Well, now what do you think? What is your prediction about the ending? How do you think the story will wrap up? Leave your ideas in predictions in the comments below.
(Also – please comment on Edward and Piper’s last posts – Edward’s so he doesn’t dissolve 🤣 and Piper’s so she’ll finish the story and we can find out what happens. 🤗.)
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. Again, I am in awe at all the wonderful work you are doing. You definitely know how to make others feel happy and appreciated. And you recognize what makes you happy as well. It is clear you know the importance of sharing – Max, Landon, May, Estella, Elena, Katherine, Sophie, Anna, Holden and Brady certainly know how to appreciate what they have. Landon, Anna, Vera, Brady, Max, Landin, and Sophie have written extreme weather poems, narratives and informational comparisons. They are great! Others have written about things that make them happy. Sorry if I missed someone in this shout out! You are all amazing! Thanks for writing and staying connected. It is one way of sharing that will keep each other safe and happy!
Check out all the comments of your classmates have left about reading too. They have fabulous book recommendations – you can see who was thinking about character traits, favorite events and who has finished a book that could be just right for you.
Morning Meeting – Let’s keep thinking about gratitude and joy. Giving and kindness (when you remember not to be too competitive) are personality traits you all share! You make 3E a great place to be!
Let’s start by listening to Quackenstein Hatches a Family. Families are important. They do a lot for us, and sometimes we forget to notice. Create a post on your blog to let your family know all the ways you are grateful for them. If you need an idea, I’ll create a sample on my blog. Illustrate your post however you like – artwork, a photograph or both.
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 relaxing.
Reading and Science
Shared Reading – For the last two days you’ve been learning about wind storms. You’ve learned about tornadoes and hurricanes. Today you’ll be thinking about the kinds of problems strong wind might cause and you’ll be thinking like an engineer to create different ways you can protect your house during a wind storm. Here’s a new poem by John Ciardi:
Wouldn’t You?
If I
Could go Here’s a Pebble Go link about Wind.
As high log in, click on the wind link and listen
and low (hit refresh if it doesn’t open)
As the wind
As the wind.
As the wind
Can blow –
I’d go!
Next you’ll be watching a full Mystery Science video. How can you keep a house from blowing away in a windstorm? The video and questions take about 18 minutes. The engineering activity takes at least 35 minutes. Then there is a short wrap-up video that is important/helpful to watch. You’ll have to decide if you want to do it all in one day or in two. I sent the worksheets you’ll need home for the activity in the bag of stuff. If you’re not sure where they are, they are linked here: Paper House Model, Wind Maker, Design a Windproof House worksheet. You’ll also need 4 more paper clips (one is in the baggie with your stuff), 6 toothpicks and 4 round stickers (four inch long pieces of tape will be fine.). The activity suggests you choose a partner. Sorry there are no classmates near, but doing the activity when there is someone to bounce ideas off of and to help you is a good plan and strongly encouraged by me.
Please take pictures of your work and post them on your blog so we can see what you did – even if it didn’t work out as you’d hoped.
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 and would find 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! Mrs. McComb has some great resources on the library site. They are across the top starting with March Activities.
At the end of reading today describe what’s happening now, and what you think will happen next – or if you read the whole book today, describe your favorite part. Please take time to explain your choice and why.
Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Mrs. Oliver has a couple new songs for us tomorrow.
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. 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 – Choose another one of the worksheets sent home for math warm up (if you have any left). Here is a worksheet to remind you of how multiplication and division are connected and to help you practice writing story problems. page 149 Remember, if you’re trying to do the division get some beads, crayons or pompoms so you can count out the the large group and then divide it up. For example if you’re trying to solve 18 ÷ 6 = ___ Count out 18 things. Divide them into groups of 6 and find out how many groups you have. It also works to sort the 18 things into 6 equal groups and find out how many are in each group.
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 helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thank you for doing that.
Anna went to the grocery shopping. There were 24 boxes of bottled water. Each box had 6 bottles in it. She bought them all.
How many bottles of water did Anna buy?
She also went to get some oranges. She bought 6 bags. Each bag had 15 oranges.
How many oranges did Anna buy?
Holden was reading some books from the I Survived series. Each book had 126 pages. He read 7 of them.
How many pages did Holden read altogether?
Brady was reading books in the Stick Dog series. Each book had 224 pages. He read 3 of them.
How many pages did Brady read altogether?
Who has read more pages in their series at this point? Show how you know.
May really liked eating goldfish crackers. She ate them for snack as often as she could. She wanted to find out how many she ate in three days.
On the first day she ate 35 in the morning and 47 in the afternoon.
On the second day she ate two times as many goldfish as she had eaten on day 1.
On the third day she only ate half as many goldfish as she had on day 1.
How many goldfish did she eat altogether in those three days?
These more problems can be tricky… each coin has a different value.
Justin had 16 dimes, 34 nickels and 235 pennies.
How much money did he have altogether in dollars and cents?
He spent $3.55 when he went shopping.
How much money did he have left?
Max had 49 dimes, 17 nickels and 526 pennies.
How much money did Max have altogether in dollars and cents?
He went shopping and spent $7.35.
How much money did he have left?
Piper has discovered that Japan is a beautiful place. It is the home of many unusual castles and temples. Hemeji Castle was built in 1331.
The Golden Pagoda (or Temple) was built in 1397.
How old is the castle today?
How old is the pagoda today?
How much older is the castle than the pagoda?
Finish up with a game. I forgot to say that yesterday. There are some really great games for practicing math facts and exploring fractions here at ABCDya. I especially like Math Bingo. Did anyone find another game to recommend. Leave the name in a comment so we can all have fun.
Spanish – Here is a first and second activity from Señora. She like you to practice a bit of Spanish for 15 minutes twice a week. Here is your library connection. I’ll send your Google Classroom login to your family
Thanks for working so hard today. You are amazing!
❤️ Mrs. Eaves
PS – Here’s the Best Banana Bread recipe from Mrs. Fields. She said it was a favorite with the cooking club and yummy too. Enjoy!
What are your predictions? What will happen next?
I recorded this chapter in two part so it fit on the blog
What do you think?
Good Morning! Thank you for the pictures! They make my heart sing!
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.
Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thanks for writing and staying connected. So many of you have posted new things it will be hard to list them all. Brady and Vera took time to do the tornado assignment. Vera wrote a poem and Brady created a picture. I don’t know if he meant to or not, but I think his tornado has a face and arms and legs. It could be the character of a great story. Brady, Landon, Sophie and Holden all wrote short pieces about seasons. Edward and Piper both need your comments and suggestions to keep writing. Check out all the comments of your classmates have left about reading. They have fabulous book recommendations – you can see who was thinking about character traits and everyone is reading great books! 📚📖📗 I am impressed!
Morning Meeting – It seems to me that it will be good for us to think again about gratitude and joy. We are all feeling a bit out of sorts because we’d rather be having something else happen and we can’t do anything about this. Elena’s shared what was happening in her book. Junie B. Jones and her class were bringing “thankful bags” to school. That gave me this idea.
First, let’s start by listening an old favorite, The Rainbow Fish. After listening, please go to your blog and make a list of between 3 and 5 things that you could share with others that would make they happy and a second list of 3 to 5 things that have been shared with you, that have made you happy. The added challenge is to see if you can choose things that cost no money to put on your list. If you feel stuck you can go to my blog. I made a new post about it there.
Take a break, get a snack and move around. If you’d like here are a couple different Go Noodle videos here and here. One is for moving and one is for relaxing.
Reading – Writing – Science and Art
Shared Reading – Yesterday you looked and and listened to a lot of information about tornadoes. Today we are going to explore hurricanes. First, here’s a new poem. I like the homonyms.
Weather – anonymous.
Whether the weather be fine, Here’s a link to Mystery Doug
Or whether the weather be not, What is worse a hurricane or
Whether the weather be cold, a tornado?
Or whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like if or not!
Here is a link to Pebble Go about Extreme Weather. After you log in click on the hurricane, listen and learn.
Here is another link to a magazine article, Let’s Look at Hurricanes. It has great photographs.
And here’s a BrainPop video explaining even more about Hurricanes.
And finally, you might like to explore some parts of this LightBox Book about Hurricanes. It will read to you, has videos, weblinks and activities. There is a lot of information there. Use the features tool bar at the bottom left to find out where each feature is in the book.
Now that you’ve learned about hurricanes, take time to write a poem, an informational piece or a narrative story that features a hurricane. You might want to create a piece that compares hurricanes with tornadoes. 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 to share what you think is most interesting about this form of extreme weather.
Take a break, go outside, run around – How many toe touches can you do in a minute? – play a game, make some art.
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! Mrs. McComb has some great resources on the library site. They are across the top starting with March Activities.
At the end of reading today describe your favorite part of the book so far – or out of the whole thing. Please take time to explain your choice and why. We’ll talk more about character traits tomorrow.
Have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Mrs. Oliver has a couple new songs for us on Thursday.
Write something that makes you happy – if you have time. You’ve already done a lot of writing about sharing and hurricanes today.
Math – Choose another one of the worksheets sent home for math warm up (if you have any left). Here is a worksheet to remind you of how multiplication and division are connected and to help you practice writing story problems. page 148. Remember, if you’re trying to do the division get some pennies, Legos or pasta so you can count out the the large group and then divide it up. For example if you’re trying to solve 28 ÷ 4 = ___ Count out 28 things. Divide them into groups of 4 and find out how many groups you have. It also works to sort the 28 things into 4 equal groups and find out how many are in each group.
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 helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thank you.
There were five boxes of raisins. Each box had 213 raisins in it.
How many raisins were there altogether when they put them in a bowl?
Landin, Anna and Estella each ate 72 of the raisins from the bowl, how many would be left?
Four friends collected acorns.
They each collect 327.
How many acorns did they collect altogether?
They used 650 of the acorns in craft projects. How many of the acorns were left?
Van, Max and Justin each collected 137 basketball cards.
How many basketball cards did they collect altogether?
Elena, Sophie, Katherine and Piper each collect 129 Harry Potter cards.
How many Harry Potter cards did they collect altogether?
Were there more basketball cards or Harry Potter cards?
How many more were there?
There were three bowls of Cheez-its. Each bowl had 127 crackers in it.
How many crackers were there altogether?
If Paul, Landon and Vera each ate 32 of the crackers, how many would be left?
Five kids read for 30 minutes.
They each read 28 pages.
How many pages did they read altogether?
Holden had 36 grapes. He shared them evenly with between himself and 3 friends. How many grapes did each of them have?
Inquiry Workshop – Social Studies – Our goal is to have the travel journal page completed by the end of March and ready to share on April 6th. 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. Please stay true to the note-taking skills we’ve been learning and don’t copy – always use your own words. You can find your assignment and notes in the blue folder so you are sure of what parts need to be worked on.
Our regular Tuesday ends with Challenges and Phys. Ed.
What do you think Norbridge will do? What do you think Selena will do? What do you think Marcus will do? What do you think Elizabeth will do when she gets to Winter Hall? What will she find there? Norbridge told her to stay in his room until he came to get her, but didn’t stay. What will happen? Leave your thoughts and predictions in the comments section.
If you missed the earlier chapters, go back and listen to them before you listen to today. This chapter is short. I’ll post chapter 34 today too. You don’t have to listen to them at one time, you can take a break between chapters. Enjoy – we are definitely at the exciting part where all our questions and all the problems are being sorted out.
Have I told you how proud I am of you! You are doing some wonderful work.
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.
Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Piper added part two to Area 51. Landon, Elena, Edward, Sophie and Justin used the prompts to write about the seasons. Edward has also written acrostic poems and several reviews. He has done A LOT of writing. Brady made a post about the weather video on his blog. May wrote about her Leprechaun trap and Vera created a post about sloths. Many of you left comments on the post about the weather video and on each other’s posts. Those are interesting to read too. Did you know you can comment on a comment and get a little conversation going? Thanks for writing and staying connected.🙂🙌🏼💕You are the best!
Art – Click on terrific projects to find what Mrs. Nardone has for you to explore in Art today. She’d love to see your work, so send her a picture if you can. If you explore the art gallery (upper right) Mrs. Nardone is creating, you can already find artwork by Brady, May, Anna, Max and Mrs. Douglas (I think!). If you check out Martha’s Gallery you’ll find some teachers’ pets. 🐶🐱. Have fun creating.
Take a break, get a snack and move around. If you’d like here are a couple different Go Noodle videos here and here.
Morning Meeting – This is where we’ll talk about Fall, the last season for us to consider. Think about its special features. Choose your topic from the prompts below and write for at least 10 minutes without stopping. Write using as many of the elaboration strategies as you can. Use details like when, where, how and why, add descriptive adjectives, use dialogue, make sure there is action and add in some inner thought. Don’t forget capitals and punctuation.
These poems are from Autumblings by Douglas Florian. I hope they inspire you. (I used the app ChatterKid to make them talk to you.)
After you listen to the poems, here are some prompts.
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!
When you finish reading for the day – leave a comment below telling who your favorite character is and using the anchor chart and the to choose between 5 and 10 traits that fit your character. Try to choose some physical traits and some personality traits.
Here’s another anchor chart to help you understand more about character traits and a list of character trait possibilities – both desirable traits and some you’d hope not to have (but all characters are nice).
Take a break, go outside and have some lunch.
Science -Reading-Writing and Art – On Friday Hayley LaPoint ended her presentation with “storms” and they are an interesting and exciting part of weather. I thought we might like to spend some time learning about Extreme Weather. I’ve organize this like Shared Reading. Here’s a new poem and the Go Noodle song about the water cycle
LIFE CYCLE Here’s a link to the the Water Cycle Song.
by Charles Ghigna
The stream
becomes
the river
becomes
the root Here’s a link to a short Mystery Doug
becomes Why are tornadoes so hard to predict?
the tree
becomes
the sky After, click to listen to Tornadoes.
becomes Expand it to fill the screen..
the cloud
becomes
the rain
becomes
the stream.
Hopefully you’re becoming a tornado expert. Here’s the last link. Hayley LaPoint in a one minute video telling what a tornado is and what to do if there is a tornado warning.
Now that you’ve learned lots about tornadoes take some time to write a poem, an informational piece or a narrative story that features a tornado. Add an original piece of artwork (if you’re not sure what to draw – go back and look that the pages in Gail Gibbon’s book for inspiration) and we’d love it if you’d post them both on your blog so we can all see each other’s work.
Math – Choose another one of the worksheets sent home for math warm up (if you have any left). This link is to page of division story problems. Remember, if you’re trying to do the division get some pennies, Legos or pasta so you can count out the the large group and then divide it up. For example if you’re trying to solve 35 ÷ 7 = ___ Count out 35 things. Divide them into groups of 7 and find out how many groups you have. It also works to sort the 35 things into 7 equal groups and find out how many are in each group.
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 helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thank you.
There were 5 bowls of apples. Each bowl had of 120 apples in it. How many apples were there altogether?
384 of the apples were so bruised they had to be thrown away.
How many apples were left?
A class of 18 students started planting seeds. They opened three different seed packets. Each student put three seeds in a cup.
There were still more seeds left over so they planted those in groups of three as well. They were planted eight extra cups.
How many seeds were there in the three packages altogether?
May had three huge bins of Lego. One had 3,987 long bricks in it. Another had 1,426 medium bricks in it and the last had 2,693 small bricks in it.
How many Lego bricks did May have to build with altogether?
She used 4,763 of the bricks to build a fairy village in her yard.
How many Lego bricks were left for other projects?
Estella has 5,532 crayons. If she threw away 1,248 because they were small and broken, how many crayons would she have left?
She divided them into four equal groups put 3/4 of the crayons in a box to share with kids who didn’t have any. How many crayons did she have left then?
Javey bought 14 cans of food for his dog, Blue. Blue ate two cans each day. How many days did cans of dog food last?
If each can of food cost $1.25, how much money did Javey spend when he bought the food?
Van had three bins of Lego. One had 167 long bricks in it. Another had 234 medium bricks in it and the last had 203 small bricks in it.
How many Lego bricks did Van have to build with altogether?
He used 227 of the bricks to build a house.
How many Lego bricks were left for other projects?
There are some really great games for practicing math facts here at ABCDya. I especially like Math Bingo. If you find something you especially like, leave it in a comment so other kids can know it is a good one to play too. I sent the access name and access code to your parents in an email yesterday. Log in and have fun!
Chapter Read Aloud – I’ll put Chapters 33 and 34 on separate posts. They are short, but exciting chapters.
Finally, the last part of our day is Technology. You’ll find the lessons Mrs. Herlihy left here at this link and you’ll get to see her baby too.
I hope you had a fabulous Monday. I’ll be looking for your work. I can’t wait to “hear” from you. Comment and post often!
Take care,
❤️ Mrs. Eaves
Here is a collection of the photos you’ve sent. You do not, and did not have to send pictures. But they made me so happy, I thought I would share them with you too. I hope it makes you happy to see some of your classmates and their work too.
Being away from classmates and friends is “not good.” I put that in quotation marks because it is that and so much more. But from what I am reading on the blog and hearing from your families, even though you are sad and annoyed and even mad, you are persevering. Talk about determination and the power of positive self-talk – you are clear examples of that. I am proud of you!
Here’s where I am working from home. If you look on the far right of the picture, just beyond the blue chair, you can see the edge of Sandy’s tank. She is doing well. I’m thinking I’ll get her a companion or two. Bamboo is doing well. He is in the tank by my desk and the fish are in a tank in our family room. Our dog, Maggie likes to watch them swim around.
Just like you, I am counting the days until we are able to be together. I am more proud of you than you can ever imagine. Stay strong, stay safe and stay committed to learning. You are the sparkle and shine in 3E. You are amazing!
