We are inspired by our Mount Vernon Community of students, families, and staff who are showing great resilience, determination, and creativity to stay connected with one another and to support student learning. Their efforts to continue to make Every Day Count during this unprecedented time are amazing! Teaching & Learning staff are excited to share resources and ideas for staying connected and supporting student learning. Students are likely to hear from their classmates, teachers, and school sites with ways to stay engaged. Maintaining our sense of community supports our social-emotional health and will help each of us to remain engaged in learning. We hope you engage with and enjoy the ideas we post on our Every Day Counts! student learning blog. Stay tuned--we plan to begin posting on Monday, March 23rd! Many of the resources we will be sharing are available to all students via the MV TECHSMART K-12 DIGITAL LITERACY site.


Friday, June 5, 2020

6-5-2020 Access Resources Online with a Mount Vernon Library Card

Right now, our Mount Vernon Library is closed due to COVID19, but did you know that there are many great resources available to you online using your library card? 



Here are a few ideas.   

  • You can check out audio books, music, ebooks. (Many Spanish titles) 
  • You can access Tumble Books which is a great resource for children's books. (Many Spanish titles)
  • You can learn a new language with Rosetta Stone.
  • You can research a product with Consumer Reports
  • You can learn about other countries with Culture Grams.  
  • You can read the Skagit Valley Herald or find archived articles. 
  • You can take online classes with Lynda.com
If you are a Mount Vernon resident, you can go online and apply for a Library Card to begin using our great library even before the doors are back open. Click here to learn more about getting a Library Card. 

Martha Thornburgh: Mount Vernon Schools Teaching and Learning

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Thursday, June 4, 2020

6-4-2020 Learn a Card Trick

Anyone for a card trick?

 

This is a game where you tell a friend you will be able to determine the exact card they select from a deck of cards.

Each card has a number value.* 

 

Suppose your friend selects a 4 of Hearts!

Ask your friend to:

 

  1. Double the card number         4 x 2 = 8

  2. Add 3                                           8 + 3 = 11

  3. Multiply by 5                              11 x 5 = 55

  4. Add 1 if the card is a Club

Add 2 if the card is a Heart      55 + 2 = 57

Add 3 if the card is a Spade

Add 4 if the card is a Diamond

  1. Ask your friend for the number

 

Then you take the number and secretly subtract 15 from the total they give you.  57-15 = 42

Now you tell your friend that you know exactly what card they are holding.  

 

The first digit is a 4 so the number on their card is a 4.  Use the key above to see if the second digit tells whether the card is a Club, Heart, Spade or Diamond.  Since it is a 2, the card is a heart.  Your friend has the 4 of Hearts.

*Aces are 1, Jacks are 11, Queens are 12 and Kings are 13


Mary Ellen Huggins: Mount Vernon Schools Teaching and Learning
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

6-3-2020 Make a Sundial

You can create an accurate way to tell time using just rocks, sticks and the sun!  

Check out this article from ScienceKidsatHome.com



Sundial


Materials

  • stick
  • rocks or chalk
  • 1 cup of playdough (optional)
  • watch or clock

1.Find a sunny spot in a lawn or even on a sidewalk.
2.Put the stick in the ground. If it is a sidewalk, put the stick in the playdough
and use that to hold the stick upright on cement.
3. Throughout the day, place a rock, or mark with chalk for each hour indicating
where the shadow falls at that time. Depending on your time, you may have
to place rocks over a couple of days before your sundial is complete.
4. Now your sundial is ready to use. When you want to tell the time, just look
for the shadow. In the picture above, the stones are used to mark each hour
from 7am to 7pm. The picture was taken at 9:15 in the morning.

In the beginning, you may find it hard to be very precise. With a bit of practice,
you should be able to tell time to the nearest 15 minutes, and maybe even more
closely.
 It's about 12:30 in this picture.


Alternative
Use chalk and a ruler to draw in the shadow lines, instead of placing rocks on
the hour.

You can print out a sundial.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

6-2-2020 More Toothpicks

More Toothpicks and Squares

 

 

 

How many toothpicks do you need to make one square?

4

How many toothpicks do you need to make two squares?


Three squares?



 

What pattern do you notice?

 

Can you predict how many toothpicks you will need to make nine squares? 

 

Extension:

 

Given three squares:

 

Below are four squares. Can you move two of the toothpicks so that you can have seven squares?

 

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Monday, June 1, 2020

6-1-2020 Draw a Self Portrait

Learn how to draw a portrait of a very important person.  YOU!  Follow along with this video and get tips on how to draw a self portrait.  What makes you unique?  



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