Good Morning 3D! Today is Magnificent Monday!
Please watch the morning message first. Then read the rest of the blog for closer details.
Please remember to visit the specials websites: Heathcotegateway E-Learning option
Questions? Continue to add to our class Padlet: E-Learning Questions or use your gmail
Zoom schedule today:
3D Whole Class- 11-12pm – today I will see a small group #5,6, 7, 18 ( you have new group members, so I will discuss how we will move forward)
Spanish- 1:20- 1:35
Library Broadcast (optional) – 2:30 pm – Mrs. Sorenson will read a book to you
READING – Reading Fantasy Book Clubs
Today during our zoom session, we will go over our new May e-learning slideshow (purple) and I changed around some book club groups.
You will be given a new list of three choices to choose from. As a club, we have to remind ourselves of our responsibilities to our book club partners:
- Make sure you create a clear plan of reading assignments. During our class zooms (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) we will be doing breakout rooms. You can schedule your reading assignments to be completed by those days.
- You work hard to complete the padlet posts, writing thoughtful jots that reflect your deep thinking around fantasy.
- You choose a new Reading Bingo Board activity from your list during each new bingo day.
- You make sure to keep a journal or notebook where you can record your thinking so that those ideas can steer your book club conversations.
- And MOST IMPORTANTLY: you are a positive participant throughout the book club experience. You practice:
- Good active listening skills
- Complete your assignments, which include the assigned reading
- Engage in positive book discussions
- HAVE FUN!
WRITING: FANTASY
Famous authors engage in a process of Brainstorming and Collecting Ideas. That’s what today’s work is all about. While you may have a certain character or storyline in mind, it’s important that you continue to collect new ideas before settling on the final one. Today you will be using two graphic organizers focused on characters and settings. These will help you to stretch your creative muscles and formulate new ideas that will be collected in a notebook.
First, watch this overview video and you will learn how important Brainstorming is to writing your best story.
Watch the video on slide 2 to help plan your fantasy writing. It is about 3 minutes long. I will put the slides in your writing folder too. I also included the digital notebook in your writing folder in your Google Drive: Imaginative Narrative #2 Slides
Characters and settings:Graphic Organizers to print
MATH: TIME- HOURS AND MINUTES
Today you will practice reading an analog clock to the hour and to 1 minute. Watch the video below to learn different ways to read an analog clock. Maybe you can go outside today and draw a clock using sidewalk chalk. Can you make your clock into quarters?
CHALLENGE: Try all 3 activities today (hop, run around your house, sit without talking) to feel how long 1 minute is. Set a timer to 1 minute to help you. Was 1 minute longer than you expected?
Workbook Pages to complete:
- Print Option – Workbook pages 115-116
- Copy and paste to slideshow: Workbook pages 115 – 116
Complete both workbook pages and insert in your new May E-Learning Slideshow (purple)
Extra Ways to Practice Time 🙂
- Have fun and practice different times by looking at an analog clock and digital clock
- Have fun playing this game with a sibling or family member. The game focuses on reading analog clocks to the hour and half hour. You will need a die and 2 game pieces to play.
- Here is a printable analog clock to help you understand the different parts of a clock:
Explore Time Games:
Social Studies: Primary Source Scavenger Hunt
Today you will be investigating a text called, “Using Primary Sources” that has been assigned to you on Epic. Take your time, enjoy the book and along the way study the different types of primary sources that are explained to you. Good luck historians!
Seesaw assignment
When you are finished with the text, go back into it and go on a primary source scavenger hunt! Using the chart provided on Seesaw and on Slides, fill out as many spaces you can, determining whether the primary source you found was a photograph, document or artifact. Then answer the question, “Which one of these primary sources would you most like to see in real life and why?”
Slides to Copy and paste if you don’t want to use Seesaw: Slides to Copy
SMART FACT
On this day in 1980 Mount St. Helens located in the Cascade Range in Washington State, erupted and blasted 1,300 ft off it’s top that sent hot mud, gas and ashes running down it’s slopes. The explosion sent plumes of dark gray ash some 60,000 feet in the air which blocked out the rays from the sun making it seem like night over eastern Washington. Learn more about molten rock and lava by watching this brief video.
***BY THE END OF TODAY I NEED TO COMPLETE…***
- ELA
- Book Clubs
- Continue or start up your fantasy books
- Complete padlet- post on more than one column (date and initials)
- Fantasy – writing
- Watch the What is Imaginative Writing Video 2
- Brainstorm using the graphic organizers for character and setting to start collecting ideas
- Book Clubs
- Math
- Watch the video on Time to learn different ways to read an analog clock
- Hop, run around your house, sit without talking with a timer to see how long 1 minute feels
- Play “Time Flies” board game with a family member
- Practice and explore with the interactive clock website
- Complete workbook pages 115-116
- Social Studies
- Watch the lesson on Using Primary Sources
- Read the book “Using Primary Sources” assigned to you in Epic
- Either complete the activity using Seesaw OR copying and pasting the slides to your new May E~Learning Slideshow