Remote Extended Learning Activities

Assignments for Jan. 4 thru Jan. 20

Reading

Read all about the "Old Man of the Mountain" in your Readworks account, his picture is on our state quarter and license plates.

Read about the achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in your Epic and Readworks account, as we prepare to celebrate MLK Day on January 18th.

Check your Readworks account for newly assigned articles about the forces that change the surface of the earth.

Read books about your feelings and managing your emotions in your Epic reading account. Continue to read about your home state of New Hampshire and use the books to help you label your NH maps.

Complete the activities or quizzes that have been assigned from the latest issue of the Storyworks magazine. Log into the website using your class code supplied by your teacher. Explore this month's issue. It is filled with fiction and non-fiction stories, poetry and a play, as well as a debate article that you can weigh in on. You can also read or listen to archived issues on the site.

Check out the fun January Activity calendar. It has lots of good ideas to learn new things! Try to do each daily activity!

Math

Log in to your Xtra Math account and spend a few minutes each day practicing your addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

Visit your enVisions Math account and complete your online assignments. See the "Remote Learning Accounts" page for log in button for Classlink or log into Classlink by clicking on the backpack icon on the right side of the TFS Homepage. Use your firstname.lastname and the password (nine digit student number) from the sign in card I sent home with you. Once you are in ClassLink, choose the white and orange icon for EasyBridge enVisions. Choose the Realize button on the right hand side of the screen, then the red "My Classes" circle. Click your assignments to get started.

Log into your Prodigy math account and have fun solving some math problems.

Visit the Greg Tang web site and play a game to master your math skills! See the "Remote Learning Accounts" page for log in button for Greg Tang Math.

SEL Activity - Writing

Our SEL focus in the new year is recognizing and managing emotions. We have chosen some books that talk about the different emotions and ways to deal with the way you feel.

Choose 5 feelings and write a short paragraph about a time that you felt that way. Send your writing to your teacher in your Office 365 account. If you forget how to send a document to your teacher, watch the video posted by Mrs. McLaughlin on the TFS homepage. It will walk you through the steps to share a document with your teacher.

Science

Read an article a day in your Readworks account about the theory of Continental Drift and how the earth has changed over the course of millions of years. Discover how the tectonic plates under the earth's surface move and create mountain ranges, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Learn about the effect of water on the earth's changing surface.

Watch these Mystery Science videos about water, rivers, and erosion. You will create mountains and rivers in one of the hands on activities. Use what you learn about rivers and apply it to the rivers that run through the state of New Hampshire. Where does the Merrimack River start and where does it flow to? Find out where the sand comes from at Hampton beach. Discover what carved the Grand Canyon with an at home experiment and try to build a barrier to stop a landslide.

If you floated down a river, where would you end up?

Why is there sand at the beach?

What’s strong enough to make a canyon?

How can you stop a landslide?

Social Studies

The NH Fish and Game Department publishes a beautiful magazine for kids to learn all about the animals, habitats, trees, plants, and climate in our home state of New Hampshire. We are asking fourth graders to read one each day, on their remote instruction days. You will earn a Wild Times badge if you complete all 32! After reading the magazines at https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/pubs/kids.html, answer the questions that go with each issue in complete sentences in your writing journals. Some of the magazines are divided into two parts, make sure you you read both Part 1 and Part 2.

  1. How do reptiles and amphibians control their body temperature?

  2. New Hampshire has 11 types of carnivorous snakes, what are some of the animals they eat?

  3. What are some of the ways snakes evade predators?

  4. Describe a turtles protective shell.

  5. Describe some of the species of salamanders and turtles that live in NH.

  6. After listening to the frog calls www.wildnh.com/nongame/frogs.html , match the 8 frog pictures with the correct descriptions.

  7. How are amphibians different from reptiles different at birth.


  1. Tell me about some of the insects and animals that pollinate flowers.

  2. Why is pollination important at a farm?

  3. How does a flower get pollinated?

  4. Describe some of the differences between bees and wasps.

  5. What is threatening pollinators and what can you do to help pollinators?

  1. Describe what are some signs that beavers leave in their habitat?

  2. Check out the various animals tracks at, https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/education/documents/track-card.pdf https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/pubs/documents/animal-tracks.pdf . Describe some of the tracks you might find near a wetland.

  3. What are some animal sounds that you might hear in NH's wilderness and who makes them?

  4. Describe what a gall is.

  5. Tell me about what is endangering Monarch butterflies.


  1. Describe the four essentials that all living creatures need to survive?

  2. What is the biggest threat to an animal’s habitat today?

  3. Tell me how the woodcock, bear, and brook trout survive when their habitat changes throughout the seasons.

  4. Describe succession and the changes in a forest when it happens.

  1. Describe what happens in an estuary throughout the course of a day.

  2. Where is the estuary located in NH?

  3. Tell me about the zones of an estuary and describe the animals live in each zone.

  4. Explain three reasons why horseshoe crabs are special creatures.

  5. Explain how do humans damage estuaries and what can you do to help preserve our estuary.


1. Explain the difference between simple life cycles and complex life cycles.

2. Give a few examples of animals, insects, and plants that have simple and complex life cycle.

3. Draw a diagram of the metamorphosis of a wood frog and a monarch butterfly.

4. Explain why a silverfish is different than other insects.

5. Compare incomplete metamorphosis to complete metamorphosis, what are the differences?



Continue to read about our home state of New Hampshire in your Epic reading account. You will learn about some of NH's geographical features, history, famous people and places, wildlife and our state symbols.

Follow your teacher's directions and begin to label and color your NH map with the towns and cities listed on the side of the map. Use the NH books to help identify the state's rivers and lakes. Label the states, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean that border NH on the north, south, east and west.

Unified Arts Extension Lessons

Visit the Unified Arts page to find links to all the specialist's websites to complete their activities!