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Attendance: We would like for your grown-ups to email Jackie and I every day with your answer to the day’s joke or riddle.
Today’s attendance riddle is:
Yesterday’s answer: 0 eggs because a rooster doesn’t lay eggs!
We will have daily assignments posted here at 9am. You should be doing as much of the work as you can. Jackie and I will be available to answer questions through email every day during our “office hours” at 11am-12pm and 2:30pm-3:30pm.
If you are working with Katherine, do her assignments first. Also, we’ll put a time for each activity. Put on a timer for the time indicated for that subject. Once that timer dings, move on to the next work!
Remember to have body breaks! GoNoodle has great body breaks that are for a specific amount of time.
We’d love for you to share what you are up to! Let us know of any links/resources that you find interesting, and we’ll add it to our list of things! Also, email us pictures of what you’re up to, and a caption, and we’ll create a gallery of these pictures to post on Friday. (You’ll have to share the pictures before 8:30am on Friday for it to be included on the Friday gallery!)
We recognize that Distance Learning is new for everyone, and it can take some time getting used to. Please let us know if there is too much or too little work and if something is challenging for you. We want you all to be successful in Distance Learning, and we’re here to help!
Things that are due by this Friday (Please take a picture of all of these assignments and email them all at once to Jackie and me):
- Book group questions *If you opted to do a video or voice memo, then send that over in the email.
- How did you get your name?
- Pg. 171 “More Fractions”
Here are today’s assignments:
Calendar (5 min):
As part of our Morning Meeting routine at school, we reveal a new card each day. Temescalians share what they notice and any patterns they observe as we progress through the month. Describe today’s card and let your grownup know if you see any observations!
Math (60 min):
- Dreambox (30 minutes)
Dreambox login information:
URL: https://play.dreambox.com/login/y9jv/rnbd
iPad School Code: y9jv/rnbd
Classroom Code: 25414 - Pg. 165 “What Fraction Am I?”
- Pg. 171 “More fractions”
Reader’s Workshop (60 minutes):
Book Groups
- We’ll ask you to do some reading at home and to answer questions about what you’ve read. Look for specific instructions for your book, which came home with you in your folder. There are four book groups:
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
- Assignments and instructions here
- Warton and the King of the Skies by Russell E. Erickson
- Assignments and instructions here
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
- Assignments and instructions here
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Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- Assignments and instructions here
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
Writer’s Workshop (60 min):
- Continue research note-taking (Don’t be limited by the guiding questions. Include as much information as you can about your plant or animal of focus. You may need your grown-ups to help you find other resources if necessary.)
- Begin drawing pictures for your book.
- If you are focusing on an animal, you need to have one picture for appearance/habitat, food, offspring. If you are focusing on a plant, you need one picture for appearance, habitat, and life cycle – seed, plant, blossom, seed pod on the plant.
- Tips for drawing your pictures:
- These images should be realistic, take up most of the space in the template, and include a caption in a complete sentence of what is in the picture.
- You should sketch in pencil first.
- You can try tracing images by holding the original up to a window and tracing the image on a blank sheet of paper you have placed over the original image.
- You should use pencil and colored pencil to draw and color in these images.
- You may want to do a few drafts before you draw on the template that we sent you home with. Or, you could always cut out what you like to make it fit the space allotted.
Core Arts Corner (30 minutes):
Health
- Please first watch this Loom video Slide Deck Introduction from Stephen
- Next, view the The Power of Words video
- To complete the Words Can Hurt handout, either print this out and fill it in by hand, or use your writer’s journal to answer these questions. Please remember to title the page, “Words Can Hurt,” and date it.
- Also, here is a cool activity to do with your family and a tips sheet for your parenting adults.
Read aloud:
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Cooking and baking some tasty things from Monday’s math assignment! (You have succeeded in making me very hungry, and wondering what the “best” chocolate chip cookie recipe actually is!)
Here’s a gallery of our Friday Morning Meeting via Google Hangouts and things that you did over the weekend!
For fun:
- Tiny Hamster’s graveyard feast
- Reflection questions to write in journal
- What did you learn about European hamsters from this video?
- Why is this video titled “Tiny Hamster’s Graveyard Feast”?
- Reflection questions to write in journal
- Science is for everyone, kids included
- How is conducting an experiment like play?
- Why might someone think kids can’t do “proper” science?
- Celtic knot heart from Julianne
- One Point Perspective – Rooms from Julianne
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems New episodes will be posted each weekday at 1:00 p.m. ET and then remain online to be streamed afterwards.
- Virtual 3rd Grade Quarantine Debate Club!
- Virtual Museums
- Met Opera clips
- Family GoNoodle
- Virtual Field Trips
- The Spanish Experiment (stories in Spanish!)
- Breaking the Mayan Code (math challenge!)
- Mindful Schools
- Go outside and explore! How many different flowering plants did you see?
- Learn some practical skills like how to sew a button, wash the dishes, fold your laundry, maybe even cook something on your own!
