Seashells
Solving word problems using the Three Reads Routine
2. You may choose to answer these questions or answer a question that you thought of:
How many shells did Riley find?
How many shells did Sam find?
How many shells did they find altogether?
Setting
Watch the read aloud. Draw a picture of the setting of the story. If you need to review setting, you can watch the lesson videos from Day 6 or 7.
Writing
Find a notebook, composition book or paper and have your student write daily using one of the following prompts or about an experience they have had. You student may use lines to represent letters and words and that is ok. Have them include a picture with their story. There is no need to worry about spelling, punctuation or letter formation during this writing block.
Your goal is to let your student be a story teller.
Why do kids have to go to school?
If you could be any animal, what would it be? What about this animal makes you like it?
Do you like movies or music better? Why?
What is your favorite season? What makes it your favorite?
If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
Engineering Challenge: Continue building your Rube Goldberg Device with materials and toys from your home.
Find more details and examples at TinkerLab.
See many video examples of Rube Goldberg machines here.
Once you have built your device:
Test: Test your machine. Did it go all the way through to the end?
Reflect: What improvements can you make that will make the machine more reliable and able to accomplish your task? If a part did not work, how could you fix it?
Redesign: Redesign your machine, so it has more steps or works more reliably. Do this as many times as your wish!
Vitamins and Vitamin D
We need vitamins to live healthy lives!
Without vitamins our bodies are more susceptible to illnesses such as the common cold and the flu.
There are many different vitamins like A, B, C and D
Today we are talking about Vitamin D because it is very important to make sure we are getting enough.
Vitamin D keeps our bones and teeth strong and also helps protect us against illness and even improves our mood!
We can get Vitamin D through many sources; the foods we eat, daily vitamins and even through sunlight!
Sunlight is one of the top ways we get Vitamin D which can become harder in the winter months, like December, when the days are shorter.
Foods like low-fat milk and other low-fat dairy foods like yogurt and cheese are good sources of Vitamin D too!
Learn more about how important it is to get the right amount of vitamins by watching this Vitamin song
After watching the video, pick one vitamin you learned about and draw a picture showing how and what parts of the body it helps (ex: vitamin C helps our gums).
Soak in some sunlight as you complete this SCAVENGER HUNT
Super Green Vitamin D Smoothie
Ingredients:
1 chopped banana (frozen)
1 cup strawberries (fresh or frozen)
1 cup of spinach or kale
½ cup low fat yogurt
1 cup water or milk (low-fat or almond)
1 cup Ice
Directions: Mix in a blender and pulse until smooth. Serve immediately while cold.