HaileyMISSING WORK
THURSDAY MAY 16TH
5/16 Quill 'The Mosquito Tries to Teach His Neighbors: Lesson 4
Read about mosquitoes: Like fireflies, mosquitoes are insects. The word mosquito means "little fly" in Spanish. Mosquitoes start their lives as eggs nestled together in a boat-shaped egg basket. The larvae, or wrigglers, hatch through the bottom of their eggs into the water. The wrigglers hang to the surface of the water by opening their star-shaped valves and allowing air to fill their breathing tubes and tracheae. The wrigglers sweep decaying vegetation into their jaws with the help of their mouth brushes. When touched, wrigglers close their star-shaped valves and sink into the water to defend themselves. Wrigglers swim with the assistance of finger-like projections and hairs. Wrigglers grow into pupae, developing large heads, and they stay at the surface of the water for long periods of time. Unlike moths and butterflies, whose pupae remain still, mosquito pupae can move. Eventually, pupae split open, adult mosquitoes emerge, and the adults float on their pupa skins while their wings dry. Adult females live a week or two, and adult males survive several days. Only the female mosquitoes sing and bite. Females sing to attract mates by rapidly vibrating their wings. Females use a tube, called a proboscis, to pierce human skin and sip blood. Females need this blood to develop eggs. Males have wide, feathery antennae, which they use for hearing. In contrast to males, females have long, spindly antennae. Did you know mosquitoes can be deadly? Mosquitoes carry several diseases that threaten humans including malaria, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, dengue fever, and Zika virus. Techniques that help reduce the mosquito population include: Covering containers holding water such as rain barrels. Draining stagnant pools of water on your property. For larger pools or ponds that cannot be drained, introducing mosquito-loving fish such as minnows, sticklebacks, sunfish, and goldfish. Answer in a complete sentence that restates the question: How could we reduce mosquitos in our community? What is the difference between female and male mosquitos? How do mosquitos develop? |
DeanMISSING WORK
'The Mosquito Tries to Teach His Neighbors: Lesson 4
Read about mosquitoes: Like fireflies, mosquitoes are insects. The word mosquito means "little fly" in Spanish. Mosquitoes start their lives as eggs nestled together in a boat-shaped egg basket. The larvae, or wrigglers, hatch through the bottom of their eggs into the water. The wrigglers hang to the surface of the water by opening their star-shaped valves and allowing air to fill their breathing tubes and tracheae. The wrigglers sweep decaying vegetation into their jaws with the help of their mouth brushes. When touched, wrigglers close their star-shaped valves and sink into the water to defend themselves. Wrigglers swim with the assistance of finger-like projections and hairs. Wrigglers grow into pupae, developing large heads, and they stay at the surface of the water for long periods of time. Unlike moths and butterflies, whose pupae remain still, mosquito pupae can move. Eventually, pupae split open, adult mosquitoes emerge, and the adults float on their pupa skins while their wings dry. Adult females live a week or two, and adult males survive several days. Only the female mosquitoes sing and bite. Females sing to attract mates by rapidly vibrating their wings. Females use a tube, called a proboscis, to pierce human skin and sip blood. Females need this blood to develop eggs. Males have wide, feathery antennae, which they use for hearing. In contrast to males, females have long, spindly antennae. Did you know mosquitoes can be deadly? Mosquitoes carry several diseases that threaten humans including malaria, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, dengue fever, and Zika virus. Techniques that help reduce the mosquito population include: Covering containers holding water such as rain barrels. Draining stagnant pools of water on your property. For larger pools or ponds that cannot be drained, introducing mosquito-loving fish such as minnows, sticklebacks, sunfish, and goldfish. |
Monday June 3rd
COPY ASSIGNMENTS AND MISSING WORK into notebook
6/3 Zearn
6/3 ST Math
6/3 Read Theory
6/3 Spanish Group Lesson
6/3 Quill
6/3 Duolingo (150XP)
6/3 Speech
The Science of Butterflies: Listen to Among the Meadow People: The Butterfly That Went Calling
Read about butterflies: Like fireflies, butterflies are insects. Monarchs are distasteful to birds, and their brilliant colors warn birds of their disagreeable taste. Another butterfly species called the viceroy has taken advantage of the monarch's immunity from bird attack by imitating its colors. Have you ever touched a butterfly's wings and noticed the powder on your fingers? Butterfly wings are covered with scales so tiny, they look like dust. Monarchs migrate in large flocks seasonally, flying south for the winter and back north for the summer. Male monarchs have black spots upon their hind wings called perfume pockets. Perfume pockets are filled with scent scales. These scales give forth an odor which humans cannot perceive, but the lady monarch is attracted by this odor. After mating, female monarchs lay eggs that hatch into caterpillars. Caterpillars eat vegetation to grow larger and spin their chrysalises. Inside their chrysalises, butterflies transform from worms into flying pixies. The process of transforming from caterpillars to winged adult butterflies is called "metamorphosis."
Fireflies and butterflies belong to a group of animals called insects. Most insects have the same characteristics. Draw and label an insect with:
Draw and label the lifecycle of a butterfly in order - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, to winged adult.
Define and use each word in a sentence: Metamorphosis, Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Exoskeleton, Antennae, Thorax, Abdomen, Proboscis, Nectar
Complete an animal study of butterflies using a video (Safevision). Answer the following questions: How do they move? How do they eat? What do they eat? How do they sense the world? What habitat do they live in? In what type of climate do they live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? In what type of house do they live? What colors are the wings? What colors are the eyes and body? How many legs do butterflies have? How many antennae do butterflies have? What does its proboscis look like?
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and write 5-10 sentences about what you learn.
COPY ASSIGNMENTS AND MISSING WORK into notebook
6/3 Zearn
6/3 ST Math
6/3 Read Theory
6/3 Spanish Group Lesson
- Read Soy Timbo and answer questions.
- Complete pages 3 & 4
6/3 Quill
6/3 Duolingo (150XP)
6/3 Speech
The Science of Butterflies: Listen to Among the Meadow People: The Butterfly That Went Calling
Read about butterflies: Like fireflies, butterflies are insects. Monarchs are distasteful to birds, and their brilliant colors warn birds of their disagreeable taste. Another butterfly species called the viceroy has taken advantage of the monarch's immunity from bird attack by imitating its colors. Have you ever touched a butterfly's wings and noticed the powder on your fingers? Butterfly wings are covered with scales so tiny, they look like dust. Monarchs migrate in large flocks seasonally, flying south for the winter and back north for the summer. Male monarchs have black spots upon their hind wings called perfume pockets. Perfume pockets are filled with scent scales. These scales give forth an odor which humans cannot perceive, but the lady monarch is attracted by this odor. After mating, female monarchs lay eggs that hatch into caterpillars. Caterpillars eat vegetation to grow larger and spin their chrysalises. Inside their chrysalises, butterflies transform from worms into flying pixies. The process of transforming from caterpillars to winged adult butterflies is called "metamorphosis."
Fireflies and butterflies belong to a group of animals called insects. Most insects have the same characteristics. Draw and label an insect with:
- Six legs
- An exoskeleton (hard crunchy shell) instead of an internal skeleton (bones)
- Two antennae for sensing the world
- Three body parts including the head, thorax, and abdomen
Draw and label the lifecycle of a butterfly in order - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, to winged adult.
Define and use each word in a sentence: Metamorphosis, Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Exoskeleton, Antennae, Thorax, Abdomen, Proboscis, Nectar
Complete an animal study of butterflies using a video (Safevision). Answer the following questions: How do they move? How do they eat? What do they eat? How do they sense the world? What habitat do they live in? In what type of climate do they live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? In what type of house do they live? What colors are the wings? What colors are the eyes and body? How many legs do butterflies have? How many antennae do butterflies have? What does its proboscis look like?
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and write 5-10 sentences about what you learn.
THURSDAY JUNE 6TH
COPY ASSIGNMENTS AND MISSING WORK into notebook
6/6 Zearn
6/6 ST Math
6/6 Read Theory
6/6 Spanish Group Lesson
6/6 Quill
6/6 Duolingo (150XP)
6/6 Speech
The Science of Bees Lesson 3 Listen to 'The Fussy Queen Bee'
Read about Bees: Like fireflies and butterflies, honey bees are insects. Honey bees live in large colonies. There are three types of honey bees - the female worker, the female queen, and the male drone - each type with its own role to play. Worker bees gather nectar and pollen, spread pollen from flower to flower, build honeycomb, and produce honey. Workers have special pollen baskets on their legs for collecting pollen. Workers also have long tubular tongues that enable them to gather nectar from flowers. Workers secrete wax from their abdomens to make honeycomb. Queen bees start as regular worker eggs, but are selected to be housed in special chambers and fed with royal honey after hatching into larvae. Princess larvae weave silken cocoons around themselves and change into pupae. Meanwhile, the workers seal their cells with wax. Upon hatching, a queen cuts a hole in her chamber. Her first real work is to hunt for other queen cells. If she finds another queen cell, she makes a hole in its side and destroys the poor princess within. If she finds another full-grown queen, the two fight until one succumbs. Sometimes the workers will prevent the queen from killing another princess or queen. This causes the spurned queen to depart with an entourage of bees to establish her own colony. The queen rarely uses her sting upon anything or anyone except a rival queen. The queen is larger than the drone and worker and has no pollen basket, for her sole job is reproduction. The only job of drones is to mate with the queen. Drones have no pollen baskets, wax pockets, or stingers for fighting. Drone bees are fed by worker bees until the latter part of the season. When the honey supply runs low, the drones are driven from the hive to die of starvation. Worker bees collect both nectar and pollen from flowers as food for their colonies. The hind leg has a pollen basket, which is a long cavity bordered by hairs wherein the pollen is packed and carried. Beyond the pollen basket are rows of spines which serve to collect pollen grains from other parts of the body. Pollen collection by worker bees helps flowers, since the bees spread pollen from one flower to another, enabling flowers to make seeds to grow new flowers. Humans harvest pollen from worker honey bees to eat.
Draw a bee and label the head, thorax, abdomen, wings, antennae, and legs.
Answer the questions: What is the difference between a male bee or a female bee?
What is the difference between a queen bee, a worker bee, or a drone bee?
Draw the classification chart and circle which categories bees fit into in YELLOW. Bees are animals, invertebrates, arthropods, and insects.
Complete an animal study of bees using a video (Safevision) and answering the following questions: How do bees travel? How do bees eat? What do bees eat? How do bees sense the world? Do bees live in a forest, a field, a town, or near water? In what type of climate do bees live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? In what type of house do bees live? What colors are the wings and body? How many legs do bees have? How many antennae do bees have?
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and write 5-10 sentences about what you learn.
COPY ASSIGNMENTS AND MISSING WORK into notebook
6/6 Zearn
6/6 ST Math
6/6 Read Theory
6/6 Spanish Group Lesson
- Read Soy Timbo and answer questions.
- Complete pages 3 & 4
6/6 Quill
6/6 Duolingo (150XP)
6/6 Speech
The Science of Bees Lesson 3 Listen to 'The Fussy Queen Bee'
Read about Bees: Like fireflies and butterflies, honey bees are insects. Honey bees live in large colonies. There are three types of honey bees - the female worker, the female queen, and the male drone - each type with its own role to play. Worker bees gather nectar and pollen, spread pollen from flower to flower, build honeycomb, and produce honey. Workers have special pollen baskets on their legs for collecting pollen. Workers also have long tubular tongues that enable them to gather nectar from flowers. Workers secrete wax from their abdomens to make honeycomb. Queen bees start as regular worker eggs, but are selected to be housed in special chambers and fed with royal honey after hatching into larvae. Princess larvae weave silken cocoons around themselves and change into pupae. Meanwhile, the workers seal their cells with wax. Upon hatching, a queen cuts a hole in her chamber. Her first real work is to hunt for other queen cells. If she finds another queen cell, she makes a hole in its side and destroys the poor princess within. If she finds another full-grown queen, the two fight until one succumbs. Sometimes the workers will prevent the queen from killing another princess or queen. This causes the spurned queen to depart with an entourage of bees to establish her own colony. The queen rarely uses her sting upon anything or anyone except a rival queen. The queen is larger than the drone and worker and has no pollen basket, for her sole job is reproduction. The only job of drones is to mate with the queen. Drones have no pollen baskets, wax pockets, or stingers for fighting. Drone bees are fed by worker bees until the latter part of the season. When the honey supply runs low, the drones are driven from the hive to die of starvation. Worker bees collect both nectar and pollen from flowers as food for their colonies. The hind leg has a pollen basket, which is a long cavity bordered by hairs wherein the pollen is packed and carried. Beyond the pollen basket are rows of spines which serve to collect pollen grains from other parts of the body. Pollen collection by worker bees helps flowers, since the bees spread pollen from one flower to another, enabling flowers to make seeds to grow new flowers. Humans harvest pollen from worker honey bees to eat.
Draw a bee and label the head, thorax, abdomen, wings, antennae, and legs.
Answer the questions: What is the difference between a male bee or a female bee?
What is the difference between a queen bee, a worker bee, or a drone bee?
Draw the classification chart and circle which categories bees fit into in YELLOW. Bees are animals, invertebrates, arthropods, and insects.
Complete an animal study of bees using a video (Safevision) and answering the following questions: How do bees travel? How do bees eat? What do bees eat? How do bees sense the world? Do bees live in a forest, a field, a town, or near water? In what type of climate do bees live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? In what type of house do bees live? What colors are the wings and body? How many legs do bees have? How many antennae do bees have?
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and write 5-10 sentences about what you learn.
FRIDAY JUNE 7TH
COPY ASSIGNMENTS AND MISSING WORK into notebook
6/7 Zearn
6/7 ST Math
6/7 Read Theory
6/7 Spanish Group Lesson
6/7 Quill
6/7 Duolingo (150XP)
6/7 Speech
The Science of Beetle Lesson 6: Listen to The Beetle Who Did Not Like Caterpillars
Read about beetles: Like fireflies, butterflies, bees, mosquitoes, and dragonflies, beetles are insects. One notable type of beetle is the ladybug, (also called lady beetle or ladybird) often known for its bright wing covers and black spots. Ladybugs come in many colors, some are red with black spots, some are black with red spots, others are yellow with black spots, and still others are orange with no spots. There are around 5000 species of ladybugs, and different species of ladybugs have different numbers of spots. Contrary to what some believe, the number of spots on a ladybug does not correspond to age and does not change over time. Ladybugs do not taste good to birds and other predators. Both the bright colors and the spots of ladybugs warn birds of their bad taste. Tucked under the wing covers are a pair of wings, a thorax, an abdomen, and three pairs of short legs. Like other insects, ladybugs use antennae to sense their surroundings. Ladybugs help gardeners and farmers by eating crop pests such as aphids. Ladybugs have the same life cycle stages as butterflies. They start as tiny yellow eggs, hatch into larvae, and grow into pupae. Ladybugs remain dormant as pupae for a couple of days before adult ladybugs emerge from their pupae skins. Ladybugs are often associated with good luck.
Draw the classification chart and label which categories beetles fit into. Beetles are animals, invertebrates, arthropods, and insects.
Define and use each word in a sentence: Aphid, Larva, Pupa, Dormant, Species.
Complete an animal study of beetles. Use a video (Safevision). Answer the following questions: How do they move? How do they eat? What do they eat? How do they sense the world? What habitat do they live in? In what type of climate do they live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? What colors are the eyes and body? How many legs do beetles have? How many antennae?
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and write 5-10 sentences about what you learn.
COPY ASSIGNMENTS AND MISSING WORK into notebook
6/7 Zearn
6/7 ST Math
6/7 Read Theory
6/7 Spanish Group Lesson
- Read Soy Timbo and answer questions.
- Complete pages 3 & 4
6/7 Quill
6/7 Duolingo (150XP)
6/7 Speech
The Science of Beetle Lesson 6: Listen to The Beetle Who Did Not Like Caterpillars
Read about beetles: Like fireflies, butterflies, bees, mosquitoes, and dragonflies, beetles are insects. One notable type of beetle is the ladybug, (also called lady beetle or ladybird) often known for its bright wing covers and black spots. Ladybugs come in many colors, some are red with black spots, some are black with red spots, others are yellow with black spots, and still others are orange with no spots. There are around 5000 species of ladybugs, and different species of ladybugs have different numbers of spots. Contrary to what some believe, the number of spots on a ladybug does not correspond to age and does not change over time. Ladybugs do not taste good to birds and other predators. Both the bright colors and the spots of ladybugs warn birds of their bad taste. Tucked under the wing covers are a pair of wings, a thorax, an abdomen, and three pairs of short legs. Like other insects, ladybugs use antennae to sense their surroundings. Ladybugs help gardeners and farmers by eating crop pests such as aphids. Ladybugs have the same life cycle stages as butterflies. They start as tiny yellow eggs, hatch into larvae, and grow into pupae. Ladybugs remain dormant as pupae for a couple of days before adult ladybugs emerge from their pupae skins. Ladybugs are often associated with good luck.
Draw the classification chart and label which categories beetles fit into. Beetles are animals, invertebrates, arthropods, and insects.
Define and use each word in a sentence: Aphid, Larva, Pupa, Dormant, Species.
Complete an animal study of beetles. Use a video (Safevision). Answer the following questions: How do they move? How do they eat? What do they eat? How do they sense the world? What habitat do they live in? In what type of climate do they live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? What colors are the eyes and body? How many legs do beetles have? How many antennae?
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and write 5-10 sentences about what you learn.
More Days
Read History- Lesson 4: The Story of Mankind Part I by Hendrik Van Loon Hieroglyphics
Define and use in a sentence: Culture, Irrigation, Hieroglyphics, Greek, Papyrus, Phonetic
Complete page 12. Use the translation table to write your own secret message to a family member or friend in hieroglyphics. Exchange your secret message with someone and see if they can decipher it correctly.
Executive Functioning: Watch Why Aren’t I Productive? and do worksheet
Define and use in a sentence: Culture, Irrigation, Hieroglyphics, Greek, Papyrus, Phonetic
Complete page 12. Use the translation table to write your own secret message to a family member or friend in hieroglyphics. Exchange your secret message with someone and see if they can decipher it correctly.
Executive Functioning: Watch Why Aren’t I Productive? and do worksheet
ANOTHER DAY
Geography Lesson 4 (Once a week)
Read Lesson 2: Climates and Their Effects
Define and use in a sentence: climate, equator, prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, northern Hemisphere, western
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and do worksheet
Read Lesson 2: Climates and Their Effects
Define and use in a sentence: climate, equator, prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, northern Hemisphere, western
Executive Functioning: Watch Diving into Deep Work and do worksheet
Read History- Lesson 5: The Story of Mankind Part I by Hendrik Van Loon Lesson 5: The Nile Valley
Geography Lesson 5 (Once a week)
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
- Define and use in a sentence: Fertile, Clay, Dike, Trench, Priest, Afterlife, Embalm, Mummy, Pyramid.
- Find and color the following in the picture: Palm Trees, Pyramid, Basic Grave, Grave Covered with a Mound of Sand, Grave Covered in Sand and Bricks, Tomb Under Heavy Blocks of Stone, Royal Tomb Under a Pyramid
- Complete pages 15-16. design your own pyramid and create your own mummy wrapped in cloth
Geography Lesson 5 (Once a week)
- Read Lesson 2: Climates and Their Effects
- Define and use in a sentence: climate, equator, prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, northern Hemisphere, western
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
- Copy Assignments into Notebook
- Watch Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Complete Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Watch Diving into Deep Work
- Complete Diving into Deep Work
- Watch Three Steps to Greater Focus
- Complete Three Steps to Greater Focus
COPY ASSIGNMENTS into Notebook
Social Emotional
Spanish
Speech
Math
Reading
Writing
History- Lesson 6 (Once a week)
Geography Lesson 6 (Once a week)
The Science of Dragonfly Lesson 5 (Once a week)
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
Social Emotional
Spanish
- Duolingo (1 per day)
- Group Lesson
- Memorization
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- Memory parts 1, 2, 3
Speech
Math
- Zearn (1 per day)
- ST math (1 per day)
Reading
- Read Theory (1 per day)
Writing
- Quill (1 per day)
History- Lesson 6 (Once a week)
- The Story of Mankind Part I by Hendrik Van Loon Lesson 6: The Rise and Fall of Egypt
- Define and use in a sentence: Hyksos, Hebrew, Civil Servant, Persians, Macedonians, Cleopatra, Roman.
- Examine the drawing of Cleopatra created by the great Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo. Cleopatra is portrayed as a beautiful woman. Although Roman writings remark on Cleopatra's wit and cleverness, Cleopatra may not have been conventionally beautiful. Note her headdress and the asp (poisonous snake found in the Nile region) which bites her. Cleopatra was the last Egyptian Queen. Describe Michelangelo's work in at least 5 sentences. Use descriptive adjectives like graceful, elaborate, distant, beautiful, simple, or vicious.
- Example: This portrait of Hailey and Dean shows them diligently working on history. Dean is frowning and distantly looking away. He is wearing an elaborate silk boa with a picture of a dragon viciously biting a horse. Hailey grits her teeth in anger while gracefully holding her pen.
Geography Lesson 6 (Once a week)
- Read Lesson 2: Climates and Their Effects
- Define and use in a sentence: climate, equator, prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, northern Hemisphere, western
The Science of Dragonfly Lesson 5 (Once a week)
- Listen to The Dragonfly Children and the Snapping Turtle
- Read about dragonflies: Like fireflies, butterflies, bees, and mosquitoes, dragonflies are insects. Dragonflies can be found skimming over still ponds, flowing brooks, and rippling fields of grass. Dragonflies are among the swiftest of all winged creatures, their rapid flight enabling them to catch their prey. Dragonflies feed on wrigglers and adult mosquitoes and help keep the mosquito population down. Most dragonflies love the sun, disappearing when clouds cover the sky. Dragonflies lay their eggs in water. Nymphs hatch from the eggs, strange little creatures that look like stunted crickets with spider-like legs. In the past, people were suspicious of dragonflies, calling them the devil's darning needles, snake doctors, and snake feeders. In reality, dragonflies are harmless and beautiful, more like shimmering blue and green sprites than evil-doers.
- Insects such as dragonflies, breathe differently than humans. Insects don't have lungs. Insects don't breathe through their mouths. Insects breathe through holes in their sides called spiracles. Spiracles are found on the thorax or abdomen, and there are never more than two per segment. Spiracle holes lead to tubes called tracheae, which carry the air to all parts of the body. Find and draw a picture of insects respiration.
- Define and use each word in a sentence: Wriggler, Nymph, Darning Needle, Spiracle, Tracheae.
- Use a video (Safevision) to complete an animal study of dragonflies that answers the following questions: How do they move? How do they eat? What do they eat? How do they sense the world? What habitat do they live in? In what type of climate do they live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? In what type of house do they live? What colors are the wings? What colors are the eyes and body? How many legs do they have? How many antennae do they have?
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
- Copy Assignments into Notebook
- Watch Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Complete Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Watch Diving into Deep Work
- Complete Diving into Deep Work
- Watch Three Steps to Greater Focus
- Complete Three Steps to Greater Focus
COPY ASSIGNMENTS into Notebook
Social Emotional
Spanish
Speech
Math
Reading
Writing
History- Lesson 7 (Once a week)
Geography Lesson 7 (Once a week)
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
Social Emotional
Spanish
- Duolingo (1 per day)
- Group Lesson
- Memorization
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- Memory parts 1, 2, 3
Speech
Math
- Zearn (1 per day)
- ST math (1 per day)
Reading
- Read Theory (1 per day)
Writing
- Quill (1 per day)
History- Lesson 7 (Once a week)
- The Story of Mankind Part I by Hendrik Van Loon Lesson 7: Mesopotamia
- Define and use in a sentence: Meso, Potamia, Mesopotamia, Arid, Fertile, Nomad.
- Work together to label and color the Melting Pot Map by following the directions: Find each of the following: Color the Tigris River, Euphrates River, and Mediterranean Sea in blue. Color Mesopotamia green. Circle the City of Babylon in purple. Color the Mountains to the North blue.
Color the Desert to the South in brown. With your finger, trace the paths of the groups of people to Mesopotamia: Phoenicians, Jews, Aramaeans, Cimmerians, Hittites, Sumerians, Persians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, Assyrians - Write down the definition of the word Mesopotamia.
- Use pencils, crayons, pastels, or markers and the descriptions from the chapter to draw frames of a comic showing the coming of the glaciers.
Geography Lesson 7 (Once a week)
- Read Lesson 2: Climates and Their Effects
- Define and use in a sentence: climate, equator, prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, northern Hemisphere, western
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
- Copy Assignments into Notebook
- Watch Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Complete Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Watch Diving into Deep Work
- Complete Diving into Deep Work
- Watch Three Steps to Greater Focus
- Complete Three Steps to Greater Focus
COPY ASSIGNMENTS into Notebook
Social Emotional
Spanish
Speech
Math
Reading
Writing
History- Lesson 8 (Once a week)
Geography Lesson 8 (Once a week)
The Science of grasshopper Lesson 7 (Once a week)
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
Social Emotional
Spanish
- Duolingo (1 per day)
- Group Lesson
- Memorization
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- Memory parts 1, 2, 3
Speech
Math
- Zearn (1 per day)
- ST math (1 per day)
Reading
- Read Theory (1 per day)
Writing
- Quill (1 per day)
History- Lesson 8 (Once a week)
- The Story of Mankind Part I by Hendrik Van Loon Lesson 3: Prehistoric Man
- Define and use in a sentence: Ice Age and Glaciers
- Prepare the following to act out the story: Couch or other furniture - for a hollow tree, Rock - for stone tools, Blanket - for branches and leaves to cover your bear trap, Large stuffed animal - for the bear, Coat - for bear skin, Table or other furniture - for a cave, Stick or wooden spoon - for your burning branch, Small stuffed animal - to cook in the fire
- After gathering the props, read the following and act out each line.
- Imagine you are a primitive human during the Stone Age. Glaciers creep down from the mountains. For the first time, the weather turns cold and snowy.
- Communicate using grunts and moans. Primitive humans still do not speak words or write.
- Brr! It is so cold. You are trying to sleep in an old hollow tree (couch). The old hollow tree (couch) isn't keeping you warm enough anymore. You must clothe yourself, find warmer shelter, and locate a source of heat to survive.
- First, make some clothing. Dig a hole with your stone tools (rock) and cover the hole with branches and leaves (blanket). Wait until a bear (Large stuffed animal) falls into the hole. When the bear gets weak, use your stone tools (rock) to kill and skin the bear. Clothe yourself in the warm bear fur (coat).
- Next, hunt for a cave (under a table) to stay in. Watch out for bears and bats in the cave!
- You see a tree on fire after a lightning strike. Pull off a burning branch (stick or wooden spoon) and bring it back to your cave.
- Next, hunt for something to eat. Catch a small animal (small stuffed animal) to eat and bring it back to your cave (under a table). Cook the meat over your burning branch (stick or wooden spoon).
- Use pencils, crayons, pastels, or markers and the descriptions from the chapter to draw frames of a comic showing the coming of the glaciers.
Geography Lesson 8 (Once a week)
- Read Lesson 2: Climates and Their Effects
- Define and use in a sentence: climate, equator, prime Meridian, latitude, longitude, northern Hemisphere, western
The Science of grasshopper Lesson 7 (Once a week)
- Listen to Among the Meadow People: The Butterfly That Went Calling
- Read about grasshoppers: Like fireflies, butterflies, bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies, and beetles, grasshoppers are insects. When any creature has unusually strong hind legs, we may be sure it is a jumper, and grasshoppers show this peculiarity at first glance. The front legs are short, the middle legs a trifle longer, and the femur of the hind leg is nearly as long as the entire body. The hind leg contains many powerful muscles which have the appearance of being braided. Each grasshopper foot consists of three segments and a claw. Surrounding the claws are oval pads equipped with microscopic hairs, called tenent hairs, which secrete a sticky fluid and enable grasshoppers to climb vertical surfaces. Grasshoppers feed upon grass and other herbage and are especially fitted for living in grassy fields. Their color protects them from being spotted and eaten by their enemies, the birds. Since so many species of birds feed upon grasshoppers, their leaping power is much needed for escape. However, when grasshoppers make a longer journeys they use their wings. Grasshoppers have some means of defense as well as of escape; they can give a painful nip with their mandibles; and when seized, emit copiously from their mouths a brownish liquid which is acrid and ill smelling. This performance interests children, who are wont to seize grasshoppers by their jumping legs and hold them up, commanding them to "chew tobacco." In some areas of the world, grasshoppers provide a source of food for people. In Mexico, grasshoppers are served with tortillas and chili sauce. Grasshoppers may also be fried into a crunchy snack.
- Facts about grasshopper reproduction: Female grasshoppers lay eggs with ovipositors. Some female grasshoppers lay their eggs within deep holes in the ground or in decaying wood. After placing eggs in a hole, female grasshoppers cover the hiding place with a gummy substance so that no intruders or robbers find and eat the eggs. See below an image of a grasshopper using her ovipositor to lay an egg in a hole. Most species of grasshoppers pass the winter in the egg stage. Sometimes we find in early spring young grasshoppers which hatched in the fall. They seem as spry as if they had not been frozen stiff all winter. Unlike butterflies which undergo complete metamorphosis, grasshoppers do not become caterpillars or spin chrysalises. Instead, grasshoppers undergo incomplete metamorphosis. Incomplete metamorphosis means that baby grasshoppers emerge from the egg looking like a smaller version of its parent, except that it has a very large head and a funny little body. Draw or write about the reproduction of grasshoppers.
- Define and use each word in a sentence: Microscopic, Mandibles, Acrid, Ovipositor.
- Use a video (Safevision) to complete an animal study of grasshoppers that answers the following questions: How do they move? How do they eat? What do they eat? How do they sense the world? What habitat do they live in? In what type of climate do they live (e.g. temperate, tropical, arid, arctic)? In what type of house do they live? What colors are the wings? What colors are the eyes and body? How many legs do they have? How many antennae do they have?
Executive Functioning (Once a day)
- Copy Assignments into Notebook
- Watch Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Complete Why Aren’t I Productive?
- Watch Diving into Deep Work
- Complete Diving into Deep Work
- Watch Three Steps to Greater Focus
- Complete Three Steps to Greater Focus