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
Questions? E-Learning Questions Padlet
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?
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- 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
- Book Clubs
- 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