Weekend and Thanksgiving Break Boredom Busters

Mrs. Famania's ideas

• Students can work on Khan Academy(math, grammar, coding, or choose something new!)   Email me if you need your username
• Students can learn coding on code.org  Email me if you need your username and password
• Write a play and perform it outside! We all could use some fresh air.
• Create your own game! Get some cardboard or paper and create your own game with rules.  
• 4th-5th grade:  Work on your final project for "Crow Call".  Just remember to save it to a google drive, cloud, email to yourself, hand write it, or bring it on a zip drive.
• 1st-3rd grade can code their instruments on Scratch-email me for usernames and passwords.

Mrs. Hecht's ideas:

• 4th-5th-work on Science Projects(see recent letter or blog post for more details)

Ms. Baer's ideas:

• Read a good book

Mr. Dennis's idea:

• Go ride a bike outside.

From the Desk of Ms. Hecht

Dear Parents,

The 4/5^th graders have been working on electrical circuits and for their final project this trimester, students are expected to come up with a science project which will be due on the week of December 5^th.

Here is the timeline just in case your child wants to work on their project over Thanksgiving break.

Week of…

Nov. 14^th – decided on a project and begin with the following steps

1.    Purpose/question- “What do I want to learn?”

2.    List of Materials

3.    Hypothesis-prediction of what you think will happen

4.    Procedure- list each step

Once your child completes his/her project, they may complete the observation piece at home. This will give them time to assess what is/is not working and assess how they can fix it or make it better.  

Nov. 21^st - Thanksgiving Break

Nov. 28^th – Students are to complete their project and test it.  (Time will be given in the classroom.)

Dec. 5^th – Present to class their project

HINT: “Homopolar Motor” projects are a good start for students who are just learning about circuits. 

This project should be fun and challenging.  It’s okay if your child gets frustrated, as long as they learn to work through it by preserving and by making decisions on their own as to how they will complete their project.

If you have any questions, please email me at Khamphet.hecht@phxschools.org.

Thank You,

Khamphet