Reading & Writing Choice Board Week 2: Please complete one activity each day. The middle box must be done, and we recommend doing this first. Then decide if you are going to complete all the X or all the O boxes. An idiom is an expression What is Bud's new After reading Bud, that doesn’t exactly mean nickname? Explain how he Not Buddy, draw a what the words say. gets this Venn diagram. 1. Write one of your name. Use it to compare and favorite idioms. Do you contrast life from the 2. Explain the literal have a 1930s to today. meaning. – what is nickname?
the real message? If so, how did you get it? 3. Write a sentence using If you don’t – what your idiom. nickname would you give 4. Illustrate your idiom yourself and why is this a – figuratively and good name for you? literally. (add color!) Write a journal entry Sit back, relax, and enjoy Adjectives are words that using the prompt… the feature story describe a noun or pronoun. “I can’t wait to Bud, Not Buddy from our return to school Wonders textbook or online. Grab a small stack of old because…” magazines and go on an exciting adjective hunt. Please write at least 8 sentences and use Cut them out and create correct spelling and a beautiful punctuation. “Adjective Collage.”
Write a five-sentence Rewrite the following Mrs. Thompson can be summary of the story sentences correctly. described as
Bud, Not Buddy. 1. at the Campground we compassionate. Use these words to looked for would while Give two text details to guide your sentences. dad starts the fire support this word choice. First…next…then… 2. tokyo the capital of after that…and in the japan is a huge city with end. milions of rezidents
Earth Day - Choice Board
Create a poster about the Write a short story or play to teach Create a brochure about “Three Rs” (recycle, what you know about pollution and the “Three Rs” (recycle, conservation. Must be at least a reduce, reuse), water reduce, reuse), water page in length (skip lines please) and conservation, and/or conservation, and/or have a setting, two or more pollution. pollution. characters, a problem, and a solution. You live in a small town along the Chattahoochee River and your parents Design an invention that helps the just told you that a large factory from the city plans to move to an environment. Must have a detailed and area upstream from you. This factory is well known for draining and colored drawing of the invention as well dumping waste into rivers and it will also require 100 workers to drive two hours to their new job location. Write a one-page letter (skip lines as an informational piece of writing please) to city council explaining the harmful effects that this new that includes how the invention works factory could have on the environment OR a letter stating why this new and how it will make the world a safer factory moving to your town is a bad idea. and/or cleaner place. Farmer Fred grows fruits and vegetables in his backyard. Behind his farm, Draw a picture of there is a creek that he uses to get water for his plants. He regularly sprays pesticides on his fruits and vegetables to protect them from insects. When he a room in your finishes spraying, he pours the extra pesticide in the creek and even dumps old house and identify oil from his tractor there too. On some days, he throws trash from his yard into the water because he does not want to walk back to his house to the everything that trash can. Farmer Fred does not think he is causing pollution because the uses electricity. creek washes everything away. Write a one-page letter (skip lines please) to Fred explaining how his actions are harmful to the environment. Write a pledge that Use recycled Mystery Science - How is plastic made? Watch the short video and complete a includes five things material to 3-2-1 on a separate sheet of paper. you promise to do in create a (3 facts you learned, 2 things you order to do your found interesting, 1 question you still have). collage/ mixed https://mysteryscience.com/mini- part in helping the media art piece. lessons/plastic?code=a1081c34067ae310ca58aa Earth. 2d369f7f11 Social Studies Menu #2 Choose one activity to complete each day. Brochure Compare and Create Contrast Make a traditional colonial
Make a brochure to cookie. Use a “T” chart and compare https://www.cooks.com/recipe promote tourism. and contrast /20jt04i/colonial-cookies.html Think about what The new lives of colonists to Burbank has to offer. their old lives in England.
Postcards/Letters Cartoon Interview
Write a postcard or Draw a cartoon Choose one person letter to your about something that changed your life Grandparent, aunt, or happening in the and create a list of 5 uncle. Tell them how meaningful questions you are feeling about news today. you could ask them. what is happening now.
Teach Poster Poem Write an acrostic Teach someone in Make a poster and show how the Early Settlers lived. poem. your house to play a Google is a good source new game. Think about…. Using: Clothing, houses, COLONIES Colonial Children's Games environment.
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Colonial Children’s Games
In Colonial times, children didn't have electronic toys, or factories to make their toys. Many children or their parents made their toys out of scraps and things that were not needed. Little girls in Colonial times made their dolls out of corn husks, rags, scraps, and sometimes carved, dried apples as heads. The boys used sticks as imaginary horses. Children enjoyed spinning tops made of leftover wood and string. Children were often left without supervision and were left to play in the field or house.
Another toy the children enjoyed was a Whirligig.
Whirligig
To make a Whirligig, Cut out a 4 inch (10 cm) circle on a piece of stiff cardboard or use a large 2 or 4 hole button. Make two holes in the cardboard approximately 3/8 inch (9 mm) from the center as shown above. Thread a piece of string about 2-1/2 feet long through the holes and tie the ends together. Proceed by twirling the circle until the string is tangled and then pull. Continue the pulling and relaxing method and enjoy the Whirligig.
Many families had at least six or seven children, so they always had someone to play with. Also, if the neighbors lived near by, the children would have more company and then all children would join in the games. Many times children would make up games on the spur of the moment. When the children weren't making up games to play, they played many games that are still played today.
Colonial children jumped rope, played tennis, swinging, scotch-hopper (modern day hopscotch), and played on a see-saw. The children even played leap frog, tag, hide-and-seek, sack and relay races. Some other games played by the Colonial children were nine pins (similar to bowling, but more difficult due to uneven ground), bow-and-arrow, quoits (ring toss), and wooden stilts.
Battledores, which is similar to Badminton, was played often. A popular game during the Colonial times was “Rolling the Hoop”. This was when children would get a large wooden hoop and race each other to the finish point. Walking was also very much enjoyed by the children, especially if they had a friend to walk with. During the warmer weather, Colonial children went swimming and during the cooler weather, when snow had fallen, sledding was enjoyed.
Children also played some board games; one favorite board game is Nine Man's Morrice. Players take turns placing one of their nine markers at points where lines cross each other. The markers may be placed vertically, horizontally, or diagonally on the board's corners. After all markers have been placed on the board, the players may begin to move their markers by sliding them along a line to a circle. They try to make a row of three of their markers or block the opponent’s row. When you have three markers in a row, the player can remove any one of the opponent’s markers. Once a player has two markers left on the board, that player loses the game.
Although children in Colonial times didn't have much free time to play, they made their own games out of their chores. Daily chores normally consisted of carrying wood, husking corn, retrieving berries, carding wool, and gathering eggs. Many boys would make contests on who could carry the most wood or who could carry the wood fastest. Examples of other contests would be who could card the most wool, or carry the eggs the fastest without breaking or dropping them.
After shearing sheep, the wool is When they weren't making contests out of their chores, the children would sing, tell washed then riddles, practice tongue twisters, and say rhymes to pass their chore time faster. carded. This straightens the "Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Sally Fisher found it, Not a penny was there in it, fibers so it can then Just a ribbon' round it." be spun into yarn. and "Jack be nimble..." were some popular nursery rhymes. "Ring around the Rosy", "London Bridge", and "Here we go 'round the Mulberry Bush" were some favorite songs that the Colonial children sang. A popular tongue twister that seems quite difficult that the Colonial children practiced during chore time was, "The skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stuck, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk."
Here are some Colonial Riddles:
1) What can be seen falling down, but never crying? 2) What kind of room is not in a house? 3) What has three feet, but cannot walk?
Answers on last page
Original work by: Barbara R. Buckwald – May 22, 2002
Bibliography www.americancolonialhistory.com wneo.org/halefarm/family/cardingwool.htm www.victoriana.com/antiquetoys/rollinghoop.html www.ctstateu.edu www.williamsburgmarketplace.com www.stratfordhall.org www.nps.gov
Answers: 1) Rain 2) Mushroom 3) Yardstick
Physical Education Choice Board Choose an activity from the choice board below. Once you complete the activity, write it down on the Activity Log Calendar. We strongly suggest you perform 60 minutes of exercise daily, but you only have to fill out the calendar twice a week. Stay active, stay healthy, and have fun!
DANCE TO YOUR RUN IN PLACE FOR DO A WALL SIT WHILE FAVORITE SONG READING A BOOK. 1 MINUTE HOW LONG YOU GO?
PLAY BASKETBALL FOR HELP A FAMILY MEMBER HAVE A PLANK 20 MINUTES WITH CHORES CONTEST WITH A FAMILY MEMBER
INVENT A GAME USING GO FOR A WALK OR JOG HELP A FAMILY ITEMS FROM HOME 30 MINUTES MEMBER MAKE A MEAL FOR THE FAMILY
Art Choice Board Grades 4-6 Pick one art activity each week
Create something at home Find your favorite Is Art Important? and enter it in the Virtual shoe Talk to the people who Art Show. live in your house and 5. Create ask them the following 6. Snap a Picture questions: Is art 7. Email to your art important? Why or why teacher OR Using it as a MODEL not? Write down their 8. Post on Social Media create a shoe of your responses and then write Using the hashtag: own DESIGN and your reaction to what #111heARTathome Color. they said in one paragraph. Create your own Our artist this week is Yayoi ALPHABET FONT. Kusama! Find her page on Will it have a theme, Your choice the Tate Kids website and pattern or specific color of ART learn all about her and her palette? art! Can you make art with polka dots too?
Draw an Animal Hybrid Create Nature Art Design
two animals combined to Use sticks, stones, grass, Design a new wrapper for create a new creature. plants, anything found in your favorite candy. If you
nature to create your art. don’t like candy, design one Inspiration Artist: for someone who does. Andy Goldsworthy
Greeting from the Music Department. Here is your Music Choice Board. Students are asked to choose and complete at least two activities from the choice board. Once those activities are completed, please write down what you did in a notebook or on paper. Please note that your music teachers miss you very much! Have fun with the Music Choice Board.
4th – 6th Grade Choice Board – Week of April 20th http://minghai.github.io/MarioSequencer/ Click on the link above. Have fun Sit quietly outside and write down creating you own song with the all the sounds you here. Draw different characters/sounds of pictures of them and share if you Create a playlist of five (5) songs Mario can. that make you happy. If you are able, please share it with me.
Interview a family member about their musical background and Write four rhythms using the interest. Pick your favorite cereal and make notes/rest below. Only use the -What are some of their favorite songs up a jingle (song) for it. notes/rests you know. and why? -Did they learn to play an instrument (Like you were doing a commercial) and if so, which one? Share if you are able. -What does music mean to them Play them on found sounds (pots, pans, pencils)