Eureka #3 (November 19)

Conduct: Hyrum
Song: Garrett
Prayer: Anna
Pledge: Marilee
Theme: Tommy
Quote: Lauren
Treasurer: Talmage
Show & Tell: Eva

November 13 is National Kindness Day! How many acts of kindness can you perform this week? See these videos for a few ideas!

• Fancy pants
• Kindness can be the norm
• Kindness boomerang 

Read at Home: finish The Family Under the Bridge

Writing:

• Each day, list something for which you are grateful. Take a picture of the thing or something that represents that thing.
• Write the next the poem (below) in your notebook in your best handwriting. (It's long but you have all Christmas break to finish memorizing.)
• Recite all 7 poems learned so far at least once each day ($$$).
• Work on memorizing the first 2 stanzas of this week's poem (Vanguard cash if you can recite it from memory!).

If You Were Busy Being Kind
 by R. Foreman

If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it you would find
You’d soon forget to think ’twas true
That someone was unkind to you.

If you were busy being glad
And cheering people who seem sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You’d soon forget to notice it.

If you were busy being good,
And doing just the best you could,
You’d not have time to blame some man
Who’s doing just the best he can.

If you were busy being true
To what you know you ought to do,
You’d be so busy you’d forget
The blunders of the folks you’ve met.

If you were busy being right,
You’d find yourself too busy quite
To criticize your brother long,
Because he’s busy being wrong.

Eureka:

Read this webpage and write down 4-6 interesting things you learned about birds.

Learn the definitions of these words: endangered, extinct, endemic, migration, climate, habitat, predator. 

Choose a bird from this document. Learn about it and come prepared to share what you've discovered, including its habitat; food source; predators, if any; current status (endangered, extinct, or, in one case, recovered); etc. What threatens your bird or caused its extinction? If it is not yet extinct, what is being done to save it? If it is recovered from the brink of extinction, what happened? 

Draw your bird, if desired. (Feel free to trace it and fill in the details.)

What have you learned about birds? What questions do you have? Have you discovered a favorite bird? If so, which one and why?

History #3 China 2020 (November 12)

Ancient China- 

Conduct: Garrett
Song: Anna
Prayer: Marilee
Pledge: Tommy
Theme: Lauren
Quote: Talmage
Treasurer: Eva 
Show & Tell: Hyrum

Writing: 

• Each day, list something for which you are grateful. Take a picture of the thing or something that represents that thing.
• Write the next poem (below) in your notebook in your best handwriting.
• Recite all 6 poems learned so far at least once each day ($$$).
• Work on memorizing this week's poem (Vanguard cash if you can recite it from memory!).
  
• Tell 2 family members about the Saguaro Cactus using your key word outline. Remember to read your key words, think, then look at the person while you speak.

Singing Time

by Rose Fyleman

I wake in the morning early

And always, the very first thing,

I poke out my head and I sit up in bed

And I sing and I sing and I sing. 

History: 

Go to the library and get 10 books about Ancient China,  Look at the books and come prepared to share some of the cool things you have learned. You will earn Vanguard money for interesting facts.

Read "You wouldn't want to be in the Forbidden City" or "You wouldn't want to work on the great wall of China." 

Watch on Amazon Prime - Kids Animated History episode 11 and episode 12

Geography
Pick one country from the list and come ready to present on it.

Choose any country to learn about in more detail and present to us. You can work on the same country as your siblings, or you can choose different country. You will have 1-2 minutes to tell us all about your country. 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 country's capital
• Picture of the flag
• When did they become a country
• The country motto
• The country 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 country, or some display items if you know someone that has been there or something the country is known for doing like making clothes or plastic or anything else you can think of.

You will earn Vanguard money for being prepared!

If you want to earn extra Vanguard Cash you can listen/read The Story of the World Chapt 10, 32, 8,and 9.