10 Fun Homeschool Activities that Connect to Learning Standards and your Child will Love

Hey Parents! After you have been a super hero and guided your child through the Daily Wonder morning lesson, maybe you want to take a step back, maybe you have to attend to your regular job, or maybe you need a coffee break.  Whatever the reason, learning does not have to stop. In fact, learning is an ongoing process, and Daily Wonder will show you how easy it is to connect regular homeschool activities like free-play and everyday life experiences with worldwide learning standards!

1. Build with Lego

Applied Design, Skills and Technologies
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Designs grow out of natural curiosity
Grades 4-5: Big Ideas/Concepts: Designs can be improved with prototyping and testing.  Skills are developed through practice, effort and action.

2. Bake Muffins!

Math
Grade 1: Big Idea/Concept:  Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modeled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.
Grade 3: Big Idea/Concept: Fractions are a type of number that can represent quantities.
Grade 5: Adjust the recipe and learn this Big Idea/Concept: Numbers describe quantities that can be represented by equivalent fractions.

3. Clean Your Room!

Career Education
Grade 1-3: Big Ideas/Concepts: Strong communities are the result of being connected to family and community and working together toward common goals.  Everything we learn helps us to develop skills.  Communities include many different roles requiring many different skills.

4. Family Meeting Time

Career Education
Grades 4-5: Big Ideas/Concepts: Strong communities are the result of being connected to family and community and working together toward common goals. Leadership requires listening to and respecting the ideas of others.
Grades 6-7: Big Ideas/Concepts: Practicing respectful, ethical, inclusive behaviour prepares us for the expectations of the workplace.  Leadership represents good planning, goal setting, and collaboration.

5. Climb a Tree!!

Career Education
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Confidence develops through the process of self-discovery

6. Make a Healthy Snack!

Physical and Health Education
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Knowing about our bodies and making healthy choices helps us look after ourselves.

7. Work Through an Emotional Outburst!

Physical and Health Education
Grade1: Big Idea/Concept: Good health comprises physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Grades 2-3: Big Idea/Concept: Having good communication skills and managing our emotions enables us to develop and maintain healthy relationships.

8. Work Through Social Conflict with Friends

Physical and Health Education
Grade 1: Big Idea/Concept: Good health comprises physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Grades 2-3: Big Idea/Concept: Having good communication skills and managing our emotions enables us to develop and maintain healthy relationships.

9. Participating in the Digital World

Physical and Health Education and Career Education
Grades 6-7: Big Ideas/Concepts: Our personal digital identity forms part of our public identity. Practicing respectful, ethical, inclusive behaviour prepares us for the expectations of the workplace.

10. Knitting!

Applied Design Skills and Technology
Grades 1-3: Big Idea/Concept: Technologies are tools that extend human capabilities. 
Grades 4-5: Big Idea/Concept: Skills are developed through practice, effort, and action. 
Grades 6-7: Big Ideas/Concepts: Design can be responsive to identified needs. 
Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills. 

Isn't it incredible that learning is happening all the time?!