History/Geography Week 5

History/Geography Week 5

Read/Study:

World History

Read or listen to chapters 38, 39 and 40 in Story of the World.

Be prepared to answer some questions from the review pages.  Remember you earn vanguard cash for all the answers you know.

Identify these flags (and symbol):

  
 

United States Geography: The West Region

Find out what the Capital is for each of these States:

Alaska .      Alex
California
Colorado
Hawaii .     Lauren
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Oregon
Utah
Washington
Wyoming

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,

A 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 that 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!

Listen to these songs about the united states and start learning them if you want!

States and Capitals

Fifty Nifty United States

Imaginative Arts Week 4

Imaginative Arts Week 4

1. Read "The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler."  Hopefully you've actually finished it by now.  :)
           

2. Write in your best handwriting 1 or more of these passages from the book. Remember to copy it just like it is with indentations, and punctuation.

    The guide told Jamie that some people saved all their lives so that they could become mummies; it was indeed expensive.
   
    One of the students called out, "You might even say it costs him his life."   (Chapter 4, page 55)

   Jamie shook his head. "If you want to go different, you can take a subway to 125th Street and then take the train."
   "I didn't say differently, I said different.  I want to go back different.  I, Claudia Kincaid, want to be different when I go back. Like being a heroine is being different."
   "Claudia, I'll tell you one thing you can do different..."
   "Differently," Claudia interrupted.
   "Oh, baloney, Claude.  That's exactly it. You can stop ending every single discussion with an argument about grammar."
   "I'll try," Claudia said quietly.  (Chapter 8, page 119)

   "Come now, children. Put away the file. You must tell me all about your adventure. All, all, all about it. What you thought and what you said, and how you managed to carry off the whole crazy caper."  (Chapter 9, page 154)


Literary Elements: The most common Figures of Speech are,

Simile--------Compares 2 similar items and uses "like" and "as"
(The beehive is like a little mud house.)
Metaphor---------Directly compares 2 items. Does not use "like" or "as".  (The beehive is a little mud house.)
Personification------Gives human characteristics to an object, an idea or an animal. (The teapot screamed when the water was hot)
Alliteration-------these are words streamed together with the same beginning sound, like a tongue twister. (Tina's tacos tease the tongue.)
Onomatopoeia-------this is when words are spelled to represent how sounds are shaped in our mouths. (Bow-wow, Clink, Clunk, Shhh)
Idioms--------are "turns of phrase" that are so common in our language, we aren't really sure what they mean. (At the drop of a hat. Through thick and thin.)
Hyperbole------is an over-statement.  (I'm never going to do that again.)

We've learned about some of them, do you remember?  Pick two of your favorite figures of speech and write your own examples.  If you want to do one for each figure of speech, you can earn extra cash! 


I really hope that none of you would ever scare your parents and run away to a museum (or anywhere).  If you were going to be on your own for a few days though, what would you want to take with you? Make a list of all the things you would need. Also, bring your favorite snack to share with everyone!  Wear your PJ's and come with a comfy pillow for a movie!

Leadership Week 4

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Read/Study: Habit #4 Think Win-Win

Read the story in The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, "Lily Plants a Garden."

Be prepared to discuss this story and share what you learned. 

When you have a win-win mindset you are happy when good things happen to other people! You don't make someone else feel bad to make yourself feel good and you look for win-win solutions when conflicts arise.

Leaders have to make important choices all the time and Stephen Covey (the author who first created the 7 Habits) has a name for people who seek out win-win solutions, who stand out as leaders and make good choices; he calls them trim-tabbers. A trim tab is a sailing term for a part of the rudder that allows the rudder to be corrected (helping you to sail right on course). It's just a small rudder that turns the large rudder that turns the ENTIRE ship! Even though it is small it is responsible for the course of the huge ship. Small choices can bring about big changes!

Watch this video about a trim trab leader. How did she think win-win for her school?

Can you think of a time you used win-lose thinking? How about win-win thinking? Choose one or both of these scenarios and write about it in your common place book or be prepared to share in class. 

PREPARE A SPEECH! This week write a speech about someone you admire! This person could be a family member, a leader or hero in the world, or even a fictional character from a book. Practice your speech because you will be presenting it for the class!

And, best of all, we are having a Valentine's day party in class today! Bring Valentine's for the class, make a box for your Valentine's (or bring a container if you don't want to make a box). 

Here is a list of your classmates so you can address your Valentines:

Sister Jessee

Sister Eagar

Truman

Marilee

Talmage

Melody

Alex

Lauren

Garrett

Tommy

Anna

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!