recently, i taught a homeschool co-op class how to use.... a telephone book/yellow pages by creating a scavenger hunt! it was an exhausting hit! thank goodness, i had a couple of assistants helping the 17 kids.... one of the very few FUN things i remember from public elementary school was all of us kids going to the media center and doing this very same thing. hence, this idea 35 years old.

here are some ideas for your gang and their scavenger hunt:

-find zip codes for: _______________ (usually there is a chart in the front of the book)... i listed a good handful of cities.

-what area code/code would you use for cairo, egypt, stockholm, sweden, etc! lots of etc's!

-find a restaurant in the yellow pages, locate a menu and decide on what you'd like to order. add up your tab, calculate sales tax, add up a friends... add it to your tab, split the bill. figure gratuity. while you're at it... define gratuity.

-find a dentist. what is the abbreviation for dentist?

-who is our state representitive. how would you contact him/her?

-pick 5 different businesses and write their addresses out.

-discuss yellow pages advertising bills. the larger the ad, the more businesses pay.

-what is the abbreviation for a veterinarian?

-provide different last names for the kids to look up!

-pick a phone number out of the book.... add or multiply it (depending on your child's level): 586-999-8888 = (do this multiple times!!)

see how much fun you can have with this? you could just go on and on and on!