Assignments for week of 4.13

1st grade:

If your Genius Hour is due this week, post it to flip grid! Check back for feedback from your teacher and friends!

If your Genius Hour is NOT due this week – check out your friend’s videos on flip grid. Leave a video reply telling them what you liked about their presentation!

Brainteaser: Try these visual thinking brainteasers! (hint from the webpage - use uncooked spaghetti noodles to figure it out before drawing the lines)

Farmer Brown 1

Farmer Brown 7

da Vinci: The Ultimate Renaissance Man

Watch  Madi and Dada da Vinci

da Vinci wrote in his journal backwards! See if you can write a sentence forwards AND backwards.  Check your backwards writing in a mirror to see if you succeeded!

2^nd grade:

If your Genius Hour is due this week, post it to flip grid! Check back for feedback from your teacher and friends!

 If your Genius Hour is NOT due this week – check out your friend’s videos on flip grid. Leave a video reply telling them what you liked about their presentation!

Brainteaser: Complete the beginner Picross brainteasers: Beginner PICROSS
Answers here: PICROSS answer key
Directions here: How to solve a PICROSS


Critical Thinking Activity: I know you have watched the roving reporter on TMW- Tiger Morning Wakeup at Davis. What if you were the roving reporter and you had to interview Pablo Picasso? Write an interview that you would use to tell Davis Elementary more about this famous artist. You would be the roving reporter asking the questions and you would write down Pablo Picasso’s answers to your questions. Write down ten questions (no less and no more than ten) that you would like to ask him and what Pablo’s answers would be. 

3^rd Grade:

If your Genius Hour is due this week, post it to flip grid! Check back for feedback from your teacher and friends!

 If your Genius Hour is NOT due this week – check out your friend’s videos on flip grid. Leave a video reply telling them what you liked about their presentation!

Brainteaser: Complete the beginner Picross brainteasers: Beginner PICROSS

Answers here: PICROSS answer key

Directions here: How to solve a PICROSS

RQ: Which type of brainteaser is your favorite? Tell Mrs. Sanders (through e-mail or dojo) and she will assign more of our favs!

Coding on NearPod: We don’t have our rovers, so we can’t continue with their programming. This is the next best thing!

Go to: join.nearpod.com
Code to join: TPXZC

Complete the second lesson this week. 



4^th grade:

If your Genius Hour is due this week, post it to flip grid! Check back for feedback from your teacher and friends!

If your Genius Hour is NOT due this week – check out your friend’s videos on flip grid. Leave a video reply telling them what you liked about their presentation!

Brainteaser:  Puzzle Baron DropQuote
Dropquote HINTS
Dropquote ANSWER

Research Question: Using a device or laptop, research why a rainbow happens. Write a detailed answer.  Don’t forget to cite where you found your research.

Divergent and Communication Activity:  Explain to a family member what a tableux is (a short five second dramatization of a scene without voices or props). If possible, enlist a few family members to create a tableux. You will have to explain to them how there is a five second count down and a freeze in place that actors do to show a scene set in place. You can tell me about it when we return!

Divergent Thinking and Communication Activity; Family Variety Show: Do you enjoy the Davis Variety Show?  Do and your family members have talent?  Create your own Family Variety Show night!  Create an invitation which tells the day, time, and place for the event.  Tell them any details needed. Will you provide snacks or should they bring their own? Should they bring anything to sit on or is seating provided? Then recruit your family to be the talent!  Each person will do something whether it’s read a story, sing a song, tell a joke, play an instrument, say a poem, dance, juggle, etc.  Some family members may have to be encouraged to do this but tell them it will be fun!  (And that it’s part of your home studies for Target this week!) Ask your family to be ready for when you have planned your show.  And don’t forget you!  What will you do for the show besides organize it and host it?  Don’t forget to include your talent in it as well. Create a program of the events in your show with the person’s name included of who will be performing. Include an intermission if you wish. Should you decorate for the show?  What can you use for a pretend microphone?  Use your divergent thinking skills to make this a fun and creative activity for your family to do while at home.  What if you have a small family?  People can do more than one act! Or at least you can! Maybe your dog or cat would like to do an act? Keep your invitation, program of events, and take a picture to share if possible!

5^th Grade:
Brainteaser:  Puzzle Baron DropQuote

Dropquote HINTS

Dropquote ANSWER

Research Question: Using a device or laptop, write an answer to the following question: What is in hand sanitizer that helps kill germs? How does it work most effectively? How could you make your own?

Target Talk: Practice your Target Talk in front of family members. Ask if they have any questions at the end. Ask for glows and grows to reflect on.

STEM: Finish your STEM Challenge. Give it a catchy name! Make improvements if necessary.

Divergent Thinking and Communication Activity: Family Variety Show: Do you enjoy the Davis Variety Show? Do and your family members have talent? Create your own Family Variety Show night! Create an invitation which tells the day, time, and place for the event. Tell them any details needed. Will you provide snacks or should they bring their own? Should they bring anything to sit on or is seating provided? Then recruit your family to be the talent! Each person will do something whether it’s read a story, sing a song, tell a joke, play an instrument, say a poem, dance, juggle, etc. Some family members may have to be encouraged to do this but tell them it will be fun! (And that it’s part of your home studies for Target this week!) Ask your family to be ready for when you have planned your show. And don’t forget you! What will you do for the show besides organize it and host it? Don’t forget to include your talent in it as well. Create a program of the events in your show with the person’s name included of who will be performing. Include an intermission if you wish. Should you decorate for the show? What can you use for a pretend microphone? Use your divergent thinking skills to make this a fun and creative activity for your family to do while at home. What if you have a small family? People can do more than one act! Or at least you can! Keep your invitation, program of events, and take a picture to share if possible!