Happy Tuesday, Temescalians! We hope your first day back from Spring Break went well.

Here’s the weekly schedule for live lessons. We’ll record the live lessons, and they will be posted on the blog the next day.

8:30am  The blog will be published with the day’s assignments and activities
9:30am – 10:00am Online live session through Zoom
11:00am – 12:00pm Office hours on Monday-Thursday (Jackie or I will be on hand to answer emails directly during that hour. All other emails will be answered within 24 hours.)

Core Arts classes will happen in the afternoon and their live lessons will be as follows:
Monday – Art
Tuesday – Spanish
Wednesday – Music
Thursday – P.E.
Friday – Health
1:00 – 1:30pm Group A (Alice, Amil, Audrey, Ayla, Carter, Elsa, Euna, Kaveh, Keith, Nova, Rome, Zakkai)
1:45 – 2:15pm Group B (Charlie, Harper, James, Logan, Max, Opal, Poppy, Sage, Sebastien, Thalia, Vincent, Zoe)

In the email from Bliss with information about Phase 2 of our Distance Learning Plan, there is a Student Expectations of Distance Learning Communications. It outlines proper etiquette when responding or sharing online. Please re-read that document with your families so that expectations are clear.

Things that you are going to need during our live sessions this week:
– Paper and pencil or a white board and marker (we may ask you to show us your response)
– The math packet we mailed you

Join Zoom Meeting for our 9:30 – 10:00am session this week:
https://zoom.us/j/863177478?pwd=V1BJL2tsYmJlMjNRbVlUb3dkM1o0QT09
Meeting ID: 863 177 478
Password: Temescal

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.

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.
  • Words Their Way 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 (45 min): 

  • Continue working on 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 (using whatever remaining time you have left)

Reader’s Workshop (60 minutes):

  • Spelling
    • This week, you should finish a total of two spelling activities. There are no sight words this week.
    • 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

Writer’s Workshop (60 min): 

  • Continue note-taking and picture drawing
  • Start the front cover and title page!


Core Arts live session:

Spanish
For a preview of the lesson, please click on this link.

Erica has a homework assignment at the end of the document. The assignment will be due on Friday, April 10. Please email her your work directly. (You can email her at emorales @ theberkeleyschool.org )

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

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/994770630?pwd=aW8ra0NlM1ByRVA3OEZLK1Z0Z202QT09

Meeting ID: 994 770 630
Password: Temescal


Monday’s morning session recording:

For fun:

Ideas for science:

Cultural studies:

  • Interview parenting adults about family stories and history they’ve lived through

Other things to do:

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