Third Grade Name Fifth or Sixth Grade Day 1-SS Focus Reading: Read the article in your Day 1 ilearn@home packet, highlight or underline the important points in each paragraph. Physical Education: Make sure that you complete 30 minutes of aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise gets your heartrate up. Examples might include: jogging, walking at a quick pace, sledding (as long as you are walking back up hill), riding your bicycle, playing tag in the yard, building a snowman, etc. Log your activity and time in your PE log that is stapled in the back of your agenda. Writing: Short Story- Pretend you are a bystander at the signing of the Constitution, create a short story describing this important event as if you lived during that time period. Write a minimum of 3 well developed paragraphs. Be sure you have a good beginning, middle and end. Social Studies: Use the information in the article to do the In Your Own Words activity in your packet Trivia Activity-optional Word Work Optional: Choose 1- a. Constitution Word Find b. Creating Words Activity Handwriting: Copy the preamble in your best cursive writing on the lined paper in your ilearn@home packet. *all students do the cursive activity unless I have starred your packet. English: Choose 1- a. 10 Mistakes Activity in packet b. For the paragraph in the article titled (What is the Preamble?), label the part of speech of each word in the sentences as follows: N=noun V=verb HV=helping verb Adj=adjective Adv=adverb I=interjection C=conjunction P=preposition (must be followed by an object of the preposition) Pro=Label for all of your pronouns You may label directly on the article. If you choose this activity you get 5 bonus points! Arts & Humanities: Create a collage using any materials that you can find in your home. Your collage needs to include one color group only (warm, cool, primary, secondary, or neutral), and one type of shapes (geometric or organic). Check Mrs. website to see examples. Math: Do the Math Activity using data associated with our Presidents.
Today, while you are on your first ilearn@home Day, we will be reviewing our Constitution and its preamble. This is a review of what you learned earlier in the fall in social studies. In 5 th grade you learned about the formation of our government and how the founding fathers framed the Constitution. In 6 th grade you review this important document as you learn about the Americas. The Constitution is our most important governing document for the citizens of the United States of America. The founding fathers wrote the preamble for a very important reason and today you will explore those. You will do a variety of activities centered on this topic. Follow the directions below and check off each box as you complete the activity. For some activities you have a choice, when you turn in your packet just put a star at the top of the page of the activities you selected:
Check as you complete Activity: If there are two choices, pick one and circle on this chart the number. 1. Read the article below, highlight or underline the important points in each paragraph. 2. Use the information in the article to do the In Your Own Words activity in your packet 3a. 10 mistakes Activity in packet 3b. For the paragraph in the article titled (What is the Preamble?), label the part of speech of each word in the sentences as follows: N=noun V=verb HV=helping verb Adj=adjective Adv=adverb I=interjection C=conjunction P=preposition (must be followed by an object of the preposition) Pro=Label for all of your pronouns You may label directly on the article. If you choose this activity you get 5 bonus points! 4a. Constitution Word Find Activity 4b. Creating Words Activity 5. Preamble Unscrambled Activity 6. Handwriting Activity- Do the guided practice sheet that I highlighted in your folder (6a-manuscript or 6b-cursive). 7. Recopy the preamble on the attached lined paper in your best cursive handwriting. 8. Short Story- minimum of 3 well developed paragraphs. Be sure you have a good beginning, middle and end. 9. Constitution Trivia- Just for fun, have a sibling, parent or friend ask you the trivia questions. Hint-Many of these answers can be found in the activity 3a article. See how many you can answer and write that number on this line. 10. Constitution Day Math Activity- Use the chart to answer questions about our Presidents.
Activity 1: Read the Article. Highlight or underline key points. What is the Preamble? The Preamble is the opening statement to the United States Constitution. The preamble explains the reasons why the Framers of the Constitution made our government a republic. By doing this, the founding fathers replaced the Articles of Confederation. The Preamble along with the rest of the Constitution was written over a period of about 6 weeks. The Preamble helped explain why the Constitution was written. However, it is not the law. Text of the Preamble The preamble of the United States Constitution is the following: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Understanding the Preamble The Preamble can be broken down into many important phrases. All of these phrases are very important for understanding the purpose of the United States Constitution.
We the people: This phrase means all the citizens of the United States of America. Even though the Constitution was written up by some of the most well-educated men of the new country, the rights given under the document were given to all American citizens. In order to form a more perfect union: The previous government was based on the Articles of Confederation, which were very limited. When the Framers wrote this, they felt that they were making new government that would be a better way to govern the country. Establish justice: The reasons why there was Revolution against England were still important to the American citizens, so they wanted to make sure that they would have justice under the Constitution. Insure domestic tranquility: One of the main reasons why the Constitutional Convention was held was because of Shays Rebellion. This was an uprising of farmers in Massachusetts against the state for having to repay war debts. Citizens were worried with the keeping peace within the country s borders. Provide for the common defense: There was still a change of being attacked by other countries. No individual state had the power to defend itself against attacks. Because of this, the Framers knew that it was important for the states to defend the nation together. Promote the general welfare: This phrase meant that the well-being of the citizens would be taken care of as well as possible by the Federal government. Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity: The point of this phrase in the Preamble, and the constitution as a whole was to help protect the country s hard-earned rights for liberty, unjust laws, and freedom from a tyrannical government. Ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America: This last phrase of the Preamble is a powerful statement saying that the people made this document, and the people give the country its power. Source copied directly from: http://kids.laws.com/preamble-of-the-constitution
Constitution Day On September 17, 1787, forty-two of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting. Only one item of business occupied the agenda that day, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America. Our nation has had 44 chief executives, or Presidents!! Wow! Below is a list of the ages the Presidents were when they were inaugurated (put into office). Obama 47 Calculate the mean of the Presidents inauguration age by adding all the ages of our Presidents together and dividing by the number of Presidents. The mean is. Created by Melissa Henderson for teacherspayteachers.com Thank you and enjoy! 2012
Directions: Answer the following questions based upon the data of presidential ages. 1) Who was the oldest President? 2) Who was the youngest President? 3) What is the range of inauguration ages? 4) What is the median inauguration age (the median is the middle of a group of sorted numbers when ranked in order from smallest to largest)? 5) Were most Presidents over 50 or under 50 when they were inaugurated? How do you know? Why do you think that is the case? Write a short well-developed paragraph to answer these questions. Created by Melissa Henderson for teacherspayteachers.com Thank you and enjoy! 2012