Eureka Week 4

Eureka Week 4

Read/Study: 

1.   Go look at these fun websites and learn about your digestive system.  Take notes on all the different body parts that your food has to travel through before digestion is complete.  There will be a quiz in class.  The more you know, the more money you will earn.

http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=152&id=2910

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/general-science/your-digestive-system/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znLCDpjb1o

2.  Watch this episode of  The Berenstain Bears, Too Much Junk Food 

3.  Keep track of all the food and water that you put into your body for 3 days.  You can use this chart(I don't really know what the pictures mean), or make a chart of your own.  Add a column for water.  Just put a tally mark on each thing.  So, if I had pancakes and bacon for breakfast, and some orange juice.  I would put a mark on grains, fruits, and meat.  

4.  This is called a food pyramid.  It shows us about how much of each food group we should be eating.  Everyone is different, but our bodies all need good fuel.

5.  Do at least 1 page in your Math Analogies book.  I'll give out more money if you do more than one page.

6.  Bring your favorite math/numbers/patterns game to play.

7.  Today is the day you can buy stuff at the vanguard store!

History/Geography Week 4

History/Geography Week 4


Startr The Mixed Up Files Of Miss Basil E. Frankweiler!!

Read/Study:

Read chapters 36 and 37 from Story of the World Volume 4

Watch the videos labeled for chapters 36 and 37 on this website:

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

We'll be going over review questions about your reading, come prepared to earn Vanguard cash for your answers!

Geography:

We will be learning about the region of our country known as the Midwest! This region includes these states:

North Dakota. Talmage

South Dakota. 

Nebraska. Marilee

Kansas. Truman

Minnesota

Iowa               Alex

Missouri Garrett 

Wisconsin

Illinois

Michigan

Indiana 

Ohio              Lauren

Become familiar with the capitols for each of these states this week!

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!

Imaginative Arts/ Language Arts Week 3

IA/LA Week 3

Read/Study:

1.This week we will be having another book club party all about The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig. Make sure you have the book finished because we will try some Polish food and have some fun activities to do together.

2. We will be doing a paint along project! Have you ever wanted to create a fancy painted masterpeice on an artists canvas? Terran Eagar is going to visit our class and teach us how to paint a picture step-by-step. The cool part will be how unique each of our paintings turn out even though we will all follow the same instructions! Make sure to wear something you could get paint on :)

3. Write in your best handwriting in your commonplace book one or all of these passages with your mom.

  The morning it happened--the end of my lovely world--I did not water the lilac bush outside my father's study.
  The time was June 1941 and the place was Vilna, a city in the northeastern corner of Poland. And I was ten years old and took it quite for granted that all over the globe people tended their gardens on such a morning as this. Wars and bombs stopped at the garden gates, happened on the far side of garden walls.

Mother promised to be grateful, but she gave me a long lecture on how I was not to use anything belonging to Nikita--no towel, no soap if there was any--nothing, nothing, did I hear her? With a child's ears I had gone deaf after the first sentence or two, but I said yes, yes,yes, that I had heard her.

I pushed my way through the shivering, shabbily dressed crowd to the lady in the sealskin coat. Close up, she was even more beautiful than I had thought. Her skin had remained fair and incredibly luminous, as if even the ferocious climate, so cruel to other women, had been subdued by this royal creature.

"Who needs you?" they screamed. "Go back to Siberia, you dirty Jews."
  We stopped singing. I remember someone in the car moaning, "Not again, dear God in heaven, not again."
  And I said, "Amen."
  I was frightened and I was bewildered. The Polish people whom I had idolized during the years of my exile, thinking that life among them had been the best that ever could have been, were screaming at us to go back. At that moment, I wished I were back there.

Literary Elements of the Month:

*Musical language - Alliteration- when more than one thing starts with the same sound in a sentence. Think of things like the "whispering wind," something "sweet and simple," or "Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way." When we use the same sound it sounds more interesting and memorable. Can you think of an alliteration? 

*Personification - Check out these examples of personification from yourdictionary.com -- can you guess what personification is by reading these? 

• Lightning danced across the sky.
• The wind howled in the night.
• The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
• Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
• My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
• The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.
• The door protested as it opened slowly.
• My house is a friend who protects me.

Leadership Week 3

Leadership Week 3

Read/study: Habit #3-Put First Things First- Work First, Then Play

Read the 3rd story in "The 7 Habits of Happy Kids."

It's called, "Pokey and the Spelling Test."

Be prepared to discuss this story in class.  Take some notes!

Then, think about what you have learned and try 1 or more of these baby steps toward putting first things first.

Baby Steps:  1. What are some of your most important jobs or responsibilities?  Talk about what they are with your mom or dad and write them down.
2. Tomorrow, surprise your parents and do your chores before they even ask.
3. The next time you have a lot of inspirements, do the hardest one first.
4. Think of something you have been putting off for a long time, like cleaning your room, pumping your bike tire, or finishing a project that you started.  Go do it right now!

Do you ever feel like you have too much to do and not enough time?  In any given day, you may have to study, work on a project, watch your little sister, clean your room, go to a practice...oh and you would also like to have fun!

Answer these questions:
What do you do when you have too much to do and not enough time?

Is it always possible to do it all?

Know/Understand:  Bring your final speech all about you.  It should be memorized and ready to share in class!  Practice makes perfect!  You can do it, and it's going to be great!

We will be working in the kitchen and making our lunch!  So....you don't need to bring lunch!

Eureka Week 3

Eureka Week 3

Circulatory and Respiratory

We just learned about muscles and your heart is probably the most important of all. It's the muscle that pushes blood through our body to make up the circulatory system.
You blood carries oxygen, food and water and special cells for fighting disease!
Watch these video clips about parts of the circulatory system and see if you can learn where our blood is made? How does it get to our body? What is the important job of our heart and our blood vessels?

We are also learning about our respiratory system this week! I like this demonstration of how our lungs work to push oxygen through our body and remove carbon dioxide:

I learned a lot of new facts by watching these videos so I hope you like them too! We will be doing several exciting labs at Vanguard together and you will have the chance to cash in some Vanguard bucks! It will be a great day!

Also, remember to do 3-5 pages in your Math Analogies book!