Good morning, Temescalians! What is something that brings you comfort?
Announcements this week:
- Look out for an email from Bliss, regarding Seesaw.
- To best use Seesaw, each student will need their own tablet.
- 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 this week!
- Morning Session: 9:30-10am
- https://zoom.us/j/863177478?pwd=V1BJL2tsYmJlMjNRbVlUb3dkM1o0QT09
- Meeting ID: 863 177 478
- Password: Temescal
- Recess: Tuesdays-Thursdays at 10:30-10:50am hosted by Stephen
- 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, and 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!
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To all students who work with Katherine for academic learning support, click on this link if you have a scheduled meeting with her.
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Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/
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Meeting ID: 914 8648 9154
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Password: TBS
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- Ashoka: every Thursday from 11:45am-12:15pm
- https://zoom.us/j/8186237818?pwd=dWVuYUcwZU5zczRkaSsrNDJNMVo5Zz09
- Password: Change
Here’s our joke/riddle of the day!
The answer from yesterday’s riddle was 1! (Re-read the riddle and see if it makes more sense now!)
A few things to keep in mind while working:
– If you are working with Katherine, do her assignments first.
– Put on a timer for the time indicated for that subject. Once that timer dings, move on to the next work!
– Take body breaks! Try out GoNoodle!
– 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!)
– 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):
- Pg. 87-88 “Multiplication & Division Review”
- Book group questions emailed to Jackie or Lisa
- Sort #9 Spell Check (There should be 15 words that you are getting checked on: Any 10 words from Sort #9 + 5 sight words.)

Example of what a spell check should look like. Please do the spell check in pencil and correct in pen!
- Tarea/Homework: 20 minutos de Raz-Kids en español/20 minutes of Raz-Kids in Spanish.
Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com
Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher’s username, tbsraz3
Step 3: Select a reading level in Spanish (“Spanish Levels A-D”, “Spanish Levels C-H”…)
Step 4: Enter the password, spanish
Calendar (5 min):
Math (60 min):
- We’ll go over the story problems on pg. 88 “Multiplication & Division Review” during the live session today
- On your own, do pg. 159 “More missing numbers & fact families”
- A handy tool to use manipulatives, since all of ours are at school, is to use ToyTheater.com to use virtual manipulatives! You can use “Graph Squares” to create arrays.
Reading (60 min):
- Spelling – Words Their Way Sort 9 (adding -ed)
- You should choose two different activities that you didn’t do last week, to go with this sort.
- Sight words for this week: laugh, except, didn’t, distance, social
- You should choose two different activities that you didn’t do last week, to go with this sort.
- Book Groups
- Finish up any remaining questions for your book group responses. Here are the four book groups:
- If you are done with book group questions, you should choose to do RazKids or Lexia
- Raz-Kids
- Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com
Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher’s username, tbsraz3Step 3: Your child finds their username on the class chart. For example, Lisa’s username would be Lisa C25Step 4: Your child enters their password, grad2025
- Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com
- Lexia
- Raz-Kids
- 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):
- Continue working on your drafts
- If you feel like you are done with your draft, finish up your cover, title page, and illustrations and captions.
If you are done with your draft and illustrations, use “My Editing Checklist” and rubric to do a self edit of your writing!
Science (45 min):
- Watch this video below or read FOSS student book Change of Motion page 10-15
- In your STEAM journal, list or draw 2 examples each of balanced and unbalanced forces you can see or do at home. Balanced and Unbalanced Force notebook example
Core Arts (30 min):
P.E. with Craig
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/7216425077?p
Meeting ID: 721 642 5077
Password: Temescal
Read Aloud: The Phantom Tollbooth
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:
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!