Week 8
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Click the link above for a fun Minecraft kids cosmic yoga that the whole family can enjoy.
Fantastic for practising mental strategies for all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). And so much strategy and thinking involved.
- Weekly Math Challenge: Diminishing Returns
- Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Brains Grow and Change
Catching the Moon read by Kevin Costner and Jillian Estell
*Do you have grit?
Reader's Response
The following questions will help students personalize their responses to the book. Students respond in reader’s journals, in oral discussion, or in written form.
- What words would you use to describe the character of Marcenia? How do you think those characteristics helped her make her dream come true?
- How does this book affect your thinking about people who have set ideas and are slow to accept new ways of thinking?
- Marcenia changed her name. Why did she do that? Would you ever change your name? Why? What new name might you pick?
- Although she didn’t agree with her parents, Marcenia respected their authority. Do you think she was right? How might you act when you and a family member have different points of view?
- What would you tell someone who has not read Catching the Moon about this book? Why?
- What could you learn from Marcenia? What advice do you think she would give you about pursuing a dream?
- Crystal Hubbard, the author, has this advice for young readers: “You can make your life what you want if you’re willing to work hard and keep sight of the goals you set for yourself. If paths to your goal are blocked or doors are slammed in your face, forge your own path, look for new doors to open.” What are some ways you can apply this advice to your own life?
Send to: Theresa.Kovach@Foxlake114.org
- Switch ZOO GAMES
- More Roadworthy Car Games:
1. The alphabet game: One person chooses the right side of the road, and the other chooses the left. Call out objects that you see in alphabetical order (you can use a sign only for one letter). The first person to get to the letter "z" wins.
2. Math with license plates: Use the numbers on license plates to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and number patterns and see just how creative kids can get!
Week 7
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Click the link above for a family fun Harry Potter Yoga!
Fantastic for practising mental strategies for all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). And so much strategy and thinking involved.
- Weekly Math Challenge: Diminishing Returns
- Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Brains Grow and Change
Enjoy this super fun story! Listen to it as many times as you’d like! Each time you’ll find more interesting, fun, colorful things to explore!
For Third and Fourth Grade:
Kindergarten - Third:
Roadworthy Car Games:
1. The number game: Look out the window and call out when you see one, two, three, or four of something, and so on.
2. Animals galore: Decide on a number of points for each animal that you see (cow = 1 point, horse = 1 point, pig = 2 points, etc.). As you drive, add up the points. Play until one person gets 10 points, or for a set time.
Project Based Learning- Island Survival!
This project based learning (PBL) activity integrates elements of science, ELA, and social studies into an adventure that combines imagination, creativity, and problem solving skills as you try and survive mysteriously arriving on an island.
There are 16 activities (1 page for almost each one) for you to complete. Each page involves a problem or idea you must solve, recreate, or answer.
To get started click HERE!
(difficulty = medium-hard)
Share the completed cyber hunt with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
Week 6
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Click the link above for Cosmic Kids Super Yoga fun for the whole family.
- Weekly Math Game: The Golden Number
Fantastic game designed to help students recognise the part-whole concept.
- Weekly Math Challenge: Kite in a Square
Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Speed is Not Important
- Monday - Listen to the story!
- Tuesday - Listen again, now see if you can retell the story, using seven, strong details!
- Wednesday - Vocabulary -
- Thursday - Ask Mrs. Kovach for a Math puzzle that goes with this story! Email her at Theresa.Kovach@Foxlake114.org
- Friday - Draw a picture from your favorite part of the story. Give your picture a Heading/Title and make sure you sign it as the illustrator! Take a picture and send it to Theresa.Kovach@Foxlake114.org or Heather.Friziellie@foxlake114.org
- National Gallery of Art KIDS
- Map the weather: Keep a running log of the weather. Include temperature, humidity, clouds, precipitation, wind, air pressure. Can you predict what the weather will be tomorrow?
Project Based Learning--Design a Waterpark!
There are 17 activities (1 page for each to complete. Each page involves an issue or topic you must solve, design, create, or research pertaining to water parks.
As you work through each page, you will make their own decisions and choose the outcomes based on information you learn.
Click HERE to get started!
(difficulty = medium-hard)
Share the completed cyber hunt with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
Week 5
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Click the link above for a fun Spider Man yoga you can do with the whole family.
- Grades PreK-1 How To Calm My Body story
- Grades 2-3 What Happens If We Don’t Wait
- Weekly Math Game: Crossing the Volcano
Great game for developing fluency with multiplication facts.
- Weekly Math Challenge: Marbles in a Box
Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Strategies for Learning Mathematics
Click the link above for the second book of the A to Z Mysteries. Plan an hour to listen to the story! All of these books are wonderful in this series. If you haven’t read them, listen to this one and pick out another for more fun!
Send Mrs. Kovach a note stating you listened to the story and she will send you a fun comprehension page! You can help her fill it out!
- Summer Camps (Virtual and In-Person)
- Ology
- Hot-weather inventor: Design an invention that you can use during summer. Some ideas: sunglasses that change color from red to yellow to blue, or a new beach toy.
CSI- The Slippery Case of the Sabotaged Slide
Which suspect sabotaged the slide?
Click HERE to get started!
(difficulty = medium-hard)
Share the completed cyber hunt with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
Week 4
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Click on the link above to enjoy a fun kids yoga activity!
FILL IN THE BLANKS - Teach your children how to use and practice 'I feel' statements to peacefully solve family conflicts.
We can Change the Channel on our tough feelings because we are able to control what we think about. Our thoughts and feelings don’t control us. To help us do this, we can use the power of thinking positive thoughts
- Weekly Math Game: Lego Barrier Game
Simple yet engaging way to practice using precise locational language. Kids receive immediate feedback on whether their instructions were clear, as they will see whether their partner was able to reproduce an identical version of their structure.
- Weekly Math Challenge: Route to Infinity
Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Watch Elisa’s Math Failure
- Arnie the Doughnut read by Chris O'Dowd
- At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut - round, cakey, iced and sprinkled, with a hole in the middle. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right? WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts - or at least have a hand in his own future? Imagination, Humor, Friendship, Problem/Solution
- ART/SS - Make Arnie the Doughnut OBJECTIVE — Click Here
- 33 Splash-tastic Water Activities
- Harry Potter Wizard World
- Float or sink: In a pool or the bathtub, hypothesize which items (soap, dry sock, bottle of shampoo, rock, etc.) will float or sink. Test your hypotheses.
- Scrapcoloring
- Mo Willems Lunch Doodles
- Museum Gallery: Collect pinecones, rocks, shells, or other natural objects to organize, categorize, and label. Present your own natural history museum.
- Summer is here and you are having the best time at summer camp! The camp has an ice cream van which provides free ice cream to all the campers! You're getting hot so decide to go down to the van, however, when you arrive you find all the ice cream gone, someone has taken it!
-To get started, click HERE to watch the video!
-Can you figure out which one of these suspects stole the ice cream?
-Four of the clues (slides) will allow you to eliminate one or two suspects until you have found out who took all the ice cream. The fifth clue is optional and will allow your students to figure out the location of where the ice cream was taken to.
- Math Puzzle 1/ Hidden message. (Basic facts).
- Math Puzzle 2/ Go-cart tracks. (Calculating Volume).
- Math Puzzle 3/ Lookout bribe. (Decimals and basic conversions).
- Math Puzzle 4/ Note on Tent. (Graphing activity - two quadrants).
- Math Puzzle 5/ Camp map. (Optional)
Click HERE to get started on this exciting Crime Scene Investigation! Good luck!
Week 3
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Click the link above to do a fun a kids yoga that focuses on a frog named Frank.
Click the link above for a basic fun yoga for older students.
- Grades K-2
Watch the short film, Lou, and complete the attached worksheet.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ci2hk
Worksheet:
- Grades 1-3
Helpful-Hurtful-Not-Helpful-Kind Empathy activity
- Grades 3-5
- Empathy worksheet
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes.
- Grades 5-8
Find your favorite breath and practice it for the next four weeks. See if your mood shifts and you are feeling happier and more content.
- Weekly Math Game: Get Out of My House
Great game for practicing mental addition and subtraction. Kids love playing it, especially the part when they kick the other player out of their house!
- Weekly Math Challenge: Nine Colors
Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Watch Brandon’s Math Failure
- Summer Smarties Week Three - Cherry Pie and Apple Pie
- 4th Of July For Kids - Independence Day | Story with Interesting Facts for Children | Kids Academy
- How did the 50 States get their names? United States Name Origins - FreeSchool
- Watch Liberty’s Kids First Fourth of July
- Patriotic STEAM resources
- Learn all about the Anatomy of fireworks HERE
- Play Red, White, and Blue Tag! Depending on the size of your group, designate two to four kids to be "it." Let all other players select a red, white, or blue token (think leis, ribbons, chips, cut outs etc.) to run around with. When "it" tags a player, the player hands over their token. The first "it" to collect an item in every color wins!
- Click HERE to complete two Hundreds Chart Mystery Pictures! Can you guess what they are? (difficulty = easy)
Share the completed pictures with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Click HERE to test out your map skills by completing 10 fun activities! (difficulty = medium)
Share the completed activities with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Click HERE to go on a cyber hunt to learn all about the 4th of July! You will use a safe and secure website to answer questions like, “What is the longest running 4th of July celebration?” (difficulty = hard)
Share the completed cyber hunt with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
Week 2
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Click this link for a fun kids yoga that is focused around the Trolls movie.
Click to link above for a great yoga for beginners for older students.
Your student can continue learning over the summer with i-Ready! Students, K-8, will be able to access their individualized learning profile until August 14th. Help prevent your child from sliding back in all that they have learned this year by completing at least 20 sessions of i-Ready over the summer. Any child who completes 20 or more sessions will earn a Fall 2020 treat when we return to school! If you return the i-Ready Verification Form verifying that your child completed 20 iReady sessions you'll earn a Fall treat, just take a picture or turn in this verification form to the office in the fall.
Visit the i-Ready website to log in. Students will log in with the same username and password used during the school year. If you are having trouble logging in, you can run a system check on the i-Ready support page. How-to videos and tips are also available on the support page. Questions with access or usernames can be directed to Erica Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org.
Thank you for all your support.
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Weekly Math Game: Greedy Pig
A great game for understanding probability and practicing addition.
- Weekly Math Challenge: Optical Art
Share the completed math challenge with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
- Weekly Growth Mindset: Watch Montse Cordero’s Math Failure
- Spork - Summer Smarties Week Two
- Spork by Kyo Maclear
- Listen to our story this week and think about the Main Character.
- Also, don’t forget to check out the Foxlake Library for more great stories and prizes!
- http://www2.youseemore.com/foxlake/contentpages.asp?loc=101
- NYP Music Kid Zone (watch concerts, make instruments..)
- Color with Leo - Online Art Games
- Become a scientist and make ice cream in a bag! Click HERE to see directions and watch a video.
Become a real-life Crime Scene Investigator! (difficulty = medium-hard)
Use your detective skills and examine 5 clues to figure out which one of eight suspects stole the jewels from the town hall.
Who did it?
- You will be given 5 clues and each clue will allow you to eliminate 1-2 suspects.
- Clue #1: Hidden Binary Code Message
- Clue #2: Fingerprint Analysis
- Clue #3: The getaway car, calculating acceleration (basic division)
- Clue #4: Virus, Bacteria, or Fungi?
- Clue #5: DNA sequencing
Click HERE to access the CSI mystery! Share your final product with Ms. Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org
Click HERE to complete an End of the Year digital word search (difficulty = easy)
Week 1
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- Social Stories - Skin Color: PK-1st Grade
- Empathy Journal: 2-4th Grade
- Empathy Journal: 4-8th Grade
- Popcorn the Dolphin | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!
Click the link above for a fun kids yoga session that lasts around 25 minutes. This yoga session centers around a story about popcorn the Dolphin while doing easy yoga moves for the whole family to enjoy.
Your student can continue learning over the summer with i-Ready! Students, K-8, will be able to access their individualized learning profile until August 14th. Help prevent your child from sliding back in all that they have learned this year by completing at least 20 sessions of i-Ready over the summer. Any child who completes 20 or more sessions will earn a Fall 2020 treat when we return to school! If you return the i-Ready Verification Form verifying that your child completed 20 iReady sessions you'll earn a Fall treat, just take a picture or turn in this verification form to the office in the fall.
Visit the i-Ready website to log in. Students will log in with the same username and password used during the school year. If you are having trouble logging in, you can run a system check on the i-Ready support page. How-to videos and tips are also available on the support page. Questions with access or usernames can be directed to Erica Barraza at erica.barraza@foxlake114.org.
Thank you for all your support.
Use addition or subtraction or use all four operations for a challenge!
Read/listen to the great story Tale of Two Beasts by Fiona Robertson. Make predictions, think about vocabulary and discuss point of view! Most of all enjoy the story!
- Funology!
- Father’s Day QT Activities
- Record-breakers: Use a stopwatch to time yourself running, roller blading, swimming, or biking. Then try to beat your time. Be sure to keep the distance you’re moving the same for each trial. Graph the results. (You may need a partner for this.)