We’ll continue posting a riddle/joke here, but you no longer need to email your answer to indicate your attendance since we’ll be seeing you at 9:30am on the Zoom meeting! You can share your answer to the riddle/joke then if you’d like.
The answer to last Friday’s riddle: 31 tires (7 cars X 4 tires = 28 + 3 spare tires = 31 tires)

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):

• Unit 4 Post-Assessment (page 1-4)
• Book group questions  *If you opted to do a video or voice memo, then send that over in the email.
• Spelling: Words Their Way Sort 8 Spell Check

Here are today’s assignments:

Calendar (5 min):
This is the calendar for April. Do you see any patterns? Can you tell what its focus is on this month?

Math (60 minutes):

• Unit 4 Post- Assessment (pages 1-4)
  You will have the entire week to work on this assessment. If your grown-ups help you beyond explaining what the directions are, then please have them write that they helped you in the margin, and perhaps how they helped you or what you were unsure about.
• Dreambox if you have any time remaining within this block of time

Reader’s Workshop (60 minutes):

• Spelling
  • You should choose two activities to go with this sort.
  • If you need help with this word sort, you can watch this video below! ( You may have to refresh to view the video.)
  • We’ll ask your grownups to help you with a spell check on Friday, so make sure you really know these spelling rules!
• 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

Touch Typing (20 minutes):

• How Not to Touch Type…
  
• Typing Club
  • Typing Jungle (Lessons 1-4)
  • Watch this video below to see how to log into Typing Club!
  • Go to https://tbstyping.typingclub.com
    Your username is your first name + last initial + 25 so for me, it would be lisac25
    Password: grad2025
  • 
    (I assigned you different lessons than what is shown in the video here… but the log in process is still the same!)

Cultural Studies (5 minutes):

• Watch this video about the Persian New Year, Nowruz, presented by a fellow Temescalian.
  • Does Nowruz have any similarities or differences between how the American New Year or the Lunar New Year are celebrated?

Core Arts live session:

Art with Julianne.
A message from Julianne:

As a focus for your thoughts for art studio We will set routines similar to in the studio. In class we will be talking about the idea of PLACE.

We talk about how art is many things. Please bring a finished work if you took the opportunity to make the Ohlone land collage bring that OR share an art experience that you had the last couple of weeks. It was nice to see everyone in the morning meetings a week ago I am looking forward to seeing what the “art studio” in our homes.

Materials:
For our work together you will need –
– art work or experience
– a piece of paper 8 1/2”x11”
– 2 – drawing tools of any type that you wish – color pencil, pencil, marker, pen, sharpie.

Please use this information to connect to this Zoom meeting.
1:00 – 1:30pm Group A (Alice, Amil, Audrey, Ayla, Carter, Charlie, Elsa, Kaveh, Keith, Nova, Rome, Zakkai)
1:45 – 2:15pm Group B (Euna, Harper, James, Logan, Max, Opal, Poppy, Sage, Sebastien, Thalia, Vincent, Zoe)

Join Zoom Meeting for Art
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/579846331?pwd=UFZVdVhUb0hiYnhpVkVnUUxzZHh0dz09

Meeting ID: 579 846 331
Password: Temescal

Read Aloud (10 minutes):

A recording of our Friday Morning Meeting on March 27, 2020.

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”?
• 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
• Oakland Zoo’s “Zoo Homeschool” (thanks for sharing P and Hannah!)
• 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!

  

• A math puzzle from J and his cat:
  
  

  J’s cat Firefly

  My cat Firefly has a favorite kind of treat:  Friskies Party Mix Beachside Crunch.  We opened up a new package last week. (A full packet weighs 60 grams, and 3 treats = 1 gram.)  Here’s a chart that shows what Firefly ate:

  Day of the week	# of treats Firefly ate
  Saturday, March 21	30
  Sunday, March 22	50
  Monday, March 23	5
  Tuesday, March 24	25
  Wednesday, March 25	10

  Challenge:  can you figure out…

  1. How many treats are in a full bag of Beachside Crunch?
  2. How many treats did Firefly eat in total?
  3. What’s the average number of treats Firefly ate per day?
  4. How many treats are left in the bag?
  5. What fraction of the bag of treats has Firefly already eaten?

  …and finally, a tricky bonus question…

  6. Assuming we can’t get to the pet food store until May 1 when the shelter-in-place quarantine is over, how many treats can Firefly have each day until the bag runs out?  (Assume he has the same number of treats each day.)