Distance Learning

Time

Activity

8am - 9am

Wake up, make your bed, eat breakfast and get ready for an awesome day! And yes, change out of PJs :)

9am - 9:40am

Let’s start strong with some serious math brain training. Remember your brain is like a muscle, the more you use it the stronger it gets!

SBMS Math Digital Learning Assignments on Google Classroom

Khan Academy math practice. Depending on level, one of the following courses are likely appropriate:

• 6th grade math
• 7th grade math
• 8th grade math
• Algebra I
• Geometry

One practice that we’ve seen teachers and students use to great effect is to start, regardless of age, on Kindergarten and then move to 1st grade, 2nd grade, etc.

Course challenges and unit tests can be used to accelerate through material. If you don’t have too many gaps, you should be able to get through a previous year’s content in 1-3 hours. If you do have gaps, it may take a bit longer, but that is good!  This is your chance to fill in those gaps that might otherwise hold you back in the future.

9:40am - 10am

Go for walk/run. Youtube JustDance/workouts if weather is bad. Maybe 15 minutes of Yoga with Adrien?

10am - 11am

Reading time. Here is a list of good books for grades 6-8:http://www.ala.org/alsc/sites/ala.org.alsc/files/content/compubs/booklists/summer/alsc-2019-summer-reading-list-grades6-8cor.pdf

Here is another list.

Sal Khan’s favorite science fiction books that he read around your age include:

• Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
• Ender’s Game,by Orson Scott Card
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
• Free Book Sights found so far
• https://www.tumblebookcloud.com/Home.aspx
• https://www.nypl.org/about/remote-resources/kids-and-teens/middle-school

11am - 11:20am

Break. Walk/run outside if possible.

11:20am - 12pm

SBMS English Language Arts  Digital Learning Assignments on Google Classroom

Khan Academy Grammar: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar

Recommend starting by taking the course challenge a few times to figure out what you know and don’t know.

Journaling/Writing

• Things to write about/prompts:

• What would you do? Research how the virus spreads and different plans that leaders have made to slow it or stop it. Then imagine you are an elected official. Write a plan of your own to slow or stop the virus in your own town.
• What are you excited or worried about?
• Write a letter to yourself 10 years in the future. What do you want to tell your future self?
• How do you think the world will be different after the novel coronavirus?
• What part would you play? People in many, many different jobs play a role in managing this outbreak. Make a list of jobs that can contribute to a solution, and write about which job you’d want and why.

12pm - 1pm

Lunch - Listen to an educational podcast! Try RadioLab If you like science, Forever Ago if you like history, or Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls if you like biographies, etc...

1pm - 2pm

SBMS Science and Social Studies Digital Learning Assignments on Google Classroom

2pm-2:30pm

Walk/break

2:30pm-3:30pm

Enrichment:

• Code.org Express course (block based for beginners).
• Khan Academy computer programming, (text based for beginners to intermediate)

Programming computers is far more fun and creative than you probably ever imagined. Both these resources start by creating fun cartoons and animations and work your way up to creating fun games that your friends can play.

Art: https://www.skillshare.com/browse/art

3:30pm-9pm

relax, go outside, work on passions, time with family.

9-10pm

Lights out, time to sleep!