3rd Grade: Learning Packet for the Week of June 8 - June 12
Minutes Subject Grade 3 Week At Glance
60 min Monday Math: Order Of Operations: Complete practice sheets
Reading: Read passage about Main Idea, complete activity.
Writing: Watch video lesson 10 and/or read the directions for the week.
Specials: Music- Percussion Instruments Review 3-5 Music SWAY
P.E.- 5 Components of Fitness K-5 PE SWAY
60 min Tuesday Math: Multi-step word problems: Complete the word problems
Reading: Go over new vocabulary, read the passage Trouble in the Oceans.
Writing: Publish your final draft by typing or using your best penmanship.
Specials: Music & P.E. - See back of packet
60 min Wednesday Math: Multiplication, Using arrays- Complete the City Skyline activity
Reading: Review Main Idea introduction page and reread passage. Answer
questions provided and highlight where in the article you found the
answers.
Writing: Publish your final draft by typing or using your best penmanship.
Specials: Music & P.E. - See back of packet
60 min Thursday Math: Spiral Review: Make a pictograph to represent data
Reading: Reread and use the passage to complete the Main Idea Graphic
Organizer.
Writing: Publish your final draft by typing or using your best penmanship.
Specials: Music & P.E. - See back of packet
60 min Friday Math: Fact Practice/Feedback Friday! Complete the Mystery Picture. Tell
your teacher about the best thing you learned in Math during distance
learning
Reading: Use a book or passage that you have read recently to fill out the
Main Idea Poster.
Writing: Share your published writing with a family member and your
teacher.
Specials: SEL and ELL - See back of packet
What can you do to help your family today?
3rd Grade: Learning Packet for the Week of June 8 - June 12
Monday
Subject Materials Learning Activity
Math
Order of
Operations
practice
page
Learning Goal: I can use the Order of Operations,
including parentheses, to solve equations.
Activity Instructions: Read the top of the
practice sheet carefully. Complete the practice
pages.
Reading
Main Idea
Page
Giraffe
Sorting
Activity
Learning Goal: I can find the main idea and
details in a passage.
Activity Instructions: Read the page about Main
Idea to learn about the difference between Main
Idea and Supporting Details. Complete the
Giraffe Sorting Activity.
Writing
Video
Lesson 10
and Monday
directions
page
Learning Goal: I can watch the video and/or read the directions to learn about the task for this week.
Activity Instructions: This week you will be publishing your final draft. To learn how to do this, watch this video:
https://youtu.be/BGBdhsCEsO4
Specials See back of packet
Name: _______________________________________
Order of Operations
When you have different operations in a math problem, you need to solve them in a specific order.
Step 1: Solve the part in parenthesis ( ).
Step 2: Multiply and divide.
Step 3: Add and subtract.
1. (9 + 3) ÷ 2 = ______________ 2. 6 - 1 × 4 = ______________
3. (2 × 5) - 4 = ______________ 4. 36 -(4 + 8) ÷ 4 = ______________
5. 50 - 5 × (27 ÷ 3) = ______________ 6. 15 + 24 ÷ (8 - 2) = ______________
5. Do (12 + 6) ÷ 2 and 12 + 6 ÷ 2 have the same answer? Explain why.
______________________________________________________________________________
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Opinion Writing Lesson 10 Monday June 8th
Publishing
Learning Target: I can watch the video and/or read the directions to learn about the task for this week.
Directions: This week you will be publishing your final draft. To learn how to do this, watch this video: https://youtu.be/BGBdhsCEsO4
If you are not able to watch the video, here is what it says:
*Keep in mind you are not actually doing these things today- just reading about them to learn about your job for the week.
Time to get out your draft. You are ready to publish! There are two ways that you can go about publishing your writing. The first way is to get out a clean sheet of notebook paper. By now your draft is pretty messy. Now is the time to re-write your paper. This is your chance to do your best work. Remember to make the changes that you did on your draft version.
The other way to publish is to type it on your computer. When you are finished, print it out.
Finally, it is time to share your writing. Read it to your family and friends. If you would like, record yourself reading your writing. Send this to your family or your teacher. They would love to hear your writing.
Have fun publishing your final draft!
3rd Grade: Learning Packet for the Week of June 8 - June 12
Tuesday
Subject Materials Learning Activity
Math
Story
problem
sheets
Learning Goal: I can solve multi-step word
problems using all 4 operations.
Activity Instructions: Complete the sticker
beads story problems. Remember to show yo
work!
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ur
Reading
Vocabulary
sheet
Trouble in
the Oceans
passage
Learning Goal: I can read the passage.
Activity Instructions: Go over the new
Vocabulary. Read the passage Trouble in t
Oceans. Highlight vocabulary in the passa
write down any unfamiliar words.
he
ge and
Writing
Your draft
Publishing
paper or a
computer
Learning Goal: I can publish the final version of
my draft.
Activity Instructions: Today your job is to begin
publishing your draft! Feel free to use the
publishing paper provided, use your own paper, or
type your final essay on a computer.
Specials See back of packet
NAME !DATE
GQ More Stickers & Beads page 1 of 2
1 Sara bought a sheet ofstickers with 2 rows of 5 stickers on it. The stickers cost 6 cents each. How much did Sara pay for the entire sheet ofstickers?
a What is this problem asking you to figure out?
b Write an equation for the problem. Use a letter to stand for the unknown quantity.
C Solve the problem. Show all your work including numbers, words, or labeled sketches.
Sara paid __ for the entire sheet ofstickers.
2 Jonah bought a sheet ofstickers with 5 rows of8 stickers on it. He gave 12 of the stickers to his little sister. How many stickers did he have left?
a What is this problem asking you to figure out?
b Write an equation for the problem. Use a letter to stand for the unknown quantity.
C Solve the problem. Show all your work including numbers, words, or labeled sketches.
Jonah had __ stickers left.
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ReadWorks Vocabulary - protect
protect pro·tect
Definitionverb
1. to defend or keep safe from danger or harm.
A fence protects us from our neighbor's dog.
The new law protects workers against certain dangers in factories.
Advanced Definitiontransitive verb
1. to ensure the safety of; shield from danger or harm.
A mother bear may attack to protect her young.
The levee was built to protect the city from flooding.
Wax will protect the car's finish.
2. in economics, to guard the secure growth of (an industry) by means of tariffs on competing goods from other countries.
The government took steps to protect the food industry.
intransitive verb
1. to provide or be capable of providing a shield against danger or harm.
Spanish cognate
proteger: The Spanish word proteger means protect.
These are some examples of how the word or forms of the word are used:
1. A spider uses its silk for many purposes, including weaving webs, protecting its eggs, and catching food.
2. The skin plays many important roles. It acts as a barrier and helps protect the body from disease.
3. The dam protects the farms from floods and salt water that might travel down the river from San Francisco Bay.
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ReadWorks Vocabulary - protect
4. It was very important that all of the animals in the jungle knew what the others' preferred foods were, so that they could protect themselves.
5. A year later, Congress passed the federal Endangered Species Act. The law protected many animals that were in danger of dying out, including peregrine falcons.
6. Scientists have found a vaccine to protect birds from bird flu. But researchers are still racing to create a vaccine to prevent the disease in humans.
7. Efforts are being made to help protect horseshoe crabs. Scientists warn it will take 20 to 30 years to see if the horseshoe crab population has increased.
8. Hard shells protect turtles. A predator cannot bite the hard shell. Some turtles can pull their legs inside their shells. They can pull in their heads and tails too.
9. A clownfish has scales on its body. This fish sleeps in the branches of a poisonous plant. The plant helps protect the fish at night. The clownfish eats small plants.
10. Some ants are soldiers. Their job is to protect the nest. They stand near the nest's entrance and guard it. They fight off enemy insects that try to enter the nest.
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ReadWorks Vocabulary - threat
threat threat
Definitionnoun
1. a statement that someone will harm or punish some person or group.
He used threats to prevent them from calling the police.
Advanced Definitionnoun
1. a declaration of intent to cause harm or difficulty, or to inflict punishment.
He called the police after she made threats on his life.
Does she really intend to quit in the middle of this project, or was that just a
threat?
2. a warning or sense of impending trouble or harm.
The threat of a civil war hung over the country.
3. that which poses a danger, or threatens injury or harm.
He was considered a threat to society and was sent to prison.
These are some examples of how the word or forms of the word are used:
1. People are a threat to great white sharks.
2. The main threat to pandas is habitat loss.
3. One threat, or danger, the felines face is habitat loss.
4. If a bear thinks you are not a threat, it may leave.
5. Most don't think a space rock will pose a threat in the near future.
6. When faced with a threat, it's useful to be afraid and get out of the way so you won't get hurt.
7. However, the biggest threat came from DDT, a chemical used for farming. DDT made the birds' eggshells so thin that chicks couldn't survive.
8. Because amphibians breathe through their skin, they easily absorb pollution. They are usually the first to disappear when the environment is under threat.
9. "An object of this size would be expected to hit Earth every few million years, and as we get additional data I think this threat will go away," said Donald Yeoman of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Trouble in the Ocean
Trouble in the Ocean
Save the Ocean Animals
Some sea creatures need help.Many kinds of animals live in the ocean. Some of those animals are endangered. That means they are in danger of dying out. Only a few are left in the world. Scientists are trying to keep endangered animals safe.
Green Sea Turtle
Pacific Stock/SuperStock
The green sea turtle lives in warm waters. An adult green sea turtle eats mostly plants. It can weigh up to 440 pounds. Its shell can grow to 4 feet long. A green sea turtle can't pull its head into its shell the way some turtles can.
Why are green sea turtles endangered? People hunt them for their meat and eggs. The turtles also get trapped in nets used to catch fish. Pollution hurts the turtles too. If turtles eat trash, it can kill them.
Blue Whale
Denis Scott/Corbis
The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. It is as big as an airplane. The whale can grow to 90 feet long and weigh more than 100 tons. A ton is equal to 2,000 pounds.
The blue whale lives in all the oceans. It eats tiny animals called krill. A blue whale can eat about 4 tons of krill each day.
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Trouble in the Ocean
Blue whales are endangered. People once hunted them for their meat and fat. The fat was used to make oil for lamps. Special laws now protect blue whales. People no longer hunt them.
Great White Shark
Stephen Frink/Science Faction/Corbis
The great white shark is the largest meat-eating shark. It grows to about 15 feet long. It weighs up to 5,000 pounds. The shark has rows of long, sharp teeth. It eats fish, dolphins, seals, and other ocean animals.
Great white sharks are often found in waters near the coast. A coast is land next to the ocean.
People are a threat to great white sharks. People hunt them for their teeth, jaws, and meat. The sharks also get caught in fishing nets.
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Opinion Writing Lesson 10 Tuesday June 9th
Publishing
Learning Target: I can publish the final version of my draft.
Directions: Today your job is to begin publishing your draft! Feel free to use the publishing paper provided, use your own paper, or type your final essay on a computer. Remember to use your very best penmanship and copy everything correctly from your draft. You will have today, tomorrow, and Thursday to work on this task.
3rd Grade: Learning Packet for the Week of June 8 - June 12
Wednesday
Subject Materials Learning Activity
Math
City Scape
array
activity
markers/
crayons
Learning Goal: I can make city skyscrapers and
find the area of each using multiplication arrays.
Activity Instructions: Use the grid paper to
create a city skyline using arrays. Remember to
show the multiplication fact that represents each
building
Reading
Passage
Question
page
Answer page
Learning Goal: I can answer questions using the
passage.
Activity Instructions: Review the Main Idea page
from Monday and reread the passage. Use the
passage to answer the questions, highlight in the
text where you are finding the answers.
Writing
Your draft
Publishing
paper or a
computer
Learning Goal: I can publish the final version of
my draft.
Activity Instructions: Continue publishing your
final draft.
Specials See back of packet
Trouble in the Ocean - Comprehension Questions
Name: ___________________________________ Date: _______________
1. What does "endangered" mean?
A. in danger of dying out
B. in danger of being eaten
C. in danger of getting sick
D. in danger of being hunted
2. What does the text list and describe?
A. three laws passed to protect ocean animals
B. three endandered ocean animals
C. three types of pollution that harm ocean animals
D. three ways people are working to protect oceans
3. Fishing nets can be harmful to a number of species. What evidence from the text
supports this conclusion?
A. Some ocean animals are endangered, or in danger of dying out.
B. People are a threat to great white sharks.
C. Green sea turtles and great white sharks get trapped in fishing nets.
D. Blue whales used to be hunted for their meat and fat.
4. What is a common threat of great sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks?
A. fishing nets
B. food shortages
C. pollution
D. humans
5. What is the main idea of this text?
A. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks are protected by special laws.
B. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks live in the ocean.
C. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks are endangered animals.
D. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks get caught in fishing nets.
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Trouble in the Ocean - Comprehension Questions
6. Read this sentence from the text:
"People are a threat to great white sharks. People hunt them for their teeth, jaws, and
meat."
What does the author mean by the sentence, "People are a threat to great white
sharks"?
A. People put great white sharks in danger.
B. People scare great white sharks.
C. Great white sharks put people in danger.
D. Great white sharks scare people.
7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
Blue whales were once hunted for their meat and fat, ________ now special laws
protect them from being hunted.
A. soon
B. also
C. like
D. but
8. What has helped protect blue whales?
9. Explain why green sea turtles are endangered.
Support your answer with evidence from the text and images.
10. Compare the reasons why green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks
are endangered.
Support your answer with evidence from the text and images.
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Opinion Writing Lesson 10 Wednesday June 10th
Publishing
Learning Target: I can publish the final version of my draft.
Directions: Continue publishing the final version of your draft.
3rd Grade: Learning Packet for the Week of June 8 - June 12
Thursday
Subject Materials Learning Activity
Math
Practice
pages-Using
Picture
Graphs,
Making
picture
graphs
Learning Goal: I can draw a picture graph to
represent a data set containing several categories.
Activity Instructions: Complete two pages – Using
Picture Graphs, and Making Picture Graphs.
Reading
Main Idea
Graphic
Organizer
Answer
sheet
Learning Goal: I can use the passage to find the
Main Idea and Details.
Activity Instructions: Use the passage and the
question page from yesterday to complete the
Main Idea Graphic Organizer.
Writing
Your draft
Publishing
paper or a
computer
Learning Goal: I can publish the final version of
my draft.
Activity Instructions: Continue publishing your
final draft.
Specials
See back of packet
Date: ______________________
Write the main idea in the center of the web. Record the key details in the surrounding circles.
Heading: ____________________________
Main Idea:
Key Detail: Key Detail:
Key Detail: Key Detail:
Sosnowski
Thursday-Answer key for Main Idea/Details Graphic Organizer
Answers for “Trouble in the Ocean” Main Idea and Details Organizer.
Heading: Trouble in the Ocean
Main Idea: Green Sea turtles, Blue Whales, and Great White Sharks are all endangered ocean animals.
Detail: They can all be trapped in nets.
Detail: All of these animals can hunted for different reasons.
Detail: These animals can be harmed by pollution in the oceans.
3rd Grade: Learning Packet for the Week of June 8 - June 12
Friday
Subject Learning Activity
Math
Reflection: Fact Practice/Feedback Friday! Complete the
mystery picture. Think about your favorite math activity during
distance learning and share it with your teacher
Reading
Reflection: Think about a book or packet passage you have read
recently. Use it to fill out the Main Idea Poster. Think about the
main idea and your favorite part of the story and then draw a
picture that shows your favorite part.
Writing
Reflection: Congratulations third grade writers! You are all done
with your opinion essay. Time to share your hard work with
others! Perhaps you might call, email, or zoom a relative and read
it to them. Finally, please be sure to share your essay with your
teacher- they can’t wait to read it!
Social
Emotional
Learning
Need something to look forward to? Use this list to start a “summer fun” list for you and your family!
Name: _______________________________
Write the product for each multiplication fact. Then, color according to the key at the bottom.
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Main Idea Poster
(The title of a book or passage you have read recently)
(Your name)
Illustration by __________________________
The Main Idea of the story: _____________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
My favorite part of the story: ____________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Opinion Writing Lesson 10 Friday June 12th
Publishing
Learning Target: I can share my final published essay with others.
Directions: Congratulations third grade writers! You are all done with your opinion essay. Time to share your hard work with others! Perhaps you might call, email, or zoom a relative and read it to them. Finally, please be sure to share your essay with your teacher- they can’t wait to read it!
Weekly Reflection
Something I did well:
Something I need to work on:
Questions for a teacher and/or parent comments:
Extra work space
ANSWER KEY
Order of Operations
When you have different operations in a math problem, youneed to solve them in a specific order.
Step 1: Solve the part in parenthesis ( ).
Step 2: Multiply and divide.
Step 3: Add and subtract.
1. (9 + 3) ÷ 2 = 6 2. 6 - 1 × 4 = 2
3. (2 × 5) - 4 = 6 4. 36 -(4 + 8) ÷ 4 = 33
5. 50 - 5 × (27 ÷ 3) = 5 6. 15 + 24 ÷ (8 - 2) = 19
5. Do (12 + 6) ÷ 2 and 12 + 6 ÷ 2 have the same answer? Explain why.
No, the answers are different. In the first problem, you add 12 + 6 first. In the second problem, you divide 6 and 2 first.
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Trouble in the Ocean - Comprehension Questions Answer Key
1. What does "endangered" mean?
A. in danger of dying out
B. in danger of being eaten
C. in danger of getting sick
D. in danger of being hunted
2. What does the text list and describe?
A. three laws passed to protect ocean animals
B. three endandered ocean animals
C. three types of pollution that harm ocean animals
D. three ways people are working to protect oceans
3. Fishing nets can be harmful to a number of species. What evidence from the text
supports this conclusion?
A. Some ocean animals are endangered, or in danger of dying out.
B. People are a threat to great white sharks.
C. Green sea turtles and great white sharks get trapped in fishing nets.
D. Blue whales used to be hunted for their meat and fat.
4. What is a common threat of great sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks?
A. fishing nets
B. food shortages
C. pollution
D. humans
5. What is the main idea of this text?
A. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks are protected by special laws.
B. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks live in the ocean.
C. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks are endangered animals.
D. Green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks get caught in fishing nets.
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Trouble in the Ocean - Comprehension Questions Answer Key
6. Read this sentence from the text:
"People are a threat to great white sharks. People hunt them for their teeth, jaws, and
meat."
What does the author mean by the sentence, "People are a threat to great white
sharks"?
A. People put great white sharks in danger.
B. People scare great white sharks.
C. Great white sharks put people in danger.
D. Great white sharks scare people.
7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
Blue whales were once hunted for their meat and fat, ________ now special laws
protect them from being hunted.
A. soon
B. also
C. like
D. but
8. What has helped protect blue whales?
Special laws protect blue whales, so people can no longer hunt them.
9. Explain why green sea turtles are endangered.
Support your answer with evidence from the text and images.
Green sea turtles are endangered because people hunt them for their meat
and eggs. They also get trapped in fishing nets. Furthermore, pollution
hurts them as they can be killed by the trash they eat.
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Trouble in the Ocean - Comprehension Questions Answer Key
10. Compare the reasons why green sea turtles, blue whales, and great white sharks
are endangered.
Support your answer with evidence from the text and images.
Answers may vary but should reflect the text. Students may explain that
all three animals are endangered because people hunted or currently hunt
them. With regard to green sea turtles, they have the added threat of
pollution as indicated by the text.
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Reading Log
Goal: Read 20 minutes each day!
Book Title Time Spent
Reading
Name ____________________________________________________ Class __________________________________
THE PERCUSSION FAMILY AND INSTRUMENT REVIEW (June 8-12) Ferndale 3rd-5th Elementary Music: Lesson 5 Paper Supplement
DIRECTIONS: If you have access, an online version of this lesson is available through the link on the Ferndale School District website. You can also access the online version directly through this link: https://sway.office.com/FdpWGpv68zPNjp9z?ref=Link&loc=mysways
Complete the Exit Ticket at the end, and your answers will be recorded online for your music teacher to see. If this paper version works best for your family, we hope to provide you with the same information as best we can. We look forward to making music together soon and thank you for working with your children!
THE PERCUSSION FAMILY: There are many instruments in the percussion family that we will study closely. Beginning percussionists play in the 6th grade band in middle school. They will likely learn to play keyboard instruments (like the xylophone and glockenspiel) as well as snare drum and bass drum, so piano skills make the percussion instruments much easier to understand.
We want you to know: 1. How percussion instruments make their sounds 2. How pitched percussion are different from unpitched percussion 3. And out of all the instruments we studied, which instrument you like the best
* * * * * * * * *
With a name that means "the hitting of one body against another," instruments in the percussion family make sounds when they are struck, shaken, or scraped. Often, the instrument itself, or a part of the instrument, creates a vibration such as a drumhead, the metal body of a triangle, or the beads within a maraca. In large ensembles, the percussion section provides a variety of rhythms, textures and tone colors, and percussion instruments are classified as either pitched or unpitched. Pitched instruments play specific pitches or notes, just like the woodwind, brass and string instruments. Unpitched instruments produce a sound with an indefinite pitch, like the sound of a hand knocking on a door. The percussion instruments make up a diverse international family, with ancestors from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas, and they represent musical styles from many different cultures.
UNPITCHED PERCUSSION: The snare drum joined the orchestra nearly 200 years ago. It has two calfskin or plastic drumheads stretched
tightly over a hollow metal frame. The player strikes the top head with wooden sticks. The bottom head, or snare-head, has metal wires, called snares, stretched tightly across it. When this unpitched drum is struck on the top head, the snares add a rattling sound as they vibrate against the bottom head.
The famous composer, Mozart, added the deep, booming, unpitched sound of the bass drum to the orchestra in 1782. Constructed like a snare drum, but without snares, the bass drum is much larger and is played on its side, so that either head may be struck. The beater or mallet for a bass drum is large with a soft material such as sheep's wool covering the end.
Cymbals are made from two large, brass plates with leather hand straps. When the player crashes them together, only the edges touch, because the plates are curved. Different sized cymbals make a wide range of sounds. Some are so small that they are played with just the fingers, and they make a high “ding”. You can also play one cymbal at a time with drumsticks or
mallets while the cymbal is suspended on a string or stand.
The guiro (pronounced “wee-roe”) comes from South and Central America. Guiros were first made from gourds (large fruits with hard skins) that were carved or notched to create a ridged surface. A player scrapes the guiro with a stick. Modern guiros can be made of plastic, metal or wood.
PITCHED PERCUSSION: The xylophone is made with hardwood bars. Longer bars make a lower sound. As the bars get shorter, the pitches also get higher. With the larger, lower bars on the left, the notes of the xylophone are laid out much
like a piano keyboard. Striking the bars with hard mallets produces a bright, sharp sound. The xylophone was originally modeled after an African instrument and its name is Greek, meaning "wood sound".
Timpani, or kettledrums, were the first drums to be added to the orchestra over 300 years ago. They are made of a large copper bowl with a drumhead stretched across the top. When struck with felt-tipped wooden mallets, timpani produce a specific pitch that is determined by the drum's size. That pitch is fine-tuned as the player tightens the head with foot pedals. Most ensembles use three or four timpani of different sizes.
DISTANCE LEARNING REVIEW: BAND, STRINGS, CHOIR AND THE INSTRUMENT FAMILIES We have studied the brass, woodwind, string, and percussion families, and we began these online lessons learning about the choices you may have in middle school. Do you know which class to take after deciding which instrument you like the best? If you want to sing, sign up for choir. Brass, woodwind, and percussion players take band, and string players take strings. We would be so excited to see you in a concert some day!
Band Choir Strings
Brass Woodwinds Percussion Trumpet Flute Drums
French horn Clarinet Xylophone Trombone Saxophone Cymbals
Tuba And more!
Each of your music teachers picked her instrument for a different reason. Mrs. Dooley wanted an instrument to fit inside her backpack, and Mrs. Saxman was inspired by movie music. Mrs. Smith’s grandma gave her a guitar and the music to Yesterday by the Beatles. Mrs. Barnreiter wanted a fun instrument she could take anywhere and could play many styles. Mrs. Bianco didn’t know any of the instruments, so she just copied her best friend. What will you choose?
Voice Soprano
Alto Tenor Bass
String Family Violin Viola Cello
Double Bass
CHALLENGE: Label the pictures on this page. Use the word bank for help.
Instrument Puns
Directions: Fill in the blanks by selecting one of the vocabulary words below.
accordion symphony reed tuba recorder piano composer organs conductors French horn guitar uke
1. How do you fix a broken ___________________ ? With a tuba glue.
2. Why did the ____________________ player keep banging his head on the keys? He was playing by ear.
3. Why are saxophones and clarinets so smart? They ___________________ a lot!
4. I always try to be encouraging so I say, “ ___________________ can do it!”
5. If you don’t like these music puns, you have my ___________________ .
6. ___________________ to a recent survey, replacing words with names of instruments often goes unnoticed.
7. Why can’t skeletons play church music? Because they don’t have _______________!
8. How many ___________________ does it take to change a light bulb? Nobody knows. No one ever watches the conductor!
9. An angry ___________________ player said he would hit me with the neck of his instrument. I asked, “Is that a fret?”
10. Did you hear about the ___________________ who ran away? He didn’t even leave a note.
11. What do a _________ _________ and a lawsuit have in common? Everyone is happier when the case is closed.
12. What do you call a cow that can play a ___________________ ? A Mooosician!
Name: ___________________________________________________ Class: __________________________________
Ferndale Elementary P.E. Grades K-5 (edition 5) Student Outcomes I can demonstrate daily health and fitness habits. I can understand how my body works and what it needs to be healthy. I can understand how food affects my body and how food can affect my performance.
Fitness Components--below are activities that demonstrate each of the 5 Fitness Components Cardiovascular Endurance (cardio)
• Ultimate Frisbee • Swimming • Bikes Rides (with uphill) • Roller/Inline Skating • Walking (fast) • Playing tag with your family • Mowing the lawn • Hiking • Use this web address for a 20 minute Go Noodle cardio workout
- https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/total-motion
• Use this web address for a 30 day Cardio Challenge - https://darebee.com/challenges/homerun-challenge.html
Muscular Strength • Climbing Trees • Monkey Bars • Hiking • Push-ups • Chopping Wood • Shoulder touches • Squats • Lunges • Try this web address for Go Noodle quads and calf strengthening activity
- https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/pump-it-up
• Try this web address for a 30 day Push-ups Challenge - https://darebee.com/challenges/50-push-ups.html
Abdominal Strength (Core) • Skateboarding • Roller/Inline Skating • Stand Up Paddle Boarding • Sit-ups/Curl-ups • Plank • •
- https://darebee.com/challenges/core-control-challenge.html
Gymnastics (Cartwheels/Round-offs/Tuck Jumps) Try this web address for a 30 day Core Challenge
Name: ___________________________________________________
Flexibility • Gymnastics • Stretching • Rock Climbing • Climbing Trees • Yoga
Class: __________________________________
- Use this wed address for Cosmic Kids Yoga https://www.youtube.com/CosmicKidsYoga
• Surfing • Tennis • Swimming • Try this web address for a Go Noodle Balance activity
- https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/get-energized
• Try this for a 30 day Flexibility Challenge - https://darebee.com/challenges/flex-challenge.html
Speed and Agility • Ultimate Frisbee • Water Balloon Games • Tag Games • Slip & Slide • Forward running (high knees, high skipping, sprints) • Lateral running (side to side drills) • Jump box drills • Shuttle run (lines) • 50 yard dash • Jump Rope
- Try this web address for a 30 day Jump Rope Challenge ◦ https://darebee.com/challenges/jump-rope-challenge.html
• Speed Stacking - Try this web address for Speed Stacking tutorials
◦ https://www.speedstacks.com/home/
• Try this web address for a Go Noodle Agility activity - https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/agility
• Try this web address for a Go Noodle Lateral Movements Activity - https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/lateral-movements
Enjoy these at home activities that support many of the fitness components at once:
Bike Safety Before You Ride:
Wear a helmet Check your tires Check your brakes Wear shoes and make sure they are tied
When on the Road: Follow traffic all traffic rules Use your ears, no headphones
Name: ___________________________________________________
Water Bottle Fun!
Class: __________________________________
Water Bottle Flip: challenge a friend or family member to a bottle-flipping contest. You will need a plastic water bottle with a flat bottom filled about three quarters of the way with water. Hold the bottle by the lid and flip it, trying to
land it upright on a table or flat surface.
Water Bottle Stand-up Challenge: Using a plastic water bottle that is three quarters full of liquid, place it on your four
head while lying flat on your back. Try to stand up without the bottle falling!
Water Bottle Bowling: This is a fun indoor activity if the weather is not great. Using several plastic water bottles set them up in a bowling pin formation in an area with a smooth, flat surface (such as a hallway or kitchen). Using a
lightweight ball, try to knock down the bottles.
Capn’ Pete’s Home Activity PE Packet
Find More Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7woiccdaxthd1c7/Capn%20Petes%20Home%20Activity%20Visual%20Packet.pdf?dl=0
Nutrition Review--use the following to review the 5 major food groups and learn a little about the sugar in your food
K-2 Daily Health Log Directions: Fill in your activities for the day including the exercise and minutes, fill in what you eat, and color each glass of water you drank. Goals:
1. 60 minutes of activity 2. eat from all the food 3. drink 8 glasses (8oz every day groups each) of water
3-5 Daily Health Log Directions: Fill in your activities for the day including the exercise, minutes, and type (fitness component). Check off all food groups you included in your diet. List how many glasses of water you drank today. Goals:
1. 60 minutes a day (40 2. Eat from all the food 3. Drink 8 glasses of water minutes cardio) groups every day (64 ounces)
Let's see what you've learned! 1. What was your favorite activity in this lesson? Why?
2. How will you make sure you continue eating from the 5 main food groups throughout the summer?
3. Think of some other great activities to help you stay healthy and have fun over the summer:
Math Fact Practice Ideas Practice Building Numbers: Rounding, estimating, add groups of 10 or 100 Skill Level: Basic
• Flash cards Go through the stack and sort them into got it and work on it. Post the “work on it” facts around the house.
• Roll the Dice: roll and multiply, roll and divide • Deck of Cards: deal two and find the sum or difference, product or quotient. Play
with adding and subtracting fractions or multiplying or dividing fractions (5th) • On the Go: add numbers on license plates as cars pass • Just blurt out math facts randomly… “Quick, what’s 9+7?”
Skill Level: Intermediate (Technology Needed)
• Print sheets. Head to DadsWorksheets.com and print your own basic addition or subtraction facts sheets for free.
• Download an app. Go to your App Store and search for “math facts”. There are lots of free ones like Math Fact Master.
• Go to the Ferndale School District website under the About Student Resources to link to Xtra Math, ST Math, Odyssey, Type to Learn
• Code.org (Problem solving) • https://www.prodigygame.com/ (game platform)
Skill Level: Advanced (Lots of Prep, Family Interaction)
• Create these fun activities, brought to you by Measured Mom: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/10-fun-ways-to-learn-math-facts/
• Play games, like Yahtzee, that require math skills!
Math Practice Practice math facts + - X /
Math Game Create a math problem and have someone else answer it.
Write a problem story. Answer it by including a picture, equation, and answer
Follow a recipe to make a treat.
Go to the Ferndale School District website under the Families tab and choose Learning Resources to link to Xtra Math, ST Math, and Odyssey
Create a daily schedule with times and draw clocks.
Make a map of a place near you.
Look at adds and create a pretend shopping list with prices and total amount
Go on a shape hunt Create a monthly calendar with a daily motor activity
Math Game Ideas:
• Top It: For a twist on the traditional card game War, assign values of 1 to the ace, 11 to the jack, 12 to the queen, and 13 to the king, and face value for the cards two through 10 (for younger children, limit the game to number cards only). Playing in pairs, each student lays two cards face up, then subtracts the lower number from the higher. Whoever has the higher answer wins all four cards. If the totals are the same, the players flip over two more cards and repeat until there is a winner. Challenge: Use the two cards to form a fraction, and then compare to see who has the larger fraction. If they are equivalent, repeat until someone wins the round.
• Twister Math: Stick labels with numbers, shapes, or images of coins onto the circles of a Twister mat. Give each student in turn an equation, a description of a shape, or an amount of money, then have the student place his or her hand or foot on the answer. Challenge: Label the mat with numbers ending in zero, then call out numbers and tell kids they must round up or down to the nearest answer
• Number Builders: Give each pair of students a die with six to nine sides. Have them set up blanks for the digits in a number. (Their numbers should be the same length, from four to nine digits long.) Before playing, decide if the highest or lowest number will win. Students take turns rolling the die and filling in blanks. Once a number has been written, it cannot be changed. Roll until all blanks are filled, and then compare the numbers. If time permits, have students subtract to find the difference between their numbers. Challenge: Instead of building an integer, build a fraction or decimal.
• Home Games: Look at the games you already have at home. A lot have math skills that are used to play. These include: Monopoly, Suduko, Bingo, dominoes, card games, or look at what you have and see if you can make it involve numbers.
Reading
Read for 20-30 min Read to a family member Book Journal: Summarize what you read each time.
Create a book review Draw a picture and label a character you read about in a book.
Read and book and then watch the movie. Make a list of similarities and differences.
Reading Game Put on a play Write a letter to a friend or a family member
Reading Game Ideas:
• What's the Question? Level: Any Level Form two teams. Explain the game, with a few examples of answers from a book/movie/show in search of questions. Ask, 'What's the question?', and have your child correctly say the corresponding questions for your answer: (Think Jeopardy) Have players--one from each team--come to the front. Next, read an answer to a question and say, 'What's the question?' The fastest player to respond wins a point for her/his team. New contestants come to the front for a new round. Rationale: This game allows children to think backwards a little, so they must provide a grammatically perfect question. All too often, they are used to answering rather than asking questions, so this is challenging and useful as review.
• Chain Spelling (Shiri-tori) Level: Easy to Medium Someone gives a word and asks another to spell it, and then a second person should say a word beginning with the last letter of the word given. The game continues until someone makes a mistake, that is, to pronounce the word incorrectly, misspell it or come up with a word that has been said already, then he/she is out. The last one remaining in the game is the winner. This game can be made difficult by limiting the words to a certain category, e.g.. food, tools, or nouns, verbs, etc.
• Describing Appearances & Characteristics of People Level: Easy to Medium (Low to low intermediate)
Each person is given one sheet of paper. One sits at the front of the group. He/she describes a person and the rest of the people draws the person being described. It is more interesting if the person being described is known by everyone. Once person in the front has finished describing that person then he/she reveals who it is, and everyone shows his/her drawing. The perspn in the front who was describing, picks the best picture.
• What's the Meaning? Level: Medium to Difficult You may need a dictionary do this activity. Choose a word which is long, difficult, and unknown to the group, a good word to begin with is: flummox (bewilder, dumbfound, or mystified) Without using a dictionary, your students write down a definition. Allow them a few minutes to think and write. Collect the definitions and read them aloud. When you have finished reading, they will have to vote which of those is the correct one. (It doesn't matter if none of them is the correct one) After they have voted and none of the groups guessed the meaning you read the correct one aloud.
Writing
Daily Journal Write a poem Writing Games Writing Games:
• Sentence Race Level: Any Level A good game for reviewing vocabulary. Prepare a list of review vocabulary words.
1. Write each word on two small pieces of paper. That means writing the word twice, once on each paper.
2. Organize the pieces like bundles, 2 bundles, 2 sets of identical words. 3. Divide into 2 teams. 4. Distribute each list of words to both teams. Each team should have a paper. Both teams have the
same words. 5. When you call a word, 2 people should stand up, one from each team. The students must write a
sentence using their word. The winner is the one with a correct and clearly written sentence. This is always a hit with kids. For more advanced students, use tougher words.
• Pictionary (Game 1) - revamp - Charades (Game 2) Level: Any Level Write out series of categories like professions (doctor, bus driver, etc.), animals, foods, actions (fishing, haircut, etc.) then divide into groups of 2. One person draws and the other guesses. Next turn, the guesser draws and drawer guesses. This game works best with the arbitrary stopwatch (30 seconds). Then for another day take the same categories (or create new ones) and play the same game except students, this time, act it out (no speaking or noises).
• Spelling Contest Level: Any Level Divide into 2 teams. then say a word or a sentence depending on the level for the students to spell. Teams should spell these correctly with not even one mistake. The team that has more points is the winner
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