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Academic learning at home resources have been created to provide opportunities for students to engage in meaningful learning experience during the school closure. Below you will find a list of activities that your child can complete both independently and with your support.
Learning Logs are to be completed each day when work is done. These logs will be turned in at the end of the week to your teacher. Your teacher will be in contact with you this week. If you have any questions, please contact your teacher.
Reading
Reading
Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot in your home and read, read, read!
After reading a book of your choice, discuss your reading with an adult, write at least a half-page response to the reading including a summary of what you read and connection to the reading.
Discuss stories that have been told in your family. Pick a story and write it down and include illustrations to go with your story. Consider writing about special traditions of your family.
Imagine that you have the opportunity to interview someone famous. What would you ask him/her? Write down 5 interview questions. Write a letter to this person explaining why you chose him/her to interview.
Imagine that you have the opportunity to interview a local hero such as a policeman, firefighter, teacher, nurse/healthcare worker, doctor, principal, or first-responder. What would you ask him/her? Write down a minimum 5 interview questions. Write a letter to this person explaining why you chose him/her to interview and why you think they are a local hero.
Go outside and make observations about your surroundings. Draw and write about what you see. Take your notes and write a poem about your observations.
Choose a topic you are passionate about and create a K,W,L chart. Write K- what you already know about the topic, W-What you want to learn about the topic, and then begin to research the topic. Once you have read several different resources about the topic, add to your KWL chart. Write L- what you have learned about the topic. Then create a brochure or poster that tells someone about the topic you have researched. Be sure to include text features including illustrations and captions.
Create a comic strip with an interesting character and setting. Think about what your plot of the story will be. Consider the characters, setting, problem, and solution. You may want to map out the plot before writing your story. It might also be helpful to write your story down first, then turn it into a comic strip or graphic novel.
Choose an informational text such as a book or an online article to read. Think and write down questions, opinions or ideas you have about the text as you read. Choose one of your opinions or ideas. Write a paragraph to elaborate on your opinion or idea. Possible prompts include:
The important part about this text is _____.
I’m realizing ____.
This makes me think ____.
What surprises me about this text is ____.
Respond to your reading by writing about the main idea of your selected text. Possible prompts include:
The most important point in this page/section/text is_____. I knew that because of_____.
I learned______after reading this (sentence/paragraph/passage/page). The details that best support the main idea of this text are _____, _____and______.
The text provides these specific details: _____, _______,and______. The generalization I can make from these details is______.
Math
Math
Practice budgeting skills:
Create a fictional job and income based on what you’d like to be when you grow up, your interests, and your skills.
Estimate your income by adding up all the money you will receive during the month. (Multiply your hourly rate by the number of hours you work OR figure your salary by multiplying your daily rate by the number of days worked--For a challenge use fractions or decimals such as 7.5 hours or 30 ½ days).
Create a chart to record all of the things you spend money on and the amount for each.
Estimate your expenses by adding up the cost of all the things you buy and spend money on.
Subtract your total expenses from your total income.
Please consider making wise choices. If your expenses are more than your income, you are spending too much. You will have to reduce your spending or increase your income.
Tell someone in your family about the order of operations. Then try this activity with expressions. Prove your answer and tell why.
Go outside and practice your multiplication and division facts with sidewalk chalk or create an array with things from nature such as rocks, leaves, and sticks.
You can also draw the coordinate plane with chalk or make it with sticks and give directions for graphing points (e.g. “Start at 0 and move to the right 4 spaces (x axis) and then up 2 spaces (y axis) and stand and graph your point”).
Use the graph below and tell someone what information is shown on the graph. What do you notice? What do you wonder? Do you agree with this statement, “the more time spent practicing, the higher the quiz score?” Why or why not?
Science
Science
Keep adding pictures to your weather journal. Can you predict what the weather will be like this week?
Create a sundial in your yard. Push a pole or yardstick firmly into the ground so it is standing vertically. Notice where the shadow falls. Write the time in a rock or piece of wood and place it on the shadow. It is easier to use the top of the hour, like 3:00 PM. Each hour go out and add a time-label to the shadow. Why is the shadow moving over the course of a day?
Everyone has a junk drawer or a catch-all container. Dump out the contents and group the objects by characteristics, like color, shape or texture, etc. Create a bar graph of the results. Can the objects be grouped more than one way?
Pose the question to your child that we need to pack a picnic lunch for a summer beach visit, but we must choose things that will not melt in the hot summer sun. Have your child sketch the picnic items and describe why they will not melt.
A mixture is a combination of substances that keep their original properties and can be separated, like a fruit salad. A solution is a mixture where one substance is evenly mixed throughout another substance, like chocolate milk.
Ask your child what some of his/her favorite food items are. Use an example such as chocolate chip cookies and have your child brainstorm some of the ingredients, including flour, baking soda and chocolate chips. Draw and label the parts of his/her favorite foods and describe similarities to and differences from other examples. Is his/her favorite food a mixture or a solution? How do you know?
Your child may not realize how many solutions he/she comes into contact with on a daily basis. Have your child make a list of foods, drinks, or anything else that he/she knows is a solution and that can be seen in his/her daily life. Examples can include putting a flavored powder drink into water or putting sugar into tea.
Why do you think hats were invented? Do we need hats inside buildings or our homes? Usually not! Hats are made to help us with the weather. Ask your child to describe several different hats and discuss how they are used. Your child can draw the “perfect hat” that would protect him/her from all weather conditions!
Draw an electrical circuit that has 1 switch, 3 buzzers and 4 light bulbs.
Trace the path in red that turns on one buzzer and two light bulbs.
Trace the path in green that only turns on the 4 bulbs.
Trace the path in blue that turns on both buzzers.
Have your child think of his/her favorite foods. Trace a food back through the food chain to the Sun. For example, if Johnny’s favorite food is chicken nuggets, Johnny would trace his food back first to the chicken, then to the grains, and finally to the Sun. Johnny should write the chain and be sure to include the arrows showing the direction the energy is flowing from the Sun to the grains to the chicken. Now pick another food item and create its food chain. Soon your chains will form a food web.
Have your child name as many organisms as possible that:
begin their life cycles as eggs.
all animals that spend their lives in water.
have hair as adults.
don’t look like an adult in an earlier life stage.
This activity involves observing storm sewer drains along the street or parking lot after a rainstorm. An alternative would be to take dirt and a bucket of water to a close-by storm sewer and create the patterns on the spot. Ensure that traffic is not a hazard for this portion. Have your child notice the pattern of dirt and leaves threading towards the drain and ask how this might be similar to real rivers. Can you find places where the flow of the water was changed? What caused the change in flow?
Children love to mix two different plants or animals to make a new creature. Ask your child to draw a plant or animal that he/she invents by combining two different living things. Discuss the new creature to correctly label all the names of the parts.
Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.
Social Studies
Social Studies
Keep adding pictures to your “Quarantine Calendar”. Can you find something different to do this week?
What is your child’s favorite period of American history? Ask him/her to draw a picture from an event in American history and share the information with a family member.
Go on a Scavenger Hunt in your house then talk about the items with a family member. What is it used for? Where did it come from? What is the story about it? Which are primary sources? Which are secondary sources? See if you can find:
a baby picture of a parent
a map
a sales receipt
a hand-written note or card
a clock with hands
a tool from the garage
a cookbook
something handmade
a ruler, yardstick or tape measure
a school yearbook
a kitchen tool
a driver’s license
Look to the future. Draw a picture of yourself when you will be 25 years old. What job will you be doing? What will your house look like? What will your car look like? Share your future with a family member.
Think about the three branches of the government: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Now think about everyone in your house. Who would be part of each branch in your home government? Make a chart of your home government.
Draw a picture of how you are being a good helper at home. What chores are you doing? What rules are you following? Share your picture with a family member.
Go back and complete any activities from the previous week
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