends
  • Expressing Feeling
  • Beginning to Write Error Free
  • Expressing Excitement
  • Famous Introductions
  • Follow Directions
  • Following Directions
  • Proper Note Writing
  • Punctuation Experts
• Descriptive Writing
  • Common Emotions
  • Describing Emotions
  • A Good Description
• Symbolism
  • Simple Symbolism
• Antonyms
  • Antonym Match
• Speaking
  • Public Speaking – Basic
• Synonyms
  • Synonyms for Said

Advanced Literacy

• Comparative Words
  • Most or Least?
  • Let’s Compare
• Parts of Speech
  • Mixed Up Creation Story
  • To The Future – Advanced
• Letter Writing
  • Thank You, Thank You
  • Loving through Letters
  • Writing for Change
  • Apologizing the “Write” Way
  • Cards of Encouragement 
  • Prepared With Cards of Encouragement
  • Writing to Friends
  • You’re Invited
  • Card Poems
  • Learning about Letters
• Symbolism
  • A Special Meaning
  • Personify
• Word Study
  • What’s the Root?
  • Where In The World Is This Word?
  • Word Staircases
  • Understanding Idioms
  • A Dreamy Story
  • The Root of the Word
• Nonfiction Writing
  • A News Worthy Story
  • Organizing Ideas
  • Reporting the News
  • Reporting The Story
  • Wants vs. Needs Advanced
  • You Should Have Been There
  • As Time Goes By
  • Step By Step
• Persuasive Writing
  • Buy It, You Know You Want It!
  • Attention, Attention!
  • Advertising Promises
  • Have an Opinion
  • On Trial
  • Persuade the People
  • Exaggerations and Hyperbole
  • Persuading the Silversmiths
  • Persuasive Speeches
  • Writing for Change
• Descriptive Writing
  • Sheep for Sale
  • Help Wanted!
  • Descriptive Spies
  • Giving Instructions 
  • Follow My Directions
  • A Kit for Encouragement 
  • Riddles
  • Say What You Mean
  • Shadow Puppetry
  • The Best Kind of Friends
  • Describe the Scene
  • Don’t Be Vain
  • Dramatic Detail
• Writing Rules
  • Writing Error-Free
  • The Best Advice
  • Listen Up!
  • Expressing Emotions
  • Learning about Letters
• Comparative Writing
  • What You Want and What You Got
  • Awesome Analogies
• Vocabulary
  • On Trial
  • Cooking with Antonyms and Synonyms 
  • Describe the Scene
• Writing Posters, Flyers
  • Attention Attention!
  • Help Wanted!
  • Buy It, You Know You Want It
  • Exaggerations and Hyperbole
  • What’s In The Fine Print?
• Character Analysis
  • Character Traits of a Leader
  • A Dynamic Character
• Speaking and Listening
  • Cheater or Cheated?
  • Be Inquisitive 
  • That’s the Rule
  • When We Disagree
• Comprehension
  • Imagine That
  • New Connections to Old Stories
  • Piecing Together The Main Idea
  • Predictions
  • Take My Advice
  • Ready, Setting, Go!
  • A Recipe Worth Following
  • Remember That!
  • Solutions 
  • Take Note of What I Say
  • The Main Idea
  • Travel Sized Story
  • What are the Options?
  • What Just Happened?
  • A Dynamic Character
  • How to Comprehend
  • Take My Advice
  • Points of View
  • Literature and Symbolism
• Spelling
  • Is That With a “K”?
  • Creation Top Twenty
  • Tricky Spelling
• Sentence Types
  • Noah’s Reader’s Theater
• Calendars, Timelines, and History
  • Planning Ahead
  • As Time Goes By
  • Making History
• Songs
  • Come and Rejoice!
  • Sing for Joy
• Alphabet
  • Alphabetizing Names
• Poetry
  • Card Poems
• Public Speaking
  • Public Speaking – Advanced
  • Persuasive Speeches
  • Informative Speeches

Beginning Math

• Numbers
  • Large and in Charge
  • Comparing Commands
  • Count Them All Up
  • Count Like an Egyptian 
  • Counting Sheep
  • More or Less Stars
  • Ten is a Powerful Number
  • We Need to Hurry and Skip Count
  • 1-5000
  • 613 Laws
  • Big, Big Numbers (Comparing Numbers)
  • Count by Tens
  • Even or Odd
  • How Do They Compare?
  • Line Them Up – Ordinal Numbers
  • Value of Numbers
  • Which is Greater?
• Addition
  • Adding up the Belongings
  • Add, Add, Add!
  • How Much Food Did We Grow?
• Measurement
  • Cooking Conversions
  • Fly Far!
  • How Tall or Small
  • Firm Foundation
  • Let’s Build a Tent!
  • Does it Measure Up?
  • How Long is That?
  • How Many Tablespoons is That?
  • How Much Farther?
  • How Tall is That Ladder?
  • Many Miles
  • My Tower Is Taller Than Yours
  • What’s The Distance?
  • Length, Width, and Depth
  • Don’t Get Weighed Down
  • Reading Thermometers
  • Tabernacle Measurements

• Data
  • There’s a Graph for That
  • Whose Sheep Are They?
  • Collect and Graph
• Money
  • What Is it Worth?
  • Look What’s For Sale!
  • Do You Have Change for Two Sheep?
  • Working Hard for the Money
  • Counting and Adding Money
  • Money Equivalence 
  • Taking Away Money
• Time
  • What’s the Time?
  • Human Clock
  • Time Passes Game
  • Time for Dinner
• Calendar
  • A Young Ruler
• Perimeter and Area
  • Build and Measure
  • What’s The Size? – Basic
• Geometry
  • Comparing Commands
• Fractions
  • Fraction Fun
  • A Whole Lot of Grain to Share
• Weight
  • Don’t Get Weighed Down!
  • Weighing Food
• Shapes
  • Building with Shapes
• Word Problems
  • Beginning Word Problems
  • Math Tricks
• Volume
  • Measuring Volume – Basic
  • Length, Width, and Depth
• Patterns
  • Simple Patterns

Advanced Math

• Addition
  • Add it All Up
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
  • Multiple People, Multiple Belongings
  • Plentiful Plants
  • Food For Many
  • The Men are Multiplying!
  • Making a Nation Using Math
  • Twice As Big
  • What’s the Wage?
  • Multiplying Time and Money
• Division
  • Plentiful Plants
  • Food For Many
  • Setting the Table
  • Dozens of Ways to Do It
  • How Many Sheep are in Each Group?
• Numbers
  • To What Power?
  • Rounding
• Percentages
  • Who is Allowed In?
  • Pretty Percentages
  • Percentages 
  • Particular Percentages
  • Percentages (2)
• Fractions
  • Cooking More or Less
  • Double Portions
  • Fraction of a Kingdom
  • I Get Half of Those
  • How Great of a Harvest?
  • Greater Than
• Money
  • Counting Contributions
  • Buying and Trading
  • How Much Do I Get Paid?
  • Loan Forgiveness 
  • Change Please
  • Multiplying Time and Money
  • Working with Checks
• Time
  • What Time Will It Be?
  • Converting Time Game
  • Time Moves Along Game
  • How Long Does It Take?
  • Multiplying Time and Money
  • One Time Here, Another Time There
• Volume
  • How Much Will it Take?
  • How Much Water Do We Have?
  • Measuring and Converting Volume
  • Measuring Volume
• Measurement
  • Cooking Conversion 2
  • Fly Far!
  • Building Up
  • Double Portions
  • He Was How Tall?
  • How Big is Our Tower?
  • Will it Fit?
  • Converting Distances
  • Flour Filled Measurement
  • Build, Measure, Convert
  • Cooking More or Less
  • Measuring and Converting Volume
  • Measuring Volume
  • Measuring with Protractors
  • Tabernacle To Scale
  • Temperature Conversions
• Map Scales
  • Many Miles
  • Going the Distance
  • Are We There Yet?
  • How Far Away is That?
  • There’s A Coordinate Graph For That
• Perimeter and Area
  • Build and Measure
  • What’s the Area?
  • How Big is Our Garden?
  • What’s The Size?
• Calendar
  • The Young Ruler
  • The Young Ruler is How Old?
• Weight
  • Ounces or Pounds?
• Word Problems
  • Advanced Word Problems
  • Logic Puzzles
  • How Much Food Do We Need?
• Patterns
  • Complex Patterns

ELL (English Language Learner. Note: These can be used to learn other languages with only minor adjustments to most activities.)

• Grammar, Parts of Speech
  • Action!
  • Action Verbs
  • Antonym Review
  • Ark or Ark? – Homographs
  • Ask and Answer- Question Words
  • The Best! – Superlatives
  • Describe It In Order – Adjectives and Nouns
  • Do As I Say – Action Words
  • Formal and Informal Language
  • From Another Language
  • Greek Root Words
  • How Is It Spelled?
  • “I Am” or “I Am Not” – Conjugate Verbs
  • In The Future – Future Tense Verbs
  • Interesting Idioms
  • Keeping it Clean – Nouns and Verbs
  • Many Metaphors
  • Mind Your Manners
  • Moving Away
  • Promises, Promises – Future Tense Verbs
  • Pronouns
  • Pronouns (2)
  • Silly Synonyms
  • Son or Sun? – Homophones
  • To Do or Not to Do
  • Verbs, Adverbs, and Adjectives
  • What is the Gift? – Question Words
  • Where Does It Go? – Positional Words
  • Which Verb Fits?
  • Word Origins and Meaning

• Animals
  • Animal Sounds
  • Birds
  • Building Vocabulary – Plants and Animals
  • Exotic Animals
  • Farm Animals and Food
  • Farm Words
  • Pesky Pests
  • Types of Birds
• Geography
  • All Over the World
  • City Buildings
  • Get to Know Your Community
  • Welcome to the City
• Vocabulary
  • Baby Items
  • Banking Vocabulary
  • Beauty Words
  • Books of the Bible
  • Building Vocabulary – Plants and Animals
  • Celebration and Sports
  • City Buildings
  • Colors
  • Cooking with English
  • Do As I Say – Action Words
  • Drama Queen
  • Expressing Emotions
  • Family Word Mystery
  • Farm Words
  • Farewell! Goodbye!
  • Fortifying the Foundation – Building Words
  • Happy Holidays!
  • I Don’t Feel Well
  • Job Keywords
  • Just the Right Amount – Measuring Words
  • Keeping it Clean
  • Law of the Land
  • Learning about Loans
  • Let’s Build a Tower
  • Life on the Sea
  • Love Your Hair! – Beauty Words
  • Medical Vocabulary
  • Music Mania
  • Name the Instrument
  • Oh So Many Opposites!
  • On the Move – Moving Words
  • Opposing Opposites
  • Parts of the Body and Skeletal System
  • Order Up!  – Food Words
  • Recipe for an Ark – Building Words
  • Sheep Herder Wanted – Job Words
  • Talking about Traveling
  • Time to Move – Moving Words
  • Travel Time! – Travel Words
  • Wedding Words
  • Welcome Home
  • Welcome to the City
  • We Need a Doctor! – Medical Words
  • What Color is That Coat? – Clothing Words
  • What’s In School?
  • What’s On the Menu?
  • Which Body Part?
  • Which Way Is Up? – Travel Words
  • Wordly Worship
  • Words Around Church
  • Words for Weddings
  • You Can’t Get There From Here – Directional Words
• Family
  • Baby Items
  • Family Tree
  • Family Word Mystery
  • Shopping for Infants
• Math
  • Big Number Words
  • Bills and Banks – Money
  • Building by Numbers
  • It’s Time to Learn about Time
  • Just the Right Amount – Measuring Words
  • Make Ten
  • Numbers Everywhere!
• Writing
  • Build Up a Sentence
• Sports
  • Celebrations and Praise
• Reading
  • Character Descriptions
  • Decoding Difficult Words
  • Rhymes and Poetry
  • Rhyming Words
• Language
  • Common Compliments
  • Common Expressions
  • Godly Advice
  • Greetings and Introductions
  • Oh So Many Opposites!
  • Phrases in Prayers
  • A Proper Hello
• Food
  • Cooking 101
  • Fresh Fruit and Veggies
  • God is our Provider
  • Meats to Eat
  • Order Up!
  • What’s On the Menu?
• Emotions
  • Emotion Charades
  • Every Emotion
  • Expressing Emotions
  • Gratitude
• Health
  • Eye Exams
  • Eyes Everywhere
  • We Need a Doctor!
  • What’s the Diagnosis?
• Life Skills
  • Faith Moments
  • Fortifying the Foundation
  • God is our Provider
  • Godly Advice
  • Good News Travels Fast
  • Job Hunt
  • Job Keywords
  • Sheep Herder Wanted
  • Shopping for Infants
  • Talking about Traveling
  • Those Rascally Weeds
  • What Color is That Coat?
  • Where Do I Go?
  • Which Way Is Up?
  • You Can’t Get There From Here
• Weather
  • Labeling the Sky
  • Types of Environment
  • Wacky Weather
• Science
  • Say Goodbye to Salt
  • Those Rascally Weeds

Science

• Human Body
  • It’s In the Genes
  • A Mummy’s Promise
  • Truth or Illusion?
  • Water, The Body’s Air Conditioner
  • What Muscle Hurts?
  • Fighting Fevers
  • Navigating the Nervous System
  • All the Genes
  • Dream Diary
  • Genetic Traits
  • Major Bones
  • Sleep Cycle
  • Strength of Hair
  • Taste Buds
  • Tricking Your Ears
  • Truth or Illusion
• Health
  • Keeping It Safe to Eat
  • Bread From Heaven
  • Washing it All Away
• Chemistry
  • Gold for Sale!
  • Mix and Rise
  • Washing It All Away
  • I Can Make a Coat of Many Colors
  • Ingredients Alone Are Not Enough
  • Physical and Chemical Reactions in Bread
  • Showing Your True Colors 
  • Natural Dyes
  • Rusted
  • Say Goodbye to Salt
  • Solids and Liquids
  • Stop That Fire!
  • Tarnishing Time
• Weather
  • Sunscreen Experiment
  • Evaporation and Condensation
  • What’s the Weather?
  • Lightning and Rainbows as Promise Reminders
  • Where is the Water?
  • White As Snow
  • Cool Climates
  • Pretty Cool Precipitation
  • Rain Tracking 
  • Rainy Day
  • Season to Season
  • Shadows
  • Tsunami Troubles
• Animals
  • Sneaky Snakes
  • Step by Step
  • Clean vs. Unclean
  • Where Will the Animals Live?
  • Bird Migration Habits
  • Diligent Ants
• Plants
  • Growing Food from Kitchen Scraps
  • The Best Way to Grow Food
  • Watch It Grow!
  • What Makes a Weed?
  • Name That Plant
  • Plant Parts Kitchen Match Game
  • Growing Plants
• Earth
  • Irrigation
  • Made of Mud
  • Step By Step 
  • Soil Alkalinity
  • What’s The Time There?
• Astronomy/Space
  • Count the Stars with Abraham
  • The Special Star
  • Starry Skies
  • The Sun is Hot
  • Stars Tell a Story
• Geology
  • What Kind of Rock is Your Pillow?
• Physics
  • A Boat Has Got to Float
  • Will it Collapse?
  • Sink or Swim
  • Sink or Float
  • Will it Float?
  • White as Snow
  • A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey
  • Sling Energy into Motion
• Sound
  • Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Light
  • Truth or Illusion?
  • Let There Be Light
  • Shadows
• Construction
  • Construct Your Boat
  • High in the Sky
  • Sink or Swim
  • Will it Collapse?
  • Building a Wall
  • Building with Limestone
  • Sandy Shores
  • Wheels and Axles
• Computer Science
  • If…Then
• Physical Science
  • Showing Your True Colors