Eureka Week 2

Eureka Week 2

Read/learn:

1: Read this paper about The Skeletal and Muscular Systems

If you want to learn more, go to this website and learn some more about your skeletal and muscular systems. https://www.neok12.com/Skeletal-System.htm .  It's fascinating!

2. We are going to do some fun labs in class!  To prepare, look at this picture of some of the most basic bones in your body. Then, go to the website below to take a quiz about bones.  It has more than are listed here, but it is fun!  Go see what you know, or learn something new.

https://www.free-anatomy-quiz.com/skeletonIDQ1.html

3. Do 1 page in your Math Analogies book with a parent or sibling.  We will do more in class.

4.  Bring your favorite Math/Number/or Pattern game to play.

5.  Today is the day you get to spend your vanguard cash at our store!

6.  Next week is Leadership week!  You can practice your speeches if you are done with all this other stuff!

History/Geography Week 2

History/Geography Week 2

Read/Study:

Read or listen to Story of the World book 4, chapters 32 and 33. 

We will be going over review questions and giving out Vanguard cash for every correct answer!
Can you match the flag to the country from your reading?

Hint: The flag above is from 1931, this country's flag today looks like this:



How about these flags:

Expand your knowledge of what you just read about by watching these videos: Click on the videos listed under Chapter 32 and 33!

https://www.learningmama.com/story-of-the-world-volume-4-videos/

United States Geography:

The Southeast! 

This part of our nation includes the 12 states of:

Arkansas

Louisiana

Tennessee

Mississippi

Kentucky

Alabama

West Virginia

Virginia

South Carolina

North Carolina

Georgia 

Florida

Find out what the state capital is for each of these states.

Know/Understand:
Choose one of these states to learn about in more detail and present to us. You can work on the same state as your siblings, or you can choose different states. You will have 1-2 minutes to tell us all about your state. You can present it like a report, or do a slideshow, or make a poster, or draw pictures, or do anything you like to make it how you like it.
You could include things like:
The state capital
Picture of the flag
Statehood (when they became a state, and what number are they?)
The state motto
The state nickname
An interesting fact
A famous landmark
What is the climate
What kind of weather do they have?
What do they grow?
Show us where it is on a map
Someone famous that lived there or still lives there.

If you want to do a little more, you can bring something to share like a food from that state, or some display items if you know someone that has been there or something the state is known for doing like making clothes or plastic or anything else you can think of.

You will earn vanguard money for being prepared!

Class Assignments

Go to this link to see the class assignments for each week of vanguard.

Imaginative Arts/ Language Arts Week 1

IA/LA Week 1

Read/Study:IA/LA Week 3

Read/Study:

1. We have spent a lot of time working on our "This is Me" speech -- now we get to create a "This is Me" peg doll. First, check out my pinterest board to get ideas for our project: https://www.pinterest.com/marciej/peg-dolls/
Come prepared with an idea, print out examples or a sketch of what you would like to create in class. Include as many personalized details as possible! Can you include your favorite color? hobby? hairstyle? or any other special details, perhaps even details inspired from your speech!

2. Finish reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

3. Write in your best handwriting in your commonplace book, one or all of these three passages from the book. Decide with your mom.

We will discuss these passages in class, be sure to get all of the punctuation correct.

"Our land is alive, Esperanza," said papa, taking her small hand as they walked through the gentle slopes of the vineyard. Leafy green vines draped the arbors and the grapes were ready to drop. Esperanza was six years old and loved to walk with her papa through the winding rows, gazing up at him and watching his eyes dance with love for the land.

The immigration official seemed angry for no reason. "Where are you coming from?"

She looked at Mama who was behind her.

"We are coming from Aguascalientes," said Mama, stepping forward.

"And what is your purpose for entering the United States?"

Esperanza was afraid to speak. What if she said the wrong thing?

"To work," said Mama, handing hi her documents as well.

"What work?" demanded the man.

Something colorful caught her eye. Dangling from a tree branch were the remnants of the little donkey piñata that she had given the children, its tissue streamers fluttering in the breeze. It had been beaten with a stick, its insides torn out. 

   The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!"

   Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over."

Literary Elements of the Month: 

*Use of a foreign language. Watch for times the Spanish language is used in the story. How are you able to understand what was said? Did you learn any new words?

*Proverbs. In my copy at the end of the book there is a list of three proverbs that the author includes in the book. Have you heard of proverbs like "Win some; lose some" and "A friend in need is a friend indeed."? 

Check out the pinterest board I created for you of proverbs from around the world:

https://www.pinterest.com/marciej/iala-week-1-proverbs/

Do any of them sound familiar?

We'll talk about this more in class!

Leadership Week 1

Leadership Week 1

Habit 1:  Be Proactive - You are in Charge

Read/learn:  Read The first story in "The 7 Habits of Happy Kids."

It's called, "Bored, bored, bored."

Be prepared to discuss this story in our class.  Take some notes on what you learned.  Answer the 5 questions with a parent and write down your answers.

Then, think about what you learned and try one or more of these baby steps toward being Proactive.

Baby Steps:  The next time you feel bored, do something nice for someone else, Like Sammy did for Allie.

Try doing something today that you've always been scared to do.  Make a new friend, clean a toilet, or answer a question.

The next time you get mad and want to say something mean or rude, bite your tongue instead and don't say it.

If you do something wrong, say you're sorry before someone asks you to apologize.

Know/Understand:  Prepare a speech!  Yep!  Do it!  
Look at these prompts and choose one to focus on.  You can also come up with your own idea.  This speech is all about you, but I want you to go into more detail about one part of what makes you who you are.  You will have 3-5 minutes to present your speech.

What Events Have Brought You Closer to Your Family?

What Have You and Your Family Accomplished Together?

When in Your Life Have You Been a Leader?

What Challenges Have You Overcome?

What Challenges Have You Set for Yourself?

What’s the Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in Nature?

Where is the most interesting place you have ever visited? Why?

What’s Your Favorite Holiday Memory?

What activity has played or plays an important part in your life?

What is your main personal goal?

Can you come up with a turning point or milestone in you life?

What does a day in your life look like?  Describe the things around you.

If you could be any animal, what would you be? Why?

Type up your speech or make note cards and hang onto them, because next month you will give it again, but you will do it with all the suggestions that your other vanguard friends will give you in class.  Then, you will give it again a 3rd time, but it will be all memorized!

I know this might sound scary for some of you, but this is one of the baby steps in being proactive, do something scary!  You can do it!

I'm excited to learn more about each one of you!

Become/Serve:

Have you ever felt like other people are always telling you what to do-that you don't have many choices in your life?  Well, the exciting news of today is that you have choices!

Every day you have lots of choices, beginning with your attitude in the morning, whether or not you eat breakfast, how you treat people around you, and what activities you participate in.  All of these choices form who you are.  You are the leader of you. 

Answer these 3 questions in your common place book.

1. What is a choice you have made?

2. What happened because of your choice?

3. If you could make a different choice now, would you?