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.

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