If you have a child who is going into 4th grade once the pandemic is over, please go ahead and print this page. This will be their class schedule for the first day back.

Warm Up:

• Coronavirus word search

  • Word bank: Coronavirus, Covid, quarantine, social distancing, wash hands, hand sanitizer, pandemic, mask, ventilator, rubber gloves, comprehensive testing, economic stimulus, National Defense Authorization Act

 

Morning Meeting: 

• Greeting: Wave at each other from across the circle

• Share: Each person say one word about their experience during the pandemic

• Play “Rock, Paper, Scissors” with your classmates, only now it’s “Can of Beans, Clorox Wipe, iPhone.”

  • Can of beans=fist

  • Clorox wipe=hand flat, thumb and fingers spread out

  • iPhone=hand flat, fingers together, thumb tucked in

    • Can of beans crushes iPhone

    • Clorox wipe covers can of beans

    • iPhone purchases Clorox wipe

 

Language Arts: 

• Write a personal essay: “What I did during the pandemic”

• Read aloud: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, about a boy who learns to survive on his own in the wilderness.

Physical Education:

• Coronavirus Dodgeball

  • The balls are “viruses.”

  • If you get hit, you sit on the bleachers for two weeks.

 

Math:

• Word problems about toilet paper. Example: Sam has a 16 pack of single roll toilet paper. Terrence has 5 double rolls, 2 quad rolls, and 5 single rolls. What can Terrence give to Sam to make an equal trade for his 16 pack of single rolls? 

  • Note: Even after the worldwide pandemic, math word problems will still involve situations that have no purpose and that would never happen in real life.

 

Science: 

• Use toothpicks and mini marshmallows to make a model of the Coronavirus.

• Make your own hand sanitizer

 

Recess:

• “Social Distance Tag”: You are tagged if the person who’s “it” gets within 6 feet of you.

 

History:

• Begin a research report on one of these topics:

  • The history of toilet paper

  • The Black Plague

  • A famous recluse (choose one): Emily Dickinson, J.D. Salinger, or Hildegard of Bingen

Art: 

• Tissue paper collage of an exponential curve

 

Music:

• Recorder practice: “In My Room” by the Beach Boys

• Interpretive dance: “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tommy James and the Shondells

Dismissal: The teacher waves goodbye to each student from 6 feet away.

Homework: Go play outside. Life’s too short to sit around doing homework all afternoon.