• List as many states as you can.

• How many countries and their capitals can you name?

• List five parts of the body above the neck that have three letters.

• List as many United States Presidents as you can.

• List as many models of cars as you can.

• Name as many countries of the world as you can.

• List as many personal pronouns as you can.

• Name as many politicians as you can.

• List all the sports you can think of.

• List all the foods you can that have sugar in them.

• Name as many teachers at this school as you can.

• Name all the parts of speech and give an example of each.

• Why are these dates important? 1492, 1606, 1776, 1812?

• Find these rivers on your map:  Mississippi, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson.

• Name the different sections of the newspaper.

• Name all the foods you can think of that contain protein.

• Name all the words you can that begin with the prefix “in”.

 

• What you do well.

• You favorite time of day.

• Your most indispensable possession.

• Your favorite song, book, etc.

• The best advice you ever received.

• Who you would like to meet.

• If you could give any gift in the world, what would you give and to whom.

• Where you’d live if you could live anywhere.

• What you like most about yourself.

• What kind of animal you’d like to be.

• What “clothes make a person” means to you.

• What “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence” means.

• What “you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar” means.

• What “there are two sides to every coin” means.

• What makes your best friend your best friend.

• What three words or what color describe you best right now.

• What four things that are most important in your life.

• What you would do if you had a million dollars.

• What law you’d like to create.

• Who are your heroes.

• Who has had the most influence on your life.

• When you feel happiest, most proud, etc.

• Illustrate your spelling words.  Don’t actually write the word, but make your picture really reflect the meaning of the word.

• Create newspaper headlines using your spelling words.

• Use each letter in your spelling word to describe it (i.e. cat = C – cuddly; A – animal; T – timid).

• Write a poem using all of your spelling words. Write a creative story using your spelling words.

• Create antonyms and synonyms using your spelling word.

• Write a letter to the author of the book you are reading. What questions would you ask him or her?  What do you like best or least about the story?

• Create a best-seller list of your ten favorite books and then compare the list with the rest of the class.

• Rewrite the ending to a book you have read.

• Write a paragraph about who was your favorite story character and why?

• Write a creative story.

• The teacher will recite a story to the class. Stop at a predetermined spot and ask the class to write the ending.

• Students take a spelling or vocabulary word and lists other words that can be created from the letters in the word.

• Unscramble spelling or vocabulary words. Word finds.

• Choose an important event that took place in U.S. or world history (example: the first atomic bomb explosion during WWII). Now, pretend that you “were there” and have to write an article for your city’s newspaper. What will you say?

• Choose an important event that took place in U.S. or world history and pretend that you “were there”. How did the event impact you, your family, your friends?

• Choose an important person from U.S. or world history. Write a letter to him/her and ask any questions you'd like answered by that person.

• Choose an important individual from U.S. or world history. Then, write a first- hand journal entry that might have been written by him/her during that time period.

• If you could be anyone in history, who would it be and why?

• Find similarities and differences between two events that took place at different times in history.

• If you could live at any time in history, when would it be and why? Where would you be living? What would you be doing?

• If you lived during the depression, how would you have helped your family?

• Write a persuasive paper to anyone in history who did something that you would like for him or her to reconsider not doing.

• List the capitals for every state or every country.

• Write a letter to a member of the government about an environmental issue you’ve learned about in class.

• If you could invent anything, what would it be and why?

• Write how you think inventions are created?  What process does the inventor use?

• Write a letter to a famous scientist or person who has contributed to science. Be sure to include questions you would really like this person to answer for you.

• If you could be any animal, which would it be and why?

• What invention do you think has had the most important impact on the world and why?

• What invention do you think has had the most important impact on you and why? Make a list of ten things in life that are difficult or inconvenient and come up with ideas for inventions that could help make these things easier or more convenient.