(You may need to refresh to see our Morning Greeting in the space above.)

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: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔

Yesterday’s answer: A rocket! (sounds like “rock it”)

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!

Announcements:

Friday Morning Meeting using Zoom!

  • We’d like to have another Friday Morning Meeting on Friday at 10:00am! We’ll try to use Zoom this time so look for an email with a link to join the meeting! This platform is a little different in that you can see everyone at the same time. We’re going to ask again that you start muted and then unmute yourself when it’s your turn. Here’s what we’ll share:  What was a rose (something you enjoyed this week) and bud (something you’re looking forward to next week) for you? One last thing. We will record the meeting so that if someone wasn’t able to make the meeting, they’d be able to catch up later.

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”

Please note: Spring Break is March 30 – April 3. Distance Learning will continue on April 6 until May 1.

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):


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
    • Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
      • Assignments and instructions here

Science (20 minutes):

Cultural Studies (20 minutes)
We have a guest speaker, Wendy Muse Sinek, share about how a presidential candidate with more popular votes could still lose an election. (Look out for some other familiar faces in the video!)
First, take a moment and think about what it means for something to be “fair.”  Can you think of an example?  Then, watch the video (start at 1:40 minutes if you want to skip the setup technical difficulties) and think about:  which rule (majority, plurality, or proportional) would be the most fair in selecting a snack for 100 kids?  Why?  (If kids want to email Wendy their answers, either in video or text, she can include them when she does part 2 next week.)


Core Arts Corner (30 minutes)

P.E.
Hey wonderful people!
Here is a fun activities that will get you moving and thinking. Start the video,
then start running in place and follow the instructor. Have fun and work hard.
https://app.gonoodle.com/activities/not-dog-time-machine

Craig

For fun:

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