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!
  • Study Hall: 11am-12pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, an Thursdays
  • 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
    • 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
      • 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
  • 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?pwd=WkVLVFRZL0p2dndIVVZxdk0zZjlUZz09

Meeting ID: 995 0471 3656
Password: 7BEZVG

Read Aloud:
The Empty Pot by Demi

 

For fun:

Ideas for science:

Cultural studies:

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

Movement:

Other things to do:

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