Daily
Read a book for 30 minutes.
Monday
Reading Aloud
Read aloud to your parent for 10-20 minutes. Practice using an animated voice!
Handwriting Practice
Do 3 pages in your handwriting book.
Crystal Egg Geodes
Hello everyone!
Please provide any feedback about the activities, and reach out with any questions via discord or email! Have fun learning with your child/ren this week!
I have the week work plans listed here by day. Your child may prefer this structure, or they may prefer a more free choice approach. If your child would prefer to use a "bingo grid" style over the daily schedule, just click on the file at the top and they can mark off each task as they do them. Look here for details on the tasks.
We will have our classroom meetings this week via zoom. A link will be sent to your email. Come meet with us Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 11:00 am!
Materials:
Raw Egg(s)
Craft Glue
Epsom Salt
Food Coloring
Small Containers
Small Paint Brush
Toothpick
Water
Small Pot and Stove
Small Screw Driver (optional)
Activity: To make your egg geode, carefully crack your egg at the narrow end. It may be easier to do this by tapping the end with a small screwdriver. Slowly widen the hole in the egg until it is a little larger than a quarter. Empty the contents of the egg into a bowl. Rinse the eggshell out. Then, gently rub your finger around the inside to remove the egg’s membrane. Once the membrane is removed, turn the egg upside down on a paper towel and let it dry completely before the next step.
Once the shells are dry, use a paintbrush to coat the entire inside of the shells with a thin layer of craft glue. Sprinkle Epsom salts onto the glue, shaking off any excess. This will act as a starter to help grow your crystals in your homemade geode. Let the glue dry completely. Once the glue is dry, boil 1 cup of water with the help of an adult. Remove the water from the heat source and stir-in 1/2 cup of Epsom salt. Stir it until it is completely dissolved. Continue stirring in 1-2 tablespoons of salt at a time until the salt no longer dissolves. Your very saturated solution should be thicker than water when you stir it. Place each hollow egg in a small container. Make sure the egg will stay upright. Use a small ladle to fill each egg with your salt solution. Add a drop or two of food coloring and stir it with a toothpick (optional). Place the eggshells somewhere where they won’t be disturbed. Check your egg daily, and use a toothpick to break any thin solid layers that may form on top. You want the water to be able to evaporate! When all of the water has evaporated, you will have your egg geode!
How Geodes Form
Actual geodes are rocks with open spaces, or cavities, inside that are lined with crystals.
The crystals form through a process called sedimentation, where particles (solute) are suspended in fluid (solvent) and then come together, accumulating to form crystals as the fluid disappears over many, many years.
When creating your egg geodes, the Epsom salt acts as the solute and the water as the solvent. The water is so saturated with Epsom salt that the salt particles fuse together, forming crystals as the water evaporates.
Tuesday
Spelling Book
Do your list and complete your pages in your Spelling Book.
Typing
Practice typing for 20 minutes.
To access your typing practice, go to typing.com and choose "student log-in" in the upper right. Your username is your name+fhms, for example mine would be lynnfhms. Your password is "hello"
Food Web
Watch this video on the food web:
Choose two animals. Draw and label their food web.
Extension: Create a Venn diagram to compare their ecosystems.
Wednesday
Spelling Choice
Do your spelling "choice" work.
Practice using your spelling word list in some way. You may decide to draw pictures of each word and label them, you could write sentences using the word, you could create a word search (check out this online word search maker http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp) and then complete it, you could write each word three times, or??? use your own idea.
Number of the Week
This week's number is 19.
Please answer the following questions:
1. Write the numeral
2. Draw the quantity
3. Plot the number on a number line
4. Find the factors of the number. (Remember that you can use any item around the house that you have a handful of to find the factors, like pennies or driveway rocks...etc)
Scavenger Hunt
Create a scavenger hunt for your family. Hide things around your house, then write clues to help them search.
Extension: Make the clues rhyme.
Thursday
Spelling Test
Ask a family member to give you your spelling test! If you get less than 5 words incorrect, write each misspelled word correctly five times for extra practice. If you get 5 or more words incorrect, start your next week with a new list consisting of the misspelled words.
Research Project
Last week you found 5-10 facts about your research project. This week, I would like you to find or draw images to go with your facts. For example, if you were researching snakes, and you found out that some snakes live in underground burrows, draw or find a picture of snakes in their burrows.
Care of the Environment
Find a chore that you can do to help around the house. Some ideas are: sweep a floor, weed the garden beds, water plants, clean up your room, or? Look around the house for a need and meet that need with a smile. If you need help with ideas, ask your parent/guardian.
Friday
Handwriting Practice
Do 3 pages in your handwriting book.
Hairbrush Measurements
Use a hairbrush to measure 8 things in your house. How long is the coffee table? Is it the length of 12 hairbrushes? How about your dinner plate? How many hairbrushes long is that? Make a list if you are writing, tell a family member if you are not.
Extension: Measure the length of your living room, kitchen, and your bedroom. Which one is the longest?
Pick a different object to measure with, like a spoon or a toothpick. How many toothpicks long is the bathtub?
Story Time
Think of two characters from two different books or shows. Write a story with at least 3 paragraphs about what might happen if they met each other.
Extension: Illustrate your story.