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August 8, 2023
Summer Issue #7
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Weekly activities and lessons to keep your child thinking and progressing all year long. |
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"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
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Hello Flyer Followers,
Is it almost over? The light at the end of the tunnel is out there and approaching quickly. Sadly, I can see the end of summer approaching. It has been a nice break from the rigors of the school year. I hope yours has been as enjoyable and restful.
I'm off to Yosemite and a stroll up Half Dome to celebrate my daughter's graduation from the University of Oregon with a BArch in Architecture. I'm so proud of her and her accomplishments. Her journey is so motivating... She never lost hope, she always believed in herself, and she always kept an open mind to new ideas. With that mind-set, you can accomplish anything.
I hope you enjoy this week's learning activities. This week's book is life changing and a real eye opener about the immigrant crisis affecting our boarders. This book will be an excellent bridge to discuss the issues of immigration. The video in the Inquiry Quest is amazing. If you make a project or not at least sit down as a family and watch the "Caine's Arcade" movie. It is very moving and inspirational. You might even want to make an arcade game after watching it.
If you know anybody who you think would benefit from the weekly learning activities in this flyer, please share it with them and encourage all your friends to join The McManus Files mailing list by following the links on this page.
Peace,
Mr. McManus
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If you feel your child might benefit from an individual or group tutoring program to prepare them for the next phase of their education, please contact McManus Tutoring.
Programs are structured so that students learn independence, accountability, and self-reliance. They will develop a repeatable structure that can be used to build success in the future.
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Solito
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by Javier Zamora
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Memorial Park is a secluded open space in the Santa Cruz Mountains featuring 673 acres and over eight miles of trails nestled in an old-growth redwood forest. Opened in 1924, San Mateo County’s first park has been a family hiking and camping destination for nearly a century.
There are a multitude of picnicking and camping spots, as well as trails along the redwoods, where you can relax and enjoy the serenity of the park. In addition to reservable sites, the park boasts a number of other activities, including a swimming hole in Pescadero Creek, campfire programs, naturalist walks and movies in the park on weekends during the summer. There are also exhibits in the visitor center, which is open daily May through September.
Memorial Park also connects with other parks in the region, including Pescadero Creek and San McDonald, to create a larger park complex with over 8,000 acres of open space to explore. Despite its location deep in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz mountains, Memorial Park is less than an hour away from most cities in San Mateo County.
Memorial Park’s trails house a variety of plant and animal life. Many tree and plant species can be seen in the park, including huckleberry, poison oak, ferns, redwood sorrel and horsetail. Animals, including banana slugs, raccoons, Steller’s jays, squirrels, woodpeckers and skunks are abundant in the park. Pescadero Creek is a winter home for steelhead trout as they migrate upstream to spawn before moving back to the ocean in the spring.
The Santa Cruz Mountains and Memorial Park are also home to the marbled murrelet, a small species of seabird identified as threatened in California under the Endangered Species Act. These birds spend half of their year near the ocean, but go inland to nest in the limbs of old-growth redwoods from April to September.
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STEAM Challenge
Can you build your own arcade game using only cardboard and masking tape?
Watch this inspirational video "Caine's Arcade" and then plan your own arcade game... Maybe you could build a pinball machine, a plinko game, a tossing or shooting game with a catapult. There are so many fun ideas that come to mind.
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Materials and Equipment
- cardboard
- masking tape
- hot glue and a glue gun (if your guardians say it is ok)
- markers
- paint,
- basically, anything you can use from around your house
- miscellaneous toys
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Introduction
The most important instruction is that you have fun and that you build a game that you, your friends, and family will enjoy playing. When you are done, feel free to send me a picture your projects ;-)
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Three Creative Writing Prompts
These prompts and questions will help jump-start your daily writing. Just as it's important to read for at least 30 minutes each day, you should also write for 30 minutes a day. Don't worry about your organization or spelling, just write!
"I didn’t want to hurt him, so I ran away as soon as August..."
"At first, I had thought telepathy would be a cool superpower, but that was before I..."
“'Why do you think you’re here?' Dr. Judy asked when I took a seat in her office."
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August 8th Writing Prompts
On this date in 1899, a man by the name of Albert T. Marshall received the patent for an "automatic refrigerating apparatus," better known as the refrigerator. In at least one paragraph, explain why you think the refrigerator was such an important invention.
If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would you choose and why?
Write about a person or activity that makes you feel inspired.
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Creativity Corner
Set your art free
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Quartz Crystal Cluster Art |
In this project you will use your knowledge of geometric and organic shapes to create the quartz crystal cluster drawing. View this video to learn how to create this fun and engaging drawing. |
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Click this link play Make the Number. In this game you try to make the target number using the given numbers. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and parentheses. Great back to school practice :-)
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