Samples of Educational Activities
to be listed on Attendance Sheets

Dear Students,

The following is an Attendance Sheet To Do List:

• Be sure to have a blue pen handy.
• Please make it a daily routine to refer to Moodle, your planners, or any other helpful/accurate references and add a learning activity to your attendance sheet.
• Write a learning activity in the space provided for each school day.
• Be sure to take your time so that you don't have to re-do the attendance sheet.
• Each line MUST have an action word that relates to learning such as: completed, reviewed, read, discussed, wrote, participated, practiced, summarized, interviewed, produced, identified, located, etc. AND MUST be specific about what you were learning. For example: native American migration patterns, the parts of a combustible engine, reading notes in sheet music, graphing linear equations.

Examples that can be found in award winning attendance sheets:

11/9/2006 X English: Read for half hour from textbook about descriptive writing
11/9/2006 X Soc. Stud: Participated in discussion about the 5th amendment
11/9/2006 X Alg. 1: Completed exercises relating to graphing inequalities
11/9/2006 X Science: Diagrammed the parts of a cell

Some more generic examples can be found below:

• Read 15 pages in Mark Twain and completed journal entry.
• Watched educational video or program about civil rights in the 60's
• Used/ computer software/educational computer game to practice typing, word processing, spreadsheet, Internet research, E-mail, database ...)
• Completed keyboarding/typing exercises 1-5
• Participated in discussion related to protein synthesis in cells
• Distance Learning/Internet activity to research key speeches for women's rights
• Listened to book auditorily (audio tape or read-a-loud) about the Innagural
• Practiced spelling words:
• Practiced penmanship and proper formation of letters:
• Completed vocabulary enrichment:
• Completed graded workbook pages - content area:
• Took a test - content area:
• Summarized/retelling - content area:
• Created a hands-on project - content area:
• Completed a book report - title/ content area:
• Gave an oral report - topic/ content area:
• Kept a Journal/Diary - topic/ content area:
• Participated in a dramatization - content area:
• Interviewed - content area:
• Produced an art project/illustration - content area:
• Located (geographic locations on a map):
• Diagrammed sentences:
• Wrote paragraphs from dictation:
• Worked on writing assignment: Ie. Friendly letters (pen pal or relative), Business letters, thank you notes, Invitations, Filled out forms, Expository writing, Descriptive writing, Narrative stories, Poetry
• Addressed envelopes:
• Played an educational game (eg: Scrabble, Upwords, etc..) - content area/title:
• Completed critical thinking and problem solving scenarios - content area:
• Practiced with flash cards - content area:
• Completed drill sheets:
• Direct application: (counting money, telling time, measuring ingredients) - content area:
• Conducted an experiment:
• Invented something /took something apart:
• Completed a demonstration - content area:
• Field trips (zoo, doctor, dentist)- content area:
• Read and discussed current events/magazines/newspapers:
• Conducted research - content area:
• Added to a collections (for example, insects):
• Observed, classified, explained
• Completed Lab work:
• Created a project/exhibits - content area:
• Took notes:
• Researched - topic/content area:
• Studied and reviewed for a test - content area:
• Participated in physical fitness program:
• Performed community service/volunteer experience:
• Practiced a life skill (went grocery shopping/developed math skills, mailed using postage, learned a new household chore, etc ...):
• Special interest activity (baking, cooking, sewing, knitting, photography, art):
• Listened to lecture or discussion - topic/content area:
• Learned a new activity involving care for another (child or elderly):
• Learned the value of teamwork. Activity:
• Interviewed, wrote resume, or filled out application for a job:
• Conducted research on a college/university:
• Learned about nutrition (read product labels)/overall health and wellness. Activity:
• Learned how to construct/put together item (construction, puzzle, model, assembly ...). Project:
• Work experience, internship, shadowing. Type of work:
• Genealogy/Made a family tree:
• Opened a bank account, learned about budget, finance, or consumer education
• Other - content area: