Health Project 9/26 - IN CLASS

September 20, 2013

Dear Student:

Next Thursday, September 26, you will be given approximately one hour of class time to complete a health activity of your choice.  These activities will be considered in determining your final grade for chapter 1 of our Health content.  Please choose one of the projects below and begin preparing/planning for this activity today.  I will provide a box of scraps, glue, some materials and some art crafts such as pipe cleaners and buttons.  If you need something more to complete your project, please bring it from home on Tuesday or Wednesday so that you will have it during our class time that afternoon.  Your options are:

1.     Friendship Card

Choose a family member or other individual in your close circle of friends who you would like to make a special friendship card for.  Feel free to use pictures, sentences, short poems or more to express your feelings for this person.  The card should be at least 5” x 7” and it should include both opening and closing greetings as well as a full paragraph or two expressing your feelings.  If you want, you can even prepare your card for mailing – bring a stamp, envelope and your person’s address.  I will help you prepare the mailing and we can even mail it from Tuckahoe!

2.     Responsibility List

Make a list or graph of your daily responsibilities or chores.  This includes responsibilities at school, at home and in your community.  Put a check mark next to the ones that you do all by yourself.  Write a minimum 10 sentence paragraph, with descriptive sentences, telling why these are important responsibilities or chores for you to do.  Give specific examples of how you do this chore each day and why it is a good responsibility or chore for you to have. 

3.     Totem Pole

Make a totem pole that represents members of your family.  The pole should have a piece representing each member of the family and each piece should display some special quality or trait about that person.  You may include aunts, uncles, grandparents, pets and more.   You will also prepare a one page summary sheet that tells who each piece represents and what quality or trait you believe best describes that person.  For example:  “The blue piece represents my mom.  She is kind and caring which reminds me of the color blue.  She is also located at the top of the pole because she takes care of all of us below”.  

4.     Personalized Math Mobile

Using paper scraps in the classroom, cut out geometrical shapes – such as triangles, rectangles, and circles – to create a numerical mobile.  Each shape should have one number that tells us something unique or special about you.  Each shape should have a different number and a sketch representing that number.  You will then glue your shapes onto a piece of string or yarn to hang from a ceiling.  On a separate piece of paper you will write one sentence (or more) explaining why each number is important to you.  For example:  “The number seven represents the number of people in my family including my siblings and my parents”.  

In addition to getting credit for the actual content of your project, you will also be graded on creativity and neatness.  Just “do your best” and you will do fine on this evaluation.

Ms. Coffman