Read from Book Basket everyday. Do the PE exercises everyday, too.
Week 1
Monday
Health and P.E.
This year we need to get serious about a PE and Health class. Every day you must write down what you did on the activity tracker sheet that I gave you as well as learn healthy habits. There will be only one lesson in a week, but You will need to do the exercise I assign everyday.
1. Watch these videos on How Sugar Affects the Body. Soda Pop and Sugar. How Sugar Effects the Immune System.
2. Go for a bike ride. I want you to ride from our house up to the hospital. On the way back, pass our house and go down to Folster's Barber Shop and see how far you can pedal back up to our house. I know you can do it!
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Check out this site about complimentary colors. Be sure to watch FIND and CREATE.
2. Now try this complimentary colors project. Here is a circle template to print out to get you started.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Ancient Mayans were some of the first peoples in America. Listen to some ancient Mayan music. What type of instruments do you hear? Drums? Flutes? Strings?
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 16.
Find 5 Minute Spanish on your bookself. Pop the CD-Rom into the computer and begin lesson 1.
2. Do the workbook page.
Book Basket
Begin reading parts of Discoverers And Explorers online. You can listen to it while you follow along here. Just open the audio book link first, then open the book link and go to the matching chapter that you're listening to.
On Monday, do chapter one and three, and then Click on Columbus on the map key.
On Tuesday, Read chapter 5. Click on Cabot on the map key.
On Wednesday,
On Thursday,
On Friday,
- *Print a USA map.
- Draw on all explorers’ routes. Use a different color pencil for each one. Make a key that shows which line belongs to which explorer.
Week 2
Monday
Health and P.E.
- What does it mean to burn calories? Calories are a measure of the energy your body takes in through food. Your body needs energy to do everything it does. But you need a lot more energy to dance than to watch TV! If you don’t use or “burn” off enough calories, then they turn into fat. I don’t want you worrying about getting fat or using your calories. Your goal should be to eat healthy and live healthy. Living healthy means not just sitting all day but getting up and moving. One way to do that is with chores. Yeah!
- I wasn’t kidding telling you to do cleaning to exercise. Check out this list of how many calories you burn doing housework.
- Choose something on the list and figure out how long you’d have to do it to burn 50 calories according to the list. Do it!
Early American Art
1. Can you see the complimentary colors in these paintings?
2. Look at these paintings of the Mayflower. What complimentary colors do you see? Where do you see movement in the paintings?
3. Do steps 1-4 in lesson 1 of Draw and Write Through History. Keep your drawing to finish next week.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Listen to some Iroquois music.
Moccasin Dance
Friendship Dance
2.Look at the drums and flutes that Native Americans made music with.
3.Read about and listen to the music of Bach. Pay special attention to when he lived.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 17.
2. Do 5 Minute Spanish lesson 2.
Book Basket
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Do 25 jumping jacks. Here's a video to help you learn how. Watch it first.
2. Figure out an estimate of how many calories you used today being active. An estimate means a good guess. You don’t need to know the exact amount of time you spent doing things.
3. Look at this chart. How many calories do you need each day to keep your body going?
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Finish lesson 1 in Draw and Write Through History.
2. Look at these examples of Iroquois artwork.
Masks , Quill Weaving, Wampum
3. Here is another example of Native American artwork, beadwork.
4. Make your own online beaded project.
WednesdayIntroductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 17.
2. Do 5 Minute Spanish lesson 2.
Book Basket
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Click on Champlain on the map key.
- Research him.
- Get your map back out and add all these explorers to it. You can use the click map as a reference.
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Do 25 jumping jacks. Here's a video to help you learn how. Watch it first.
2. Figure out an estimate of how many calories you used today being active. An estimate means a good guess. You don’t need to know the exact amount of time you spent doing things.
3. Look at this chart. How many calories do you need each day to keep your body going?
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Finish lesson 1 in Draw and Write Through History.
2. Look at these examples of Iroquois artwork.
Masks , Quill Weaving, Wampum
3. Here is another example of Native American artwork, beadwork.
4. Make your own online beaded project.
Music Appreciation
1. Read and listen to the music of Handel.
2. Click on the links and listen to both Early Colonial Music links.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Do lesson 3 in 5-Minute Spanish.
2. Read about which Countries speak spanish.
3. Do the quiz.
4. Click on People and Places. Click on each country.
Book Basket
1. Monday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 1 and 2.
Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 3 and 4.
2. Tuesday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 5 and 6.
Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 7 and 8.
3. Wednesday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 9 and 10.
Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 11 and 12.
4. Thursday, Read about Sir Walter Raleigh.
Start a timeline. Write a date. Insert a picture. Write text. You can do it in a word processing program, a drawing program, power point, or however you like. Save it and add to it as we go along. Here’s a picture of Sir Walter Raleigh to get you started. It’s from Wikipedia. That’s a great place to get pictures from.
Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 13 and 14.
*Read pages 4-6 on the beginnings of the colonies in America and the directions on pages 7 and 8. Print pages 15-17. (You can print page 12 too.)
5. Friday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 15 and 16.
Start coloring and building your fort.
Week 4
Monday
Health and P.E.
1.We have been trying to eat more nutritious meals. Here is a link to use to make a daily food plan. Enter your information and then print the first pdf copy. It will help you to see what you need to eat everyday.
2. Print out this guide. Use it to plan a meal this week.
3. Print out this worksheet. Use it at the dinner table tonight.
4. Learn about warming up before exercise. Read pp. 18-22. Then, do this warm up routine before each exercise this week.
5.This week I want you to do a different exercise from your flip book everyday. Add to your activity tracker sheet what you did.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Do Draw and Write through History p. 24-26.
- Look at different kinds of lines used in art.
- Here are some more line examples.
- Draw 5 different kinds of lines and label them.
Music Appreciation
- Read about Vivaldi and listen to his music.
- Ben Franklin’s Armonica
- Read about resonance.
- Play the virtual armonica.
Introductory Spanish
Go here and do day 18.
Pop the Spanish with Phonics dvd rom into the computer and review the alphabet. You can go one to greetings to review, too.
Book Basket
1. Monday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 17 and 18. Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 19 and 20.
Work on your fort
2. Tuesday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 21 and 22. Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 23 and 24. Work on your fort.
3. Wednesday, (Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 25 and 26. Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 27 and 28. Finish your fort.
4. Thursday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 29 and 30.
5. Friday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 31 and 32. Listen to and read the Mayflower Compact.*Fill in this worksheet as you listen.
Week 5
Monday
Health and P.E. Week 5
1. We will be using this booklet throughout the year. Get Fit. You can just go to the pages assigned on the day they are assigned. You don't need to print it out.
2. Today, read pp. 1. It talks about the types of exercise that teens need to stay healthy.
3. Warm up.
4. Here's your workout for this week. Do it three times for a nice workout. Add it to the activity tracker sheet.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Read about the limners of Colonial times.
- Look at these three limner paintings. Can you see limner characteristics in them?
- Little Boy in a Windsor Chair
- Mrs. McCurdy and Her Daughters, Mary Jane and Letitia
- Freake Family
- Wednesday
- Listen to revolutionary war songs.
- Can you hear the brass instruments?
- Read about Beethoven and listen to all of the music examples.
Introductory Spanish
1.Do your Spanish with Phonics dvd rom and do Numbers.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish lesson 4.
2. Do spanish lesson 1 .There are little arrows at the bottom of the page to click to go to the next screen. When you have clicked all of those, go to the top and click a new tab.
Book Basket
1. Monday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 33 and 34.
Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 35 and 36. Do you know who is who? Do research online if you need to in order to find the right answers.
2. Tuesday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 37 and 38.
Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 39
3.Wednesday, Read Pilgrim Stories chapter 40. Watch this video on the New World.
4. Thursday, Finish reading Pilgrim Stories . Go to this link to learn about the Salem Witch Trials. Click Start Movie Now.You can click on different parts, too, if you want to.
5. Friday, Read about the cause and effect of the war. Read a description of the war. Read about Pontiac’s Rebellion. Read about the Proclamation of 1763.
Add the French and Indian War to your timeline.
WEEK 6
Monday
Health and P.E. Week 6
1. Read pp. 4-5.
2.This week is Wii week. You can do two dances using Disney Just Dance, or you can do an active Wii Sport. Your choice, but you must do one everyday and add it to your activity tracker sheet.
3. Read about why drinking water is good for you.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Do Draw and Write Through History p. 27-28. Keep your drawing to add to next week.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1.Read about Haydn and listen to his music.
Thursday
Typing
Learning to type is a life skill that you will need throughout high school. Now is the time to learn. You can't learn it any sooner. ;) So, have a good attitude and have fun. I know this is meant for younger children, but that makes it an easy start. Go for it!
1. Do Level 1, stage 1 of Dance mat typing.
Now, let's start learning about the computer a bit more. Read and follow the directions below.
- Internet Safety Reminders: Do not download anything onto your computer without permission. Do not click on any advertising on a website even if it looks like a game to play. You can also turn off advertising, so you don’t see bad images. Don’t give out your name, address, phone number, email address, photo, etc. online without permission. Do you remember these words: browser, desktop, window, crash, loading, refresh, download? If not, ask someone.
- Internet safe search — When you want to find something on the internet, you have to be careful how you look for it. Here are some tips. Be as specific as possible in your search. Type as many words as you know that will help you find what you are looking for. That will help keep things you are not looking for from coming up. Also, use kid friendly search engines. Here is another place you can go to search. You can turn on youtube’s safety switch at the bottom of any youtube page. You can also ask your parents to turn on Google safe search. Other sites’ safe searches do not work well.
- Internet Safety — Here are some tips for staying safe when you use the internet. Never sign up for anything online without permission. When a site asks for a username, you are not supposed to give your real name. Make up a pretend name for yourself. Never tell anyone online your real name, address, phone number or email address unless your parents tell you it is okay. Even if it’s a friend online, don’t give them information about yourself unless you have permission.
- Read these computer rules
1. Monday, Watch this documentary on Benjamin Franklin.
2. Tuesday,
- Read pages 13-15 and print page 16 about George Washington’s school book on behavior.
- Follow the directions. Read the excerpt and answer the questions.
WEEK 7
Monday
Health and P.E. Week 7
1. Read pp. 25-28.
2. This week, make a work out incorporating all of the exercises that you just read about. Do five of each, each day, for instance. Don't forget to warm up first and cool down after every workout.
3. Scroll down to where it says Healthy Eating. Click on the PICTURE.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Do Draw and Write Through History p. 29-30.
- Learn about positive and negative space. Make sure you watch, find and create.
- Look at the American Revolution artwork.
- Can you find an example of negative space? (My observations: how about the architecture along the top of the signing of the Declaration or in the dark spaces in the King George III painting)
Typing
1. Do Lesson 1, stage 2. Dance Mat Typing.
Word Processing
- Open your computer’s word processing program maybe it’s called Word. Type your name. Learn how to click save. Find the folder with your name on it. Type your name in for the name of the file, the document, the thing you are saving. Click on save. Type your full name in your document. Click on save. Now you don’t have to name it. It already knows.
- Find the folder with your name on it. Click on it to open it. Find the document with your name on it. Click on it to open it. It should open Word or whatever your word processing program is. Do you see your name? Then you followed all the directions. Type a sentence. Click on save. Click on “file” in the top left corner. Find the word “close” and click on it. Your document, the page you were writing on is gone. Now click on open. Find the document with your name on it. Click on it to open it. Click on the red X in the corner to close the whole program.
- Find the folder with your name on it. Find the document with your name on it. Click on it. Click on open. Now practice changing the font. Change the font name and type. It’s okay if it’s crazy typing. Now change the font size. Make the number bigger. Now type. Change the font and size lots of times and experiment.
- Find the document folder with your name on it and double click on it to open it. Find the document with your name on it to open it. Click in the top left corner of the page. Hit enter a few times. Now type a title for your page. You can call it your name if you like. Now click on the center button. There should be three buttons with lots of lines on them. They are showing lines of words lines up to the left, to the right and in the center. You want your title in the center. See if you can get it in the center. Now highlight your title. Click and drag your cursor over your title. Choose a different color for your title. Now move down and click in the rest of your typing below. Click on the left and right buttons and watch what happens. Now change the color of those words.
- See if you remember how to open your file we’ve been working on. It should be called your name and be in a folder with your name on it. Click anywhere on the page and find where it says “Insert.” You are going to insert a picture. You can insert clip art that comes with your program. Or you can insert from a “file” which means a picture you have saved on your computer. Try inserting both kinds. After you click on insert, you’ll have to choose which picture. If you double click on it or click on open it should appear in your file. Use what’s on your computer already. We’re not going to get any other pictures onto your computer right now. When you are done, make sure you save your file.
- Today you will print your document. Open the folder with your name on it. Open your document with your name on it. Ask someone to show you how to print on your computer. Make sure the printer is turned on and has paper.
- Thursday
1. Go here and do day 19.
2. Do lesson 5 in 5-Minute Spanish.
3. Here's a video
for you to watch. Do the quiz after you watch.
Book Basket
Begin reading Johnny Tremain. This week, Read several chapters of your book and then do several sections each day of this lapbook.
Play the Patriot Spy game. READ all of the information!
WEEK 8
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Play Mission Nutrition.
2. Watch this video on reading labels to eat well. You have to click the x in the top corner to get rid of the ad first.
3. Warm up. You can use the warm up video. Then go for a jog. Jogging is not a fast run. You go at an even pace so that you can go for longer. You can take your mp3 player with you. Jog up to the hospital and back. Set a timer just as you run out the door. Turn it off as soon as you come in. Check how long it took you. Why? Well, on rainy days, I want you to jog in place for that amount of time. :)
4. Cool down. You can use last week's cool down video.
Tuesday
Typing
1. Do Dance Mat Typing Lesson 1, Stage 3.
2. Ask Papa to show you how to do his power point presentation program. You will be starting one of your own. Decide on what subject you would like to do this for. Here are some suggestions.
A. A presentation on our Founding Fathers from your history studies.
B. A presentation on a book you've reading, or a literature selection.
C. A presentation on something you have learned in your Bible Class.
Today, You will just learn how to use it, and pick your topic. This project continues for several weeks.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1.Read about Mozart and listen to all of the music samples.
2.Listen to the Star Spangled Banner. Read the lyrics as you listen. We know the first verse as the American national anthem, but this has the second verse of the poem as well.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
- Study the first 10 body parts. Write them down. Watch them again and repeat after the speaker. Click on the X next to “English” and go through the flashcards until you can say what they mean. Next, show the English and hide the Spanish and work on being able to say the Spanish.
- Review the 10 and study ten more body parts. Write them down. Watch them again and repeat after the speaker. Click on the X next to “English” and go through the flashcards until you can say what they mean. Next, show the English and hide the Spanish and work on being able to say the Spanish.
- Review the other 20 and study the last 10 body parts. Write them down. Watch them again and repeat after the speaker. Click on the X next to “English” and go through the flashcards until you can say what they mean. Next, show the English and hide the Spanish and work on being able to say the Spanish.
- Do all of the quizzes and games.
1. Continue reading Johnny Tremain.
2. Work on your lapbook. Finish your lapbook by Friday.
WEEK 9
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Play Blast Off.
2.Here is a video to teach you how to do a proper jumping jack. Do 20.
3. Try and do a push up. Can you do 10? Try every day and you’ll get better.
Watch the video to learn how to do it properly.
4. Do sit ups, as many as you can properly. Watch the video to learn how to do it right.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Analyze the painting, Paul Revere's Ride
2. Can you find complementary colors, negative space, and three types of lines?
3. Do Draw and Write Through History p. 42-46. When adding color, remember our lessons so far.
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Wednesday
Typing
1. Do Dance mat Typing Lesson 2, Stage 4.
2. Work on your Power Point presentation.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 20.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish lesson 6.
Book Basket
1.Finish reading Johnny Tremain. Begin reading Calico Bush.
2. Read this page on John Adams. Read about Thomas Jefferson. Play the Adams/Jefferson game. Drag the correct picture to the answer box.
3. Work on your American History Through Time puzzle.
CONGRATULATIONS! You finished the first quarter of the school year!! YAY! Only 3/4 left!
YOU DID IT!
WEEK 10
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Read about snacking smart for lots of energy. Snack ideas?
You have permission to make one or two for yourself and anyone else at home today.
2. Read about junk food.
3. Stretch. Then do 10 jumping jacks, 10 sit ups and 10 push ups (put your knees on the ground if you have to.)
4. Cool down.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Look at textures used in art.
- Look at these pictures. What textures do you see? Water Hair Pots Corks
- Van Gogh These are different. It is not trying to emulate the real texture of an object. Van Gogh used brush strokes to create texture marks on his painting, making it much more interesting. (Scroll down for his paintings. The interactive bit isn’t working.)
- Do Draw and Write Through History p. 31-33.
Music Appreciation
Listen to pioneer music.
Thursday
Typing
1. Do Dance mat Typing Level 2, Stage 5.
2. Finish your power point presentation. Schedule a good time to present it to the family.
Book Basket
1. Keep reading Calico Bush.
2. Keep working on your History Through Time Puzzle.
3. Play the Mission US game.
WEEK 11
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Look at these links. Do the Grocery list, Measure , mix, and bake.
2. Now, you can do it for real! Don't forget about the healthy foods lessons you've had so far. Ask Mom for a recipe, make a list, go shopping, and make your snack. Won't it be fun to serve it tonight with dinner!
3. You are going to be learning some Yoga. Learn some poses. Skip the ad. Try each one along with the video.You can use one of Mom's mats if you need to.
4. Read about yoga.
Tuesday
Typing
1. Do Dance mat Typing Level 2, Stage 6.
Word Processing
- Open your computer’s word processing program maybe it’s called Word. Type your name. Learn how to click save. Find the folder with your name on it. Type your name in for the name of the file, the document, the thing you are saving. Click on save. Type your full name in your document. Click on save. Now you don’t have to name it. It already knows.
- Find the folder with your name on it. Click on it to open it. It should open Word or whatever your word processing program is. Do you see your name? Then you followed all the directions. Type a sentence. Click on save. Click on “file” in the top left corner. Find the word “close” and click on it. Your document, the page you were writing on is gone. Now click on open. Find the document with your name on it. Click on it to open it. Click on the red X in the corner to close the whole program.
- Find the folder with your name on it. Find the document with your name on it. Click on it. Click on open. Now practice changing the font. Change the font name and type. It’s okay if it’s crazy typing. Now change the font size. Make the number bigger. Now type. Change the font and size lots of times and experiment.
Music Appreciation
- Read about Johannes Brahms and listen to his music.
- Listen for the different instrument families.
- Now you can learn about Slave Spirituals.
- Watch this video to learn about slave spirituals.
- Listen to a famous spiritual, Swing Low Sweet Chariot. This is music that is different than you are used to, but it's good to learn about other cultural music. This is a snippet from a movie, so it may seem funny at first.
- If you would like to, here’s a site with tons of lyrics to spirituals
- Go here and do day 21.
- Do 5-Minute Spanish lesson 7.
- Book Basket
2. Take a look at the map at the link. The different colors show different groups of Indians. Notice where the Plains Indians lived. Can you guess at some of the states that are in that area? They weren’t states yet at this point in history, but America is continuing to expand westward.
3. Watch a Drive Through History DVD.
WEEK 12
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Go here. and do Food Labels and Label Practice. Plan a meal with Mom that has low saturated fat.
2. Here's some more yoga poses to learn. Skip the ad. Try each pose with the video. Don't yank your leg up into the position that they show. Just go up as far as you can. Your flexibility improves the more you do yoga, but at first you may find that you can't go as far as the video shows. You should use Mom's mat this time because you will be on the floor.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Chardin was an artist during the 1700s. Listen to how to say his name by clicking on the the little speaker icon.
- Read about him and his work.
- Look at Chardin’s artwork for lines, colors and textures. You can click on them to see them bigger.
- What type of scene does he typically draw?
- Do Draw and Write Through History p. 47-49.Keep it to finish later.
Typing
1. Do Level 3, Stage 7 in Dance mat Typing.
Word Processing
2. Find the document folder with your name on it and double click on it to open it. Find the document with your name on it to open it. Click in the top left corner of the page. Hit enter a few times. Now type a title for your page. You can call it your name if you like. Now click on the center button. There should be three buttons with lots of lines on them. They are showing lines of words lines up to the left, to the right and in the center. You want your title in the center. See if you can get it in the center. Now highlight your title. Click and drag your cursor over your title. Choose a different color for your title. Now move down and click in the rest of your typing below. Click on the left and right buttons and watch what happens. Now change the color of those words.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go Here and do day 22.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish lesson 8.
Book Basket
1. Keep Reading Indian Captive. You should be able to finish it this week, as it is easier reading.
2. Read the facts about the Trail of Tears.
3. Read about the Louisiana Purchase.
4. Watch a Drive Through History DVD.
Week 13
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Go check out the new Yoga poses for this week. Try them along with the video. You'll need a mat.
- Play the household toxins (poisons) game. When you find a game in the room, you’ll lose anything you have clicked yes on if you haven’t “check”ed it yet.
- Take the household hazards quiz.
Early American Art
- Look at Plains Indian artwork. It is very similar to the artwork we looked at for the Iroquois.
- What lines, colors, shapes and textures do you see?
- If you want to make a craft, you can choose one from this page.
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Mendelssohn and listen to his music.
2. Go here and choose a game to play. You can try one on the beginner level, but then I want you to play intermediate, because you've had most of this with your piano lessons.
Thursday
Typing
1. Do Dance Mat Typing level 3, Stage 8.
2. See if you remember how to open your file we’ve been working on. It should be called your name and be in a folder with your name on it. Click anywhere on the page and find where it says “Insert.” You are going to insert a picture. You can insert clip art that comes with your program. Or you can insert from a “file” which means a picture you have saved on your computer. Try inserting both kinds. After you click on insert, you’ll have to choose which picture. If you double click on it or click on open it should appear in your file. Use what’s on your computer already. We’re not going to get any other pictures onto your computer right now. When you are done, make sure you save your file.
Book Basket
1. Begin reading Amos Fortune, Free Man.
2. Watch a Drive Through History DVD.
3. Read about Meriweather Lewis.
4. Read about William Clark.
5. Click on number 1 to begin your expedition with Lewis and Clark.
Week 14
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Here's a yoga workout for you to do this week. Do it along with the video every day.
2. Read about the dangers of alcohol.
3. Write a list of reasons to not drink alcohol. Start with the title: “Reasons not to drink alcohol…”
Tuesday
Typing
1. Do Dance mat typing level 3, stage 9.
2. Today you will print your document. Open the folder with your name on it. Open your document with your name on it. Ask someone to show you how to print on your computer.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Johann Strauss, Jr.
2. Listen to the Thunder and Lightening Polka.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go Here and do day 23.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish lesson 8.
Book basket
1. Keep reading Amos Fortune, Free Man.2. Watch a Drive Through History DVD.
3. Print out a blank map. Draw on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Make sure you label them.
4. Read about their starting place. You’ll read tidbits from Lewis and Clark’s journals along the way.
WEEK 15
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Here's your Yoga workout.
Early American Art
1. Do Draw and Write through History p. 49-51.
Wednesday
Typing
1. Do Dance mat typing level 4, Stage 10.
Word Processing
- Open your document from last week. Insert a picture and clip art into your document and save it. Then click on insert again and choose shapes if that is an option. Choose a shape. Try and “fill” it with a color. Ask for help if you need it. Save it again.
- Make an “I love you, Mom” mini poster. (You can do dad or grandma or someone else.) Open a new document. See if you can find something called “Word Art” or something that lets your write words in special ways. Write “I love you, Mom!” in a special way. Add a picture of you and her (him) if you can find one. Decorate the page. Click on insert. Choose shapes. Maybe you want to put stars on the page? Choose “fill” to color in your shapes. Do you want to add clip art? Can you do it? Ask for help if you can’t find something. Print it out.
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 24.2. Do 5-Minute Spanish Review, p. 16.
Book Basket
- 1. Finish reading Amos Fortune.
- 2. Read about St. Joseph’s. Click on 23.
- 3.
- Label it #2 on your map. (Use a map to find the location.)
- Write about it on the back of your map. Always write the number, the place, the date and then information.
- Read about another stop on the trail. Click on 27.
- Label it #3 on your map. (The location is in the title of the page.)
WEEK 16
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Time to start a new type of exercise. Learn how to Stretch before exercising. Don’t hurt yourself! Pay attention and do the stretches and he tells you to do! Also, he gives tips for warming up. There are little clips of the guy doing different things. Stop or replay the video and do those different things to get your body going.
2. Do your warm up and stretching and then learn to run. Then run!
Tuesday
Early American Art
Do Draw and Write Through History . You pick. Maybe you'd like to go back to the Australia section.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Explore the different parts of the orchestra . I know you know most of this because of concerts we have gone to, but it's fun to review. What is your favorite section?
2. Read through this lesson on staff and clefs. Use your arrow keys or the arrow button on the screen to move the highlight to each line. With each line there will be a new picture.
Thursday
1. Do Dance mat typing level 4, stage 11. Only one more to go after this!!!
Book Basket
Begin Reading Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
- Read about a peace party. Click on 33.
- Label it #4 on your map.
- Write about it on the back of your map. Always write the number, the place, the date and then information.
- Read about another stop on the trail. Click on 39. The day before they had a tense meeting with some Indians. Find out what happened next.
- Label it #5 on your map. (The location is in the title of the page.)
- Write about it on the back of your map.
Week 17
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Learn how to jump rope. Watch this video and do it with her. The kitchen has a nice high ceiling, so you can maximize the video and step back into the kitchen to do it. Do it every day and you will get better and better.
Tuesday
Typing
1. Do Dance mat typing, level 4, stage 12. YOU'RE DONE!!! Don't you feel wonderfully talented and accomplished! Congratulations!!
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Try and name the notes.
2. Try and name the notes in the bass clef now.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
- 1. Go here and do day 25. 2. Do 5-Minute Spanish Unit 2, lesson 1.
- Book Basket Keep Reading Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. Finish it this week.2.
- Read about a find for Jefferson. Click on 44.
- Label it #6 on your map.
- Write about it on the back of your map. Always write the number, the place, the date and then information.
- Read about another stop on the trail. Click on 49.
- Label it #7 on your map. (The location is in the title of the page.)
- Write about it on the back of your map.
- Lewis and Clark wrote about their discoveries along the way. They found new animals and plants and recorded them carefully.
- MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! You're on Christmas Break!!! Minions love Christmas, too.
WELCOME BACK!!
Monday
Health and P.E.
1.Make a dance then try and do it.
2. Learn about Mobility Loss. Scroll down and read through the page and then take the facts check up.
Tuesday
Early American Art
Look at these drawings by Lewis and Clark.
- bones
- fish
- map
- leaf and pipe
- Draw something in your house. Add enough details that whomever you show it to knows what it is (eg. not just a couch, but a certain couch).
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1.Read about time signatures.
2. Learn about the different types of rests.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day26.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, lesson 2.
Book Basket
1. Begin reading a library book on Lewis and Clark.
2. Read about a dangerous situation. Click on 58. Label it #8 on your map. Read about another stop on the trail. Click on 63. Label it #9 on your map. (The location is in the title of the page.) Have they found a water route to the Pacific? Click on 73. Label it #10 on your map.Read about another stop on the trail. Click on 79. Label it #11 on your map. (The location is in the title of the page.)
Play the Lewis and Clark Adventure Game.
You're now halfway through the 8th grade! Great job! Hooray!!
Week 19
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. I'm hoping to add a regular P.E. activity such as snowshoeing or skiing now that it's winter. If we have done that, that's what I want you to do this week. I want you to go outside everyday that you can and be actice. Read and watch the video about snowshoeing. Maybe you can call your brother to watch it with you. Here's another video about snowshoeing. But, if you can't get outside you can do a Wii game. It has to be an active choice like sports, wii fit, or Disney Just Dance.
2. In the snowshoeing article, I read about how snowshoeing can enhance one's health. Go back to the article and write it down in your own words. Show this page to Mama.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. The Star Spangled Banner, America’s national anthem, was written about a battle during the War of 1812. Here is a tattered version of the flag that inspired the poem, turned song.
2. Design and draw a flag.
- Look at this painting of Sacagawea and Lewis and Clark.
- Does this painting look like it has texture to it? I think it does.
- Look at the main page and see if you can find why? (hint: Read the title.)
- Look at some of the other paintings. On which paintings so you think the soil art work best?
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Do the lesson on dots and ties.
You’ll notice a speaker when you get to one of the points. Click on it to hear how it is played.
2. Listen to the Star Spangled Banner, and America the Beautiful.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 27.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, lesson 3.
Book Basket
1. Read a library book that we picked out to go with your history work.
2. Watch the Lewis and Clark movie. Add Lewis and Clark to your timeline.
3. Watch this presentation on The War of 1812.
4. Play this causes of the war game.
5. Read about the US declaring war. Read about Washington being burned. Add The War of 1812 to your timeline.
WEEK 20
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. We are going to practice some social skills. Print out this Booklet. This week, work on an illustration for each one and practice this when you're with friends and family.
2. This week, do the fitness challenge everyday.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Here is a landscape scene from what might have been travelers on the trail.
- You have looked at a lot of portraits of people. Look at this landscape painting. A landscape painting is a painting of scenery. This painting is not about the people.
- There are three main areas of a landscape painting: the foreground (what’s up front), the middle ground and the background. It’s like three layers. The people are in the foreground. Can you see the middle and backgrounds? The background is not really clear. The top of the mountain is kind of covered with some clouds. It’s not sharp. I think the focal point is where the light hits in the middle ground.
- What do you think of this Oregon Trail painting?
- What’s in the foreground? middle? back? Again, the background is muted, not clear. It’s far away. The foreground in this picture is the plants. They aren’t important. The action is in the middle ground.
- Scroll down on this page and choose a “wall” to look at. These are by the man who painted the waterfall picture. Look at some of his many landscape paintings. Some you can click to see bigger, some you can’t.
Music Appreciation
1.Learn about steps and accidentals.
2. Listen to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
3.
Listen to these two songs. Does the first sound familiar? Why? The second?
4.
- If you don’t know why the first should have sounded familiar, listen to this, starting at 20:30.
- Read about this tune.
- What does this show you about music?
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do Day 28.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit2, lesson 4.
Book Basket
1. Begin reading Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie.
- Read the publisher’s note and chapter 1 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader.
- Read the introduction to the Oregon Trail.
- Read about why people traveled west on the Oregon Trail.
- Read about jumping off.
WEEK 21
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Print out these cards on Group Conversations. Cut them apart and make sure you understand each one.
2. Do the Scavenger Hunt this week.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Draw a landscape. Choose one and click on next to follow the directions.
- Here is a more advanced one for those artists out there.
Music Appreciation
1. Learn about scales. Listen to the scales by trying them out. Click on the tiny piano up in the corner to play it.
2. Listen to pioneer music.
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do Day 29.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, lesson 5.
Book Basket
1. Finish reading Across this Wide and Lonesome Prairie
2. Read chapter 3 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Read about the trail.
3. Read chapter 4 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader up to page 35. Read about animal power on the trail.
4. Finish reading chapter 4 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Read about hardships on the trail.
5. Read chapter 5 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Read about camping.
WEEK 22
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Click on and read one article of your choice each day this week.
2. Go Snowshoeing. If there's no snow, go back to the article link and click on Move. Pick an activity to do. Remember to do it everyday.
Tuesday
Early American Art
- Look through the slideshow of the “Art of the Gold Rush.”
- Make observations. Can you find complementary colors? What types of lines and textures can you spot?
Music Appreciation
1. Learn about the oboe.
2. Learn about the tuba.
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 30.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, lesson 6.
Book Basket
1. Read chapter 6 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Read about this sweet-smelling chore.
2. Read chapter 7 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Read about Native Americans.
3. Read chapter 8 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Learn the parts of a wagon. Did you learn them? Try the quiz.
4. Read chapter 9 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Read about manifest destiny, its definition and its political, economic and social reasons. Read this worksheet, follow the directions, and answer the questions.
5. Read the first part of chapter 10 of Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Stop on page 85. Read all of the fantastic facts about the Oregon Trail. Start reading chapter 10 where you left off and stop on page 90. Read the history of the Alamo.
WEEK 23
Monday
Health And P.E.
1. Go Snowshoeing. Go back to week 17 and do the jump roping video, if you can't get outside.
2. There are four parts and a quiz at this link on the Flu. Read a different one everyday, and then do the quiz on Friday.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Learn about organic and geometric shape. Make sure you watch, find and create.
2. Do this geometric and organic shapes art project. Follow the directions. You will need to let it dry before you finish it.
3.
- Look at these paintings and drawings about slavery.
- What observations can you make?
- Look at the painting of slaves being taken away in a cart being pulled by a horse. What geometric and organic shapes do you see?
Music Appreciation
1. Learn about the piccolo.
2. Learn about the bass clarinet.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 31.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, lesson 7.
Book Basket
1. Start reading on page 90 and stop on page 95. Read the first five article links on the Gold Rush.
2. Start reading on page 95 and finish chapter 10. We are going to stop reading there. Finish the book on your own if you would like. Read the last five article links on the Gold Rush.
3. Play different versions of the Strike It Rich game. Add the gold rush to your timeline.
4. Read about the Pony Express.
5. Read chapters 1 and 2 of the juvenile version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
WEEK 24
Monday
Health And P.E.
1. Read a health article.
2. Read about the “Scientific Seven Minute Workout.” In the article there is a link to another article. Read that article. Do this workout everyday this week.
Tuesday
Early American Art
Look at this page on pattern in art.2. Scroll through these pages and look at patterned artwork.
3. Read about how the slaves made quilts and used patterns to send secret messages.
4. Read about the meaning behind quilt patterns. Choose one of these pages to print and color to make your own secret quilt pattern.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Wagner.
2. Listen to Wagner's Music. This video is very long. You don't need to watch the whole thing. If you want to, you can have it playing while you do another subject's work. The video stays on a picture of him, so you won't need to keep watching.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 32.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, lesson 8.
Book Basket
1. Read chapters 3 and 4 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Read about Frederick Douglass.
2. Read chapters 5 and 6 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do the online crossword puzzle.
3. Read chapters 7 and 8 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Read about Sojourner Truth.
4. Read chapters 9 and 10 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do the crossword puzzle.
5. Read chapters 11 and 12 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 1 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
WEEK 25
Monday
Health And P.E.
1. Read a health article.
2. Do the 7 minute workout. You can find the directions and list of exercises lots of places, but this is a neat timer that walks you through it.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1.Read about the language of quilts. Click on Find out More at the bottom of the page. Read that page and the different quilt patterns. At the bottom of that page click on Make your Own Secret Quilt Message.
2. Print out this template of a leaf. Fill in a pattern in each section of the leaf. Here is an example.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
- Listen to Dixie Land, a song of the Confederacy.
- Listen to the Union’s version of the song.
- What’s the difference?
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 33.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 2, review p.25.
2.Book Basket
1. Read chapters 13 and 14 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 2 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
2. Read chapters 15 and 16 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 3 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
3. Read chapters 17 and 18 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 4 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
4. Read chapters 19 and 20 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 5 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
5. Read chapters 21 and 22 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 6 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
WEEK 26
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. This week, let's work on some homemaking. First, help Mom make a grocery shopping list. You'll have to choose some recipes in order to see what you will need.
2. You can go here and watch ATM, Deposit, Cash Back, and Check your Receipt.
3. Now, I want you to go by your list, compare prices of different brands, keep track of how much money you have left, go to the checkout, and pay.
4. JUST DANCE!! Everyday.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1.Do Draw and Write Through History p.56-57. Keep it to work on next time.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Hans Pfitzner was born in Moscow to German parents in 1869. Listen to Das Christ-Elflein: Overture (1906).
2. Print out the modern history music timeline.
3. Listen to Das Christ-Elflein (1906, rev.1917) The title is in German and means the Christmas Elf.
4. Cut out Pfitzner’s timeline piece and write in it. Attach it to your timeline.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 34.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish Unit 3, lesson 1.
Book Basket
1.Read chapters 23 and 24 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Do number 7 on the Harriet Tubman web quest.
2. Read chapters 25 and 26 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Take the journey of a slave.
3. Read chapters 27 and 28 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game. You’ll have eight days to play this. It’s hard to get free. You’ll need lots of tries.
4. Read chapters 29 and 30 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
5. Read chapters 31 and 32 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
WEEK 27
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Go Here and do Pay Debit, Vending Machine, and Count Change.
2. Ask Mom to take you to a vending machine. Count out the right amount, and get yourself a treat. Try to choose a healthy one.
3. How's the weather out now? We are going to start learning to run. Go Here
everyday this week and follow the schedule to train to become a runner.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Look at these paintings of the Civil War. You can click on any of them to see them bigger. Look at this one painting in particular. What patterns of lines do you see? What types of lines? Can you find complementary colors? What shapes do you see? Textures?
2. Look through this Civil War artwork. Choose a piece and describe your observations about line, color, shape, patter, texture and value.
3. Work on your Draw and Write Through History project from last week. Do p.58.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Listen to Das Herz: Liebesmelodie (1930-31). The title is in German and means The Heart: a Love Melody.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 35.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish Unit 3, lesson 2.
Book Basket
1. Read chapters 33 and 34 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
2. Read chapters 35 and 36 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
3. Read chapters 37 and 38 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
4. Read chapters 39 and 40 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
5. Read chapters 41 and 42 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Play the Flight to Freedom game.
WEEK 28
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Practice with money.
2. Here's your running schedule for this week.
Tuesday
Early American Art
1. Do this art lettering project. You can think about line, color (using complementary colors), shape, space, pattern, texture and value as you work on it. You don’t have to use watercolor pencils. You can fill in the areas however you choose. Think about all of the elements of art we learned about this year and make decisions about what to do. Don’t just do it randomly. You can finish this next week.
2. Read this poem on the elements of art.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Tchaikovsky and write about him in his timeline piece. Place it on the 1890s page. Listen to this show about ballet with Tchaikovsky’s music playing. Click on the play button on number two, ballet.
2. Then take the quiz.
3. Listen to this music from the Nutcracker. What do you picture the dancers doing? Now watch them!
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and do day 36.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish, unit 3, lesson 3.
Book Basket
1. Read chapters 43 and 44.
2. Read about Abraham Lincoln’s childhood. Click on all of the “Read More” links. Take the quiz when you are done reading. The link is at the bottom of the page.
3. Watch the mini biography. Add the Civil War to your timeline.
4. Begin reading a library book about the civil war.
5. Read in your library book.
WEEK 29
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Learning about cooking and chores is one thing. Now, Learn how to change a baby.
2. Read about babysitting. There are three pages. Read all of them.
3. Here's your running schedule for this week.
Tuesday
Modern Art
1. Read about Picasso. Write in your timeline piece about him. Place it in the 1910s.
2. Play Picasso Head.
3.Henri Matisse used collages later in his life, especially when he fell sick. Take a look at some of his collages. Collage 1 Collage 2 Collage 3.
4. Make a collage. Cut out different shapes and glue them onto a single sheet. You could use colored paper or color or paint your own paper to use.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read Rachmaninoff’s biography. Cut out his timeline piece and fill it in. Place it on the 1900s page.
2. Listen to his Piano concerto.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Go here and scroll all the way down to 7th. Do the Introduction lesson.
2. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 3, lesson 4.
Book Basket
1. Watch animation about the Growth of the Nation for review and preview (click on play) Play Railroad Race – On one page it tells you to read a paragraph, but when you click the link, it’s not there. Here are pictures of the three places listed. Which has what the railroad needs? The Badlands The Sandhills The North Platte River Valley.
2. Move cursor over photos to read about the people. Click to read more. Print out map and label each route with the name of the man in charge of that railroad.
3. Begin Reading Caddie Woodlawn. Read it all this week.
WEEK 30
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Read about responsible babysitting. Click on and read the links on this page.
2. Here's your running schedule for this week.
Tuesday
Modern Art
1. Draw on features to the face print out. Color the different parts different colors that go together. Cut out the different parts. Glue them on to another page in Picasso fashion.
2. Read about Cubism and look at the paintings by Picasso.
3. Play Picasso Head.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Maurice Ravel. Cut out Ravel’s timeline piece and write inside of it. Just write on one side. Use the other side for writing down descriptions of his music later. Place it on the 1910s page.
2. Listen.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Do 5- Minute Spanish unit 3, lesson 5.
2. Go here and do day 2 for 7th.
Book Basket
1. Keep Reading Caddie Woodlawn. Finish it this week.
2.
- Photo from the coal mines.
- Watch this video about coal mining today.
- About coal mining: Coal was needed in vast quantities for the Industrial Revolution. For centuries, people in Britain had made do with charcoal if they needed a cheap and easy to acquire fuel. What ‘industry’ that existed before 1700, did use coal but it came from coal mines that were near to the surface and the coal was relatively easy to get to. The Industrial Revolution changed all of this.Before the Industrial Revolution, two types of mines existed : drift mines and bell pits. Both were small scale coal mines and the coal which came from these type of pits was used locally in homes and local industry.However, as the country started to industrialise itself, more and more coal was needed to fuel steam engines and furnaces. The development of factories by Arkwright and the improvement of the steam engine by Watt further increased demand for coal. As a result coal mines got deeper and deeper and coal mining became more and more dangerous.Coal shafts could go hundreds of feet into the ground. Once a coal seam was found, the miners dug horizontally. However, underground the miners faced very real and great dangers. Flooding was a real problem in mine explosive gas (called fire damp) would be found the deeper the miners got. One spark from a digging miner’s pick axe or candle could be disastrous poison gas was also found underground pit collapses were common; the sheer weight of the ground above a worked coal seam was colossal and mines were only held up by wooden beams called props. (from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/coal_mines_industrial_revolution.htm)
- Industrial Revolution — coal was an important part of running all these new factories. Farming was no longer the main economy of the country. We were producing more from factories now and coal was the fuel for those factories. Here’s a picture of kids working in a mine.
Watch this video on the industrial revolution.
WEEK 31
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Read the tips on telephone etiquette. Click on some of the links within the article and read.
2. Here's your last/week 6 running schedule. You're now ready to do a fun run or a 5k race. Ask Mama to look for one and sign up.
Tuesday
Modern Art
1. Read about Jacob Lawrence. Cut out your timeline piece and write about him in it. Place it on your timeline in the 1920s.
2. Play with SeeSaws.
3. Watch and listen as Jacob Lawrence’s Migration series of paintings cross the screen. Make a guess at the story he is telling. Notice how many colors he uses.
4. Finish your Draw and Write Through History project. Do p.59-60.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Big Bands.
2. Then listen to music by Duke Ellington. Choose a song from the eight listed on the right.
3. Cut out the Duke Ellington timeline piece. Write 1920s, Big Bands inside and the piece of music you listened to. Place on the 1920s page of your timeline.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Do 5-Minute Spanish Unit 3, lesson 6.
2. Go here and do day 3.
Book Basket
1. Read this page about child labor in America and look at the pictures. Lewis Hine was a photojournalist. He exposed child labor for what it really was and helped bring about reforms. Write in your notebook what you find most shocking.
2. Look at these photographs. Make observations and conclusions. Write about the suffragettes from what you’ve observed. Here’s a women’s suffrage notebooking page. photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 photo 4.
3. Watch video on immigration and Ellis Island.
4. Read this page about the Statue of Liberty including Emma Lazarus’ poem.
5. Read these stories about coming to Ellis Island.
WEEK 32
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. Learn how to pump gas and pay at the pump.
2. Keep up with your running. Go back to last week and do that schedule again.
Tuesday
Modern Art
1. Look at these paintings by Jacob Lawrence.
2. Decide on a story to tell with your paintings. Plan out at least five pictures that you will make that together tell a story.
3. Draw your pictures (at least five) that together tell your story.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Listen to The Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa. This is an American patriotic song. What are the stars and stripes? (hint)
2. Listen to two songs from the Jukebox. Cut out your jukebox timeline piece and write inside a song you listened to and who sang it. Place it on the 1930s page.
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Do 5-Minute Spanish, unit 3, lesson 7.
2. Go here and do day 4.
Book Basket
1. Read about where airplanes went from the time of the Wright brothers OR watch this video on airplanes in WWI. Read and click around on this site to learn all about World War 1.
2. Begin reading Rilla of Ingleside. Here's an audio book if you need it. Read it all this week.
3. Watch this lesson about countries declaring war in 1914 and 1915.
WEEK 33
Monday
Health and P.E.
Do your running schedule.
Tuesday
Modern Art
1. Finish coloring in your drawings. Lawrence painted all the black in all his paintings in the series, then all the white, etc. You can use crayons or paint. He used tempra paint.
2. Learn about edge and outline. Do watch, find and create.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Listen to two songs from the WWII era. Cut out the WWII timeline piece and write inside a song you listened to and who sang it. Place it on the 1940s page.
2. Read about Igor Stravinsky. Listen to Stravinsky‘s Firebird. How would you describe this music?
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Do 5-minute Spanish unit 3, lesson 8.
2. Go here and do day 5.
Book Basket
1. Keep reading Rilla of Ingleside.
2. Listen to the first half of this radio show of the book, The War of the Worlds. This is a very famous radio broadcast. They told the story of an alien invasion as a news broadcast so that people thought it was really happening and many actually fled their homes. They have music playing like the radio show is really a music broadcast that is interrupted with these news reports.
3. Listen to the second half of The War of the Worlds.
4. Read this lesson on the Great Depression and print out pages 5 and 6. Answer the questions on page 5 and write a complete answer to number 11 on page 6.
5. Read through this website on the Depression – three tabs along the top. Read some of the letters to the president.
WEEK 34
Monday
Health and P.E.
Do your running schedule.
Tuesday
Modern Art
1.Learn about perspective. Do watch, find and create.
2. Try on paper to draw with perspective. Draw a point on the paper in the top left corner. Draw a slowly curving line that ends up in the bottom right of your paper. Start at the point again and draw a line that follows the same curve but moves more and more away from the other line. Color your river.
Draw trees along your river. The trees at the bottom are large and each tree that goes back along the river is smaller than the one before it.
3. You can see in these photographs how the man appears smaller the father back he is. Here are river paintings using perspective.
Wednesday
Music Appreciation
1. Read about Aaron Copeland. Listen to Fanfare for the Common Man while you work. Do you recognize it?
2. Listen to this portion of Appalachian Spring by Copeland. How would you describe it?
Thursday
Introductory Spanish
1. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 3, review p. 34.
2. Go here and do day 6.
Book Basket
1. Finish Rilla of Ingleside this week.
2. Watch Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inaugural address, his speech when he became president.
3. Watch the first half hour of this documentary on the great depression and riding the rails: part 1 and part 2.
4. Read this page recounting the beginnings of WWII. This is a long page, but not lots of writing. Take your time to look at the pictures. Read about the leaders of WWII.
5. Read about the evacuation of children during WWII.
WEEK 35
Monday
Health and P.E.
1. RUN!
Tuesday
Art
Do a Draw and Write Through History lesson that you haven't done yet.
Wednesday
Music
1. Here are some more Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musicals.
Oklahoma The King and I
2. Find one at the library or on Netflix to watch.
Thursday
1. Do 5-Minute Spanish Unit 4, lesson 1.
2. Go here and do day 7.
Book Basket
1. Monday, Read and click on all the links on this page about World War 2. Print out this document (World War Two worksheets) and save the remaining pages. Today complete page 1.
2. Tuesday, Read and click on more links that didn't have time for yesterday on the page about WW2. Do the second page of the picture worksheets you printed out on Day 76. Read about the Battle of Britain.
3. Wednesday, Read about the blitz. Fill in this news organizer for an article on the Blitz. Listen to this news brief after the Blitz. Listen to one woman’s experience. Listen to Winston Churchill.
4. Thursday, Do the third page in your packet of picture worksheets about women shopping. Read about the role of women in the war. Do you think it was important and necessary for women to work? Do you think it is important and necessary for women to stay at home with their children? Can both be important and necessary? ook at this poster from the war. It is a famous piece of propaganda from the war. What is it saying to women? Why did they post this around the country?
5. Friday, Read about rationing during the war. Look at these rationing posters. There are many.
Monday
RUN!!
Tuesday
Art
1. Read about Andy Warhol. Fill in your Andy Warhol timeline piece.
2. This technique is called silk screening. Here’s a version of how to do it.
3. Watch this video on Warhol.
Wednesday
Music
1. Watch this video on one of the most prolific contemporary composers. John Williams has been nominated for an Academy Award more times than anyone else except for Walt Disney. Academy Awards are awards for movies. John Williams composes the music that is played during movies. This music is a big part in the emotion you feel when you watch a movie. How does this music make you feel?
2. This is one of my favorites. You can watch John Williams conduct and watch the orchestra play.
Thursday
Spanish
1. Do 5-Minute Spanish unit 4, lesson 2.
2. Go here and do day 8.
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1. Monday, Read about Anne Frank Read an excerpt from her famous diary
Here's a clip about some Jewish children hiding.
Choose page 6 or 8 from your picture worksheet packet to complete.
2. Tuesday, try these four quizzes:
- Nazification
- Ghettos
- Victims
- You can search for answers by clicking on “Review” at the bottom of each page. You can also learn from finding out the right answer when you click to submit and check each answer.
3. Wednesday, Try these quizzes — Camps Resistance Bystanders Resisters Watch these videos on the fight between America and Japan. Video One Video Two.
4. Thursday, Listen to President Roosevelt declare war on Japan. Watch this video about the Japanese American internment. Take the quick quiz on Japanese American internment.
5. Friday, Read about the Navajo code talkers. Send a coded message.
Congratulations!!! Alana Marie Upcott, you have finished 8th grade!! HIGH SCHOOL, next year!!!
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