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It’s that time stewart elementary P.E. students.

Yes it’s time to take our end of the year fitness test. The test will consist of sit-ups,

push-ups, running in place, and plank exercise. You will need a partner (mom,dad,

brother, sister, etc) to keep up with time on a watch or

cellphone.

TEST #1 Situps for one minute

See how many sit-ups you can do in one minute. Make sure you do them correctly

hands stay behind head and make sure elbows touch

your knees on the way up.

Score ____________

TEST #2 Push-ups for one

minute

See how many push-ups you can do in one minute. Make sure your back stays straight and you go down far enough for it to count. You can take

a break but the clock doesn’t stop. You only get one

minute

Score ____________

TEST #3 Run in place for three minutes

See if you can run in place

for three minutes. If you stop before two minutes is up that will be your score. So if you

stop after 1minute 15seconds that would be

your score. Make sure to set a pace thats not too slow or too fast. About half speed is

good.

Score ___________

TEST #4 Plank for three

minutes

See if you can stay in plank position for three minutes. Remember the plank has only forearms and toes on the floor and back straight.

Your score will be when you can’t hold yourself up

anymore. So if you fall down at 1minute 45seconds that

would be your score.

Score ____________

Bonus Challenge

Start by laying flat on your back. Roll over to your right and do two pushups. Then roll over to your left and do two pushups. Keep rolling over to your left and right then do two pushups. See

how many you can do.

Stewart Art Week of May 4-8

Art Content Standard: Creating 1. Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 2. Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 3. Students will refine and complete artistic work

Color Mixing on Coffee Filters

MATERIALS:

All you need are white coffee filters, watercolor markers,

and a spray bottle of water.

DIRECTIONS:

Fold a plain white coffee filter into fourths. Fill the coffee

filters with dots, dashes, any kinds of marks

using markers. Make marks slowly, so the ink really had

time to sink into the four layers of the filter. It is totally

acceptable to leave plenty of white space between

marks. The next step will fill it all in! Encourage your kids

to experiment with the primary colors but did not restrict

them to only using those.

THE MAGIC

Lay colored and folded coffee filters on scrap paper or paper

towels. Allow kids to spray their coffee filters with water. Really spray

them as the water needs to soak through all the layers so the color soaks

through all the layers.

White space is quickly filled in, colors swim together and new colors and

shapes are made! This part was FUN for the kids to witness!

PATIENCE….

You have these wet little wads of awesome color. Now what? Let them

dry, at least for a little bit. It is so tempting to unfold them right

away. But when they are wet the coffee filters are super fragile and all that color that’s swimming

around needs to settle down before you unfold them.

It takes a couple hours for them to dry, OVERNIGHT IS EVEN BETTER!

Stewart Art Week of May 4-8

Art Content Standard: Creating 1. Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 2. Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 3. Students will refine and complete artistic work

WHAT NEXT…

These radial designs coffee filters are an exercise in color

mixing, but they are also an easy cheat to a tie-dyed

look. Display them as is or go another step and incorporate

them into a collage, a weaving, or make a colorful snowflake!

Stewart Art Week of May 4-8

Art Content Standard: Creating 1. Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 2. Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 3. Students will refine and complete artistic work

Stewart Art Week of May 4-8

Art Content Standard: Creating 1. Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 2. Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work. 3. Students will refine and complete artistic work

Library Assignment for the Week of May 4, 2020

Biographies & Autobiographies

Books that are written about people’s lives are called either biographies or autobiographies. A book is a biography if it is written by someone other than whom the book is about. If it is an autobiography, then the author wrote about his or her life.

Read each book title below. Is it a biography or an autobiography? Write your answer on the line.

“My Life as a Carpenter” by I.M. Handy This book is a(n)_____________

“The 36th President of the United States

By Jack Star _____________

“I Won One Million Dollars” by Luck E. Man _____________

“Bill Lawson—A Life in Exile by Zoe Tucker _____________

“Everyone Wants My Job” by Julie Stevens _____________

“Katy Life” by Margaret Melody _____________

“Cynthia Chandelier—Exposed” by Doug Deeper _____________

“Searching For My Mother” by Carolyn Bridges _____________

Instrument Families

The Instrument Families #3

The following passage consist of excerpts from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra website (https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments). Read over it andanswer the questions at the bottom in complete sentences. You can find more information, including how each instrument sounds, on the website.

FAMILYPercussion

DESCRIPTION

With a name that means, "the hitting of one bodyagainst another," instruments in the percussion familyare played by being struck, shaken, or scraped. In theorchestra, the percussion section provides a variety ofrhythms, textures and tone colors. Percussioninstruments are classified as tuned or untuned. Tuned instruments play specific pitches or notes, just like the woodwind, brass and string instruments. Untuned instruments produce a sound with an indefinite pitch, like the sound of a hand knocking on a door. The percussion instruments are an international family, with ancestors from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe representing musical styles from many different cultures. Instruments inthe percussion family include Drum s , Chimes, Cymbals, Tambourine, Timpani, and Xylophone.

FAMILYStringsDESCRIPTION

The four major instruments in the string family, the

violin, the viola, the cello and the double bass, arebuilt the same way. The instruments are made of manypieces of wood which are glued - never nailed -together. The body of the instrument is hollow, thusbecoming a resonating box for the sound. Four strings (sometimes five on the double bass) made of animal gut, nylon, or steel are wrapped around pegs at one end of the instrument and attached to a tailpiece at the other. They are stretched tightly across a bridge to produce their assigned pitches.

Instrument Families

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. How many strings do the major instruments in the string family have?

2. What are those strings made of?

3. What are the strings stretched across to produce their assigned pitches?

4. What does the name percussion mean?

5. What does the percussion section provide in an orchestra?

6. Where does the percussion family’s ancestors come from?

*Bonus*

*Can you think of any other string or percussion instruments that WERE NOT listed on the Instrument Families document?

*What is the biggest string instrument?

*Give an example of a PITCHED percussion instrument.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Instruments, https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments Accessed April 2020