Ancient Greece

Friday Zoom Schedule:

Today we have a 3M Zoom at 10:00 to break into our book clubs. We will finish up the current book and move onto a fantasy text. Take a peek at the Fantasy Collection I assigned to you on Epic and come to class today with an idea for your next book.
11:30 Instrumental Music
2:30 Library

All specials’ pages can be found here: Heathcote Gateway E-Learning Plans

ELA- fantasy & BOOK CLUBS

Book Clubs

Today we will be meeting at our Zoom to talk with your book clubs. If you would like to continue the conversation in a separate Zoom or Facetime call you are welcome to, as long as it is OK with your families and this is an on-topic conversation. Let me know if you would like me to join your conversation to help.

Come ready to talk and jot about the following ideas:

What happened in the part you read yesterday?
What was your favorite part of the book?
What character can you connect with? If you can’t, why not?
What role do the secondary characters play? Advisors, Sidekicks or Challengers?
What is confusing to you? What questions do you have?
What is a prediction you can make for today’s reading?

Fantasy

Read the story, “The Wishing Tree.” The Wishing Tree
Answer the 5 questions on Seesaw. Note- Each question is on a different page.
- Use capitals and periods
- Check for spelling
- Use text evidence whenever possible
- Read your work before submitting

Math- Paper Airplane measurement

Check out the “Paper Airplane Guy” to get some inspiration. He will show you how to build some paper airplanes and show you a real paper airplane competition.

Test out your skills building 2 paper airplanes. Which type went the furthest? How far did it go?

- Instructions on how to build different paper airplanes: Fold ‘N Fly
- Fill out the data tables while you test our your 2 planes:
  - Slides to Copy Data Tables
  - Print Option: Data Tables
  - (Measure the distance using meters and centimeters)
- Need a meter stick? Here is the printable one if you need it 🙂 Meter stick Printable
- Place these completed slides into your May E-Learning Slideshow or Seesaw

Need some more math for the day?

IXL: Practice activities in groups A-R and W-Z.
Khan Academy Metric Measurement
Math Limbo
Mobile Puzzles
Algebra Puzzle
Kakooma

SOCIAL STUDIES: analyzing artifacts

Today you will be combining your knowledge of Ancient Greece and primary sources to analyze an artifact. Watch the video below to show the process.

In order to complete the artifact analysis sheet you can choose one of the following:

Edit with Kami (Look in your S.S. folder for this document.) **Let me know that you have done this so I know to look in your S.S. folder**
Copy and paste the slide into your own May E-Learning Slideshow: Slides to Copy or Analysis Sheet- To Print
Complete the Seesaw assignment

Smart Fact

On this day in 1618 German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws- his “harmonics law”. Kepler’s third law (the Harmonic Law), relates the orbital period of a planet (that is, the time it takes a planet to complete one orbit) to its mean distance from the Sun. This law states that the closest planets travel at the greatest speeds and have the shortest orbital periods. If this is his third law, what are the first and second you ask? Watch this NASA video to learn about Kepler and his “out of this world” discoveries.

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

ELA
- Book Clubs
  - Read the agreed upon amount
  - Optional- Arrange a time to meet with your club (We will do this at our Zoom as well.)
- Fantasy
  - Read, “The Wishing Tree”
  - Answer the 5 questions on the Seesaw activity
Math
- Watch the Paper Airplanes video
- Visit the Website Fold ‘N Fly
- Create at least 2 paper airplanes
- Measure your airplanes’ flying distance and record the results on the data sheet slides
- Copy slides into your May E-Learning Slideshow or print and share in Seesaw with your results
Social Studies
- Watch the lesson on analyzing artifacts
- Analyze the gold artifact
- Record your thinking on the analysis sheet (Link in blog, Seesaw or in S.S. folder on Drive)
- Post your work to Seesaw activity, copy slides into E-Learning Slides or edit with Kami
Complete unfinished work from yesterday
- Bingo Board
- Math Workbook Pages 178-180
- Ancient Greece Artifacts

Today we will meet at 10:00 with Ms. Sorensen to reveal the Cook Prize winner!

You also have The Weinberg Nature Center today at 2:00 today.

You have Library at 2:30.

All specials’ pages can be found here: Heathcote Gateway E-Learning Plans

Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet

ELA- Theme & BOOK CLUBS

Book Clubs

Today you will complete a BINGO board activity for your book club book, along with reading the agreed upon amount. I am looking for some more challenging choices today. Please push yourself a bit more. Do some make-writing using lose parts! Is anyone up the challenge of #4, #5,# 8, or #13? I can’t wait to see your creations!

Please submit your Bingo board activity for today in this Seesaw assignment.

Theme

Watch “Lou,” a Pixar short film. It is about 4 minutes. You may decide to watch this more than once to notice all the details in the film.

Add to the Padlet when you are ready. If possible, try to complete your jots before our Zoom class so we can have some great conversations about your ideas. Remember to add text evidence to your thinking and connect with any of your peers’ ideas similar to La Luna. Write your first name and your class code. Ex. Lindsay 3M

Mangan/DeGrazia Padlet

Try to answer the as many of these questions as you can in your Padlet jot:

What makes this story a Fantasy?
Who are the characters?
What character traits do you notice?
Feelings?
Any character changes?
Lessons learned?
Theme?

Math- Operations involving meters and centimeters

Watch this video below. You will need a paper and pencil as you will be asked to practice adding/subtracting meters and centimeters as well as utilizing mental math strategies to make the number equations more friendly.

Copy and Paste Slides: Workbook page 178-180

Print Option: Workbook pages 178-180

Need some more math for the day?

IXL: Practice activities in groups A-R and W-Z.
Khan Academy Metric Measurement

social studies: primary and secondary sources

Today you will be traveling back to Ancient Greece through TrueFlix! As you read the text, “Ancient Greece” explore the different photographs and drawings that make this non-fiction text so captivating. Watch the video below on instructions how to access TrueFlix, and how to complete the graphic organizer for this text. There are two ways to show us your work, one by copy and pasting your graphic organizer into your own Slideshow and the other is on Seesaw.

Watch the lesson video
Heathcote Gateway to go to the library page—> Databases—> TruFlix
Read the text, “Ancient Greece” found in the Ancient Civilizations section
Find 5 pictures in the text and think
- “How does this picture help me learn about life at that time?”
- “Is the item in the picture a primary source or a secondary source?”
Show us your graphic organizer:
- Copy and paste your finished graphic organizer into your May E-Learning Slides OR
- Complete the activity assigned to you on Seesaw

Ancient Greece G.O. Slides to Copy into your own E-Learning Slideshow

Look for this assignment on Seesaw. Or post your organizer in your own slideshow.

smart fact

On this day in 1787 Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to draw up the US Constitution. While the Constitution was the final result of this meeting, the delegates’ original plan was to re-write the Articles of Confederation (the first set of rules for our country) but that didn’t work out once they realized how many flaws the original set of rules had. To learn more about this historic event, visit Ducksters. Read about the Constitutional Convention and take the quiz!