Academic Activities for McIntosh Students During School Closure

Week of March 16-20, 2020

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Mrs. Altura
Mrs. Assman
Mrs. Bailey
Mrs. Baumeister
Mrs. Bubbers
Mrs. Amanda Campbell
Mrs. Kara Campbell
Mrs. Clark
Mrs. Delima
Mrs. Hoffman
Mr. Kane
Mrs. Katus
Mrs. Klaudt
Mrs. Lawson
Mrs. Maier
Mr. Mareska
Mrs. Mollman
Ms. Rica Rubas
Ms. Schell
Mrs. Welsch

All Students, Mrs. Kara Campbell:

Sumdog for math, spelling, reading

Freckle for math, reading

Imagine Literacy for reading *choose the blue guy when they log in

Big Brains math facts

Think Central has math, reading and some science

Guidance, Kindertarten - Grade 12, Mrs. Bubbers:

Grades K and 1:

ü Make up a puppet or doll show to do for your family that teaches how to handle one of the following situations without being mean or tattling:

o   What you can do if an older kid asks you to make fun of someone as recess

o   What you can do if a friend tries to give you medicine

o   What you can do if a friend calls you a name you don't like or teases you

ü Make a card or picture to cheer someone up. Write or draw nice things about the person you are making it for. Hide it some place where you know they will find it.

ü Watch a family movie with your family. Discuss the following after the show or during the show:

o   Were the characters treating others the way they want to be treated? Why or why not?

o   What did you learn about getting along with others from the show?

Grades 2 and 3:

ü Play a board game or a card game with your family. Practice good sportsmanship by doing the following:

o   Choose who goes first in a fair way such as flipping a coin.

o   Follow the rules without cheating. If you don't know the rules you can make some up, but everyone needs to follow the rules that are decided upon.

o   Do not play to win, play to do a good job and have fun.

o   Congratulate the winner and all players who did a good job following rules and having fun.

ü Have a magic show or comedy show for your family to entertain them and make them smile. You can make up jokes to tell if you like.

ü Make up a song or story about anything you like. Share it with someone else.

ü Clean and organize your room so you feel prepared to go back to school.

ü Smile often at other people and at yourself when you look in the mirror. Talk to your family members and friends about your thoughts and feelings.

Grades 4 and 5:

ü Make a simple healthy snack to share with your family to keep them healthy and happy. The snack can have sugar in it, but it should also have healthy ingredients like raisins, oatmeal, cereal, or nuts. Follow the measurements carefully and wash your hands and all dishes and cooking surfaces. O'Henry Bars are a great sweet snack that have oatmeal and peanut butter. I can email you my recipe if you need it. Let other family members help you.

ü Surprise someone in your family by doing something nice for them. You don't have to tell them who did the good deed if you don't want to. It is fun to see them guess.

ü Go outside for a while and just take a walk. Think about how being outside makes us feel better and why.

ü Journal your thoughts and feelings in a notebook. Add pictures, songs, thoughts, etc. to help express yourself.

ü Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqr9e3wCxI and learn how to make a zine and write a story to share on the 8 pages.

ü Teach someone else in your family a fun activity if they seem sad or bored.

Grade 8:

ü Sign into sdmylife.com with your email address and your email password. Find careers you want to lean about and take time to read the entire page about these careers including the employee interviews.

ü If you find a career you like save it along with a major and a school that matches the career. Then create another Career Plan.

Grades 10 and 11:

ü Sign into sdmylife.com with your email address and your email password.

ü Scroll to the bottom of the "dot" page to find Method Test Prep. Open it and start week one activities to prepare for the ACT test.

Grade 12:

ü Enjoy your trip!!

ü Read your personalized senior emails that I sent last Thursday summarizing where you are at in preparing to go to college. Think about your next steps and how you will get them done.

Ms. Rica:

Pre-kindergarten, Mrs. Bailey:

Students can work on their math skills by counting to fifty, sorting items, making patterns, practice writing numbers 1-10,  and missing number.  3  4 ____,  6____8

Students can review their letter ring a couple times a day.  The students can also get items around the house and tell what sound and letter the items begin with. 

The students can look out the window when they get up in the morning and report on the weather.  I hope there is a few nice days for them to go outside and enjoy the warmth of the sun. 

These kiddos have become great illustrators.  Students can draw and color pictures of their adventures while on the extended spring break.  I would like each students to do at least 3 of them.  Please save them in your child’s folder to send back to school, so we can make a book out of them.

Kindergarten, Mrs. Amanda Campbell:

Read books in book bags

Practice high frequency word packets and list

Use your 100s chart to practice counting to 100, counting by 2’s to 20,5’s to 50, and 10’s to 100.  Practice identifying, naming, and writing numbers to 100

Practice writing your last name

Practice your handwriting by writing notes and stories 

Be a kid 😊. Build blanket forts, build things with cardboard boxes, play house, play board games, play cards, build with Legos. 

Grade One, Mrs. Assman:

-Read for 20 minutes every day. You can read your decodable books that we have given back to you. You could also read a book you have at home! Ask to read to a friend, a parent or relative, or anyone else you want to read to!

-Practice your math facts! Find your doubles flashcards and practice your doubles facts to 12. Also, you can make flashcards and practice addition and subtraction facts within 20.

-Compare numbers. Ask a friend, family member, or anyone else to show you two numbers so you can tell them which number is greater than or which number is less than.

Grade Two, Mrs. Klaudt:

I hope you have healthy plans for this next coming week. I want you to have lots of fun and spend time with your family. I also have a few things to help keep you busy. 

First of all, you all have your Close Reader at home. Go ahead and do the next lesson. Read some books and take an AR test if you have access to the internet. Read your favorite book over and over. Read to your pet or little sister and brother. Read to anyone. Read in your blanket fort, or the bathtub with no water. Read to your stuffed animals. Read, Read, Read. If you have chapter books at home, try to read those.

Draw and color a picture of a dinosaur. Bring it back to school. If you have Play dough, make a dinosaur.  Any dinosaur things you make, bring to school. We are going to be studying about dinosaurs when you get back. If you have any books about dinosaurs, read them and bring them to school. 

Practice your flash cards every day. Play Math games with your family, like dominos, Yahtzee, money games. Put price tags on your toys and play store with your family.

If you have the internet try some of these:

www.Gonoodle.com

https://fluencyandfitness.com/register/school-closures/?fbclid=IwAR20qklPP_hQG2lLcDoWATVMRlK5zmpvWT1q8iq-GESv17UZRnCUPSkKP_w

www.scholastic.com/learnathome

www.mysterydoug.com

www.typingclub.com

www.squigglepark.com

www.storylineonline.net

www.portaportal.com guest name cklaudt

https://www.parents.com/syndication/museums-with-virtual-tours/?fbclid=IwAR3MUrLE4ygV0BqZ-fd4dbP69FcManlpv7L83PJg_g76qGuSFp13SITXx5w

Plus, people have been listing all kinds of free ones on Face Book. Have a good week. I’ll be thinking about you.

Grade Three, Mrs. Maier:

-Reading Log: Let’s see the variety of reading that we do in our daily lives. Keep a record of each time that you read! This could be reading a book, subtitles on a movie, the back of a cereal box, a magazine article, etc. The possibilities are endless!! Bring your log to school so that we can see all the places that reading was present in your life.

-Food Fractions: Explore fractions in a fun way! Since we are just wrapping up our fractions unit, try a hands-on fraction activity…COOKING! With the help of a parent or guardian, create a treat and explore the different sized measuring utensils. Take pictures of your culinary experience to share at school!

-Night Sky Sketch: Create a quick sketch each night before bedtime. Grab a blanket, choose a notebook, head outside, find a cozy spot, and look up! Create a quick sketch of the MOON and different star patterns that you see. Let’s compare our sketches when we get back to school!

-Multiples Mate: Choose one non-living organism in your home (a plant, a stuffed animal, etc.). Every day, time yourself while you say your multiples of 1-12 to your “multiples mate”. See how much faster and/or accurate you are by the end of the week.

-FRECKLE: I have added some math assignments to your Freckle backpack. These assignments are a review of fraction standards that we have been covering over the past few weeks. There is also an INTRODUCTION assignment for our TIME unit that we will be studying next.

Grade Four, Ms. Schell:

With no school this week, here are some at home activities for your kiddo to work on. The read at home bingo and the home learning menu are fun activities for the kiddos to do with their family!

The mountain math is something we do weekly so they should all know how to do it. There will be a few questions on the mountain math that we have not covered in class yet. When we return to school, they can hand it in for extra points!

PLEASE make your kiddo read something over the week, whether it be their AR book, magazine, newspaper, etc... it is very important.

 4th grade parents: check ClassDojo for the attachments! 😊

Students can also take a “virtual fieldtrip.”  

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDsoGlkgE3iExmi3qh2KRRku_w/mobilebasic

Students can write a short summary of what they learned on their “field trip.”

Students can keep a daily journal of what they are doing every day for writing practice or come up with a short story.

I assigned Math and ELA practice on Freckle for the kiddos to work on. Our class code is mu7j5g. Students can also play Sumdog and read on Epic.

Grade Five, Mrs. Welsch:

Please keep an eye on our Class Dojo page.  I have been posting some updates.  If you have internet access, students are able to access Freckle, SumDog, Big Brainz/Imagine Math Facts, and EPIC!

Freckle:  I have added a few math assignments at your level for fractions and operations.  Please do these first.  You are also able to do fact practice and any adaptive math practice like we do in class.

Reading:  Please keep reading over this break, if you didn’t bring your AR book or don’t have another book at home, you can read magazines, newspapers, or even subtitles on the TV!

Choose a few activities from the “Home Learning Menu.”  Take pictures or videos from your chosen activities and upload it to our Class Dojo page to share with classmates!  I can’t wait to see what you picked and how it turns out!

Play outside, read, build a fort, challenge your family members to a board/card game, and get creative! I can’t wait to see you all again soon! Have fun during this break!

Grade Six and Seven, Mrs. Katus:

7^th Grade Parents and Students:

Students could you please check your school email? Mrs. Katus has emailed you some information for your Reading class.

6^th grade students can continue to read Touching Spirit Bear. If the students finish the book, you can do a project about the book. Anything you have at home to make something that interested you from the story will be fine. . You can build something, draw a scene from the story, or paint, color a scene will be just fine.  You can also write a summary of the story, have 1 good introductory paragraph, 2 supporting paragraphs, and 1 conclusion paragraph.

7^th grade students can continue to read The Sign of the Beaver. If the students finish the book, you can do project about the book. Anything you have at home to make something that interested you from the story will be fine. You can build something, draw a scene from the story, or paint, color a scene will be just fine. You can also write a summary of the story, have 1 good introductory paragraph, 3 supporting paragraphs, and 1 conclusion paragraph.

If you don’t have your book at home, maybe go online, to YouTube, and type in the title of the story. You should be able to find where we were in the classroom and have that person read it to you. If you have any questions, just send me an email.

Both classes can go on the computer and do SumDog, and do Reading Activities.

Mrs. Katus’s 6th and 7th grade classes, this is a Challenge for you. Read a book every day. Maybe your AR book, or other book of your interest, magazine of your choice. Keep track and get a parent signature. READ! READ! READ! 📚📕📗📘📖 You may also keep a daily journal of your day. I would like to know what you all have been up too in these days at home, a paragraph would be good. Last but not least: spend time outside; help a neighbor; help with calving; enjoy your family time.

Any questions? Send me an email. Heather.Katus@k12.sd.us. 

Grade Six and Seven, Mrs. Clark:

6^th Math: You can take this opportunity to go to various sites and work on geometry. This is an area we don’t typically get to before state testing.  Topics to practice can include things such as:

·      Area of various shapes

·      Surface area of 3-d objects

·      Volume of objects

Other areas of review would be:

·      Mean, median, mode and range

Sites to practice on include:  SumDog, BigBrainz, and Khan Academy(all can be found on school web page). You can also go to Think Central and Go Math to access activities from our math book.

6^th Science:  You can go to Think Central and study any of the lessons in Unit 3:  The Earth-Moon-Sun System.  Things that you can keep track of that will add to our class discussions are: the time the sun sets and rises (and the date), also you can record where you see the moon in the sky along with the date, time and shape of the moon.

7^th math:  You can take this opportunity to work on geometry concepts before state testing.  This is an area we typically don’t get to before testing.  Topics to practice include:

*scale drawings

*area and circumference of circles

*area and perimeter of composite figures

*surface area of prisms, pyramids, and cylinders

*volumes of prisms and pyramids

You can use SumDog, BigBrainz, Khan Academy, and the Big Ideas websites to practice these concepts.  All of these sites can be found on the school web page.

7^th Science:  You can go to the think central site and do any activities in Unit 2 of Cells and Heredity and see how it relates to inherited traits in your own family.

Mrs. Baumeister's History:

students, check your emails to get your Google Classroom Codes so you can access your history!

Mr. Kane’s Math:

Approximately 2 weeks ago I set up a freckle math site for my 8th graders.  I will be monitoring that site for now on student progress and encourage them to work on their skills from home during this uncertain time.

Ms. Mollman’s Math

-Algebra I: Retake past Khan Lessons, especially those in which you did not achieve 100%.  Share with a family member what skill you are practicing, teach them, and create for them your own little test!

-PreCalc: Continue to work on Desmos Project.  Hang a drawing of the Unit Circle near a clock in your house.  Wow a family member by telling the time in graphing coordinates, degrees, or radians!  Also check out catchy Unit Circle songs on YouTube.  

-General Math: Continue to work on Freckle, revisit those lessons in which you did not achieve 100%.  Play a game of 10,000 (the dice game) with friends or family.  

-Geometry: Retake past Khan Lessons, especially those in which you did not achieve 100%.  Share with a family member what skill you are practicing, teach them, and create for them your own little test!

-Algebra II: Soon we will all be diving into an introduction to Trigonometry, give yourself a bit of a jump-start by watching an Introduction to Trigonometry video on YouTube.  Khan videos are recommended!  Practicing the "language" (exposure to sin, cos, tan) will help the concepts soak-in.  Watch with a family member and get their brain juices flowing too!

Mrs. Altura’s Science:

 Mr. Mareska's General Math:

Work on IXL and do the section under probability and statistics.    

Mrs. Hoffman’s English:

8^th Grade:  Utilize the NoRedInk.com website as much as possible.  Choose your own path of study.  Keep track of the work you do as far as time spent and a list of your “AhhhhHaaaa” moments.  Work on writing an essay of your choice of topic.  Follow the writing plan:  Brainstorm, Organization, Outline, Rough Draft, Revision, Final Draft.

9^th Grade:  You can watch the youtube video for Where The Red Fern Grows.  Keep track of differences between the book and the movie.  You can also work on your “INTEGRITY” essay.  It does not need to be typed…so go old school and use pencil and paper if need be.  You should be able to find a digital version of the book by typing the title and “pdf” if you need the book.  Remember, gradesaver.com also has some great summaries, quizzes and analysis that may help with your essay writing.

10^th Grade:  Continue to read the novel, NIGHT.  You may be able to find a digital version by typing Nightpdf into a google search.  You could also watch, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, on youtube.  While this isn’t a true story, it matches with our topic of reading and may add some discussion points to upcoming discussion time.  I suggest you keep some notes while watching the movie for that purpose.

11^th Grade:  Finish reading, How to Kill a Mockingbird.  You should be able to find a digital version of this text by typing the title into google and “pdf.”  Remember to keep some notes for upcoming discussion.  You could also use gradesaver.com for summaries, analysis and quizzes.

ALL GRADES:

Use the NoRedInk.com site for grammar review.  Keep track of your time and progress as well as sections you worked on and/or completed.

Try the NEWSELA.COM site for some great articles in an area of your choice.  Read the article, write a summary and then your response:  Did you agree or disagree with anything?  Do you have any questions that weren’t answered?  Did you notice any writing techniques or mistakes?  We may be able to swap this work out for nonfiction AR reading this quarter!!

Library.sd.gov…..Databases….scroll down to the “S” section….Click on SIRS Issues Researcher and choose a topic of interest to you and perhaps someone else in your family.  Each of you can choose a side to read, create a list of main talking points, and then discuss/debate the issue.  Did anyone change their mind?  Who presented the best points?  If you had an audience, what did they think?

Email your teacher with any other thoughts or ideas….or just to keep in touch!!!!

Mrs. Delima