Good morning, Temescalians! We hope that you had a great start to the week!
We have a few announcements that are starting this week:
- Check-ins: We sent out an email to grown-ups to schedule a 15 minute Zoom meeting check-in. We hope to touch base with you and your grown-ups in the next two weeks!
- Recess: Stephen will be hosting a Zoom meeting for 20 minutes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 – 10:50am!
- Please remember the etiquette that we use when we start any Zoom meeting:
- Enter muted
- Have your natural environment set as your background unless otherwise instructed
- Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96524413625?
pwd= aW1MWmMrOEFLdVRMU0l2eVVPbkk0QT 09 - Meeting ID: 965 2441 3625
- Password: Temescal
- Please remember the etiquette that we use when we start any Zoom meeting:
- Study Hall: 11am-12pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, an Thursdays
- Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/92970013109?pwd=ZUlybnppbFdlTm9EMGRvcXVXTnowQT09
- Meeting ID: 929 7001 3109
- Password: Temescal
- Weekly Assignment Checklist: We have updated the Weekly Assignment Checklist to include the schedule of the week. We have highlighted required and optional live sessions, as well as the work that is due on Friday. We hope that this will be helpful as we continue to streamline how we do distance learning!
9:30 – 10:00am morning session:
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 by Thursday for them 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 Friday. (Please take a picture of all of these assignments and email them all at once to Jackie and me):
- Math: T17 Multiplication & Division Checkpoint (Please indicate if your grown-ups helped you by writing a note in the margin.)
- Book group questions emailed to Jackie or Lisa
Calendar (5 min):
Math (60 min):
- T17 Multiplication & Division Checkpoint (Please note if you got any help from grown-ups!) <- it should be in the packet we mailed to you!
- Pg. 152 “Undersea Adventures”
Reader’s Workshop (60 minutes):
- Spelling – Words Their Way Sort 9 (adding -ed)
- You should choose two activities to go with this sort.
- Sight words for this week: laugh, except, didn’t, distance, social
- 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.)
- Book Groups
- Finish up any remaining questions for your book group responses. Here are the 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
- We finished this book last week! We’ll start reading Stone Fox beginning this week. Please read Stone Fox and answer the questions.
- 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
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
- Finish up any remaining questions for your book group responses. Here are the four book groups:
- Read with any grownups or siblings if you have time remaining! The goal is to practice fluency when you’re reading out loud.
Writing (60 min):
- Drafting: Try to have two of the three sections written for your research project!
Just in case you didn’t get a chance to view these lessons on Friday, I thought I’d share them here again.
Published Local Plant/Animal Research Book
(I realized that my text is backwards after I recorded it, but I read the text out loud so you should still get the idea of what we hope your book to have.)
To note, we have yet to explain how to create your Table of Contents or Glossary so tutorials on those pieces will come soon!
(You may need to refresh to see the video in the space below)
Friday, April 17, 2020 – Local Plant/Animal Research Rubric
We hope the Temescalians can produce a book that has components of effective writing.
(You may need to refresh to see the video in the space below)
Core Arts (30 minutes):
Spanish with Erica
Please read this lesson on numbers and telling time in Spanish before your Zoom meeting today!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/99504713656?
Meeting ID: 995 0471 3656
Password: 7BEZVG
Read Aloud:
The Empty Pot by Demi
For fun:
Ideas for science:
- Nature walks in a park/bike path
- Measuring temperature daily and comparing this year’s weather to years prior (would require finding a website that has that data)
- Start a garden
- Set up a weather science experiment?
- Make a comic or zine
- Fraction Penguin
- Oakland Zoo’s “Zoo Homeschool” (thanks for sharing P and Hannah!)
- National Geographic for kids
- Homemade Rain Gauge
- Deep Ocean Currents Experiment
- Science is for everyone, kids included
- How is conducting an experiment like play?
- Why might someone think kids can’t do “proper” science?
Cultural studies:
- Interview parenting adults about family stories and history they’ve lived through
Movement:
- Cosmic Kids Yoga
- Learn a dance from TikTok
- Family GoNoodle
Other things to do:
- 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
- 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
- Virtual Field Trips
- The Spanish Experiment (stories in Spanish!)
- Breaking the Mayan Code (math challenge!)
- Mindful Schools
- Disney’s offering a free course on how to be an Imagineer!
- A Kids Book about COVID-19
- Five Variations on Tic-Tac-Toe
- YouCubed at Home (activities that approach math in a different way!)
- Rachel Cargle (author/scholar/activist has daily live story time at 12pm PST/3pmEST on Instagram)
- Learn some practical skills like how to sew a button, wash the dishes, fold your laundry, maybe even cook something on your own!