Day 7
Welcome to Day 7!
READING
Today, choose a book on Epic or Bookshelf that reads aloud to you. Listen and look for things the narrator does to make their reading fluent. Try those tips to make your reading sound fluent.
Read to somebody in your best narrator voice!
WRITING
Tell what a character is doing, in small steps. Example: “First, Puja walked to the field. Then, she ran and kicked the ball as hard as she could. It flew into the air”.
MATH
Complete 1-2 lessons in DreamBox and today's problem:
Just by looking at this array, can you tell if it’s an even or odd total? Explain your thinking.
MOVEMENT
Be sure to take breaks to move your body during the day. You can do activities from the BSD Brainboost Page.
Activities that have lower intensity are:
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT TODAY'S ACTIVITIES.
WAIT, DON'T 🍁 YET! WE STILL HAVE TO PICK ACTIVITIES FROM OUR CHOICE BOARD...
Sometimes empathy means “putting yourself in someone else's shoes”. What does that saying mean?
Watch the Pixar short film Coin Operated.
How did this film make you feel? What do you think the message or theme of this story is? What did the character(s) learn? Draw, write, or act out your own story that is similar.
Listen to a podcast from But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids and draw while you are listening to show what you are hearing and learning.
Write a piece of music for three percussion instruments.
Draw a picture of yourself as an engineer, a person who solves problems by designing, building, or maintaining machines or public works.
In your picture, include the problems you are working to solve.
Watch “Antarctica: Journey to the Bottom of the Earth” and draw a picture that includes at least 5 things you learned.