SCHEDULE OPTIONS April 6th, Post #2 of 3

Hello Everyone,

Here is an update of possible activities for the week of April 6th. Remember, USE THIS LIST! Don’t sit around bored. There are things to do! Do something from EACH category, EACH day.

Take a deep breath, find a comfortable spot where you think you can do some learning, and find an activity you like to do. 

You don’t have to do them in this exact order, you don’t have to do all of the optional activities, and your schedule can be designed to suit your family. But, please choose something from each list (or use activities from your own family’s choices) and commit to a chunk of time to do each category.

There are NEED TO DO & OPTIONAL assignments. NEED TO DO assignments will sometimes be explained more on the blog and in MS Teams on the assignments tab. Some may require you to submit something in MS Teams.

I hope this helps structure your time this week! Let me know if you have questions.

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MAKER HOUR (60 minutes)
Do something creative! Make something new!
Take a picture to document your work!

Need to Do:

• Making art to share with everyone. Ms. D will provide a separate blog entry about how to do this.
• Provide an e-port entry with a picture of you doing one of the MAKER HOUR choices (or another category below other than INDIE READING), and explain how it went. What did you do? What did you learn? How did it go?

Optional Choices:

• Do one of the Exploratorium’s Science Snacks Design Challenges
• Like cooking? And science? Do a Gassy Eggs experiment with only raw eggs, heat, ice, and observations! You can do this in combination with making a meal!
• Make a mini model of your home (extra challenge, make it to scale). You could also just measure the area and perimeter of each room in your house, as a review from our last math unit.
• Create and decorate a salt dough sculpture
• Make a terrarium mini garden
• Make a bird feeder
• Help make the world a greener place by making seed balls
• Do Lunch Doodles with the author/illustrator Mo Willems who wrote the book Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus among many other picture books for kids
• Create a cartoon
• Make a marble roller coaster out of found objects in the house
• Make prints using paint and found objects
• Read about and create a 5 Clue Video Challenge for us
• Make a puppet show and present it to your family or us
• Create a website, blog, art journal
• Do SCRATCH online or find something on Code.org to do coding
• Do Tynker coding for free
• Bake something
• Take a box and make something out of it
• Make a mini catapult out of found objects
• Do a Science-U science activity at home
• Make a newsletter for your home
• Do napkin folding for your home
• Do the Getty Museum Art Challenge — Read about it here.
• Grow some plants from food scraps. See how here. or on this website too!
• Create something from the MAKE Magazine Maker Project Library (most materials can be found in the home)
• Make instruments from things in your home
• Find, pick and dissect a flower to learn its parts
• Make paper airplanes that fly very far.
• Exploratorium California Science Snacks with home supplies.
• Do edible science projects.
• Do a fun science experiment creation using office supplies.
• Make a homemade weather measurement instrument
• Watch a GEERING UP UBC Engineers Science Activity online, which is live streamed at 11AM every weekday.
• Visit Ms. Fletcher’s Music Blog for ideas about making music!!

FITNESS HOUR (60 Minutes) 
Get moving, get some exercise, get your heart pumping!

Need to Do:

• Listen to this news story on BBC about a football player in Africa who has created a shoe workout to keep herself in shape. Then, create your own shoe workout. Have someone video tape you doing the workout. Save the video in One Drive. I will put a separate post about how to share videos with us using your e-port or the blog.
• Part of fitness is also monitoring your MENTAL HEALTH. What are you doing to help keep your spirits up? I use the app CALM. Ask your parents for help to get the app for free. If you can’t, then find a quiet space, put on some nice music, look at a pleasant image, and do some deep breathing to calm yourself. It is good to do this at the beginning and the end of your day.

Optional Choices:

• Use YMCA Health and Fitness Videos for options of different workouts!
• Complete the Name Work Out (To change things up, use a random word generator, pick a random word from a book or the dictionary, or have a parent/sibling give you a word and work out according to the word)Go walking outside
• Create a circuit that incorporates at least five activities, Do each activity 10 times. Repeat the circuit at least 3 times. (Don’t forget to warm up before physical activity! This will help you do exercises properly and help prevent injury. You can run in place, do air punches and kicks, or some jumping jacks.)
• Or, if you can’t go out, go walking a mile on YouTube with Alana
• Create your own fitness routine
• Do Just Dance on video games or YouTube
• Look up Fit with Frank videos to do a fitness routine in the home
• Do Pilates for Beginners (was recommended by my daughter’s dance instructor)
• Do the New York City Ballet Warm Up Level 1 if you like dance
• Do Yoga for Kids for beginners, shorter class with basic poses
• Do Yoga for Kids for a bit longer class
• Do the Scientific 7 Minute Workout from the NY Times
• Go for a bike ride outside with someone in your family
• Use the Healthy Living 25 Ways to Get Moving At Home
• Face Time or Zoom with a friend while doing a workout. Do it together! Just need two devices.

INDIE READING (30 minutes) 
Reading, preferably offline but if you are out of books and need to go online, at least not news or current events articles.

• Go on to EPIC and read books from the class assignments list.
• Build a fort with a blanket over a table or chairs and do some reading under it
• On Amazon.ca, if you have the Kindle App, there are lots of free books to read
• With a library card, use online resources for Burnaby/Vancouver Public Libraries
• Use Audible for free right now to listen to tons of online audible stories.
• Use the Burnaby School District’s Tumblebooks Account to access books online. Press the ebooks tab at the top. I sent you an email about how to access this, as you need a user ID and password.
• Higher Level Reading — Project Gutenberg free ebooks
• Open Library — has non-fiction and fiction options, some great for IP!
• Need a break from reading, but love words? Complete a word search or a crossword puzzle.

SERVICE (30 minutes) 
Clean and help! A great way to help everyone in your family and community feel better during this stressful time!

• Participate in the 7PM NOISE outside, done by the community to say thank you to our first responders and healthcare workers!
• Create messages of hope, hearts, or other beautiful things to hang in the window or on the balcony that people in your neighbourhood can see from their windows.
• Make a homemade gift for members of your family, and learn how to wrap them using Furoshiki, the art of Japanese gift wrapping
• Prepare a musical performance to share with your family after dinner.
• Organize a family game activity.
• Create a dinner night, with fancy napkins, table, outfits, menus, decorations, etc. so when you can’t go out, there is something fun to do at home.
• Make a shopping list for the family
• Unload or load the dishwasher
• Sweep or vacuum the house
• Call a grandparent, family member, or friend to help them feel connected during this time of isolation
• Help with the laundry — loading, folding, putting things away
• Dust the house or blinds
• Clean windows
• Help with the garbage, recycling, or compost runs
• Clean off counters
• Wipe doorknobs and high-touch spaces with cleaner
• Take care of a pet
• Clean the toilet
• Organize recycling
• Watch your younger sibling so your parents can have a break
• Make a dinner for your family so they have a break from it!

GENIUS HOUR (60 minutes) 
Learn something new and document your learning in some way.

Need to Do:

• Have a one-on-one video conference meeting with Ms. D to talk about how you are doing on your independent project research. Check your email to RSVP for your meeting. If the time doesn’t work, suggest new times.
• Look at this document and make sure you understand how to cite your sources for your project bibliography. Do the practice examples they give you. If you are using Easy Bib, you still need to ensure your bibliography has correct format and lists resources correctly. Each type of resources (book, website, etc.) is cited in a different way.
• The Burnaby School District has provided a Digital Web Quest to talk about digital citizenship. As we are using technology even more, I think it is a good idea for you all to do the web quest this week. It says it is for secondary students, but I think it will help you, too.
• Read Can You Believe It on the Exploratorium’s website and find out the seven questions you should ask yourself when reading scientific claims (such as those about COVID-19 in the news.)

Optional Choices:

• Read about New Migration Science on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds website, along with many other articles about birds you may see during the spring.
• Watch NEST CAMS — these are a variety of web cams showing nests of birds from around the world and at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It is fun to watch, and it is spring, so there is some activity! Explore their resources about birds.
• Listen to an episode of the PODCAST  Book Club for Kids
• Listen to an episode of PODCAST Tumble: Science Podcast for Kids
• Listen to an episode of PODCAST But Why?
• Listen to an episode of PODCAST NPR Wow in the World
• Listen to episodes of Everyday Einstein Quick and Dirty Tips for Science Topics
• Learn about Animation Pixar in a Box on Khan Academy
• Play Chess online with Masters
• Watch any of the Numberphile math videos on higher math topics
• Learn how to Beat Box, creating new sounds with your lips
• Many of you had questions about COVID-19, and some of you had some misunderstandings. Explore the science of the virus, so you can better understand by doing activities on Exploratorium.
• Watch live jellyfish, whales, penguins, and more on Georgia Aquarium’s webcams. (or animals at San Diego Zoo, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, the Houston Zoo, or Zoo Atlanta).
  • Pick a favorite animal and research it. Create a fact sheet about it.
  • Research an animal’s habitat. Create a mini habitat.
• Travel the globe and visit one of twelve world renowned museums from the comfort of your home
  • Choose a favorite painting/sculpture and create a copycat piece of art.
  • Research an artist.
  • Choose a piece of art. Write about it. Describe it. Explain why you chose it and how it makes you feel.
• Use Google Earth to travel to a different city & country. Explore Street View.
  • Plan a trip to a new destination. What would you do, see, eat?
  • Make a travel brochure for the destination you visited.
  • Write a postcard from that destination. Include details about the place and what you can see there.

UNIT, NUMERACY, LITERACY HOUR (60 minutes)
Specific learning opportunities at grade level or connected to our unit.

Need to Do:

• Write a pen pal letter (see blog, April 6 post #1 of 3).
• Go to Science Snacks on the San Francisco Exploratorium’s website and do the activity called Life Size to understand the size of microscopic things. If you can’t print out the handout, just make a list of your own of the items on the handout using scrap pieces of paper.
• What are all of the currency forms for Canadian money? Write them down (bills and coins), and then think of all the different ways you could make $19.99 using those bills and/or coins. Record them on an MS Word document to turn in, or draw it and turn in a picture of it!

Optional Choices:

• Play Math PRODIGY using a class account. Please see email for sign up information to be part of the class. If you already have an account, use class code.
• Do some Real World Figuring at Yummy Math — my favourite is the Peeps activity.
• Do some math puzzles and games at Pickle Math
• Look at Oxford Grammar’s 16 Tenses of English. Write a funny example for each verb tense and label the one you are using. You can also see the TED-Ed talk on tenses, which is a bit more complex, but funnier.
• Try these Math challenges that are word problems using a variety of math operations: Between the Numbers.  You may need a calculator! I have the answers for the first set and can ask the author for the rest, as she is on my Twitter Feed.
• Watch UBC Geering Up Videos Doing Science on a LIVE STREAM every day at 11:00 AM. You can also see previous videos if you miss one.
• Use the grade 4/5 Resources on the Burnaby School District’s Continuing Learning Website for literacy, numeracy, or ADST
• Play or create math games using cards.
• Play math games or do literacy activities with dice.
• Make a graph of something — for example, which birds come to visit your backyard, or the objects everyone owns in the house, or make a graph by collecting information from friends online.
• Write something using a picture prompt on The Learning Network, NY Times
• Make a 15 second Word of the Day Video and share it (NY Times)
• Do a Math Activity on YouCubed Home Activities, Stanford University
• Do the Weekly Waterloo Math Challenges by Grade then check answers later
• We talked about blood types in our first unit — try out this module to learn about blood typing and how they match up patients. Fun game!
• Practice your online research speed skills. Do the Google a Day challenge.
• Learn Math Card Tricks with Professor Liljedahl at SFU
• Do the Missing Square Problem on YouTube
• WIRED Math Lessons from University of Waterloo for Grades 7-10, so better for those who are strong at math
• Learn about the Math Behind Your GPS
• Use other general online math and literacy learning RESOURCES from the Burnaby School District’s Continuing Learning Site.

Questions? Email me!

With kindness,

Ms. D