6th Grade Specials Activities Art Music P.E. S.T.E.M Activity 1: Found object Activity 1: Think back to the Activity 1: Same Spot, Sock Shot Science: Take a nature walk and collect Using clean pair of balled up socks some natural materials. When you get color wheel - red, orange, songs we sang for 6th practice tossing under hand and then home sort the materials you yellow, green, blue, violet. grade choral festival. Try overhand while stepping with the found. Below are some examples of how opposite foot to a target. Please ask you might sort. If you have time after singing one of them and adult permission to use certain targets sorting try building something cool with see how much you at your home. Examples: laundry the natural materials. hamper, spot on wall/tile on floor, or K-1st: sort by shape, color, or size remember. family members make a hoop with their 2nd-3rd: sort by texture, shape AND arms. size, or living vs non-living 4th-6th: Have students create their own way of sorting and then challenge someone elseto identify their method. Activity 2: Practice creating Activity 2: Make up a song Activity 2: Cardio Day Technology: Have someone in your 5 Minute Morning Dance house pretend to be a robot. You a value scale with whatever about things you are should program the robot how to you have available. Find an thinking or feeling. You can Party move around the house. Remember object to draw and shade. make an original song, or Evening Running Competition; robots cannot make any decisions for How many laps can each themselves, they only can do what you can sing it to the tune family member run around the programmer tells them. Give verbal directions to the robot of a song you already the house or the yard! know. one step at a time. Activity 3: Write your name Activity 3: Create an 8 beat Activity 3: Color Dash Engineering: Make a paper Find 4 items that are red, blue, green in block or bubble letters. rhythm pattern and make and yellow. airplane, how did it fly? What Add patterns. up body percussion for it. Make a diamond with the items and changes can you make to the stand in the middle. airplane to make it Possible ideas are stomp, Have someone call colors to you or fly better? Test out a couple pat, clap, snap. come up with your own pattern. As the colors are called you must sprint designs and see which is best. to that color and run around it and sprint back to the center. Let’s see how fast you are! Activity 4: Junk Activity 4: Create your own Activity 4: TIGHTROPE WALKING: Math: Create a recipe for a snack mix All you need is a bit of masking together, make sure to include both mail/magazine collage- cut instrument. You can draw it sweet and salty ingredients. Make tape, chalk, or string and a little or tear colors and pictures out and explain what it sure you are measuring and writing imagination, and you can make down how much of each ingredient goes out to create a new would be made out of, how all kinds of tightrope obstacle into the snack mix so you can share the picture. Glue if available. it would work, and how it courses. Make different kinds of recipe with others. lines and then walk the lines one 4th-6th: Figure out the ratio of sweet to would sound. You can also salty ingredients and the percentage of foot in front of the other trying make it out of recyclable each ingredients in the mix. If you made not to fall off. Try to balance an the mix again would you change any materials. object on your head while percentages or the ratio? walking the lines for a challenge! Activity 5: Go outside and Activity 5: Sit outside for 2 minutes Activity 5: Create a Stretching Wonder: Pick three objects with a pencil and paper. Be Routine: As a family create a and draw a picture of an look down the street. Can completely silent and write down stretching routine that targets invention you could make you find examples of every sound you hear. How many muscles in both the arms, legs, different sounds did you hear? Were with them. What problem PERSPECTIVE in the world upper back, lower back, and core. you expecting to hear more or fewer would the invention solve? around you? Complete in the morning and sounds? What instrument(s) could you use to make those sounds. once before bed. Activity 6: Find items in Activity 6: Interview a family Activity 6: Minute to Win It Science: Find 3-4 objects that roll and Directions: Complete each set of something to be an incline plane. nature to make a famous member about music. Ask them what one of their favorite songs brain busters as many times as Before you roll make a prediction person, place or thing is and why. Who is their favorite possible in 60 seconds which object you think will roll the 1. Jump-Spin (90 degrees)-Clap fastest, which one will roll the singer/musician/band? What 2. Stomp-Jump-Spin (90 degrees) farthest? Set-up your incline plane musicians/singers/bands have 3. Squat-Spin (90 degrees)-Clap and test your hypothesis. If you have they seen live in concert? Do they 4. Stomp-Stomp-Clap a way of changing the height of your play any instruments? What does 5. Jump-Spin (90 degrees)- Jump incline plane pick the object that music mean to them? 6. Pick your own combination from rolled the best and make a prediction any of the above! of how will the speed/distance of the roll change when you increase the slope of the plane? How will it change 6th Grade Specials Activities when you decrease the slope? Test your hypothesis. Activity 7: Draw a car, real Activity 7: Hum a song to a Activity 7 : Let’s focus on POWER! Technology: We know computers are Lay your 10 items in front of you. Make everywhere. Make a list of some or imaginary. family member. See if they sure they are close enough for you to machines in your house that might reach down and grab. Perform a jump can guess what song you use a computer to do their job. squat and grab 1 of the items on the are humming. K-2: Identify the function of the floor, while in the air, perform a turn machine and how it makes our lives and land, placing the item behind you. better or easier. Squat jump back to the front and grab 3-6: Try to identify the input(s) and the next item. Jump turn again and lay the second item behind you. Repeat this output(s) the machine uses. process until you have placed all 10 items behind you. Repeat 2X Activity 8: Choose your Activity 8: Write a list of Activity 8: STRIKE A POSE Math: Take a walk, but before you do This activity requires two players. Begin pick 5-7 common items, plants or favorite room in the house. your five current favorite by playing one round of rock, paper, animals you may see on your walk Draw a picture of it with songs. Compare and scissors. and write them down on a sheet for The winner of rock, paper, scissors gets everything transformed contrast the songs. How recording. As you walk every time you to choose a stance or a pose to stand in, see one of your selected things make both players must strike that pose at the into food. are they the same and how a tally on your sheet. same time and see who can hold that K-1: When you get home count your are they different? Think pose for the longest amount of time. tallies and report to someone on about the Whoever strikes the pose for the longest amount of time without falling out of what you saw. Which of your selected singer/instrument player, place gets to choose a fitness activity for items did you see the most of? Which instruments used, style, the losing payer to do. The fitness did you see the least of? activity should only be 10 repetitions. 2-6: Decide how to display your tempo (speed), lyrics, Fitness activities can range from information in a way that would be message, etc. jumping jacks, push-ups, squats, line easier for someone to understand jumps, sit-ups, wall-jumps, etc. than tallies. What kind of graph or chart could you make? Activity 9: Draw a city of Activity 9: Make a music Activity 9: Circle Challenges Math: Take a walk, but before Make a Circle using chalk on the the future. Think about listening log by writing you do pick 5-7 common items, driveway or Yarn on any floor. The plants or animals you may see on perspective. down all the music you circle should be between 3 to 4 feet your walk and write them down in diameter. Stand outside your circle. listen to in a day. Make Jump in landing on two feet. Jump on a sheet for recording. As you note of what the song was out the other side landing on two walk every time you see one of and what you were doing feet. Jump in landing on two feet. your selected things make a tally when you heard it. Jump backwards back landing on two on your sheet.