Monday, May 18 ~ E-learning

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:

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
  • 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

 

 

Monday, May 4 ~ E-learning

Good Morning 3D! It is Marvelous Monday!

Please watch the morning message first, then read the blog post for closer details.

Remember to plan out your schedule for the day with breaks.  Try to plan around a 9-3 school day, so you can finish your work early. Also, use the checklist at the end of our post to make sure you completed your assignments for the day. If you have any problems completing anything please leave us a comment on your E-learning slides to keep us posted about any conflicts. Last, it is VERY important you watch all videos that we post since these are our lessons to help you complete assignments.

Please put your April E-Learning slideshow in your April folder in your SS Google Drive folder after your parents read my weekly comments.  Please press “reply” to acknowledge that you read my comments. Do not delete any E-learning slideshows because we need to keep them to show your participation for the year. Your new May E-Learning slideshow is in your SS folder to use for our next two weeks of assignments.

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: 

whole class 3D- 11-12pm – today I will see small group #2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish- 1:20-1:35

Library Broadcast (optional) – 2:30 pm – Mrs. Sorenson will read a book to you

READING/WRITING: BOOKCLUBS ~THEME with Mrs. Mangan

Today you will be learning about the story element, theme. Theme is the big idea or message that you take away after reading your book. Watch the video, and then push yourself to add an idea about your book club book’s theme when you are recording your ideas on Padlet today. I added a column on your padlet named “theme.”

 

Watch the Brainpop jr. video on Theme. Remember to make sure you are on logged on your Scarsdale account in order to receive credit for watching the movie and completing the quiz on Brainpop jr. You can go to Heathcotegateway or use the link below.

Video teaching theme

 

SPELLING: WORDS THEIR WAY

Please look at your new sort for this week. Complete a few activities per day (about 15 min).  Leave the writing sort for Friday, otherwise it will erase your data.  You may have to repeat blind and speed sorts more than once to receive 100%.Check all assignments on Friday, then submit all. www.pearsonrealize.com.

 

Math: Convert between liters and milliliters

In this video you will convert between liters and milliliters, subtract and add milliliters. You will need paper and a pencil to practice all the problems.  You will pause and un-pause throughout this video and be expected to compare your solution with the video’s solution. Please watch and practice all the problems in its entirety before completing your math workbook pages. 

Complete workbook pages 45-46 below:

Copy and paste: Workbook p45-46

Print option:  WB pp45-46

SCIENCE:WEATHER & CLIMATE

These slides are also in your science folder: Weather & Climate Part Four Slides

NASA Climate Kids – Go to SeeSaw and look at the activity assigned

 

Smart Fact 

On this day in 1979 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Scotland, and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (which is variously described as a country, province or region). The flag of the United Kingdom is known as The Union Jack. “Why do countries have flags?” you ask, well check out this website to find out why and learn about flags from all over the world. 

 

By the end of today I need to have completed….

  • Words Their Way Due Friday
  • Read 30 minutes – book club padlet post- put date 5/4 and initials for us to give you credit
  • Watch the Brainpop jr. video on theme and take the quiz
  • Math workbook pages 45-46
  • REFLEX- 3 green dots by Friday
  • Watch the NASA Climate kids science video and complete the Seesaw activity- 3 questions
  • Complete the engineering challenge sun s’mores – take a video or picture of it, upload to seesaw and voice record your explanation— may take 1 week to complete

Thursday, April 30 ~Elearning

Good Morning 3D! It is Thoughtful Thursday today.

Please watch the morning message first, then read the blog for closer details.

Continue to go to the Heathcote Poetry Festival link and enjoy reading your friends’ poems in K-5. Have fun visiting all the classrooms.

Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival Link

Remember to plan out your schedule for the day with breaks.  Try to plan around a 9-3 school day, so you can finish your work early. Also, use the checklist at the end of our post to make sure you completed your assignments for the day. If you have any problems completing anything please leave us a comment on your E-learning slides to keep us posted about any conflicts. Last, it is VERY important you watch all videos that we post since these are our lessons to help you complete assignments.

Please remember to visit the specials websites:  Heathcotegateway E-Learning option

REMINDERS:

  • Mrs. Gelosa and Mrs. Dolma are commenting and checking assignments on your E-learning slides daily. Please read the comments and “reply” as needed. I will write a recap on Friday for you to review.
  • Bring your poem in your pocket for today’s zoom to share

Zoom schedule today: 

PE/ Borgia-10:00-10:20

Mrs Sorenson lesson/share poem in the pocket/ small group w DeGrazia – 11- 12pm

Today I will see students #1, 7, 8, 19  after our whole class zoom.

OPEN LIBRARY– 2pm

ELA: Book Clubs and Strong BINGO board activities

Please watch the video below to hear about how to create the best work you can for your Book Club BINGO board. A reminder that the BINGO board can be found in your reading folder.

Complete at least one BINGO activity, different from the one you did on Tuesday, and then post your final project on Seesaw. 

WORDS THEIR WAY: WORK ON SPELLING ASSIGNMENTS

Please look at your new sort for this week. Complete a few activities per day (about 15 min).  Leave the writing sort for Friday, otherwise it will erase your data.  You may have to repeat blind and speed sorts more than once to receive 100%.Check all assignments on Friday, then submit all. www.pearsonrealize.com. DUE FRIDAY

 

Math: Capacity

Watch this video to observe how we can create a graduated cylinder that holds one liter. We can then use that new measuring tool to measure the capacity of an unknown container.

Watch this video and learn how you can use a graduated cylinder to measure an unknown container’s capacity.

The workbook pages you are responsible to copy and paste to your April E-Learning slideshow are pages 43 and 44. The experiment you observed in the videos above is detailed on workbook pages 41 and 42. If you would like to try to recreate this experiment, you can. Take a video of yourself and upload it to Seesaw. We would love to see your work! Good luck and have fun!

copy and paste: Workbook pages 41-44

print option: Workbook pages 41-44

OPTIONAL EXPERIMENT: pp41-42

 

Science: Weather and Climate

In this lesson, Mystery Doug will take you on an adventure around the world to identify climate zones and weather patterns. Watch the introductory video carefully so you will know how to prepare for the awesome learning opportunity that Doug has prepared for you.

NOTE: In the video they show supplies for a group because it is made for a classroom activity, you will only need one of each of the maps to complete the activity.

Please use these slides Weather & Climate Part Three to guide you for your work today

This is a two day activity, so you can finish it by Friday.

  • Watch Mrs. Boyer’s video
  • Print out maps and gather materials for the activity during video
    • Remember since we aren’t in class when Doug says get 2 maps you are only printing 1 map of each that we provided–follow Mrs. Boyer’s directions
    • Also, when he mentions check with a partner–this may mean zoom with a partner or check with a parent
  • Watch Mystery Doug video: Climate, Geography and Global Weather Patterns
  • Color in Climate Decoder & MAPS and follow Doug’s directions
  • Answer questions
  • Share new learnings and new questions on Seesaw (show your maps too either on seesaw or slides)

SMART FACT

On this day in 1993 the World Wide Web was born. A team at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications released Mosaic, the first Web browser to become popular with the general public. The next few years saw the launch of such websites as Yahoo (1994), Amazon (1995), eBay (1995) and Google (1998).  What do you imagine the future of the web to be like when you are in college? 

 

***BY THE END OF TODAY I NEED TO COMPLETE…***

  • Words Their Way-Due tomorrow 
  • Read 30 mins – Book Club- Reading Bingo Board- post to Seesaw
  • Reflex Math- 3 green dots by tomorrow 
  • Watch math lesson videos and complete workbook pages 43-44 (workbook pages 41 and 42 detail the experiment – if you choose to do that, take a video and upload to seesaw)
  • Print out worksheets for Mystery Doug Video
  • Mystery Doug video – Watch video and complete worksheets (Two days to do this activity)

Wednesday, April 29 ~ E-learning

Good Morning 3D! Today is Wonderful Wednesday!

Please watch the video first, then read the blog for closer details.

Remember to plan out your schedule for the day with breaks.  Try to plan around a 9-3 school day, so you can finish your work early. Also, use the checklist at the end of our post to make sure you completed your assignments for the day. If you have any problems completing anything please leave us a comment on your E-learning slides to keep us posted about any conflicts. Last, it is VERY important you watch all videos that we post since these are our lessons to help you complete assignments.

Please remember to visit the specials websites:  Heathcotegateway E-Learning option

REMINDERS:

  • Mrs. Gelosa and Mrs. Dolma are commenting and checking assignments on your E-learning slides daily. Please read the comments and “reply” as needed. I will write a recap on Friday for you to review.
  • Bring your poem in the pocket tomorrow

Zoom today: 

Come with a joke today. We will have 5 students share a joke to celebrate Camilla and her sister around 11:30 or so after our tech lesson. 

Casal tech/Camilla’s birthday/ poetry festival/small group w DeGrazia – 11- 12pm

Today I will see students #15, 16, 17, 18 ,19 after our whole class zoom.

OPEN LIBRARY– 2pm

 

Go to the Heathcote Poetry Festival link and enjoy reading your friends’ poems in K-5. Have fun visiting all the classrooms.

Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival Link

 

READING AND WRITING: BOOKCLUBS

Today, after doing your agreed upon reading, you will be posting on your Book Club’s Padlet page. Watch the video today to hear about the Dos and Don’ts of writing on Padlet. I put this slideshow in your reading folder too for you to refer to during bookclubs.

While you are commenting on each other’s posts, please be sure to be respectful. These comments are meant to help each other, ask questions and push each other in a positive direction.  These are our friends we are talking to, so remember the golden rule- do onto others as you would like done to you. If you would not like it said to you, don’t say it to someone else. 

Some ways to disagree respectfully include:

I disagree because…

Please explain further because I see it a little differently.

Can you provide more text evidence because I thought about it in a different way?

Bookclub padlets are in you reading folder or you can post here: Bookclub padlet

WORDS THEIR WAY: WORK ON SPELLING ASSIGNMENTS

Please look at your new sort for this week. Complete a few activities per day (about 15 min).  Leave the writing sort for Friday, otherwise it will erase your data.  You may have to repeat blind and speed sorts more than once to receive 100%.Check all assignments on Friday, then submit all. www.pearsonrealize.com. DUE FRIDAY

CURSIVE: Lowercase m and y

If you need to complete these two pages by Friday, that is fine:)

Please watch the two videos to help with your formation of m and y. You may need to watch the videos more than once and then skywrite.

video for m

video for y

Please print and complete m and y cursive pages: Take a picture and insert in E-Learning Slideshow under cursive.

Cursive Masters m and y

MATH: CAPACITY AND WORD PROBLEMS

Watch this video below. You will learn how you can find the capacity of many containers as well as a mini challenge for you to think about.

 

Watch this video below to see some different strategies on solving word problems with capacity.

Copy and paste these slides to your April E-Learning Slideshow under math.

You can draw bar models, draw pictures, write a number sentence or use a combination of the three to solve these two word problems. Think through your work and make sure you show how you solved the problem.

Two Word Problems

If you prefer to draw the bars and write the number sentence on paper, be neat and show all your work. Take a picture and submit into seesaw or put in your e-learning slides under math.

SCIENCE: Weather & Climate Part Two

  • Go to Weather and Climate part 2 – This is also in your science folder 
  • Watch assigned book(s) on Epic – What is Climate? By Ellen Lawrence
  • Post on the padlet complete each category (4)
  • Optional read : What is Climate? By Bobbie Kalman

SMART FACT

On April 29, 2004, the National World War II Memorial opened in Washington, D.C., to thousands of visitors, providing overdue recognition for the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war. The memorial is located on 7.4 acres on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Numerous communities and artists have designed and built memorials to commemorate events in history. If you were to design a memorial to help people in the future learn about this time that we are living through right now, what might it look like? Share your design and thinking on SeeSaw. 

 

***BY THE END OF TODAY I NEED TO COMPLETE…***

    • Words Their Way-Due Friday 
    • cursive m and y
    • Read 30 mins and decide on how much you are reading with bookclub members
    • Watch the video and post on your Bookclub padlet
    • Reflex Math- 3 green dots by Friday
    • Watch math lesson videos and complete 2 word problems
    • Read What is Climate? on Epic and write on “Take Note” padlet (complete all 4 categories)
    • Find a poem in the pocket to share for Thursday’s zoom