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LEARNING CONNECTIONS
July 22, 2019 Summer Newsletter
T a h o m a S c h o o l D i s t r i c t N o . 4 0 9
Space Station Recreation Science Workshop
Registration begins July 30, 10am. Tuesday, August 13, 2019 (10:30AM – 11:30AM). Maple Valley Library.
Ages 7 to 12, ages 4 to 6 with adult. Construction in space is no easy task and it takes lots of planning. Discover
how to design and build several scale models of space stations.
The Story of the Stars Puppet Show
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 (2:30PM – 3:15PM). Covington Library. Family program, all ages welcome. Presented by
Tears of Joy Theatre. Do you know how the night stars got their names? Learn about Roman and Greek myths
and the stories about constellations like Hydra, Leo, Perseus and Andromeda.
The Blast-Off Show
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 (3:00PM – 4:00PM). Enumclaw Library. All ages welcome. Presented by Mikey Mike the
Rad Scientist. Travel to the edge of the universe to discover a special element with the power to bend space and
time and possibly cause trouble on Earth!
Targeting Summer Learning Loss
Keep skills sharp over the summer!
IN THE COMMUNITY
Clip, paste and write about your family adventures A family vacation is a perfect opportunity to create a trip scrapbook
that will be a lasting souvenir of family adventures. Collect postcards,
brochures and menus from restaurants. Encourage your child to write
descriptions of the places you visited and tell stories of your families
escapades, or suggest a scrapbook on your child’s favorite sports
team, or a chronicle of the year in school. The scrapbook might
contain photos with captions, newspaper clippings or school
mementos.
If there are objects that won’t tuck into a book, consider
alternative ways to preserve the collection, such as a
shadow box that can hang on the wall. Here are some
theme ideas:
Exploring the Great Outdoors
A Visit to …
My World Travels (real or imaginary!)
What I learned this summer
Backseat Adventures
Camp Life
My Family, Friends, and/or Pet
My Team’s Spectacular Summer
Summer Is ...
Summer Science Fun!
Have some fun in the sun with the
physics of shadows. Ask your child to
look at his/her shadow at different times
of day to show the connection between
the sun's position in the sky and the
length of the shadow. Use chalk on a
sidewalk or a stick in the sand to trace
the shadow to see how it shrinks and
grows with time. Have your child
measure and chart shadow length and
explain when it is shortest and why.
Great Resources!
Shadow Puppet Space Race Craft Workshop
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 (6:00PM – 7:00PM). Kent
Library. Ages 8 and older. Design and make your own
shadow puppet spacecraft using a variety of
materials, then race your vehicle through a galactic
obstacle course!
Summer Sounds & Cinema
Friday, August 2, 2019. (7:00PM -
11:00PM). Sunset Park, in
Auburn. 7:00 PM - The Marlin
James Band (wide variety country
favs). Dusk - Ralph Breaks the
Internet (PG)
Space Odyssey Exhibit
Saturday, August 3, 2019
(11:00AM – 2:00PM). Auburn Library. Presented by
Pacific Science Center Science on Wheels. Ages 5
and older. It’s not magic, it is physics! Learn how
sound waves travel, ways to use filters and lenses to
change images and about amazing phenomena from
magnetism to magnification.
Mary Olson Farm Open Hours
Saturday and Sunday, August 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 24, 25,
2019 (12:00p.m.–5:00p.m.) Mary Olson Farm, 28728
Green River Road SE in Auburn. The Farmhouse is
open to tour each day from 1 - 4pm. Take your family
on a trip back in time to the Mary Olson Farm. Kids
will love meeting our cow, chickens, and mini donkeys
and going on a tour of the Olson’s farmhouse. Pack a
picnic and spend the day enjoying one of the best-
preserved farms in King County! Free admission
during regular open hours. To help us maintain this
wonderful property, a suggested donation of $5 per
adult and $2 per child is greatly appreciated.
Ukulele Jam
Saturday, August 3, 2019 (3:00PM – 4:00PM).
Sammamish Library. Ages 8 to 108. Ages 8 to 12 with
adult. No younger siblings please. Learn and play
songs together on the ukulele! BYOU, bring your own
ukulele, and just show up. The first 15 minutes will be
basics for people new to the instrument, then we'll
begin playing songs the remainder of the time. Sheet
music will be provided. If you need a loaner
instrument, register online one month in advance. If
registration is "full" there are no more loaners
available that month.
Taming of the Shrew
Sunday, August 4 (5:00 pm). Lake Wilderness Park in
the Natural Amphitheatre. Written by William
Shakespeare between 1590 and 1592, William tells a
story of the headstrong, Katherina, who becomes the
unwilling participant in a relationship with Petruchio,
who is determined to "tame" Katherina with his
various psychological torments. The antics ensue
with the battle of wits and obstinance that will have
you laughing and waiting to see who will be most
persistent.
Sun S'mores
Monday, August 5, 2019 (12:00PM – 1:30PM). Fall
City Library. Entering grades 5-8. Harness the power
of the sun to cook your favorite camping snack!
Construct a solar oven and learn how solar ovens are
used to humanity’s benefit around the globe.
DIY 3D Rockets
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 (1:00PM – 2:00PM). Renton
Library. Make your very own 3D rocket using our
3Doodler pens. Grades 3-12. Space is limited, first
come first served.
Space Rocks Painting Workshop
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 (3:00PM – 4:00PM). Kent
Library. Age 8 to adult. Design your own
interplanetary rock or rock shaped alien! Inspiration,
painting supplies, how-to's and engineering are
provided. Rocks for painting will be available, but
limited – feel free to bring your own rock.
Bubble Powered Rockets
Registration begins August 6, 10am. Monday,
August 19, 2019 (2:30PM – 3:30PM). Maple Valley
Library. Ages 8 to 12. Your challenge, should you
choose to accept it, is to build your own rocket using
paper and fizzing tablets. Once we all have our
rockets ready to fly we'll see whose goes the highest!
Low Sensory Evenings
Aug 7, 2019 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm) KidsQuest
Children's Museum, Bellevue. Low Sensory Evenings
are a special time just for kids with sensory
sensitivities to visit the museum. We’re limiting
attendance and turning down the ambient noise and
light to provide an even more inviting place to explore,
play, and learn. These evenings are especially
appropriate for children with autism and/or Sensory
Processing Disorder, but Low Sensory Evenings are
open to children with any type of special need and
their families. Free. Pre-registration required.
Tickets are limited to keep noise levels low.
Space-A-Cade
Thursday, August 8, 2019 (7:00PM – 8:00PM).
Issaquah Library. Family program, all ages welcome.
Presented by Rocky Mountain Puppets. Lenny’s
spaceship has crashed on Earth and he needs help to
get home. His ship is powered by knowledge. Can
you learn and read enough to help Lenny return to his
planet?
Here’s a family friendly way to encourage your child’s interest in math and explore math as a family. Math challenge activities provide stimulating problems that are fun to do together and help children appreciate math. There are 80 challenges available to select from, and the website provides everything you will need to support success, including hints and strategies to get started. No matter what your own experiences are with math, you can be a positive influence on your child.
Here’s a hint for getting started
Here’s two different sample solutions
Extending Your Thinking
This week our focus is:
• Increase overall vocabulary• Use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words
The more vocabulary words children know, the better they are able to understand what they’re reading. To help your child develop a strong vocabulary: 1. Play with new rich words in daily
conversations. Don’t just ask “what made you so sad?” Ask: “What made you so blue, depressed, dejected, unhappy, sorrowful, mournful, gloomy.
2. Encourage your child to read on his own –he’ll encounter and learn more words
3. Read with your child – talk about new words and practice using context clues to figure out the meaning of difficult vocabulary.
Word Mapping – have your child choose 2‐4 words from a current book they are reading and map the words
Dictionary.com is a useful site
Context Clues Activities Don’t Touch That Dictionary! Think and Guess Exercises
Amazing Anagrams –make your own puzzles to solve
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
http://www.playkidsgames.com/vocabularyGames.htm
http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle/wordjungle.html
Don’t
Touch That Dictionary!
Choose 2-4 difficult vocabulary words
from your child’s independent reading
book. Ask your child to guess the meaning
of the unknown word using the words
and sentences surrounding it.
Example: The river was full of noxious
materials such as cleaning agents from
factories and pesticides from the nearby
farms. Ask, “What do you think noxious
means?” “ What clues did you use?”
Think and Guess - Vocabulary Exercises
1. Many birds fly south for the winter, looking
for balmier weather. Balmy weather is
_____________ and pleasant.
high
warm
cold
stormy
2. New York is the most populous city in the
United States, with about seven million people in
it. The more ________________ a place has, the
more populous it is.
time
money
people
weather
3. The stories told about sea monsters were
fictitious, not true. Fictitious stories are
__________________.
facts
untrue
boring
long
4. Snakes have no arms or legs, but they get
along very well without limbs. Limbs are used for
moving or for ___________ things.
holding
seeing
chewing
buying
5. The beaver seals the cracks in the dam so that
the water cannot leak out. To seal a crack is to
______________ it tightly.
close
crack
wet
squeeze
6. Raccoons are nocturnal animals, active at
night. Nocturnal creatures are not active during
the ____________________.
7. The bald eagle is a symbol of our country. It
was chosen because it is bold, strong, and free,
like the United States. Because it is a symbol, it
stands _______________ the United States.
night
day
turn
rain
8. The archer fish shoots a drop of water that
strikes an insect. To strike something is to
___________________ it.
eat
see
drop
hit
9. In the Arctic, it gets colder as you go north. It
is the reverse in the Antarctic. There, it gets
colder as you go south. The reverse is the
_________________________.
cold
same
opposite
truth
10. A bull elephant may weigh six tons. A ton is
2,000 ______________.
feet
miles
pounds
dollars
on for in
behind
Amazing Anagrams for Sentences
What is a sentence anagram? It is a puzzle to solve by making a sentence out of
mixed up words using context clues.
Directions for sentence anagrams:
1. Select a sentence from a book the child is reading. For vocabulary work, be sure
to choose a sentence that has a harder word and some context clues to the meaning
of the word. Start with shorter, simpler sentences and increase the length and
complexity as ability progresses.
2. Write the sentences on long strips of paper or type them on your computer and
cut out the sentence. Use all lower case letters and no punctuation. Cut between
each word, so every word is on its own card. Mix up the cards.
3. Teach your child these strategies while you solve the first anagram:
Find one or more verbs or “doing words” and put them in the center of your
work area. (Is, am, are should be included in this group)
Ask yourself “W” questions, starting with “Who” or “What” is doing that?
Try some word combinations that might work with the verbs.
Ask yourself “Where” or “When” it is happening. This may help you form
some prepositional phrases or short clauses such as “to the store” or “when it
got dark”. Arrange them with the other words in an order that makes sense
and sounds right.
Ask “How” and “Why” it is happening. This will help insert some adverbs
such as “quickly” or some connector words like “because”.
Continue asking “W” questions, think aloud about the book context, and
keep rearranging the words until the sentence is complete.
4. Remix the word cards and ask the child to use the strategies to reassemble the
sentence. Then provide new ones and work on them together. Gradually shift the
responsibility to the child for use of the strategies and completion.
5. Increase the challenge with longer sentences. Time and record how long each
sentence takes to solve. Talk about context clues used. Add capitals and
punctuation. Keep each sentence in an envelope for future use.
This week our focus is:
Fly a Kite: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/fly_a_kite/
o Represent multiplication as repeated addition, arrays and counting by multiples o Determine products, quotients and missing factors
The multiplication sign (“x” or “*”) can be read as “groups of”. “5 x 4”
can be read as “5 groups of 4”. Give your
child a few multiplication problems and ask them to draw a
picture showing the correct “groups of”.
Draw a picture that shows 7 x 3
Draw a picture that shows 3 x 7
Name _________________________________________________
Sneaking M & Ms
Trent set a bowl of M & Ms on the counter. His brother walked by and took ½ of them! Then his dad ate 17 of them. When Trent came back, there were only 6 M & Ms left. How many M & Ms were in the bowl to start with?
Show your work using words, numbers and/or pictures.
There were ________ M & Ms to start with.
Name _____________________________________________
The multiplication sign can be replaced with the words “groups of”.
“5 x 3” can be read as “5 groups of 3” and a picture might look like this:
Draw a picture to show the following expressions.
3 x 7
2 x 9
9 x 2
6 x 4
4 x 7
5 x 8
Name_________________________________________________ Fill in the blank to make each number sentence true. 1. 5 * 9 = _____ 2. 4 * 6 = _____
3. 6 *_____ = 18 4. _____ * 1 = 7
5. 4 * 8 = _____ 6. _____ * 5 = 15
7. 7 * 3 = _____ 8. 2 * _____ = 18
9. _____ * 7 = 35 10. 9 * _____ = 27
11. 5 * _____ = 40 12. 4 * 4 = _____
13. Write two different fact families below.
_____ * _____ = _____ _____ * _____ = _____
_____ * _____ = _____ _____ * _____ = _____
_____ / _____ = _____ _____ / _____ = _____
_____ / _____ = _____ _____ / _____ = _____
Name ________________________________________________ Write the fact family. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ Fill in the empty frames. Find the rule and complete the tables.
8
72 9
X, ÷
Rule - 8 40
Rule
IN OUT
8 24
5
4
2 6
27
Rule
IN OUT
6 30
8
9
7 35
25
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