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Early Enrichment #36: Sign Language

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Do you know sign language?  Can you spell your name in sign language?  The next 5 Early Enrichment Mini Challenges will help you to learn how to sign your name, common requests, and more!

Week 1:  Animals

After watching the videos, you can…

  1. create a video of yourself doing 5 animal signs.
  2. work with a partner (if it’s OK with your teacher) and create a video of 10 animal signs.
  3. make a class video where each child does a different animal sign.

Image taken from: https://pixabay.com/p-28716/?no_redirect

WOW! That’s Engineering Event Sept 30, 2017

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Who: 6th-10 Grade Girls interested in engineering fields 
When: Saturday, September 30, 2017 – 8:30 AM to 3 PM
Where: College of Saint Mary
7000 Mercy Road
Omaha NE  68106
Cost: FREE!! Pre-registration is required due to limited space.
Parents & Educators are welcome to join us for our Parent & Educator Track!!
Our event is aimed at encouraging young women to pursue careers in Engineering and Technology!
Students will experience:
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Systems Engineering
Registration Materials  Click here
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#26: Use Every Meaning

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Homonyms can also have identical pronunciations and spellings but different meanings, such as “quail” (the bird) and “quail” (to cringe). This mini spark will let you be creative in your writing to create fun sentences.

Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your language arts mini spark recording page: #26: Use Every Meaning

2.  This morning before school, I made a racket when I dropped my racket down the stairs. What do you notice about this sentence? Check out this website that shows some words with multiple meanings. Record the 3 most interesting and each of the meanings on your recording page.

3. Look over this sentences On your recording page, write all three of the definitions for subject.

Evil King Byrd liked to subject his subjects to lectures about his favorite subject: the history of the toothpick.

4. Write 5 of your own sentences that are like the sample above.  If you want to look at a list to get started then click here. You are not limited to just using words with two meanings. You can use your own ideas as well. Record your sentences on your recording sheet.

5. Increase the complexity to include multiple meanings of three different homographs in one paragraph.  Look over this sentence with duck, bank, and dove. On your recording page, write the both of the definitions for duck, bank, and dove as used in this sentence

The skateboarding dove banked her skateboard off a river bank, ducked into a spin, and then dove under the water, barely missing a duck.

6. Write your own sentence that are like the sample from step 5.

7.  Share your language arts mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.

Lesson adapted from https://www.byrdseed.com/homographs-homonyms/

#24: Adjective Form Poem

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Build your writing skills by studying adjectives and creating poetry.

Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your language arts mini spark recording page: #24: Adjective Form Poem

2. Print this handout. You will use it for this mini spark.

3. Listen to this book. When you are done record 10 adjectives the describe apples. The list should includes words that describe how the apples look, smell, feel and taste.

4.  Look at the following poem  by Terry Henkelman.  Review the words in the poem and notice out how each one is a synonym for the adjective funny.

FUNNY…
So amusing
So comical
So humorous
So mirthful
So laughable
Sooo… funny

5.  An online thesaurus will be helpful for step 6.

6. Use the handout  you printed from step 2 and write a 2 form poems for Apples and follow the instructions on the handout. If you want to type it on your recording sheet instead you can.

7.  Watch this video. Select 10 adjectives from the book and list them on your recording sheet.

8. Keep practicing writing form poems. Select two adjectives from the list to begin additional poems on the Form Poem Handout. Use the online thesaurus if needed.

9. Share your language arts mini spark recording page and handout with your teacher/EY coordinator.

red, green, round, shiny, waxy, bruised, ripe, speckled, spotted, smooth

 

Lesson adapted from Read, Write, Think

#25: Sweet Math

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This math mini spark has you diving into a box of donuts and solving a variety of math problems.

“Donut” let this opportunity slip by!

Start solving these “sweet” math problems today!

Spark your math thinking!

1. Set up your math mini spark recording page: #25: Sweet Math

2.”You can think of almost anything as a math problem!” Ms. Fibonacci in Math Curse by Jon Scieszka.

3. Print out the PDF or make a copy of the digital version of the doughnut activity page. Due to the complexity of some of the questions, It’s acceptable to use your resources (ie. teacher, older brother or sister, Internet to look up a formula, etc.) and ask for help.

4. Share your math mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.

#21: Inventions

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Invention is transforming your wildest daydreams into reality, like a robot making pancakes! It’s about mixing ideas and experiments to create something cool and useful!

Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your language arts mini spark recording page: #20: Inventions

2. Watch this intro video. Summarize a few of the ideas you liked from this video on your recording sheet.

3. Did you know a 15-year-old boy invented earmuffs back 1858?  Write the steps for how this came about on your recording sheet.

4. Watch this video and write a summary for each of the inventors.

5.  These kids all used their hearts and their smarts, and started somewhere!  Watch this video to get some ideas about the process. Take 5 detailed notes on your recording sheet.

 

6. On your recording page, do some brainstorming about how you could combine two items into one, like the examples from the video. Try to come up with 3 ideas. They do not need to be useful-but perhaps more creative and fun.

7. Share your language arts mini spark recording page with your teacher/EY coordinator.

codeCraft at AIM Brain Exchange

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codeCraft Explorers offers youth the opportunity to experience a variety of technologies. No previous experience is needed! All sessions are self-contained, so feel free to attend one or all sessions.

WHERE:  AIM Brain Exchange – 1902 Howard St, Omaha, NE 68102 – View Map

WHEN: Saturdays at 9:00 am

  • August 13 and 27
  • September 10 and 24
  • October 8 and 22
  • November 12 and 26
  • December 10

Sign up for these free events by registering here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codecraft-explorers-tickets-24433340780