About This Daily Classroom
Special
Each week Homework
Hotline will suggest homework assignments aimed at grades
K-1 and 2-3. Homework Hotline was written by Buzz Eyler, Director
of Educational Technology at
the Orcutt School District ( CA) and a former Teachers
Network web mentor.
To
the Homework Hotline Directory
Health
Issues
This week the homework will center on health issues activities. The activities are appropriate for K-3, except as noted.
Feel free to copy, cut, and paste the assignments into your own word
processor for sending home (or print this page).
Day
1
This is the time of year when many children get sick.
Ask the children to make a list this evening of as many sicknesses
as they can think of. Bring the list to school tomorrow and make a
class list.
Day
2
Ask the children to pick five of the illnesses they
wrote about last night and write (or dictate) how to get over those
illnesses.
Day
3
Some illnesses are so bad that people have to go to
the hospital. Make a list of as many people as they can think of who
work in a hospital.
Day
4
Medicine is something which helps us get well. Have
the children, with their parent's help, make a list of medicines in
their home.
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