Our Day – Tuesday, March 31 – Day 10

Good Morning! Thanks for meeting yesterday.  It feels so good to see your faces and hear your voices.  I am grateful for that opportunity.

Morning Work – I hope you will start your learning day by completing your weather graph, noting the temperature on the section of the graph you color in and the type of cloud you see.  Use the symbols on the cloud finder as labels.

Stop to put your gratefulness rock in your pocket.  Think of two new things you are grateful for as your day begins.  Then check out each others’ blogs and leave a comment or two.

Keep up with independent reading suggestions by checking out all of the daily reading comments you’ve all been leaving.

 

Morning MeetingHappy Gratitude Tuesday!  Listen to The Gratitude Jar by Kristin Wiens.   Find a container and make your own Gratitude Jar. (I’m using a yogurt container.) When things aren’t going well, it’s important to have some way of reminding ourselves that we can get through this!  Leave the jar plain or decorate it to match your personality.  The important thing is to make some strips of paper and to write something each day to add to your jar.  If you’d like to share your jar – please do by taking a picture and posting it on your blog.

 

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two  Go Noodle videos here to dance to Roar and here, breathe and grow confident.

Reading, Writing, Science and Art

Shared Reading –  Today you’ll be working to finish your concept map about weather.  But first let’s start with a new poem:

Weather ~ by Meish Goldish

Weather is hot,                               Next listen to 

Weather is cold,                             Clouds by Ann Rockwell

Weather is changing                    You may want to

As the weeks unfold.                    add the cloud

Skies are cloudy,                           information to your 

Skies are fair,                                 concept map.

Skies are changing

In the air.

It is raining,

It is snowing,

It is windy

With breezes blowing.

Days are foggy,

Days are clear,

Weather is changing

Throughout the year!

When you finish your weather concept map, take a picture of it to post on your blog or send to me in an email.  We’ll use it tomorrow when we write.

Take a break, go outside, run around, make a Paper Ball Bunny,  play a game, make some art.

ReadingFind a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.  If you’re wishing for some new book/reading options you can find some fabulous picture book recordings at Storyline Online and recorded books here at Audible. The Elementary selections look great.  Enjoy!

At the end of reading today, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.

Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder.  Relax.

Inquiry Workshop – Social Studies  –  Our goal is to have the travel journal (magazine) pages completed by the end of March – that’s Tuesday. I’ve now heard from 7 of you that you are done with your Travel Journal. Congratulations! 🗿🏯⛩🌋I hope to hear from more of you today.

Math – How about some chocolate for the first part of our math warm up?  Here are four pictures of chocolate.  Without telling us which picture you selected, please create a blog post sharing the four equations in the fact family represented by the box you chose.   After, that write one story problem that would fit with one of the equations in the family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is an example of the math I hope to see on your blog post.  My example matches this picture of eggs  and not any of the chocolate choices you have.  I didn’t want to do the work for you. 😁

My fact family is:  

2×3=6

3×2=6

6÷3=2

6÷2=3

My math story problem is:  Vera had 6 eggs.  She wanted to dye them equally in three different colors: pink, green and blue. How many eggs of each color could she dye.

Complete this Fact Families and More worksheet to help you have even more practice with fact families in the second part of the math warm up.

If you’d like to create some of your own  Fact Family Triangles, you can get them here.

Next, here are today’s problems to choose from.  See if there are two that feel like just right challenges.   You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper.  It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted.  Thanks!

Javey really likes goldfish crackers. 

He ate 128 in the morning for snack and 206 in the afternoon.

How many did he eat altogether that day?

He ate twice as many goldfish crackers the next day.  How many goldfish crackers was that?

Javey he ate only half as many on the third day as he had on the first day.  How many goldfish crackers was that?

How many goldfish crackers did Javey eat altogether in those three days?

Van was reading about space. 

He learned there were three different colors of stars in one picture.

There were 4,368 stars in the picture altogether. 

457 of the stars were white.

1,863 stars were red.

The rest of the stars were blue.

How many blue stars were in the picture?

Landin had 8 brownies that she wanted to share equally with five of her friends. (Landin and five friends make a total of six people sharing.)

When she was done – everyone had the same amount and there were no parts of the brownies left over

How did Landin cut up and share the brownies?  What portion did each person have?

Max collected shells at the beach.  He added 174 to his collection and now he has a total of 360 shells.

How many shells did Max start with?

Justin was walking along the beach.  He saw a flock of 15,362 birds.  How many total wings were in the flock. 

3,471 birds flew away from the flock as he watch them.  How many birds were left at the beach?

Elena brought 14 pizzas to a family party.  Each pizza had 8 slices. 

She and her family ate 74 slices of pizza. 

How many slices of pizza were left?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. If you want to try Prodigy talk to your parents.  Did anyone else find another game to recommend?  Leave the name in a comment so we can all have fun.Did anyone else find another game you like.  Leave the name in a comment so we can all have fun.

UA’s for today…

Challenges and Phys. Ed.  Here is the link to their website if you need some suggestions for how to stay active and fit.

I hope you had a great day!  Thanks for being the best!

👊🏻📖✏️🔢🌤🌎

💕Mrs. Eaves

Winterhouse Challenge

Challenge Summary:

  1. Choose a main character to make an image of (see details below.)
  2. List 3 inner personality traits (explained on “Our Day -Monday, March 23)  your character has and explain how the character demonstrated each trait in the story.
  3. Take a photograph of your image, post it with the traits on your blog
  4. This is due on or before April 8.

When we began reading Winterhouse on January 21 and in about forty days we finished our most exciting read-aloud to date.  In the first week we began sorting characters.  We were wondering who the main characters were and who the secondary characters were and who were the extras.  Here’s our list from that first week.  I would add a character and I would move a few around.  How about you?  Gracella hadn’t appeared in the story when we made our list and we listed Freddy as a secondary character then.  I think the main characters are: Elizabeth, Norbridge, Freddy, Leona and Gracella.

 

Your challenge, should you accept it, (and I hope you will!!!❤️❤️❤️ – 🥺🥺🥺 Did you notice I am pleading?😀) is to choose a main character from Winterhouse, create an image of that character and list 3 inner personality traits your character has.  Support those claims with evidence.  You do that by explaining how your favorite character showed those traits through their thoughts, words and actions in the book.

You can create your character image in any 3-D or 2-D way you’re inspired to use – play-doh, water colors, model magic, sewing, markers, foil, pipe cleaners, crayons, a puppet, collage, any combination…

Once you’ve created your character, take a photograph, add it to a blog post (or send it to me in an email and I will) with your favorite character’s name.

Along with that, please list 3 inner personality traits your character had and how they showed each trait through their thoughts, words and/or actions in the story.

This should be completed on or before Wednesday, April 8th.

Happy Creating!

💕Mrs. Eaves

 

Our Day – Monday – March 30 – Day 9

Good Morning!  I hope you had a relaxing weekend!

We’ll hold a Zoom Meeting at 10:00.  Bring your gratitude rock and be ready to share one thing you’re grateful for. Hopefully you’ll each be able to share and we’ll be ready to listen to each other.

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, noting the temperature on the section of the graph you color in and the type of cloud you see.  Use the symbols on the cloud finder.

Stop to look at  your gratitude  rock or put in your pocket   Think of a couple new things you are grateful for as your day begins.  Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two.

Keep up with independent reading suggestions by checking out the comments you’ve all been leaving.

 

Morning Meeting – Let’s be grateful – when we give our attention to the people, places and things we are thankful for, it can help us find greater happiness.

This book is a beautiful reminder of all the incredible opportunities there are for us in the world.

This first link is a reading of All the World.  This second link focuses closely on the illustrations.  I think it is beautifully arranged. It helped me notice the details I hadn’t seen before.  Enjoy if you feel you have the time!

I found this  Gratitude Scavenger Hunt on simpleacresblog.  Go on a hunt sometime today and create a post sharing what you discovered and collected.

 

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two  Go Noodle videos here , Repeat the Beat and here Weather the Storm mindfully.

My guess is this is about the time we’ll be meeting on Zoom.

 

Reading, Writing, Science and Art

Shared Reading – Today we’ll be working to summarize what we’ve learned about predicting the weather, reading clouds and staying safe in extreme weather.

Let’s start with a new poem –

Four Seasons ~ anonymous.                            

Spring is showery, flowery, bowery.

Summer: hoppy, croppy, poppy.

Autumn:  wheezy, sneezy, freezy.

Winter: slippy, drippy, nippy.

To review all the different types of extreme weather listen to Super Storms by Seymour Simon. Take some time today to begin creating a concept map about storms. Here is a link:  concept map. Try to make it as detailed as you can. That will mean adding more circles. You may want to draw your own on a larger piece of paper.  Here is one I started as an example.  It may give you an idea of how to begin.

Go back to the pieces you wrote about each different kind of weather to remind yourself of the facts.  You can read other kids’ post or reread the resources shared throughout last week if you need to remember more facts.  I think this project will take you a while to do. Do some today and some tomorrow.  We’ll be using it to write from on Wednesday. When you’re finished take a picture of it post it on your blog or send it in an email.

 

Take a break, go outside and run around, sing, build, play a game, make some art.

 

ReadingFind a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.  If you’re wishing for some new book/reading options you can find some fabulous picture book recordings at Storyline Online and recorded books here at Audible. The Elementary selections look great.  Enjoy!

At the end of reading today, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.

 

Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder.  Relax.

 

Inquiry Workshop – Social Studies  –  Our goal is to have the travel journal (magazine) pages completed by the end of March – that’s Tuesday. So far 5 students have completed their travel journals. How are you doing on your writing, covers, table of contents and glossaries?

Math – On Friday five classmates wrote math problems for you to solve: Vera, May, Anna, Katherine and Landon.  To start our math warm up, take time to open at least two of these blog posts and solve their problems.  Let them know what you’ve done in a comment.  I was hoping we’d be able to draw sticks this time.  We’ll give it a try another time when more classmates have a chance to complete the assignment.  😃✏️🔢

For the second part of the Math Warm-Up try this worksheet.Fact Families and Missing Numbers 3.30

At the bottom of the worksheet you’ll see three equations with parenthesis in them.  Parenthesis = ( ).  Let’s talk about what they mean in a math problem.  When you see (3+2) x 5 =□  Do you know what to do?  The rule in mathematics is to alway perform the operation inside the parenthesis first and then perform the second operation.  So this equation becomes 5×5 =□ and we can solve that:  5×5=25.  Here’s another example: 135 – (5×9) = □.  That becomes 135 -45 = □.  135-45 =90.  Now give those last three problems a try.

It does seem as though more of you are feeling comfortable with division.  Vera, Katherine and May showed us their division process with photographs and videos.  Lots of you have solved the division equations on the worksheets last week. We’ll keep practicing until division feels more comfortable to everyone.

Next, here are today’s problems to choose from.  See if there are two that feel like just right challenges.   You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper.  It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted.  Thanks!

Elena has 21,850 crayons.  Sophie has 17,039 crayons.

How many more crayons does Elena have than Sophie?

Landon has 2,258 more crayons than Sophie has.  How many crayons does Landon have?

If Elena, Sophie and Landon put their crayons altogether, how many crayons will that be?

Holden has 10,000 balloons.  2,626 of the balloon are blue.  4,486 are red.  2,029 are yellow.  The rest of the balloons are different shades of green.

How many of the balloons are green?

275 of the green balloons are star shaped.  The rest are round.  How many round, green balloons does Holden have?

Vera baked 128 muffins.

Edward baked 11 times as many.  How many muffins did Edward bake?

Vera baked some corn muffins and some chocolate-chip muffins. If 59 if the muffins were corn muffins, how many of them were chocolate chip?

Edward baked some blueberry muffins and some apple muffins.  If 826 of the muffins were blueberry, how many of them were apple?

Brady had 2,080 Legos.

He built a castle.  He used 762 of the Legos in the castle. 

How many Legos did Brady have have left for another project?

May had 2,056 markers.  She threw away 268 because they had dried up.

How many markers did she have left?

Round your answer to the nearest 10. 

Round your answer to the nearest 100.

Estella was building a fort.  The floor of was a rectangle that measured 6 feet by 4 feet.  She wanted to get tiles to put on the floor.  The tiles were 1 foot by 1 foot. 

How many tiles would Estella need to cover the floor of her fort?

If each tile cost $1.25, how much money did Estella spend to buy the tiles?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya.  Brady and I especially like Math Bingo. Landon recommended Basketball Math Facts.  Edward recommends Number Ninja.  Holden recommended a different game site, Prodigy.  If you want to try Prodigy talk to your parents.  Did anyone else find another game to recommend?  Leave the name in a comment so we can all have fun.

UA’s for today…

Art Click on new lessons and scroll down to find what Mrs. Nardone has for you to explore in Art today.  If you explore the art gallery you’ll see new artwork this week from Brady, Anna, Piper, Landon and May.  Technology.  You’ll find the lessons Mrs. Herlihy left here at this link open the lesson that is next for you.

I hope you had a fabulous Monday.  I’ll be looking for your work.  I am so glad to meet with you.  Comment and post often – it keeps us connected!

🙌🏼🎉💕Mrs. Eaves

 

A Summary of Week 2

Here are some of the pictures and work you sent this week.  I thought you’d enjoy seeing each other and the things you are creating and doing.  I didn’t include everything here, but I have it all!  Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU for sharing and keeping us connected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU for doing your best and posting your thoughts and ideas.

Brady 3.25

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ll keep working together and finding ways to inspire each other.  Keep looking for joy and reminding yourself all there is to be grateful for.

Landon Mar 25

May’s Wind

 

 

 

 

 

Stay safe and healthy. That’s most important.  We’ll work it out!  Keep doing all that you can, and don’t worry about what you can’t! 🙃

Sophie 3.20

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep on being awesome!

🙌🏻🌈💕Mrs. Eaves

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who helped us meet in our practice Zoom session.  It was so great to see so many of you.  Thank you Justin, Elena, Sophie, Piper, Katherine, Landon, Vera, Edward, Brady, May, Estella, Javey, And Van.  Thanks for sharing your pets and your accomplishments.  Thank you for sharing what your are grateful for.  I am so grateful to all of you. Thank for taking the time.  Be in the lookout for our next Zoom session on Monday from 10:00 to 10:30.  Have a great weekend!

Our Day – Friday, March 27 – Day 8

Good Morning! 

Morning Work – I hope you will start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, noting the temperature on the section of the graph you color in and the type of cloud you see.  Use the symbols on the cloud finder.

Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Justin wrote about his epic trip to the beach – it is full of photographs from every part.  There are lots of posts about Blizzards and listening carefully with gratitude.  There are some great illustrations – Anna actually cut some snowflakes to post with her writing.  Vera shared all about her animals.  We’ll have to see if Edward and Justin are saved…  Will Piper ever write again…  Thanks for sharing and posting and staying connected.

Check out all the comments of you’ve all been leaving about reading too.  You’re making great predictions and inferences and sharing what you think about these great books.

Morning Meeting – What I was grateful for after I sat and listened surprised me.  I didn’t expect to be most grateful for the sound of motors, but I was.  Were you surprised by what you discovered when you thought about being grateful for sounds?

Here’s another gratitude exercise I found this on positive psychology.com. I hope it will remind us to keep track of more of our forgotten blessings.  The exercise is called:  A Gratitude Rock.  But before I share the instructions, let’s listen to this story, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.  It’s a long one, but a great one, so relax and enjoy.

Now, here are the instructions for the activity:  find a rock!  Pick one you like.  (Justin I had planned this before I read your post from yesterday – you’ve got some great rocks to choose from. 🌊) It can be smooth or bumpy, sparkly or collected from a place special.  Carry your rock with you in your pocket or leave in a place where you will see it off and on throughout the day. Whenever you see it or touch it, stop and think about at least one thing you are grateful for. It can be something as small as the sun shining on you or it can be something as big as having a family who cares for you.

When you take the stone out of your pocket at night or see it for the last time of the day, take a moment to remember the things that you were grateful for throughout the day.

When you put it in your pocket in the morning or see it again for the first time in the day, repeat this process to remember what you are grateful for.  Gratitude builds. It makes us happier and healthier the more we remember to take note of what’s wonderful – even in not so fun situations.

When you’ve selected your Gratitude Rock, take a picture of it and post it on your blog along with a few things you are feeling grateful for in your life.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two  Go Noodle videos here and here. One is a fun guided dance (Katherine, I think you’ll really like it.)and the other helps us grow gratitude.

Reading, Writing, Science and Art

Shared Reading – Do you know the difference between a snowstorm and a blizzard? Let’s find out about one last type of extreme weather today – thunderstorms.  We’ll start with a new song (sung to “Pop Goes the Weasel). It’s by Meish Goldish.

Thunder and Lightning

When a storm begins in the clouds,

It sometimes may look frightening.          To learn about thunderstorms

You see a quick electrical spark –               click here

Flash! goes the lightning!

Long and thin and stray and fast,

Its gloms is oh so brightening.

Watch for the electrical spark – 

Flash! goes the lightning!

When a storm begins in the clouds,

It truly is a wonder.                                  You can learn some more from

You hear a rumble loud in the sky –        this video

Clap! goes the thunder!                             Thunderstorms 101

Lightning bolts are heating the air,      

Over clouds and under.                           

When the air expands enough –              

Clap! goes the thunder!

 

Now that you’ve learned about thunderstorms, take time to write a poem, an informational piece or a narrative story that features one.   Consider using all your elaboration strategies as you write.

Add an original piece of artwork or illustrate it with images online to create a blog post sharing what you think is most interesting about this kind of extreme weather.

Take a break, go outside, run around, sing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes regular, fast, faster and then in slow-motion,  play a game, make some art.

ReadingFind a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.  If you’re wishing for some new book/reading options you can find some fabulous picture book recordings at Storyline Online and recorded books here at Audible. The Elementary selections look great.  Enjoy!

At the end of reading today, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.

Inquiry Workshop – Social Studies  –  Our goal is to have the travel journal (magazine) pages completed by the end of March and ready to share on April 6th. Our writing goals for this project were to show some of what you know about non-fiction text features and that is why you’ve been asked to design a special cover, have bold or highlighted words, build a glossary with this words, create a labels map and a table on contents.  We’re also working on paragraphing. You know how to do all those things.  Just do one thing at a time. Do what you can and don’t worry about what you can’t.

Math – I didn’t see many examples of how you solved the division problems on Thursday, so I’m not sure if we should move on.  May shared a great video showing how she used division with a new supply of play-doh her family was given. Watch what she did:May 3.26 dividing

I thought I’d double check understanding by trying another activity.  Here are two different equations:  28÷7= ___ and 4×9= ___  Below them you will find four different story problems.  Can you tell which ones are match the equations?  Only 2 match. Can you find them and explain why.  Sometimes finding the words to explain is the tricky part.  You know the answer, but you’re not sure how.  Make sure you have someone around, so you can actually practice explaining.

  • a) There were 28 pieces of candy in the dish. A boy ate 7 of the pieces of candy.  How many pieces of candy were  left?
  • b) There were 4 logs in the pond.  Nine turtles crawled on each long to sun themselves.  How many turtles were sunning themselves altogether?
  • c) There were 28 donuts.  I shared them evenly with 7 students. How many donuts did each student get as their fair share?
  • d) There were 4 bluebirds and 9 robins in my yard.  How many birds did I see altogether in my yard?

After you’ve made your choices and practiced explaining, please share your reasoning in part 1 of a blog post.  Next, please select two equations from below and write a math story problem for each of your two choices.  Remember to use our story problem guidelines, except make these one step problems.  Post your math story problems as the second part on your math blog post so we can use them in our math class on Monday.

9×2= ___.         16÷2= ___.         24÷4= ___.         4×8= ___.         42÷6= ___.         6×5= ___.         6×8= ___.       40÷5= ___.       9×6= ___.         18÷3= ___.         36÷4= ___.         10×4= ___.

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya.  Brady and I especially like Math Bingo. Landon recommended Basketball Math Facts.   Edward recommends Number Ninja. Did anyone else find another game you like.  Leave the name in a comment so we can all have fun.

Here’s a message from Mr. Guidi to you and your parents:

After talking to the Physical Education team, we have decided that the fitness logs that are posted on Google Classroom are optional. If you would like to continue filling out the fitness logs, then you are more than welcome to do so. Google Classroom can be used for students to get in contact with us, but you can also email us with any questions you might have. 
 
We have created a website that you can use as a resource. I have posted the link here: https://sites.google.com/sau21.org/nhspe/home?authuser=0. We will continue to update the page with videos and links that we hope will be useful to you and your children at home. 
So enjoy something active, joyous and fun for Phys. Ed. Here’s the link to Mrs Oliver’s Online classroom.  Remember, she’d love to hear from you and is hoping you’ll email her pictures of videos of the songs you are learning to play.  Have fun making music!
You’ve finished the week. 👊🏻🙌🏼🎉 Well done!  I am so proud of you – you are doing it.  I am working on Zoom – we’ll be in touch soon.  I miss you more than you can imagine.
Have a wonderful weekend!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜☀️ Mrs. Eaves

Our Day – Thursday, March 26 – Day 7

Good Morning! 

Morning Work – I hope you will start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, noting the temperature on the section of the graph you color in and the type of cloud you see.  Use the symbols on the cloud finder.

Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Piper and Edward are holding out – they won’t finish their stories until they get a few more comments.  Lots of you share how thankful you are for your family and many of you shared your engineering skills.  There is a lot of effort and learning happening here. You should be proud of yourselves.  Thanks for sharing and posting and staying connected.

Check out all the comments of your classmates have left about reading too.  You’ll notice who is thinking about character traits, or favorite events.  You just might find a new book for you.

Morning Meeting  – Now that I’ve started thinking of what I grateful for, I’ve begun to think about things like being grateful to see and hear, to taste and feel.  And that made me think of this book.  Here’s a link to The Listening Walk. Enjoy!  I like how this book is full of onomatopoeia so let’s see how we can combine sounds with gratitude and writing.  First, make time to “go on a listening walk.”  You decide – do you want to sit and listen right where you are, or do you want to go for a walk outside.  Whatever you choose, make a list of as many sounds as you hear.  Next sort them into natural and manmade sounds.  And finally, choose the sounds you are most grateful for and share them in a poem or story on your blog.  Try using onomatopoeia in this post.  If you need an example to help you get started, there’s one on my blog.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like,  here are Go Noodle videos here and here. One is for moving and one is for thinking about kindness.

Reading, Writing, Science and Art

Shared Reading – Do you know the difference between a snow storm and a blizzard? Let’s find out about this type of extreme weather today.  First here’s a new poem by A.A.Milne:

The More It Snows                                            Here’s  John Rocco’s Blizzard

The more it.                                                             It’s his personal narrative from 1978.

SNOWS – tiddely -pom,

The more it.                                                            Here’s an article by Lauren Tarshis.

GOES – tiddely – pom                                          She is the author of the I Survived series

The more it.                                                           It’s about The Children’s Blizzard of 1888

GOES – tiddely – pom                                           And finally, here’s a video,

On                                                                            The Biggest Snowstorms!

Snowing.

And nobody

KNOWS – tiddely- pom,                                   Now that you’re a Blizzard expert.

How cold my                                                      Take some time to write about the

TOES – tiddely – pom                                        difference between a snowstorm and

How cold my                                                       a blizzard. You could create a poem, a

TOES – tiddely – pom.                                      story, an informational piece.  If you’ve got

Are                                                                       coffee filters or a cupcake liners, make

Growing.                                                             some snowflakes to illustrate your writing.  

Post them together on your blog.

Take a break, go outside, run around play a game, make some art.  Maybe there’s something on this chart that you haven’t thought of that could be fun.

Reading – Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.  If you’re wishing for some new book/reading options you can find some fabulous picture book recordings at Storyline Online and recorded books here at Audible. The Elementary selections look great.  Enjoy!

At the end of reading today, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.

Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder.  Mrs. Oliver has a couple new songs for us today.

Inquiry Workshop – Social Studies  –  Our goal is to have the travel journal (magazine) pages completed by the end of March and ready to share on April 6th. You can find your assignment and notes in the blue folder so you are sure of what parts need to be worked on.  You may want to begin writing what you have researched now and see how many of your pages you can complete before you finish researching.  It’s okay to work in whatever writing program you have on your computer rather than using Print Shop.  Google Classroom is an option for making your pages too.  You can choose the font type, size and color in Pages or Word and you add photographs the same way.  Do what you can and don’t worry about what you can’t.

Math –   Today our goal is to make sure that we can solve division story problems with dividends to 100.  And we are going to try practicing solving division problems by finding an unknown factor.

(A dividend the the number that is being divided in the problem.  Factors are the two numbers being multiplied together.)

Here’s the first story problem:  If I had 24 cookies and I wanted to divide them evenly among 6 children. How many cookies would each child get?

Step one: count out 24 pennies (It what I have to use as counters like we use the tiles in class.)

Step two:  draw six kids

Step three:  Start sharing pennies until they are gone to find out what a fair share is.

Step four:  Write the equation.  My answer is four.

What if someone said, “I could solve that because I know that 4 x 6 =24.  So it just makes sense that 24 ÷6 =4.  They’re in the same fact family.”  Would they be right or not?

Edward had 35 baseball cards that he wanted to share evenly with seven friends.  How many baseball cards would he give each of his friends.  Edward said, “I know that.  I know that 7 x 5 =35 so 35 ÷7 =5.  My answer is that each friend would get 5 cards.”

I wasn’t certain so here are the steps I took to solve the problem.

Step one:  Count out 35 pennies

Step two: Draw seven kids

Step three: Share the pennies until they are gone to find out what the fair share is.

Step four:  Write the equation.  My answer is 5.  Each of the kids would get 5 baseball cards.  I got the same answer as Edward did, but I got it in a different way.  Can we both be right?

For today’s warm up choose at least two of the following problems to solve.  Record all the steps of your math thinking either by recording and dating it in your journal or by photographing your steps and creating your own math teaching blog post.

  1. Seven candies fit into a treat bag.  Jerry has 56 pieces of candy.  How many treat bags can Jerry make?
  2. Our families are coming to school for a game night.  Each table holds 8 people.  There are 48 people coming to the game night.  How many tables will we need?
  3. Six markers fit in a box.  Olive has 36 markers.  How many boxes can Olive fill.
  4. Mr. Guidi has 27 basketballs.  He wants to put the same number in each storage bag.  He has 3 storage bags.  How many basketballs will Mr. Guidi put in each bag?
  5. There were 18 crackers. 3 kids wanted to share them fairly.  How many crackers were in each fair share?

Next, here are today’s problems to choose from.  See if there are two that feel like just right challenges.   You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper.  It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted.  Thanks!

At baseball practice the players on Landon threw the ball 162 times.  He batted the ball 63 times and fielded the ball 79 times.  How much contact with a ball did Landon have at that practice?

If that was repeated three times each week for the entire month of May (there are four weeks in a month) how much contact with a ball would Landon have altogether in that month?

Mrs. Nardone bought 15 packets of crayons.  Eight of the packets had 8 crayons and the other seven had 10 crayons.  How many crayons did Mrs. Nardone buy in all?

Half of the crayons were triangular and half were round.

How many of each type of crayon were there?

Holden was doing a jigsaw puzzle that had 1,525 pieces in it.

He divided the puzzle pieces into five equal groups.  How many pieces were in each group?

By Monday he had completed 3/5 (3 of the 5 groups)of the puzzle.

How many pieces did he still have left to put together then?

The birds are back and nesting.

The ornithologists are keeping track.  They have found:

15 bluebird nests, with 4 eggs in each nest and

21 robin nests, with 6 eggs in each nest.

How many eggs were in the 36 nests altogether?

Elena collected 174 shells at the beach.  She added them to her collection and now she has 360 shells.

How many shells did Elena start with?

Sophie had 1,209 books.  Katherine had 1,136 books.  If they put them together on a shelf, how many books would they have then?

Paul borrowed 140 and Holden borrowed 128 of the books the girls put on the shelf.  How many books were left on the shelf then?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCDya.  Brady and I especially like Math Bingo. Landon recommended Basketball Math Facts.   Did anyone else find another game you like.  Leave the name in a comment so we can all have fun.  You could also make your own Tiguous board.  All you need is a partner, 10 counters each and two dice.  You can teach for family the game.

 

I know you began Spanish yesterday.  Here is some information I forgot to share:

Hola familias – Hello families.

I hope you are all doing well and coping with the adjustments we are having to make so quickly. I miss your kids and teaching Spanish face to face. Having said that, I will do my best to teach online.
Here are a few requests for your children:
  1. Keep a journal of what you do for Spanish each week.
  2. Try practicing speaking aloud with another person, even if they do not speak Spanish.
  3. There are lots of Apps for children to learn Spanish to use on the computer and/or a tablet. I will do my best to compile a list of some suggestions.
  4. Practice 2x per week, 15 minutes each time.
Take care and stay healthy. Please email me with questions.
Sinceramente, Sra. Murphy

Here’s the link to Mrs Oliver’s Online classroom.  Remember, she’d love to hear from you and is hoping you’ll email her pictures of videos of the songs you are learning to play.  Have fun making music!

Well done!  You’ve completed another day.  I miss you more than you can ever know.  Thank you for all you effort.  You are wonderful. 🙌🏼

❤️ Mrs. Eaves