Activities

Activities

 * Monday**

Math

Today you will be working on multiplication problems in groups of 3 to 4.

The objective of this assignment is to improve your ability to quickly recall multiplication facts.

Click here to open the website you will be doing your activity on.

After you click play, read the instructions carefully and type in your name.

Once you and your other group members have entered your names, you must create a game.

The assigned leader of the group is to create the game and name it "group #" with your corresponding number.

After the leader has created the game, the other members will need to join.

Do not click start until everyone in your group has joined.

You can control your spaceship by using your up and down arrow keys.

HAVE FUN and remember that it's just a game! :)

Once the race has finished, the group leader must use the sheet provided to tally up points under each player's name.

Points are awarded as follows:

1st Place = 5000 points 2nd Place = 4000 points 3rd Place = 3000 points 4th Place = 2000 points

After points have been written down, start a new game!

The next scores will be written under the previous ones for each player to add up at the end.

Repeat these steps until time out is called. When time out is called, all points will be added up.

This will be a group effort and should not take long. Pay careful attention to your addition!

The highest scoring group members will form a new group, the second highest members will form another group, and so on..

After the next time out is called, open Microsoft Word and copy these problems into a new document: (to do this, highlight the problems and press ctrl+c, then click inside your Word document and press ctrl+v)

Make sure your pasted selection starts with 2x1 and ends with 9x9.

Once everyone has done this, a timer will start. You will have 3 minutes to do as many problems as you can.

Work at a quick pace and use your memory of the facts. No counting on your fingers!

If you don't know the answer to a problem, skip it or guess it. Let's see how well you know those multiplication tables!

(Hint: the easiest way to answer the questions in order is to press the up and down arrow keys)

2x1= 2x2= 2x3= 2x4= 2x5= 2x6= 2x7= 2x8= 2x9=

3x1= 3x2= 3x3= 3x4= 3x5= 3x6= 3x7= 3x8= 3x9=

4x1= 4x2= 4x3= 4x4= 4x5= 4x6= 4x7= 4x8= 4x9=

5x1= 5x2= 5x3= 5x4= 5x5= 5x6= 5x7= 5x8= 5x9=

6x1= 6x2= 6x3= 6x4= 6x5= 6x6= 6x7= 6x8= 6x9=

7x1= 7x2= 7x3= 7x4= 7x5= 7x6= 7x7= 7x8= 7x9=

8x1= 8x2= 8x3= 8x4= 8x5= 8x6= 8x7= 8x8= 8x9=

9x1= 9x2= 9x3= 9x4= 9x5= 9x6= 9x7= 9x8= 9x9=

Do you know all your multiplication tables through 9?


 * Tuesday**

Language Arts

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 * Wednesday**

Science

This week we will be learning about NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Apollo Missions.

Write your answers on a clean sheet of paper to turn in when you finish.

Click here to learn about NASA and answer the following questions:

1. What does NASA stand for and when was it started? 2. What are 3 things that NASA does? 3. Where is the NASA headquarters located? 4. How many NASA centers are there in the United States? 5. About how many people work for NASA? 6. What are 3 programs that helped NASA learn about space flight? 7. When was the first moon landing? 8. What is one of the important uses of satellites? 9. What is the name of the new spacecraft NASA is working on? 10. What does NASA plan to do by 2020?

Click here to learn about the Hubble Space Telescope and answer the following questions:

1. When was the Hubble Space Telescope launched? 2. How big is the telescope and how much does it weigh? 3. What are some things that the telescope takes pictures of? 4. How is the Hubble Space Telescope different from other telescopes on Earth? 5. Where did the name Hubble come from? 6. What is the name of the explosion that is believed to be causing the universe to grow? 7. How old do scientists think the universe is? 8. What picture produced by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the farthest galaxies ever seen? 9. What does dark energy do? 10. What is the purpose of a service mission?

Click here to learn about the Apollo Program and answer the following questions:

1. What was the Apollo Program and when was its first flight? 2. How many Apollo flights were there and how many landed on the moon? 3. When was the last lunar landing? 4. How many astronauts have walked on the moon? 5. What are the names of the 2 lunar spacecraft? 6. What are the names of the two types of rocket that launched the spacecrafts to the moon? 7. How big were each of the rockets? 8. Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon? 9. Who first stepped on the moon? 10. Which Apollo mission had a dangerous malfunction?

If you have completed all of the questions early, you can draw a picture of what your spaceship would look like if you could design and build your own. What planet would you like to visit most? Write a few sentences about it. This part of the assignment will be for extra credit :)

Also, check out this site to see how different your age and weight would be on different planets and moons in our solar system!


 * Thursday**

Language Arts

Today you will be learning more about nouns, verbs, plurals and homophones through a series of online games.

First, you will be learning to singular and plural forms of words.

Click here to open the first game.

Before you begin the game (located in the upper right corner) take note of the scoreboard right below it.

If you get the question correct, then proceed with the next one..

If you notice that you have gotten one incorrect, press the back button on the internet browser and write down both forms of the word on a sheet of paper with your name.

We will be reviewing the most commonly missed words in class later.

Once you have finished the first game, write down your score, then click the link that says "Play a harder level of The Plural Girls"

Continue, repeating the same steps as before until you complete the second game.

Remember to write down the pairs of words that you get incorrect and write your score.

Once again, click the link that says "Play a harder level of The Plural Girls"

This time you will be filling in the blank. If you get the wrong answer, write down the word and try again.

Remember to write down your score so we can review the trouble words later as a class :)

Next, you will be learning to recognize the difference between confusing words that are spelled similarly and sound the same.

These kinds of words are called homophones. Click here for your online game activity.

Pay attention to your score as you play the game and write down the words you miss.

Once you have completed this game, click the link below that says "Play a harder level of Word Confusion!"

Continue the game until complete and write down any difficult words.

Next, you will be learning about the different parts of speech. Click here to begin with nouns and verbs.

If you need any help, there is a help chart below the game.

When you have completed the nouns and verbs, click here for a more advanced game that includes the other parts of speech.

After this game, click here to open the last game for the activity. This game will test your knowledge of verbs.

When you complete this game, move on to level 2 by clicking here.

When you have completed all of the assignments above, you are done with today's activity.

Please review your list of words that you have written down and let me know that you have finished :)


 * Friday**

Math

Today you will be working on division to improve your math skills.

Click here to visit a website for your first activity.

On the web page, click the "÷2 " button on the left and then click the Start button in the lower right corner to begin.

Once you have begun, try to solve the problems as quickly and accurately as you can. Press enter to submit your answers.

When you finish the first set of problems, write down your time and continue on to the " ÷3" section and repeat the steps.

Remember to write down the times when you finish so you can see your strengths and weaknesses and track progress!

 After you finish division facts of 3, continue on with 4, 5, 6 and so on until you finish with 10.

When you finish with the first activity, click here for your second activity.

The objective here is to try to get to the score of 100 or above without getting an incorrect answer.

See if you can do it! There are 3 levels of difficulty, each with a successively higher score reward.