In need of some fresh homeschool ideas for under 11s? Try setting kids a few of the following tasks...
- Interview a family member
- Measure the area and perimeter of each room in your home
- Graph the types of birds that frequent your garden or windows
- Write and send a (real) letter to your teacher.
- Build a fort out of blankets and chairs
- Learn morse code and use it to communicate with siblings through the walls and floors
- Alphabetise the slices in your kitchen
- Call a grandparent or older relative and ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood
- Using household materials, build a working rain gauge, barometer and wind vane
- Determine and chart the times that different liquids take to turn to solid in the freezer
- Create a family tree
- Draw a map of your home
- Learn ten new big words - write them in marker pen on your bathroom mirror
- Draw a map of your home
- Sit silently for 215 minutes while you write down every sound you hear. When you are done, classify the sounds (high/low pitch, high/low volume, manmade vs naturally occurring etc)
- Create a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts two people in your family or friends
- Learn, practice and perform a magic trick
- Learn to clean and polish a pair of shoes
- Collect leaves from the garden and sort them into size, texture and colour
- Put your favourite book, toy or keepsake on a small table in sunlight and paint or draw it
- Set a clock for three hours and seven minutes ahead. Whenever someone needs to know the time, help them work it out by subtracting.
- Design a map of every country visited by people in your family
