English Language Arts Optional Activity

Dear Students,

Please pick a story to read from the three choices listed below.  

After reading, identify the elements of plot using Google Docs or Seesaw.

No tech? No problem!  Read a story that you have at home and create a plot map using a pencil and paper.  

Math/Science Optional Activities

Goal:  Choose 2

·         Math Game Technology: 10-15 minutes on ConnectEd, Freckle, or Xtra Math or 4 Numbers Game

·         Seesaw:   Compose and Decompose Fractions - an activity with linking cubes which will be shared out to everyone if you choose this option.

·         Video: Natural Resources by Crash Course Kids 

·         Prompt to answer: What are 2 resources that you rely on the most? Give one reason why you rely on them.

·         Card Game: Play “Multiplication War” (similar to Multiplication Top-It) with a family member. See additional rules below.

·         Be The Teacher:  Angle hunt - Find examples of acute, obtuse, right, and straight angles in your home. Teach someone in your house about the difference between these angles. Take pictures and post on SeeSaw or draw and label your ideas on a piece of paper. Challenge: Do you have any examples of reflex angles in your home?

·         Mathbox Completion: Use this time to review prior skills by completing Mathboxes in your Everyday Math Journal for lessons you were already taught in Unit 5.

Multiplication War Rules and Variations in Play: 

1.    Remove the Jacks, Kings and Queens from a regular deck of cards.  

2.    Shuffle.  

3.    Players place cards face down in a pile.  

4.    At the count of three, both players flip over their first card.  

5.    The first person to say the product of the 2 cards receives both cards and puts them in a separate pile.  

6.    If both players say the answer at the same time, the cards are put in the middle of the table.

7.    The next player to win the "flip" gets the cards in the middle of the table in addition to the cards just played.  

8.    The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of play.

Other Variations:

1. Each kid turns over two cards and multiplies his or her own cards together.  Whoever has the highest product, wins both sets of cards.  The winner has the most cards at the end.  

2. Do not remove the Joker, Jack, Queen and King in the deck.  Instead, assign the following values to them:

Joker = 14     King = 13     Queen = 12    Jack = 11

Play continues as outlined above, or play your favorite version.  

3.  Fraction War:  Aces are 1, Jack is 10, Queen is 11, and King is 12.  Students turn over two cards.  The first card is the denominator, the second number is the numerator.  Whoever has the largest fraction wins!

4.  Decimal War:  Take out all face cards.  Aces are 1. Players turn over three cards.  The first card is the whole number, the second number is the tenths, and the third number is the hundredths.  If kids are just learning decimals, just have them draw two cards:  the first is the whole number, while the second number is the tenths.