Monday, May 4th

Welcome back! Today we will meet at 10:00 for our class Zoom. Please check your S.S. folder for the new Zoom schedule for this week. You also have Spanish at 2:00 today.

You have a new May E-Learning Slideshow in your S.S. Folder. Check it out! It is organized by day instead of subject so that we may all find the right place for work more quickly and easily.

Ms. Sorensen will meet daily with you, if you would like, to read you a book. Hope you enjoy this time with her!

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

Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet

WORDS THEIR WAY

Log in to Pearson Realize

Check out your new words. I will meet with some groups today at our Zoom to talk about the spelling rules for this week, so if you get started and are having trouble, hold off until our class.

ela- theme & Book clubs

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 have assigned to you a Brainpopjr video on Theme. Please log in to Brainpop using the G Suite for Education button and check out my assigned video.

math- converting milliliters and liters

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. 

Copy and paste: Workbook pgs. 45-46

Print option: WB Pgs. 45-46

science: weather vs. Climate

Watch this video to learn about NASA’s Climate Kids Website and the wealth of information it holds. There’s a video for you to watch, a few questions to answer and an Engineering Challenge that you are sure to love! If you love, S’mores, then you will definitely want to check it out! 

Check out Weather and Climate 4 in your Science Folder. These slides will have all of the information you need from the video.

Go into Seesaw where you will see an activity assigned to you called, Weather Vs. Climate. Click on the link to the video, and then answer the questions using either the microphone to record your answers, or the text to to type.

 

This is the template you will be using on Seesaw to answer the questions after you watch the video.

 

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 COMPLETE…***

  • Words Their Way-Due Friday
  • Watch Theme Reading Lesson
  • Watch video about Theme on BrainpopJr. 
  • Read 30 mins including your agreed upon Book Club book
  • Fill out Padlet by writing your initials and date 5/4
  • Watch math lesson video and complete workbook pages 45-46
    • Copy and paste into May Slideshow or print and put on Seesaw 
  • Watch science introduction by Ms. Boyer
    • Go to Seesaw to see Weather and Climate Activity
    • Watch video (link in activity)
    • Answer questions right on Seesaw

 

 

Thursday, April 30th

Hi 3M! Today we will be meeting at 10:00.

Be ready to share a favorite poem for Poem in Your Pocket Day!  This can be a poem you wrote or one that you’ve read before. Just have it handy for our poetry share today. 

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 me a comment on your E-learning slides or e-mail me. Lastly, it is VERY important you watch all videos that we post since these are our lessons.

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

Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet

WORDS THEIR WAY

Log in to Pearson Realize. Continue to work on your sorts for this week. If you feel like you have practiced enough, and understand the sorts for this week, you can “Turn In All.”

ELA-BOOK CLUBS

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. 

math

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 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. I would love to see your work! Good luck and have fun!

Please complete workbook pages 41-44.

science: Weather and Climate Part 3: 2 Day activity 

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 for prepared for you.  Please use the slides Weather & Climate Part Three to guide you for your work today.

 

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

  1. Watch Mrs. Boyer’s video- VERY IMPORTANT to do before you start
  2. Print out maps and gather materials for the activity during video- found in Weather & Climate Part Three Slides in your Science Folder
    • 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. So since we aren’t in class, when Doug says get 2 maps you are only printing 1 map of each that we provided–follow Ms. Boyer’s directions.
    • Also, when he mentions check with a partner–this may mean zoom with a partner or check with a parent
  3. Watch Mystery Doug video: Climate, Geography and Global Weather Patterns
  4. Color in Climate Decoder. Color in the maps.  Doug walks you through this step by step.
  5. Answer questions in slides
  6. Share new learnings and new questions on Seesaw (show your maps too either on seesaw or slides)
SMART FACT- JUST FOR FUN 🙂

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 
  • Many of you did not post your cursive, please add that to your slideshow
  • Read 30 mins – Book Club- Reading Bingo Board- post to Seesaw
    • Several of you did not complete yesterday’s Padlet assignment, please add your jots 
  • 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 29th

Hi 3M! Today we will be meeting at 10:00 with myself and Ms. Sorensen.

Take some time today to explore the whole school’s work for the

Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival

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

Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet

Please listen carefully to my introduction video, watch all lessons and use the end of the blog checklist to help make sure you have gotten all the instruction and completed all of the assignments for the day.

WORDS THEIR WAY

Log in to Pearson Realize. Continue to work on your sorts for this week. If you feel like you have practiced enough, and understand the sorts for this week, you can “Turn In All.”

cursive practice: l & P

Watch the tutorials for each letter. Take a picture of your beautiful cursive and put it under the cursive section of your April E-Learning Slideshow.

  1. Cursive L Tutorial
  2. Cursive P Tutorial
  3. Cursive Worksheets L & P
ELA-BOOK CLUBS

Watch the video today to hear about the Dos and Don’ts of writing on Padlet. Today, after doing your agreed upon reading, you will be posting on your Book Club’s Padlet page. I will be looking for your wonderful jots, as well as comments on other club members’ jots today. 

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?
math- word problems and capacity

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. You must show your work for each problem.  Capacity Word Problems

SCIENCE- WEATHER AND CLIMATE
  • Weather and Climate 2 has been placed into your Science folder. Please review.
  • There are two books assigned to you for you on Epic: Check your Epic Mailbox. 
    • What is Climate? By Ellen Lawrence
    • What is Climate? By Bobbie Kalman (Optional, as this is more challenging)
  • After reading, record your notes on the Padlet for our class: Weather and Climate Padlet
SMART FACT- JUST FOR FUN 🙂

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 Practice L and P
      • Read agreed upon amount of your book club book
      • Watch Dos and Don’ts video and then post to your Book Club Padlet 
      • Watch math lesson videos and complete 2 word problems 
      • Read at least one “What is Climate?” books assigned to you on Epic 
      • Take notes on the text in the “Take Note” Padlet
      • Find a poem in the pocket for tomorrow- Be ready to share at our Thursday Zoom 🙂

 

 

Tuesday, April 28

Hi 3M! Today we will be meeting at 10:00 with Mr. Casal. You have Ms. Cameron for art at 11:15 and then an open library time with Ms. Sorensen at 2:00.

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

Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet

WORDS THEIR WAY

Log in to Pearson Realize. Continue to work on your sorts for this week. If you have any trouble, we can meet today after our Zoom session.

ela-Book clubs

Participating in a virtual book club can look and feel a little different than the book clubs that you were in at school. Watch the video to see how you can still be an active participant in these new book clubs, and how much of the good book club habits you gained at school can be applied to your clubs now at home. 

Today you will continue your book club reading, as well as complete one activity from the Reading BINGO board. (Found in your Reading Folder.)Be sure to complete your activity on paper first, and then take a picture/or video of your work to show us on Seesaw. When you record on Seesaw, tell us what book you are reading, and introduce the activity that you chose. 

The BINGO board can be found in your reading folder.
math-liters

There are two systems that are used for measurement, a customary one used in the United States, and the metric system used in most of the world and also in the sciences in the United States. We will continue to look at the metric system used for capacity.

Watch the video below to understand more about capacity and units of measurement; liters and milliliters. NOTE: YouTube video is not school protected so parental settings may need to be lifted:

Watch today’s video to measure and estimate the capacity of containers in liters.  Is it less than or more than a liter? Today explore your kitchen and find containers of liquid.  Can you find containers 1 liter or more and can you find containers less than 1 liter? Try to post your containers and explanations on Seesaw.

Copy and paste option: Workbook p.40

Print option: Workbook p.40

DMC #13 

science- weather and climate
  • Yesterday you created The Storm Spotter’s Guide and have until the end of today to complete it and post your new learning (along with a photo of the guide) on SeeSaw. 
  • In addition, there are a few videos for you on Epic: two to review the Water Cycle and one to preview Weather and Climate. All of the videos are relatively short (so you can enjoy them more than once) and packed with information! Check your Epic Mailbox. 
smart fact- Just for fun 🙂

On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the car company that bears his name and is known for stylish, high-performance cars, was born in Italy. His first business was making tractors. He decided to make sports cars when the Ferrari that he owned had mechanical difficulties. The very first Lamborghini 350 GTV was released in 1963 and the company’s logo was established as bull. Take this logo quiz to see how many companies you can easily recognize. 

 

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

      • Words Their Way-Due Friday 
      • Read 30 mins of Book Club Book
      • Book Club BINGO Board – Post on Seesaw (Look for assignment on Seesaw)
      • Watch math lesson videos and complete Math Workbook page 40
      • Watch the Mystery Doug Video & Complete “Storm Spotter’s Guide” 
      • Take a video and discuss the clouds you learned in your “Storm Spotter’s Guide” and post on Seesaw 
      • Watch the three videos assigned to you on Epic 
      • Find a poem in the pocket for Thursday

 

 

 

Monday, April 27th

Hi 3M! Today we will be meeting at 10:00.

Check your updated Zoom Schedule for this week. 

Need a book suggestion? Have a question about the databases? Ms. Sorensen will be available for an open library time Monday through Thursday this week for anything you need at 2:00. The Zoom link is in my Zoom Schedule.

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

Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet

WORDS THEIR WAY

Log in to Pearson Realize

Check out your new words. I will meet with some groups today at our Zoom to talk about the spelling rules for this week, so if you get started and are having trouble, hold off until our class.

ela: Poetry Publishing

  1.  Complete your Google Drawing Checklist
  2. Receive my feedback  and make the necessary corrections to your Google Drawing and poem. If you don’t see any comments, you are good to publish 🙂
  3. Watch the video above for directions to publish your poem on Padlet
  4. Click on the 3M Art and Poetry Festival Padlet to post your poem
  5. Wait for it to be approved on Padlet
  6. Any trouble? Check out Mr. Casal’s tutorial for posting from both a computer and an iPad
Scroll down to the last tutorial to find-Post to Padlet
ela- Book Clubs–discussion @ 10:00 zoom

Today during zoom we will go over book clubs.  I have made new book clubs and I assigned books on Epic for each club. We will go over everything today at 10am.  Then I will send further information in your reading folders to help guide you and your book club members. You will make reading assignments for 20- 30 minutes after our lesson today.

math- comparing capacity

Watch this video first to recap our work from last week and move into our new unit of study. Can you guess what that might be?

Watch this video to learn about another measurement called capacity.  Capacity is the amount of liquid a container can hold.  You will watch a demonstration how different containers can have different shapes and sizes and a variety of capacities.

Copy and paste: WB pages 37-39

Print option: capacity wb37-39

science: weather and climate- DUE Wednesday

In this Mystery, students learn how to make predictions about the weather by observing clouds and their changes. In the activity, Storm Spotter’s Guide, you will create a small book to record your notes, identify different types of clouds, and think about wind direction to figure out if a storm is heading your way.

Steps to complete:

  • Weather & Climate Part One Slides are in your science folder.
  • Print booklet : Storm Spotter’s Guide before watching the video
  • The link to watch Mystery Doug “Stormy Skies” is on the slides.
  • Watch video and Doug will prompt step by step along the way (he will show you how to make the Storm Spotter’s guidebook)
  • Post a video of your Storm Spotter’s Guide on Seesaw– This is due Wednesday 
smart Fact

On this day in 1810 Ludwig van Beethoven composed his famous piano piece Für Elise. It is probably the most famous piano piece ever composed.  If you are not familiar with the beautiful music, click here to enjoy: Beethoven Für Elise

 

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

  • Words Their Way-Due Friday 
  • Read 30 mins – Book Club Introduction during Zoom lesson
  • Post your Poetry Google Drawing to our class Padlet.
  • Watch math lesson videos and complete Math Workbook pages 37-39
  • Go to Science Folder and open “Weather and Climate Part 1” 
    • Watch the Mystery Doug Video
    • Complete Storm Spotter’s Guide & Post a video of you explaining different clouds and showing complete guide 
    • All Due Wednesday