Week 4: April 27 - May 1

Sample Daily Schedule

Daily Learning

Literacy
Math
Brain Smart Start

Weekly Learning

Try to complete each item below by the end of the week. (The list is alphabetical. You can work on them in any order.)

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Motor Skills

Three activities are offered weekly. Click HERE to get started!

Science

Learning Goal:

How Seeds Travel: I can show how animals move seeds and pollinate plants.

Estimated Time for the Week:

20-30 minutes

Materials:

  • electronic device
  • paper/journal
  • pencil
  • fuzzy sock

Learn & Practice:

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  1. Learn Pollination Video.
  2. Read Aloud Planting the Wild Garden. Think about the animals in this story and what their role is as a pollinator:
      • How does a bee pollinate a flower?
      • How does a bird pollinate a flower?
      • How does a squirrel move a seed?
  3. Create a model.
      • Place a large fuzzy sock over one shoe.
      • Go for a walk in your yard or a nearby grassy area.
      • Now take off your sock and see if any seeds were picked up.
      • What animals do you think your sock could represent?

4. Reflect.

      • Explore outdoors to find a dandelion.
      • Blow on it to see what happens.
      • Share your answer in a journal, video, or on a post-it note.

Social Emotional Learning

Three activities are offered weekly. Click HERE to get started!

Social Studies

Learning Goal:

I can understand how people might sell or trade for money to buy the things they need.

Estimated Time for The Week: 20 minutes

Materials: electronic device, paper, pencil, crayons/markers (optional)

Learn & Practice:

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  1. Learn: Read Aloud: The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
    • Barter - when you negotiate and agree to trade a good, service or something else
    • Trade - when you swap or exchange things with someone else
  2. Practice:
    • Think of an item that you would be willing to trade with a friend for something you might want.
    • Draw a comic strip of you bartering with them to get the item you want.
    • Scarcity - when something is rare or running out
    • In our community today we are witnessing scarcity of some goods.
      • How does this affect people?
      • Why does it make things cost more money?
      • What can we do to help those in need in our community?
  3. Reflection
    • Choose from the following prompts:
      • What can you do to help a family in need?
      • If you are a family in need, what can someone else do to help?
    • Write a letter to a family member who is in need and share words of encouragement.

STEM

Learning Goal:

I can create bubbles of different sizes using a homemade bubble solution and a variety of household items.

Estimated Time for The Week:

20-30 minutes

Materials:

  • flat bowl or dish
  • water
  • sugar
  • dish soap
  • measuring cup
  • measuring spoon
  • variety of household items to use as a wand (wire hanger, straw, kitchen funnel, disposable plastic cup, string - use your imagination)

Learn & Practice:

  1. Create your bubble solution by mixing the following ingredients in a flat bowl or dish:
    • 1 ½ cups of water
    • ½ cup of dish soap
    • 2 teaspoons of sugar
  2. Choose three household items that you would like to use as your bubble wand. (If you use a disposable plastic cup, have an adult help you make a small hole in the bottom of it.)
  3. Dip the edge of your homemade wand into the bubble solution and gently blow a bubble or wave your wand gently through the air. You may need to dip the wand multiple times into the solution in order to blow a bubble.
  4. Repeat with the other two wands.
  5. Compare the three bubbles you made.
    • Were your bubbles the same size? If not, why?
    • How does your wand determine the kind of bubble you blew?
    • Which technique worked better with your homemade wands - blowing gently into it or waving it gently through the air?
    • How did the technique change the bubble?

FUN FACT: The largest outdoor free floating soap bubble had a volume of 3,399.7 feet and was made by using string tied between two fishing poles! Gary Pearlman of Ohio set this Guinness World Record in 2015.


Optional Extension Activity: Using a different recipe could change the size or appearance of your bubbles. Create a different bubble solution, using a different recipe like these:

Specials & More

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Computer Science

Music

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