Sentence:  I would pick three or four activities each day from a list of: oral reading, silent reading, filmstrips on the text book subject, short quizzes, chapter tests, semester exams, quarter exams, review sheets, "find the word" puzzles, research papers with library visits, lectures, debates (about four times a year), phonograph records from the library downtown for the music of the time era we were studying, movies, field trips, spelling lists, match the date with the name lists, timelines, map <WSD>fill-ins</WSD>, etc. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.