Me and My Friends
Visit the Storyline Online site and listen to the story Chester's Way. (If asked which way you want to watch, choose YouTube.) Chester, Wilson, and Lilly were friends. How do you know? How did they act like friends? What do you do to show someone you care about them?

Who are the people in your family? What do they do?
Collect family photos in a small photo album; discuss each person’s name, where they live, and what they do. Share personal memories. 

How do you make and keep a friend?
Do something nice for a friend today. Tell an adult about what you did.

Family History
Ask someone older in your house to tell you a story about when they were little. (Maybe when they learned to ride a bike, a pet, a song they used to sing, an activity that they used to do.) How are you alike and different from them?

What Makes a Good Leader?
Make a picture of what a leader should do in your school or community. What does it mean to be a good leader in your house? What about at school?

Wants versus Needs
Needs are things you must have to survive. Wants are things you would like to have but you do not need to stay alive. Draw a picture of one thing that is a want and one thing that is a need.

Rules and Their Reasons
Why do we have rules at school and at home? What would happen if there were no rules? Who makes the rules at your school? Give an example of a rule that keeps people safe at school. Draw a picture of a rule that you must follow.

Rules? What Rules?
As a citizen, we have rules we must follow inside and outside of school. Where can you find rules? Go on a scavenger hunt to find rules that are posted! Can you find them at the pool, store, park? Where else?

Being Responsible
You are important in your family. Everyone has a role and responsibility in their home, community and world! Have your family help you choose a chore to help in your home. Click here to read about being responsible

Toy Time!
We cannot have everything we want! Find two toys you really want to play with. Now choose one and put the other away. Think about why you made that choice. Write about it or explain it to a family member or friend. 

Where did this come from?
Did you know some goods and services are made locally and some are outside of our community? Look for tags on your clothes, toys, or food. See if you can find where they were made. Which item was made the furthest from your town?

States Game
Do you know your states? Click here to play 50 State Seterra and try to improve your score/time!

Map Makin’!
Use play dough, toys, or paper and pencil to construct or draw a map of your room, house, or neighborhood. Add some labels of important landmarks like your bed, the kitchen or park.

My Life is Important
Think of an important event in your life. Write down what happened before, during and after that event. Create a timeline to share with a family member or friend.

Digging for Treasures!
How do we learn about the past if we were not there? We look at the “stuff” left behind. Find an object in your home older than you. Where did it come from? Who used it? What does it tell you about the past?

How Are We Alike and Different?
Click here to watch a story at Storyline Online. (If asked which way you want to watch, choose YouTube.) Talk with a parent about how you connected to the main character Jabari, and how you are different from him.

Arnie the Doughnut
Click here to watch a story at Storyline Online. (If asked which way you want to watch, choose YouTube.) In this story, Arnie was made in a bakery. Make a list of different places in your town that are helpful to people. Have you visited any of those places? What is the name of the place, and how is it helpful?

Who are the people in your family? What do they do?
Collect family photos in a small photo album; discuss each person’s name, where they live, and what they do. Share personal memories.

How do you make and keep a friend?
Do something nice for a friend today. Tell an adult about what you did.

Scavenger Hunt
The Kids National Geographic website has mini-biographies of all the U.S. presidents. See if you can find which president served two terms that were not in a row. See if you can find presidents who were related to each other. Click here to go to the website.

What are the jobs of people in our community?
As you travel outside of your house this week, find people who are working in your community. What tasks are they performing? How do their jobs help us?

How can we respect and care for our world?
In order to decrease waste in our landfills we can reuse items. Find one way you can decrease waste in your own life. Share your idea with an adult and try to do that for several days in a row. For example: “Use a refillable water bottle for drinking water so you can fill it up again and reuse it. That way we don’t throw away plastic bottles.”

Uh oh... that’s not good!
Littering and polluting hurt all of us. Grab a trash bag, a pair of gloves, and go for a walk with a trusted adult. Find trash that might be on the street, or at the local park. Pick up the trash and throw it away. Talk about what might happen if everyone threw their trash on the ground.

How do things and people change over time?
Collect family photos in a small photo album; discuss how people have changed or point out landmarks, such as a tree in the front yard, that have grown or changed over the years. What changes do you notice? Share your ideas with a family member. Ask them what changes they notice.

How do people in a community earn money?
Can you name a job that an adult does such as a teacher? What kind of job would you like to have one day? Draw a picture of 10 things that you think you'd need to buy when you earn money at your job one day. Write the name of each item below each of your pictures. Then, show it to someone in your house and explain what you drew and why.

Do you know THESE ABCs?
Click here to watch a YouTube video called Smart Hands. It teaches you how to finger spell in American Sign Language! Then see if you can “recite” your ABCs the same way. Show a family member or friend how to spell your name!

Native People of the American Great Plains
Visit this informative Kids National Geographic website about Native People of the Americas. Read the short lesson presented there. Then talk to an adult to see if you can find three commemorations of Native peoples and culture in various named buildings, streets, parks, or neighborhoods throughout Olathe.

Native People of the American Great Plains
Visit this informative Kids National Geographic website about Native People of the Americas. Read the short lesson presented there. Then talk to an adult to see if you can find three commemorations of Native peoples and culture in various named buildings, streets, parks, or neighborhoods throughout Olathe.

Civics Challenge
Click here to visit the iCivics website. Choose a game to play and learn more about our government and legal system.

Map Challenge
We are connected to places all over the world! Find items in your home and determine where they came from. Draw a line on a map from that country to Kansas. You can even click here to go high-tech and use Google Maps.

The Ultimate Map Quiz
What part of the world do you know the most about? Click here to visit the Seterra Geography Game website. Choose a map game to study and play! Can you beat your best time?

Carmen Sandiego  
Practice your World Geography skills while you play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on Google Earth. Click here to get started.

Google Earth Scale
Just like a camera, you can zoom in on a map! Explore Google Earth and take a screenshot of a place zoomed in, then zoom out and take another one. Describe what changes as you scale in and out. Click here to go to Google Earth.

Personal Histories
Think back to an important life event. Write down everything you can remember. Ask someone else who was also there what they remember. How are your two accounts alike? Different? Why might people remember things differently?

Community Service Challenge
I can be a good citizen now! Visit the Olathe Public Library. Sign up and volunteer through the library!

Can the Supply Meet the Demand?
Supply and demand are key concepts influencing a changing economy. Click here to learn about economics and Supply and Demand

Reliable Sources
It is important to learn about current events from trustworthy sources. Click here to go to the PBS Learning Media website. Watch the video to learn from experts about how to spot trustworthy news sources.

Library of Congress Research
Be a virtual volunteer! Help transcribe Library of Congress documents. Volunteers create and review transcriptions to improve search, access, and discovery of pages from history. Click here to go to the website and get started!

Everyday Economics: Sunk Costs
Click here to learn more about Sunk Costs from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. 

Everyday Economics: Specialization
Click here to learn more about Specialization from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Everday Economics: Price Elasticity and Inelasticity of Demand 
Click here to learn more about Price Elasticity and Inelasticity of Demand from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.