Khanacademy.org

  • Khanacademy.org - Students can go to this website, create an account, and join with this classroom code: TKA7WBMZ.


  • Please email me if you have any questions or problems getting your students to this site and getting to the assigned work.


  • Students have been assigned LOTS of math through this website. The Monday before we were sent home, I introduced the our new independent Math practice with Khan Academy. Here is a link to a Ted Talk by the founder Sal Khan https://youtu.be/-MTRxRO5SRA


  • The idea behind Khan Academy's Mastery approach to math is that everyone should learn from where they are and brought to mastery of each concept. The whole class was assigned K-4th grade independent practice.


  • The Mastery program has shown such amazing growth in students who follow and complete the series in order. Kindergarten assignments should take a 2-5 hours, 1st grade will take a little longer, 2nd grade longer than first, until they catch up to 4th grade, which be more challenging.


  • Mastery Learning means developing each skill to fluency and long-term retention.


I have attached a sample schedule from KhanAcademy.org. The links are hotlinks so they go right to the resource.


Have Fun and send me questions if you have them. alice.sproul@oside.us


Grades 3 - 5

Time

Activity

8am - 9am

Breakfast/Get ready for an awesome day! And yes, change out of PJs :)

9am - 9:40am

Assuming you’ve gotten a good night of sleep, your thinking will be sharpest in the morning so let’s start the day strong with some math! Whoo hoo!

Khan Academy math practice has got your back. Depending on your confidence and grade level, one of the following courses are likely good for you:

One practice that we’ve seen teachers and students use to great effect is to start, regardless of age, on Kindergarten and then move to 1st grade, 2nd grade, etc.

Course challenges and unit tests can be used to accelerate through material. If you don’t have too many gaps, you should be able to get through a previous year’s content in 1-3 hours. If you do have gaps, it may take a bit longer, but that is good! This is your chance to fill in those gaps that might otherwise hold you back in the future.

You’ll see that if you are able to put in at least a solid 30 minutes a day of math practice and keep leveling up skills, you’ll see big gains and, most importantly, really see the world in new and exciting ways!

One you are at your grade level, try to set a goal of leveling up at least 3 skills a week.

9:40am - 10am

Play. Ideally play outside. Get that heart pumping.

10am - 10:30 am

We just released the first version of reading comprehension practice on Khan Academy. It is grouped by grade level:

We recommend starting at your grade level and doing 1-2 practice sets per day (or 10 practice sets per week). This should take about 10-20 minutes per day. If you find it difficult, completely okay to start at an earlier grade level. Likewise, if you find the passages and questions to be easy, feel free to move to higher grade levels.

10:30am - 11am

Silent reading. Curl up with a favorite book or magazine. Here is a great list of titles that you might want to get your hands on:

http://www.ala.org/alsc/sites/ala.org.alsc/files/content/compubs/booklists/summer/alsc-2019-summer-reading-list-grades3-5.pdf

11am - 11:20am

Break/walk/play. Try to get that heart pumping again!

11:20am - 11:40am

Khan Academy Grammar: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar

Recommend starting by taking the course challenge a few times to figure out what you know and don’t know.

11:40 am - 12pm

Journaling/writing. Things to write about/prompts:

  • Write a funny or exciting adventure story about what happens when school is closed.

  • What are you excited or worried about?

  • Write a letter to yourself 10 years in the future. What do you want to tell your future self?

  • How do you think the world will be different after the novel corona virus?

12pm - 1pm

Lunch - Listen to an educational podcast! Try Brains On! If you like science, Forever Ago if you like history, or Story Pirates to hear funny stories written by kids.

1pm-2pm

Enrichment:

Programming computers is far more fun and creative than you probably ever imagined. Both these resources start by creating fun cartoons and animations and work your way up to creating fun games that your friends can play.

2pm-8pm

Relax, go outside, work on passions, time with family.

8-9pm

Lights out, time to sleep!