Sunday, September 30, 2007
Farm Lesson Plan
Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterOctober 1, 2007
History
Today is World farm animals day! Learn more about the animals that live on a farm here: http://www.kidsfarm.com/farm.htm
Writing Prompt
Finish this sentence: Farmers are important because….
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Language Arts
Try this fun farm crossword puzzle: http://www.davisfarmland.com/fun/xword.htm
Use context clues to help corral these cows: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/cows/cows.htm
Review some farm phonics with this worksheet: http://www.teach-nology.com/gold/farm2.html
Science
Learn about farm ecosystems here: http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/farmschool/nature/ecosys.htm
Math
Practice multiplying decimals: http://www.kidzone.ws/math/farm/t_math.asp?multiplication5.html
Don’t Forget the Math Challenge!
http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/09/math-challenge-october-1.html
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Math Challenge October 1
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Native American Lesson Plan
History
Today is Native American Day. Learn more about Native Americans here: http://nativeamericans.mrdonn.org/index.html
Reading
Read this Native American Legend about the frog and the antelope: http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co12292001/CO_12292001_Antelope.htm
Answer the reading questions here: http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/09/frog-and-antelope-reading-questions.html
Email your answers to me at kellys3ps@sbcglobal.net to earn a point! Collect points to win prizes listed here: http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/09/prizes.html
Creative Writing
Write your own Acrostic poem about Native Americans here: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/nativea/poem/
Vocabulary
Learn Native American vocabulary here: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/nativea/vocab/
Then take the quiz here: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/nativea/quiz/
Art
Make a dream catcher: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Dreamcatcher.shtml
Or
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/trc/2002/manual/preschool/texasindians.html
(scroll down)
Learn about the history of dream catchers here: http://www.turtle-island.com/dreamcatcher.html
Don’t Forget the Math Challenge!
http://homeschoolingthemiddleyears.blogspot.com/2007/09/math-challenge-september-28.html
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Math Challenge September 28
Native Americas used wampum as their money. It is made of polished sea shells and beads. The shells washed up on the shore from the ocean. They strung the beads into necklaces or long lengths in order to trade them more easily. A fathom of wampum is a six foot length containing about 360 beads.
Little Fox wants to trade his wampum for a new teepee. A new teepee costs 50 fathom. How many beads does a new teepee cost?
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Kelly
Frog and the Antelope Reading Questions
1. Who were the 2 chiefs of Tobacco Plains?
2. What did the frog chief bet?
3. How did the frog trick the Antelope?
4. What did the frog win?
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Math Challenge September 26
Math Challenge September 26
An apple tree has 11 limbs. Each limb has 4 branches and each branch has 7 apples. How many apples are on the apple tree?
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Kelly
Monday, September 24, 2007
Math Challenge September 25
A ship leaves San Francisco traveling at 12 knots. 1 knot = 1.2 miles/hour. How many miles/hour would the ship be traveling while it is going 12 knots?
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Kelly
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Math Challenge September 24
Sesame Street uses approximately 219 pairs of eyes each season. How many total eyes is that?
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Kelly
Jim Henson Reading Questions
1. Where did Jim move when he was in fifth grade?
2. What was the name of Jim Henson’s first tv show?
3. Who was the Muppet’s first nationally known character?
4. What was Jim Henson’s last project?
Jim Henson editing practice
Friday, September 21, 2007
Goose Writing Prompt
Math Challenge September 21
How many corn cobs are there in all?
Approximately how many corn cobs will be harvested each hour?
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Kelly
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Magellan Test
1. Where was Magellan born?
2. When and where did Magellan die?
3. What was the purpose of his voyage?
4. What did he really accomplish
Math Challenge September 20
Five ships and 241 men began the journey with Ferdinand Magellan. Only eighteen survivors returned to the starting spot. Those people completed the first voyage around the world that started with the dream of Ferdinand. What percentage of the men survived?
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Kelly
Ferdinand Magellan
In 1513 Magellan asked King Manuel of Portugal for permission to sail to the Spice Islands in the Far East. These islands grew cloves and many other spices which would be very valuable if brought back to Spain. He was convinced that he could sail to the Spice Islands (which are now part of Indonesia) by going around the southern tip of South America. He thought that this route would be shorter than the eastward trip to the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean. He didn't realize how big the Pacific Ocean was. Nobody knew at that time. King Manuel refused Magellan's proposal because he didn't like Magellan.
In 1518 Magellan left Portugal and went to Spain. He presented the information he had learned about the Spice Islands to King Charles I of Spain. The king promised to support his voyage.
In late March 1520, Magellan's fleet anchored for the winter at Puerto San Julian in what is now southern Argentina. During the winter a storm destroyed the Santiago. In addition, a mutiny broke out shortly after the men set up their winter quarters. Magellan and his crew resumed their voyage on Oct. 18, 1520.
They were the first Europeans ever to sail across the Pacific, and it was far larger then anyone had imagined. They went for 98 days without seeing any land and ran out of food and used almost all their water. They ate rats and sawdust to avoid starvation. Nineteen men died before they reached the Pacific island of Guam on March 6, 1521. Conflicts with the people of Guam and the nearby islands prevented Magellan from fully resupplying his ships. The crew finally got enough food to set out westward again, toward the Philippines.
Magellan and his crew stayed in the Philippines for many weeks and they got to know the islanders very well. On April 27, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan was killed when he took part in a battle between rival Filipino groups on the island of Mactan.
After the battle only about 110 of the original members remained. That was not enough to sail three ships. Therefore they abandoned one of the ships, called Conception. The two remaining ships sailed to the Spice Islands. At the Spice Islands the ships were loaded up with spices for the trip back.
The ship called the Trindad tried to return back to Spain the same way they had came. They sailed eastward across the Pacific Ocean but were caught in really bad weather. More than half of the crew members died. The rest of the group was forced to return to the Spice Islands and where they arrived there, the Portuguese imprisoned them.
The last ship that remained was the Victoria. That ship continued back to Spain. The Victoria experienced many hardships and many of the crew members died of malnutrition and starvation. Finally, on September 6, 1522, they reached Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, nearly three years after the voyage started. Five ships and 241 men began the journey. Only eighteen survivors returned to the starting spot. Those people completed the first voyage around the world that started with the dream of Ferdinand Magellan.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Math Challenge September 19
How much money would you have needed to see Plane Crazy?
You would have needed one quarter and one dime. How much money is that?
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Kelly
Math Challenge September 19
How much would it have cost to see Plane Crazy in 1928?
Clue: Avery has 1 quarter, 3 nickels, 2 dimes, and 10 pennies in his pocket. In the year 1928, that would have been enough money to pay for 2 movie tickets.
How much did 1 movie ticket cost?
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Kelly
More About The Mouse
Mickey Mouse wasn’t always Disney’s star. Before Mickey, Walt had created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After a few cartoons, Disney asked the studio he was working for more money to be able to draw more and better Oswald cartoons. The studio that Disney was working for fired him and hired other people to draw the animated rabbit.
Not deterred, Disney created a new cartoon character, a little mouse that he wanted to call Mortimer. Walt's wife talked him out of it, and the mouse was instead named Mickey. A legend was born.
Mickey Mouse first appeared in comics in Plane Crazy, a short animated film that also starred Minnie Mouse and Clarabelle Cow. Audiences were not impressed. Disney was frustrated, but not willing to give up, and he went back to the drawing board and created Steamboat Willie, which was a resounding success. Audiences loved it, critics loved it, and Mickey was off and running.
This film not only made Mickey Mouse a star, it was also the first movie that totally combined sound, music, and dialogue all together in one neat package. Moviegoers of today take that kind of thing for granted; back then, it was a huge deal, something that had never been done before.
Prizes
Stickers 500
Smencil (Scented pencils) 1,000
Calculator 1,500
Sudoku Key Chain 2,000
$5 Wal-Mart Gift Card 3,000
$10 Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble Gift Card 5,750
$20 Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble Gift Card 11,000
Math Challenge September 17
The World's oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe, celebrated his 112th birthday today. How many days old is he today?
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Parents may help, but try to let your child figure it out on their own.
Good Luck!
Kelly