Hour of Code

Forest Park will be participating in the Code.org Hour of Code from December 8th-14th.

Throughout December, we will be working with all grade levels, completing various programming activities.

Practice at home, and sign-up your children to learn and practice more if you find a website you like. Help your child learn a programming language!

Programming Fun!

This week we will preview our December month of coding by completing a couple of programming activities.

1) Click HERE to learn programming using Python.

2) Click HERE to build a game using Java Script.

Over break, practice these coding activities, and work on Scratch online to see what you can program.

Also, check out this math activity on the Greg Tang math website.

Try to complete the 5th Grade Game Board.

Thanksgiving Math Challenge

• A math challenge game board for students to complete during the Thanksgiving Holiday, using the online games and books at GregTangMath.com.
• Students who complete the challenge can be entered into a prize drawing by their parent or teacher.

2nd Grade Game Board

1) Play Break Apart Subtract

2) Play Kakooma

3) Play Missing Subtract

4) Read and Do The Grapes of Math

5) Play Expresso

6) Play Math Limbo

7) Play Kakooma Live

8) Help Mom or Dad play Expresso

Thanksgiving Math Challenge

• A math challenge game board for students to complete during the Thanksgiving Holiday, using the online games and books at GregTangMath.com.
• Students who complete the challenge can be entered into a prize drawing by their parent or teacher.

1st Grade Game Board

1) Read Math for All Seasons

2) Play Kakooma

3) Play Break Apart

4) Play Numskill

5) Read and do Mathterpieces

6) Play Missing Addition

7) Play Math Limbo

8) Play Kakooma and 5 Number Live

Thanksgiving Math Challenge

If there's time after you finish your Thankful poem in Google Classroom using Google Docs, complete the Bridges challenge below:

Complete the Game Board and submit to win a prize! Parents need to sign it. 

1) Math Potatoes

2) Kakooma

3) BreakApart Division

4) SatisFraction

5) Expresso

6) The Best of Times

7) Missing Division

8) Mom or Dad plays Kakooma

Colonial History-First Thanksgiving

This week, we will learn about American history during the colonial period. Since it's close to Thanksgiving, we'll explore some websites about the first Thanksgiving. Students will use a T-chart to record information comparing and contrasting details about Colonists and Native Americans.

1) Click HERE to visit the Scholastic First Thanksgiving website. Explore the Daily Life section and compare and contrast colonists and Native Americans.

2) Click HERE to investigate the first Thanksgiving from different perspectives.

3) If there's time, click HERE create a storyboard about life in the New World during the colonial times.

Digital Citizenship-Internet for Good

This week we will continue exploring ways to use the internet for good. We will identify examples that show digital citizenship at its finest. We will examine these examples in-detail.

1) Log-into Google Classroom or your Google Drive and open your Internet for Good assignment.

2) Review your 3 examples and select one that you would like to share with the class.

3) Click HERE to access a shared Google Sheet. Click on the worksheet for your class and insert info about your example.

4) After looking through the different examples, click on your class below to access a wall where you can write about your favorite example and what you learned about using the internet for good.

Keefer
Gardner
Peck

Digital Citizenship-Cyberbullying

This week we will continue learning about Digital Citizenship. We will focus on the topic of Cyberbullying. How do we avoid this behavior and what do we do if it happens to us?


Students will be able to:

• compare different forms of cyberbullying and the roles of those involved.
• interpret scenarios that illustrate how targets of cyberbullying feel.
• identify ways to be an “Upstander” when cyberbullying occurs.

Cyberbullying is defined as repeatedly sending or posting cruel messages, images, or videos about someone else using the Internet, cell phones, or other digital technologies.

-Learn what it means to be the Target, the Cyberbully, the Bystander, or the Upstander. 

-Once you receive your log-in card, click HERE and enter your username and password. Complete the cyberbullying mission and activities.

-If you complete the task with time remaining, complete the extra practice on the homepage.

Family Extension:
1) Cyberbullying Family Tip Sheet
2) Upstander Mission
3) Upstander Quiz

Tally Marks and Pattern Design

This week we will use some digital tools to practice learning about tally marks. We will also explore some online tools to learn about ocean life.

1) Click HERE to watch a video about surveys, tally marks, and bar graphs.

2) Click HERE to practice drawing tally marks.

3) Click HERE to practice counting tally marks.

4) With the remaining time, open KidPix and design a pattern using stamps. Choose two or three different types of stamps. When you're pattern is complete, count the total number for each stamp. Create your own tally marks to count the totals for each different stamp.

5) If there is any remaining time, click HERE to view some ocean habitats around the world.

Safe Searching-Bats

Last week we learned about all the great things we can do on the internet, and how we can stay safe while being online. This week we will learn about how to safely search for information using the internet:

Students will be able to ...

• understand the function of keywords and keyword searches.
• learn a step-by-step procedure for selecting suitable keywords.
• apply their chosen keywords to find the information they are looking for on the Internet.

There is a lot of information online but much of the information is not helpful. How can we be sure to find the information we need and avoid sites that we should not be visiting or using for information?

1. Create a question
2. Find the keyword(s) in your question
3. Use kid-friendly searching website (search engine) and search using your keyword(s)
4. Explore results looking for trustworthy sources that answer your question.

Today, you will research information about bats. You will use one of the following kid-safe search engines and answer some questions about the insect that you researched.

Kid Rex
Google Safe Search for Kids
GoGooligan
PlipIt
Kids.gov

Safe Searching-Insects

Last week we learned about all the great things we can do on the internet, and how we can stay safe while being online. This week we will learn about how to safely search for information using the internet:

Students will be able to ...

• understand the function of keywords and keyword searches.
• learn a step-by-step procedure for selecting suitable keywords.
• apply their chosen keywords to find the information they are looking for on the Internet.

There is a lot of information online but much of the information is not helpful. How can we be sure to find the information we need and avoid sites that we should not be visiting or using for information?

-Create a question
-Find the keyword(s) in your question
-Use kid-friendly searching sites and search using your keyword(s)
-Spot the Advertisements and Notice the different sources of information


Today, you will research information about a specific insect. You will use one of the following kid-safe search engines and answer some questions about the insect that you researched.

Kid Rex
Google Safe Search for Kids
GoGooligan
PlipIt
Kids.gov

Digital Citizenship-Cyberbullying II

This week we will review last week's assignment to create a slide about a character from the cyberbullying video. We will introduce some additional resources and students will spend time researching and sharing key findings with the class.

Click below to open your class Digizen cyberbullying presentation:

Black
Wade
Robbins

Spend some time researching one or two of the following website resources. Identify some key information that supports what you observed (or didn't observe) in the cyberbullying video we watched last week:

DoSomething.org info about Cyberbullying

StopBullying.gov be more than a ByStander

Stop Cyberbullying

Kids Against Bullying

Share your observations on a class wall:

Black
Wade
Robbins

If there's time, you can explore this Digizen Cyberbullying Game/Simulation:

Patterns

This week we will explore the world of patterns. We will learn about different types of patterns (colors, music, shapes, etc.). Then we will design and create our own patterns:

1) Click on these links to practice patterns.

Animal Sounds Patterns

Match the Goose Egg

Moon Patterns

Color the 0-100 Number Chart to Make Your Own Pattern with Numbers 

Math Patterns

Pattern Matcher

Musical Patterns

3) Discuss the different activities and pattern possibilities.

4) If there's time, open KidPix and design your own patterns.

Goal: To practice mouse and computer skills while learning more about identifying and creating patterns.

Cyberbullying

This week we will begin our Digital Citizenship unit by focusing on Cyberbullying. The purpose is to examine what makes this type of bullying unique, and particularly devastating, and to learn about different ways to stand-up for the victim.

1) We will begin by watching a short film made by Digizen. Focus on the main characters (their role, response, emotions, etc.).




2) Click HERE to view character interviews.

3) Click below to access a shared presentation (log-in required). Create a slide and choose a character you want to write about. Answer the questions included in the intro slide and refer to the question sheets for each main character (see below).

Black
Wade
Robbins

Character Questions:

Kim (Bully)
Joe (Target)
Rob (Joe's Friend)
Teacher
Joe's Mom

4) If there's time, complete the Digizen Cyberbullying Game/Simulation

Digital Citizenship Week 1

This graphic is provide by Christian Brink from the Family Online Safety Institute:


What kind of "power" does the internet give us? 

Remember, a digital citizen is more than an internet user! 

What are some powerful ways to use the internet?

Keefer
Gardner
Peck

Make a PLEDGE to do incredible things online!

*Read at least two of the examples providing about how people are using the internet for good.

If there is time, we will introduce Digital Footprint for the coming week's privacy, responsibility, and cyberbullying lessons.

Digital Citizenship-Privacy

This week we will begin our digital citizenship unit. Third graders will be using Common Sense Media's Digital Passport program.

This week we are focusing on Our Digital Lives (Privacy, Reputation, Responsibility).

Click HERE to watch Our Digital Lives.

-Why is privacy online important?
-What does reputation mean?
-Does stuff we erase online really go away?

Click HERE
**Your username and password is the same as the ones you use for IXL**

-What info is safe to put on the internet?

-What information should never be put on the internet?

-Why should you think before you post?

-What is a Digital Footprint?

If there is time, Click HERE to watch this video about YOU, online.