Our Day ~ Thursday, April 30

🥳🎂🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADY!🎉🎂🥳

Good Morning! 

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Next, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.  I don’t know if you are keeping up with this practice, but I do know it helps to find the silver lining .

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. I notice more and more of you checking out what each other is creating in your blog.  You are doing spectacular things!  🎇🎆🎇 Thanks for staying connected!

I found a way to share Ms. Vas reading Courage by adding it to our Google Classroom.  You will find the video in the stream and under the topic, Guest Reader. I hope it works today.  I’m pretty sure it will. Enjoy!

Morning MeetingToday we’ll share and compare two versions of  The Tortoise and the Hare; one from Jerry Pinkney’s illustrated collection and another from Mary Ann Hoberman’s Very Short Fables for Two Voices.  (Thanks to Mr. Eaves for reading the second voice.)

One version is longer than the other and each has different illustrations.  Look beyond that to reflect on which version and moral speaks to you and connect more closely to how you hope people will treat each other.  Leave a comment  explaining which version you liked better and why.  Also, please tell what the moral means to you.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move with Ryan Kerrigan  and relax and reflect with Go With the Flow.

Shared Reading –We’ll solve riddles and listen to mysteries.

Here are the riddle answers from last Wednesday: #1 Lunch and dinner ,#2 They wave, and #3. a

Here are some new riddles for today ~

#1  What goes up and down, but never moves?

# 2 Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Yellow  lives in the yellow house and Mr. Black live in the black house.  Who lives in the white house?

#3 How many blocks?

Listen to Nate the Great and the Phony Clue.

In a comment, share how you solved the mystery – make sure to include all the clues you found in the words and illustrations to provide proof for your claim.

Use all that you’ve learned by listening and reading mysteries to continue on with our mystery planning activities,  Go to our Google Classroom.  Open the new assignment called Mapping Your Mystery.

Here is an example of one I created for the story I am planning called The 100 Year Old Clue. 

Here’s the map and the clues I made.  Here’s my mystery plan:  My main character goes to spend a week with her grandparent in the summer.  The first night  there her Grandpa tells a story about a treasure hunt his grandfather had made for his mom (the main character’s great-grandmother), but there was a barn fire and the first clue was lost and so the treasure was never found.  Dun, dun, dun…

If you need ideas, you can look at a better copy of the map and the clues in Google Classroom when you open the assignment Mapping Your Mystery.  Have fun making your map. Don’t rush.  Do a little at a time so you have a chance to come up with your best idea.  It doesn’t need to be finished until Tuesday.

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

Independent ReadingKeep reading each and every day! 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, 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.

Writer’s Workshop  –

Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of.   I am so impressed by all you are creating.  Here’s a summary:  book reviews, gaming reviews, informational paragraphs, personal narratives, adventure stories, detective stories, science fiction, fantasy, stream of consciousness pieces and poetry.  It has also been wonderful to see you planning and creating videos to sharing hobbies and new challenges.

If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:

  • Courage means…
  • Tell about a time when you were courageous.  What did you do?  How did your feel before, during and after?
  • I can be a good friend by…
  • Who is someone you think is courageous.  Tell why.
  • Wish I know more about…

Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping.  At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going.  It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.

Math Workshop We have started studying geometry and we are learning about the attributes of shapes.  We are looking to see if the sides are parallel or not.  We are looking to see if the side are all equal, or if opposites sides are equal and we are learning  to mark what we see.

Let’s start with a rhombus.  In a rhombus all four sides are equal.  This is how a mathematician would label a square.

Now let’s look at a square.  In a square all four sides are equal AND it has four 90° right angles.  This is how a mathematician would label a square.

Let’s look at a parallelogram.  In a parallelogram the the opposites sides are equal.  The two long sides are the same length and parallel.  The two short sides are the same length and parallel.  This is how a mathematician would label a parallelogram.

Now let’s look at a rectangle. In a rectangle the the opposites sides are equal AND it has four 90° right angles.  The two long sides are the same length and parallel.  The two short sides are the same length and parallel.  This is how a mathematician would label a rectangle.

Finally, let’s look at trapezoids.  They always have one set of opposite, parallel lines.  But, they only sometimes have sides of the same length.  Parallel lines on trapezoids are marked with arrows.

Here is a corrected copy of the worksheet you practiced with yesterday.  Using the information you just read, see if you can Name the Quadrilaterals on this worksheet.

And see if you can both Name and Label the Quadrilaterals on this worksheet.

Don’t expect it to be easy.  Ask for help, reread the information and talk it through.  You are just beginning. It’s okay to not feel certain.  You will with time and practice. 👊🏻 You’ve got this! 🙌🏼 Practice makes progress!

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 had a rock collection. She had 473 crystals.  She had 856 rocks with mica in them.  How my rocks did she have altogether?

Her friends gave her 247 rocks with fossils in them.  How many rocks did she have then?

Landon had a collection of 12,000 Legos before he began building robots out of them.

He used 2,485 bricks to make the first robot, 3,067 bricks to make the second robot and 918 bricks to make the last robot.

How many Lego bricks did Landon use in all to make the three robots?

How many Lego bricks did Landon have left to use for other projects?

Piper organized her art supplies.

She sorted and counted 327 markers, 2,684 crayons and 857 colored pencils.

How many supplies did Piper organize altogether?

She donated half of them to a children’s center. 

How many art supplies did Piper have left?

Javey practiced shooting baskets at recess.  He made 25 shots on Monday, 26 shots on Tuesday and 29 shots on Wednesday.

How many baskets did he make altogether?

How many more shots would Javey need to make to reach 100?

Justin had a collection of sports cards.  He had 12,421 hockey cards.  He had 4,315 basketball cards.  How many sports cards did he have altogether?

He gave his friends 1,478 of his cards.  How many sports cards did he have left?

Brady organized his Pokemon cards.

He sorted and counted 153 Energy cards, and 238 Special Trainer cards.

How many Pokemon cards did Brady organize?

His mom gave him 3 new sets. Each set had 24 cards.

Now how many Pokemon cards does Brady have altogether?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Try Prodigy. Your parents have your login and password.  Use the games to practice your basic facts in all the operations. A third grade goal is know all + and – and x facts and at least 40 ÷ facts.

UA’s for today…

Spanish ~ I know Señora Murphy has posted some new lessons for you to explore.

And here’s a new message to you and your family from Mrs. Oliver:

There is new information and videos on the Music website

Please record yourself playing and send your songs to moliver@sau21.org.
As of last week, she had only heard from 4 students in our class, and she was hoping to hear from each of us every week. She really wants to know how you are growing as a musician!

Thank you for another week full of your creativity, grit and learning!

You and your effort fills me with appreciation and joy.  You are wonderful!🙌🏼

🌈🕵🏻‍♂️✏️📚💕Mrs. Eaves

☀️Landon, thank you for the song.  It is beautiful.  I am so grateful. 💞😌

Our Day – Wednesday, April 29

Good Morning! 

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Next, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.  I don’t know if you are doing this each day, butI hope so.   It does make you  and all of us, more happy.

Ms. Vas has a book to share with us.  I am so grateful  to her for checking in with us each week. Today she wants to remind us of all we can do.We’ll have to wait for this I have to figure out how to get the link to work.  Sorry!

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thank you to all of you,  so many more of you who have begun making comments.  I hope it becomes  a regular part of your morning.  Your comments are a way of sharing happiness.  ☀️🍨🌈 Thanks for staying connected!

Morning MeetingToday we’ll share and compare two versions of  The Ant and the Dove; one from Jerry Pinkney’s illustrated collection and another from Mary Ann Hoberman’s Very Short Fables for Two Voices.  (Thanks to Mr. Eaves for reading the second voice.)

One version is longer than the other and each has different illustrations.  Look beyond that to reflect on which version and moral speaks to you and connect more closely to how you hope people will treat each other.  Leave a comment  explaining which version you liked better and why.  Also, please tell what the moral means to you.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: Twist and Shout with Maximo  and reflect with Mood Walk.

Shared Reading – We’ll solve riddles and listen to mysteries.

Here are the riddle answers from last Wednesday: #1 Edam (That’s a kind of cheese like cheddar or Swiss) ,#2 Because you can see right through them, and #3. the bunny 3 kg., the cat is 7 kg. and the dog is 17 kg. So the final weight is 27kg.

Here are some new riddles for today ~

#1 What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

#2 How do oceans say good-bye to one another?

#3 What comes next?

Listen to Miss Nelson Has a Field Day.

In a comment, share how you solved the mystery – make sure to include all the clues you found in the words, past books and this book’s illustrations to provide proof for your claim.

Use all that you’ve learned by listening and reading mysteries to continue on with our mystery planning activities,  Go to our Google Classroom and finish any of the mystery planning activities you have left to do.  Here are the activities so far:

  • Planning you Mystery’s Setting
  • Creating Your Mystery’s Main Character
  • Create an Intriguing Mystery with a Puzzle to Solve
  • Creating Clues

This is a “catch-up” day.  I think we need a day so everyone is ready for the next part of the plan. Thanks for being so creative and thoughtful! You’re amazing!

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

Independent ReadingKeep reading each and every day! 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, 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.

Writer’s Workshop  – Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of.

If you haven’t already, please read and comment on the fabulous stories, personal narratives and poetry you’ve all been writing!  Wow!  📝

If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:

  • What I know about rabbits (insert any animal here) is that…
  • What would happen if animals could talk to you?
  • What questions would you like to ask and what would their answers be?
  • Tell the story of what happened when it really did rain cats and dogs…
  • or any other topic you’d like to write about.

Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping.  You can write poems, articles, interviews, plays… the sky’s the limit.  At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going.  Remind yourself to intentionally use elaboration strategies to spiff up your writing.  We’d love to read some of your writing on your blog this week.

MathThanks for sharing your Quadrilateral Scavenger Hunts. I know some of you are still working on them. I bet I’ll see your’s today.  I was surprised by how many of you found lots of examples of of trapezoids and rhombuses.  Thanks to Brady for sharing what he found with photographs on his blog!  I also appreciated seeing how many of you looked beyond the obvious.

We know all quadrilaterals are closed shapes, have 4 straight sides and 4 vertices (corners). Our task is to learn how to describe each shape by its specific attributes.

Mathematicians use signs and symbols to help us understand.  This trapezoid is labeled with arrows pointing in the same direction.  That lets us know those lines are parallel.

The blue lines in this rectangle let us know the sides are equal.  The 2 sides with one blue line are equal and the 2 sides with two blue lines are equal.  The corners of the rectangle are marked with a red box.  The box in the corner means that is a 90° or right angle.

Using this information complete the worksheet by labeling each shape: rhombus, rectangle, square, parallelogram or trapezoid.  Some shapes may have more than one label.  Mark the sides if they are equal.  Mark the vertices if they are 90°.

Classify Quadrilaterals

This worksheet introduce the kite.  Can you tell how it is different from a rhombus.Coloring Quadrilaterals

When you’ve finished them, please find a way to share them through email of your blog. 😀

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!

Landin was picking a bouquet of flowers for her mom.  She picked 83 white flowers and 76 yellow flowers.

How many flowers did she pick altogether on the first day?

The next day she added 59 blue flowers to the bouquet.  How many flowers were in the bouquet now?

Edward was organizing his collection of baseball cards.  He had 1,232 baseball altogether.

675 of the cards were in a binder.

The rest of the cards were in a box for trading.

How many cards did Edward have in the box?

Sophie was practicing soccer.

She dribbled the ball down the field 25 times on Tuesday.

She dribbled the ball down the field 18 times on Wednesday.

She dribbled the ball down the field 24 times on Thursday.

How many times did she dribble the ball down the field in those three days altogether?

How many times would she dribble the ball if she repeated that each week for a month?

On Saturday Anna started to put three different jigsaw puzzles together.

The puzzle of seashells had 250 pieces.

The puzzle of a jack-o-lantern had 500 pieces.

The puzzle of a rabbit had 1,250 pieces.

On Monday, she had finished the first two puzzles and had put 350 pieces together in the last puzzle. How many puzzle pieces had she put together so far?

How many pieces did she have left to go before she finished all three puzzles?

Brady went for a walk in the woods.  He kept track of the trees he saw.  He counted 1,250 trees altogether.

There were:           348 beech trees,

                                    475 pine trees,

                                    86 oak trees and

                                    192 hemlock trees. 

The rest of the trees were maple. 

How many maple trees did he see and count?

May collected shells on the beach.  She found 142 white shells, 256 yellow shells and 118 speckled shells.

How many shells did May find altogether?

She used 288 of her shells to decorate a box. 

How many shells did May have left?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Try Prodigy .  The kids who are playing are really having fun.   Find some way to practice your math facts in all four operations.

UA’s for today…

Spanish ~ I know Señora Murphy has posted some new lessons for you to explore.

Library ~ there are lots of great resources there.

I hope you had a Wonderful Wednesday!

Thanks for all you do and the fun you share!  Thanks for encouraging each other!

You make a difference every day!

🌸🌺🌱☀️🙌🏼  You are wonderful!

💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day – Tuesday, April 28

Good Morning! 

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Next, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.  I don’t know if you are keeping up with this practice, but I do know it helps to find the silver lining .

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thank you to the four people who have made this a regular part of your morning.  Your comments are rays of sunlight to your classmates. 🌞☀️😎 Thanks for staying connected!

Morning MeetingToday we’ll share and compare two versions of  The Fox and the Stork; one from Jerry Pinkney’s illustrated collection and another from Mary Ann Hoberman’s Very Short Fables for Two Voices.  (Thanks to Mr. Eaves for reading the second voice.)

 

One version is longer than the other and each has different illustrations.  Look beyond that to reflect on which version and moral speaks to you and connect more closely to how you hope people will treat each other.  Leave a comment  explaining which version you liked better and why.  Also, please tell what the moral means to you.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Too Hot and or to Achy Breaky Heart.

Shared Reading – We’ll solve riddles and listen to mysteries.

Here are the riddle answers from last Wednesday: #1 he weighs meat – he works at a butcher shop ,#2 The horse is named Friday, and #3.In the first set remove matchsticks from the two sides and the bottom to leave the letter T, in the second set remove the matchstick on the right to leave the letter E and in the last set remove the matchsticks from the top and bottom to leave the letter N.

Here are some new riddles for today ~

#1 What type of cheese is made backward?

#2 Why are ghosts bad at lying?

#3 What do each of the animals weigh?

Listen to Miss Nelson is Back.

In a comment, share how you solved the mystery – make sure to include all the clues you found in the words and illustrations to provide proof for your claim. Did anything from the story yesterday help today?

Use all that you’ve learned by listening and reading mysteries to continue on with our mystery planning activities,  Go to our Google Classroom.  Open the new assignment ~ Creating Clues.  That’s the fourth mystery planning activity and should be completed by Thursday, April 30.

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

Independent ReadingKeep reading each and every day! 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, 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.

Writer’s Workshop  –

Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of  – country inquiry/travel journal or finishing the souvenirs.  You may also want to finalize your weather writing and illustrations.

Several of you began stories last week.  Please continue adding to them.  Don’t leave us in suspense.  😲

If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:

  • What is your favorite room in your home and why?
  • What excites you?
  • I wish I could do _____ because…
  • Let’s go _____ Describe your adventure.
  • or any other topic that you’re interested in writing about today.

Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping.  At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going. Look back to yesterday’s post to remind yourself about elaboration strategies to give your writing zip and zing. It would be fun if you’d share some of  your writing on your blog this week.

Math Workshop ~

Begin with a math warm-up worksheet to review and remember our work with x, ÷ and fractions  Mixed x÷ warm up and Fraction Review.

When you answered the question, “What makes a rectangle so special?”, how many of these attributes did you include:

  • A rectangle is a quadrilateral.  That means it is a closed shape.
  • The opposite sides of the shape are straightparallel lines.
  • The opposite sides are of equal length.
  • All 4 vertices (corners) are right angles.
  • Rectangles are symmetrical.  They have four lines of symmetry.

Today we’re going to explore four different types of quadrilaterals:  squares, trapezoids, parallelograms and rhombuses.

Looks at the sets of pictures showing what each of those four shapes is and is not.

Once you think you know what the shapes are go on a scavenger hunt in and around your house.  Find as many of each type of shape as you can ~ stop when you’ve reached 10 of one kind.  At my house finding squares was really easy.  So was finding parallelograms if I only counted rectangles, to I tried to challenge myself to find others. That was a bit more tricky.Here are some pictures of things I found when I was looking ~

The side of the light, the pattern on the turtle toy and the roofs on the houses were trapezoids. I found trapezoids  and long skinny parallelograms in the stained glass. The only rhombus I could find was on a playing card.  I found squares all over once I started seeing …

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you’re ready have fun on the Quadrilateral Scavenger Hunt. You can find it here or in Google Classroom.  Do it wherever it is easier to turn in so I can see what you found.

If I asked you to list at least 4 attributes that are shared by all squares, could you?

If I asked you to list at least 4 attributes that are shared by all trapezoids, could you?  How about parallelograms and rhombuses?

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!

Landon, Holden, Edward, and Brady each had 48 markers.  How many markers did they have altogether?  Half of the markers had fine tips and they other half had wide points.  How many of each type did they have?

There are eighteen students in 3E.  Each student has 12 pencils, 8 crayons and 4 erasers.

How many pencils do the students in 3E have altogether?

How many crayons do the students of 3E have altogether?

How many erasers do the student of 3E have altogether?

Estella, Javey and Landin each wrote a story that was 436 words long.

Anna and Van each wrote stories that were 527 words long.

How many words did these five students write altogether?

How many more words would they have to write to reach 5,000 words in total?

Vera has 25 violet marbles.  May has 7 times more violet marbles than Vera has.  How many marble does May have?

There were six bowls of Hershey Kisses.  Each bowl had 143 pieces of candy in it.

How many pieces of Hershey Kisses were there altogether?

There were five bowls of M&M’s.  Each bowl had 178 M&M’s in it.  How many M&M’s were there altogether?

Were there more Hershey’s Kisses or more M&M’s?

How many more?

Katherine started baking brownies at 9:35 on Saturday.  She baked for 55 minutes.

What time was it when she stopped?

Katherine baked 13 pans of brownies.  There were 8 brownies in each pan.  How many brownies did she bake altogether?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya.  Give Prodigy a try.  Did anyone else find another game to recommend?  Let us know 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!  We’ve got this when we all work together!

👊🏻🌎🌳💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day – Monday, April 27

Good Morning! I hope you had a great week-end.

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Next, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.  I don’t know if you are keeping up with this practice, but I do know it will help to find the “silver lining in the rain clouds.” (Ask your family about that expression if you don’t know it yet.)

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Thank you to the four people who have made this a regular part of your morning.  Your comments are real gifts to your classmates. 🎁 🎉👏🏽 Thanks for staying connected!

Morning Meeting–  Today we’ll share and compare two versions of The Grasshopper and the Ants; one from Jerry Pinkney’s illustrated collection and another from Mary Ann Hoberman’s Very Short Fables for Two Voices.  (Thanks to Mr. Eaves for reading the second voice.)

One version is longer than the other and each has different illustrations.  Look beyond those obvious differences, to reflect on which version and moral speaks to you and connects more closely to how you hope people will treat each other.  Leave a comment  explaining which version you liked better and why.  Also, please tell what the moral means to you.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to  You Got This and focus with Rainbow Breath.

Shared Reading –  We’ll solve riddles and listen to mysteries.

Here are the riddle answers from last Wednesday: #1 heat travels faster, anyone can catch cold ,#2 here’s how to turn eight 8’s into 1,000 by adding: 888+88+8+8+8, and #3. there were 40 squares in the picture.

Here are some new riddles for today ~

#1 A clerk at the butcher shop is 6 feet tall, and wears size 10 shoes.  What does he weigh?

#2 A cowboy rode into town of Friday.  he sated in town for three days and roads back out on Friday.  How is that possible?

#3 Remove 6 matches to make 10.

Listen to Miss Nelson is Missing.

In a comment, share how you solved the mystery – make sure to include all the clues you found in the words and illustrations to provide proof for your claim.

Use all that you’ve learned by listening and reading mysteries to continue on with our mystery planning activities.  Go to our Google Classroom.  Open the new assignment ~ Create An Intriguing Mystery with a Puzzle to Solve. I hope you’ll finish this worksheet and turn it in today, or tomorrow.

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

Independent ReadingKeep reading each and every day! 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, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.

Book Club RemindersDetective Camp meets today at the end of the Zoom Chat to discuss Chapter 3.

The Case of the School Ghosts meet tomorrow at 10:30 to discuss Chapter 3.

The Brixton Brothers meets tomorrow at 11:00 to discuss Chapter 4, 5 and 6.

Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder ~ Mrs. Oliver really wants to hear from you.  Relax.

Writer’s Workshop  –  Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of  – country inquiry/travel journal or finishing the souvenirs.  You may also want to finalize your weather writing and illustrations.

Several of you began stories last week.  Please continue adding to them.  Don’t leave us in suspense.  😲 Remember, if you’d like to submit something to NHPBS Kids Writers Contest, the deadline is May 31.

If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:

  • Climbing trees is…
  • If I were a turtle living in a pond, I would…
  • I wish trees could _____ because…
  • The most perfect place in the while wide world is _____ because…
  • or any other topic you’d like writing about.

Read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping.  At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going.  It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.

Remember to use elaboration strategies.  Here are our anchor charts to remind you how to write elaborate sentences AND elaborate paragraphs, essays and stories:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding Description and Details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding Dialogue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding Inner Thought

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math Workshop

Begin with a math warm-up worksheet to review and remember our work with a  Mixed Review Fractions, Multiplication & Division

We are beginning an Investigation of Polygons. “What’s a polygon?” you ask.  We haven’t talked much about them or angles since October.  Polygons are shapes.  Polygons are closed, 2-dimensional, straight sided shapes.  Here is a picture of a few different polygons.

In our exploration we’ll be exploring the attributes of many different shapes. We are going to explore a special quadrilateral today ~ a rectangle.  What are the attributes that define rectangles and set them apart from all other quadrilaterals?

We’ll be thinking about their sides ~ are they parallel, are they perpendicular? We’ll be thinking about their corners (the correct mathematical word is vertices)~ are they right, acute or obtuse angles.

Here are some of the ways we can describe different shapes.  We will use these terms to create a definitions of shapes.  Today we’ll be thinking about what makes a rectangle, a rectangle.

Here is a picture of the top part of a worksheet you’ll be completing today.  Look at the two sets of shapes and see if you can figure out what makes a rectangle.

Look at the sides in the rectangle group.  Are opposite sides parallel?  Are opposite sides different lengths?  Are the angles (corners)  right, obtuse or acute? Use these ideas to complete this worksheet: What Makes a Rectangle So Special?.  Please find a way to share this with me today ~ send an email, or create a post on your blog.  Thank you.  It will help me plan lessons you understand more easily.

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!

Van removed 29 candies from the jar.  There were originally 78 candies.  How many candies are left in the jar?

There are 34 peanuts in each box.  Justin has 7 boxes.  How many peanuts does he have altogether?  He uses half of them when he bakes cookies.  How many peanuts does he have left?

Max has 68 apples.  He shares 24 with Elena and 18 with Sophie.  How many apples does Max have left?

Piper is getting art supplies.  Each eraser costs $3.00.  How much do 46 erasers cost?

Each colored pencil costs $1.50.  How much to 24 colored pencils cost?  How much will Piper spend altogether on art supplies?

There are 63 candies in Katherine’s candy collection.  If the candies are divided into 3 groups, how many candies will be in each group?

Paul has 20 pencils.  They are put away in boxes of 5.  How many boxes of pencils does Paul have?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. You may want to try Prodigy . It’s a fun game that you can play with friends.

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 in Gallery 1 from Van, Anna, May, Edward and Sophie.  You’ll see new artwork from Van and Justin in Gallery 2 and you’ll find photographs from Anna and May in the Photograph Gallery.

Technology You’ll find the lessons Mrs. Herlihy left here at this link open the lesson that is next for you.

I hope you’ve had a great Monday.  Thanks for staying connected and doing all you can.

🌎🌳🌻💕 Mrs. Eaves

Our Day ~ Thursday, April 23

Good Morning!  Thanks for being patient and understanding when I lost power at 12:50.  Sorry if you didn’t get the message.  I did try to reach all of you.  I know there was nothing I could do ~ no power and no internet make remote learning a little tough! 🤦‍♀️😕🙃 We’ll see what today brings. 💕

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Let’s start with I Am Peace and be reminded to relax, and take notice of the gifts we are surrounded by each day.  After you listen, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. I am so proud of all you are sharing.  You are reading, writing, solving problems and creating art. You are stretching your minds with riddles and mysteries, you’re writing thank you notes and comments and so much more.  Thanks for staying connected👊🏻🌱🌎 even when it’s hard.

Morning Meeting Let’s learn about Aesop in this biography.  I split the book into two parts.  The  first part shares his life as a slave Xanthus. The second part shares his life as a slave to  Jadon.

When you finish listening to both parts please create a 3-2-1 blog post sharing 3 things you think are important about Aesop, 2 things you think are important about fables and 1 thing you still wonder about Aesop, fables or ancient Greece.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two  Go Noodle videos:  here’s Milkshake to have fun with, and Take on Your Day to focus with.

Shared Reading –  Here’s another mystery

Listen to and watch the The Mysteries of Harris Burdick in the slideshow below.  This book is full of mysteries in the story which is only one page long and in the pictures with their titles and captions.

I hope you’ll be willing to go through it a few times, and select one of the 14 images to write about.  What do you imagine the lost story is?

That will be your assignment during writers’ workshop later in the day.

For now, please open a post on your blog, please explain what makes a mystery story and mystery.  We’ve shared over ten different picture books mysteries and two different chapter book mysteries.  Many of us are reading a mystery right now in our different book clubs.  Using all that you know from these books and the resources we’ve explored,  be as detailed as you can when you explain what the parts of a mystery story are and what make a mystery special.

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

ReadingKeep reading each and every day! 

Remember book clubs are meeting today.

A to Z Mysteries Detective Camp meets at 9:30.

The Buddy Files The Case of the School Ghost book club meets at 10:30.

The Brixton Brothers book club meets at 11:00.

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.  Relax.

Writer’s Workshop  –  Today in writers’ workshop begin with the picture that speaks most loudly to you from  The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.  Pause  the slide show on that picture and write down the title of the picture and the caption.  What do you see?  Will you name the character?  Where in the story is this picture from.  When you’re ready, open a new post on your blog, give it the title of the picture and write your story.  When you’re finished writing, go online and search for the Mysteries of Harris Burdick.  Drag it to your desktop and then add it to your post  to illustrate your story.

If you have more time, finish any writing projects you are in the middle of  – country inquiry/travel journal or the souvenirs.

You may also want to finalize your weather writing and illustrations.

Several of you began stories last week.  Please continue adding to them.  Don’t leave us in suspense.  😲

✏️🦈🕵🏼‍♀️🧶There are so many things to learn and write about.  There are so many different kinds of things to write.  Enjoy!

Math – Today for math we are going to complete the last two pages of the unit assessment.  Remind yourself what you know about x/÷ fact families and about writing word problems.  Remember how to write all the equations to represent your math thinking.  You’ll need the 1 inch unit square for one part of this too.

U5 Post Assessment 3

U5 Post Assessment 4

If you have the energy left, 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!

Vera has 440 chickens on her farm.  39 are roosters and the rest are hens.  15 of Vera’s hens do not lay eggs.  The rest of the hens lay eggs.  How many egg-laying hens does Vera have on her farm?

May has 982 pounds of grain.  She feeds 240 pounds to her pigs and 465 pounds to her cows.  How much grain does she have left?

Holden has four horses.  Each one eats 4 pounds of oats, twice a day.  How many pounds of oats does Holden need to feed his horses for three days?

Anna paints pictures and sells them at art shows.  She charges $56.25 for a large painting.  She charges $25.80 for a small painting.  Last month she sold four large paintings and three small paintings.  How much money did she make in all?  

Edward and Brady were playing touch football against Javey and Van.  Touchdowns were worth 7 points.  Edward and Brady scored 7 touchdowns.  Javey and Van scored 9 touchdowns.  How many more points did Javey and Van have than Edward and Brady had?

On Thursday Joes Meat Shoppe sold 210 pounds of hamburger.  On Friday they sold twice that amount.  On Saturday they only sold 130 pounds.  Ho much more meat did they sell on Friday than on Saturday.

Play a game here at ABCya. or Prodigy.  Has anyone found a new game to recommend?

UA’s for today…

Spanish ~ I know Señora Murphy has posted some new lessons for you to explore.

And here’s a new message to you and your family from Mrs. Oliver:

There is new information and videos up on the Music website

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to inform me what their child is doing musically.  I really appreciate it!
Send information to moliver@sau21.org
Thank you, in advance, for keeping in touch.
Mary Oliver

Thank you for another week full of your creativity, grit and learning!

You and your effort fills me with appreciation and joy.  You are wonderful!🙌🏼

🌈🕵🏻‍♂️✏️📚💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day ~ Wednesday, April 22

☀️🌎🌳🌱Happy Earth Day!🌱🌳🌏☀️

Let’s celebrate Earth!  Let’s start with this video: David Attenborough’s What a Wonderful World.  Isn’t our earth beautiful?!

Morning Work – Next begin your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Listen to these books, Hello Hello and My Friend Earth.  Inspired by this video and these authors and illustrators and their books, pick up your gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Your kind words mean so much!  Thank you for taking the time to read and let each other know you care.  Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼🌎💕  It’s important!

Morning Meeting –   Let’s start by listening to these versions of the The Crow and The Pitcher. What do you notice that was the same about the two versions?  What was different about the story and the words?  Do the characters seem to have different personalities that you like better than the other?  Which version did you like better?  Why? Which moral do you think is most helpful? Leave your answers to some of these questions in a comment below.

 

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos:  move to Water Cycle and relax to Weather the Storm.

Shared Reading –  Here are the answers to yesterday’s riddle:  #1 – halfway.  Once the dog is halfway into the wood, he is running out of them. #2 – 7 they are the ones that didn’t run away, and #3 C.

Here are some new riddles today ~

Riddle #1: What travels faster, heat or cold?

Riddle # 2 Using only addition, how can you use eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?

Riddle # 3 How many squares are in this picture?

Before moving on to the next part of our mystery plan, listen to Piggins and the Royal Wedding.

Yesterday you worked through a plan for the setting of your mystery.  Today we’ll think about characters.  Go to our Google Classroom.  Open the new assignment ~ Creating Your Mystery’s Main Character.  Today the activity to help you develop a realistic main character for your mystery.  This character will be the person who solves the mystery.  The best characters  in stories are believable.  To do that, your characters have to be based on people you know well.  In fact you may want to base your character on you!

Take a break, write a thank you card to Earth,  create an acrostic poem for EARTH, create a series of five stretches to tell the story of what you care about on Earth, run around, sing, share your art.

ReadingKeep reading each and every day! Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.  Be ready for your book club tomorrow. 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.

Writer’s Workshop  –  Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of  – country inquiry/travel journal or finishing the souvenirs.  You may also want to finalize your weather writing and illustrations.

Several of you began stories last week.  Please continue adding to them.  Don’t leave us in suspense.  😲

You may want to try one of the mystery poems from Monday or Tuesday.

If you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:

  • Spring is a time of new beginnings.  What is something new you would like to start doing?
  • Pretend that when you were doing the spring cleaning you found a really old wooden box.  What did you find when you opened it?
  • Imagine you found a baby bird in your backyard and nursed it back to health.  When the baby bird was out of danger, you discovered it had a superpower.  Write a story about this super bird.
  • If you were in charge of the garden, what would you grow and why?
  • Any other topic you’d like to write about.

For a quick write you read the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping.  At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going.  When you feel like your piece of writing is done, you can decide to keep to yourself, or to publish it.

Math – Today for math we are going to complete the first two pages of the unit assessment.  Think back to what you know about x/÷ fact families.  Remind yourself about what you know about writing word problems and remember how to write all of your equations to represent your math thinking.

U5 Post Assessment page 1

U5 Post Assessment page 2

If you have the energy left, 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 was catering a banquet.  She needed 750 meant pies.  She divided her crew into three teams.  Team One made 235 meat pies.  Team Two made 275 meat pies.  How many meat pies did Team Three make?

Sophie’s family decided to build a small playhouse in their yard.  According to the blueprints they will need 376 boards.  They have 123 boards.  A friend has 136 boards to give them.  How many more boards to they need to gather?

Piper decided to organize a town wide cleanup drive.  She organized two groups to clean trash out of the rivers and streams.  One group gathered 387 pounds of trash and the other group gathered 139 pounds of trash.  How many pounds of trash were the two groups able to gather altogether?

Katherine went for a walk.  She saw 397 tulips.  Each tulip had12 yellow stripes on it.  How many yellow stripes were there in all on the tulips that Katherine saw?

How many cookies would that be if you had 37 bags of cookies with 19 cookies in each bag?

How much would 136 pieces of bubble gum cost if each piece costs 18 cents?

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…

Spanish ~ I know Señora Murphy has posted some new lessons for you to explore.

Library ~ there are lots of great resources there.

I hope you had a Wonderful Wednesday!

Thanks for all you do and the fun you share!  Thanks for encouraging each other!

You make a difference every day!

🌸🌺🌱☀️🙌🏼  You are wonderful!

💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day ~ Tuesday, April 21

Good Morning!  It’s the 50th Celebration of Earth Day tomorrow,  Wednesday, April 22.  During our breaks I will share activities about taking care of our planet.   I hope you’ll find time for some ~ or some of your own, and I hope you’ll share what you’re doing to celebrate Earth Day tomorrow and everyday.  Earth needs your to be filled with your creativity and care!

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

Today I’ve chosen to start the day I Am Love as a reminder to look for the good – it’s always there.  After you listen, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. You’ve be sharing amazing writing, math and art. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼🌎💕

During  Morning Meeting I try to share something to remind us of how we can make the world better.   Fables are stories that remind us of our choices.  Let’s listen to two different versions of The Sun and the Wind.If the two versions were not illustrated, how would the words compare?  Did you find a lesson or moral at the end?  Were they the same, different, similar…?

What did you notice that was the same about the two version?  What was different?  Which did you like better?  Do you have a different version at home?  Leave your answers to these questions in a comment below.

Take a break, get a snack and move around. Try Exersice Bingo.  If you’d like, here are two  Go Noodle videos: move to Show Us What You Got and reflect and relax with Bear Breath.

Shared Reading –  This week we’ll continue to solve riddles and listen to mysteries.  The answers to yesterday’s riddles were:  #1 Your breathe, #2 Wet and #3 there are 44 triangles.

Here are some new riddles to solve:

Riddle #1. How far can a dog run into the woods?

Riddle #2. A farmer has 19 sheep on his land.  One day, a big storm hits and all but 7 sheep run away.  How many sheep does the farmer have left?

Riddle #3 Which letter shares the top view?

We’re going to begin to activities to help us each write a mystery.  The Secret Birthday Message is a mystery that is solved by following the steps of a letter and making a map.  Listen to The Secret Birthday Message.

Today we are going to begin the planning steps to write a mystery. I think it might be easiest for you to complete your work in Google Classroom .  You should each have a copy of today’s assignment when you open the link called Select an Interesting Setting.   The easiest way to create a setting for your mystery is to choose a place you know well, like your home, your backyard, a summer vacation spot, the school and our classroom.  In the assignment you’ll brainstorm a list of familiar places.   Think about setting as if you are there. Use your senses in the assignment. The more details you can imagine now, the easier it will be to create your story when we move out of the the planning stages

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

The A to Z Mysteries Detective Camp will meet at 9:30

The Buddy Files ~The Case of the School Ghost will meet at 10:30

The Brixton Brothers will meet at 11:00

ReadingKeep reading each and every day! Don’t forget to be ready for your book club.  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.  Relax.

Writer’s Workshop  –  Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of  – country inquiry/travel journal or finishing the souvenirs.  You may also want to finalize your weather writing and illustrations.  Several of you began stories last week.  Please don’t leave us in suspense.  😲

You’ve been doing some amazing writing and that made me wonder if you’d like to submit it in a contest.  Channel 11 – NHPBS is holding a Kids Writers Contest.   Open the link to find out the rules and decide if it’s something for you.

Choose one of the main characters from one of the picture book mysteries we’ve shared during the last few weeks.  After you chosen the character, create your own Mystery Character Poem.  Use the following format.  If one or two of the lines don’t work for you or your character leave them out.  Post it on your blog. along with an illustration if you’d like.  If you need to see a example, there’s one on my blog.

Line 1: I am __________ (four words that describe the character)

Line 2: Who loves __________ (two things or people the character loves or activities the character loves to do)

Line 3: Who dislikes __________ (two things or people the character dislikes or activities the character dislikes doing)

Line 4:  Who feels __________ about __________ (something the character feels strongly about)

Line 5: Who fears __________ (something the character is afraid of)

Line 6: Who’d like to see __________ (something the character would like to see)

Line 7:  Who dreams of __________ (something the character dreams about)

Line 8: Who ends up __________ (what happens to the character at the end of the book)

Who am I?

Math – Yesterday you practiced finding area and learned that you could  add areas together when you solved Barbara’s Chickens problem.  How can you find the area of a shape that’s not a rectangle?  How can you find the area of a polygon?  Look at these pictures.  When you figure it out leave the equation you’d use to find the area of the orange and green polygon in the comment section below.

And practice Finding the Area of Polygons 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!

May really likes goldfish crackers. 

She ate 128 in the morning and 206 in the afternoon.

She ate twice as many goldfish crackers the next day.

But she ate only half as many on the third day as she had on the first day. 

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

Van was reading about space.

There was a picture showing 368 galaxies. 

57 of the galaxies were barred galaxies.

36 of the galaxies were elliptical.

The rest of the galaxies were spiral galaxies.

How many spiral galaxies did Van see in the picture?

Estella had 8 brownies that she wanted to share equally with her family.  Here Grandmother was there so she shared with 6 people altogether.

When she was done – everyone had the same amount.  Some brownies were whole and some had been cut.

How did Estella divide brownies?  What was each person’s fair share?

Javey has 500 Legos for a building project.  He used 73 Legos to make a dragon and 129 to make a castle.  How many Legos did Javey have left?

Landin has read 47 pages.  The book had 203 pages altogether.  How many pages does Landin have left to read? 

If Landin reads 20 pages a day, how many days will it take her to finish the book? 

Anna has 12,850 crayons.  Justin has 10,739 crayons.

How many more crayons does Anna have than Justin?

Max has 1,258 more crayons than Justin has.  How many crayons does Max have?

If Anna, Justin and Max put their crayons altogether, how many crayons will that be?

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.

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!  We’ve got this together!

👊🏻🌎🌳💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day ~ Monday, April 20

Good Morning! It’s the 50th Celebration of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22.  During our breaks this week, I’ll  suggest activities to help us appreciate and care for our planet a little bit more.

Morning Work – Start off your learning day by completing your weather graph, note 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.

This week I chose to start the day with a book to remind us to look for the good – it’s always there.  After you listen, pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add to your Gratitude Jar.

Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. You are sharing amazing writing, math and art. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼☀️💕

During  Morning Meeting I try to share something to remind us of how we can make the world better.  

Fables are stories helping us to consider our choices.  They’ve been around for thousands of years and there are hundreds of them.  Aesop was a slave in Ancient Greece who is said to have earned his freedom through the wisdom of his storytelling.  

Do you have a favorite fable?  If you were going tell others what a fable is, what would you say?  Leave your answers to these questions in a comment.  If you don’t have an answer yet, don’t worry.  We’ll figure it out together over the next week or two.  Let’s start by listening to two different versions of the Fox and the Crow.

What did you notice that was the same about the two version?  What was different?  Which did you like better?  Do you have a different version at home?  Leave your answers to these questions in a comment below.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  Since we’re hopping into the week.  Hop on your right foot across the room, then hop on your left foot on the way back.  How many hops did it take in total.  Here are two Go Noodle videos: sing and dance to Little Green Froggy or relax and reflect on how you can Care for Earth.

Shared Reading – we’ll continue to solve riddles and listen to mysteries.  We’ll also explore some activities that will help us each write our own mystery.

The answers to Thursday’s riddles were:  #1 palm, #2 silence and #3 draw a shorter line beside it.

Here are some new riddles to solve ~

Riddle #1  It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than 5 minutes.  What is it?

Riddle #2  If you throw a blue stone in the Red Sea, what will it become”

Riddle #3 How many triangles are in this picture?

Enjoy the the companion of 7 Ate 9.  It called The Upper Case – Trouble in Capital City .(Sorry for the corny video. It’s a fun story)

Of all the picture book mysteries we’ve shared so far, what’s been your favorite and why?  Please leave your answer in a comment below.  It will help me plan when we begin writing our own mysteries.

So far we’ve shared:  The Case of the Missing Monkey, The Case of the Climbing Cat, The Deductive Detective, Betty’s Burgled Bakery, Piggins, What Really Happened to Humpty?, Grandpa’s Teeth and 7 Ate 9.

Take a break, go outside, run around, sing,  Create Bird-Friendly Window Decals, this egg-carton panda is fun or make some art.

ReadingKeep reading each and every day! Mystery book clubs will be meeting tomorrow.  Make sure you’ve read chapter 1 and written your notes.  Do you know what the mystery is?  Do you know who will be solving it?

Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book.  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.

Writer’s Workshop  –  Take this time to finish up any writing projects you are in the middle of  – country inquiry/travel journal or finishing the souvenirs.  You may also want to finalize your weather writing and illustrations.  Several of you began stories last week.  Please continue adding to them.  Don’t leave us in suspense.  😲  You’ve been doing some amazing writing and that made me wonder if you’d like to submit it to a contest.  Channel 11 – NHPBS is holding a Kids Writers Contest.  It might be something you’d like to try. Open the link to find out the rules and decide if it’s something for you.

 Do you remember reading Where In the Wild and looking for the animals in the photographs. If you need a new writing idea, try creating a Mystery Animal Poem.

Try this format:

I have __________.

I have __________.

I live __________.

I eat __________.

I am __________.

I can __________.

I make the noise __________.

What Am I?

If you create an Animal Mystery Poem, please post it on your blog and find a way to illustrate it with some clues.

MathWe’ve been learning about area.  Warm-up with this Find the Area practice worksheet to remind yourself of what you know.

As long as you’re measuring with the same square unit, you can add areas together.  If I’m making two gardens.  One is behind my house.  It is a rectangle that is 6 feet long and 3 feet wide.  The second garden is to the left of the house.  It is a rectangle that is 5 feet long and 2 feet wide.  I need to have the gardener deliver soil and fertilizer for each square foot.  Should I have her make two deliveries; one for 18 square feet and another for 10 square feet?  Or can I have her make one delivery for 28 square feet and be able to fill both of my gardens.

I could do either, but one delivery would  probably better for the earth.  How would you solve Barbara’s Areas for Chickens Problem?

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 will be helpful to write the color and the date the problem was posted.  Thanks!

Katherine had a collection of cards. She had 473 cards with dolphins on them.  She had 326 kittens and puppies on them.  She had 186 with unicorns and fairies on them.  How many cards did Katherine have in her collection altogether?

She gave her friends 496 of her cards.  How many cards did she have in her collection then?

Landon had a collection of 118,000 Legos before he began building forts out of them.

He used 12,485 bricks to make the first for, 13,067 bricks to make the second fort and 34,642 bricks to make the last fort.

How many Lego bricks did he use in all to make the three forts?

How many Lego bricks did he have left to use for other projects?

Vera organized her art supplies.

She sorted and counted 1,532 crayons, 1,381 markers and 2,637 colored pencils.

How many art supplies did Vera organize altogether?

She gave 2,795 supplies to kids who didn’t have any.  How many art supplies did she have left?

Holden had 113,500 Legos altogether in a bin.

 He used 16,154 red bricks, 34,437 white bricks and 9,528 blue bricks to make a spaceship.

How many Lego bricks did Holden use altogether to build his spaceship?

How many Legos did he have left in the bin?

Edward went for a hike.  He collected food for the birds.

He found 1,465 acorns, 1,376 pinecones and 2,857 red berries.

How many things did Edward collect altogether during his hike?

He put them in a pile at the edge of the forest.  When he went back the next day, birds had eaten half of what Edward had collected.

How much food did the birds eat in one day?

Brady had 256 markers.  He threw away 68 because they had dried up.  How many markers does he have left?

Round your answer to the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100.

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…

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 in Gallery 1 from Van, Anna, May, Edward and Sophie.  You’ll see new artwork from Van and Justin in Gallery 2 and you’ll find photographs from Anna and May in the Photograph Gallery. Remember the recycled instrument challenge for Art, Music and Earth Day (April 22) – that’s coming right up.

Technology – You’ll find the lessons Mrs. Herlihy left here at this link open the lesson that is next for you.

I hope you’ve had a great Monday.  Thanks for staying connected and doing all you can.

🌎🌳🌻💕 Mrs. Eaves

A Summary of Week 5

This week you made art and music.  We  shared books by Amy Krauss Rosenthal and explored their themes.  You said they were:  be happy with who you are, you can have adventures on your own, you don’t have to be first ~ take time to notice things around you, and friends =love.

We solved riddles each day and read more mysteries.  We are getting better at completing the Detective Case Reports. It is sometimes challenging to notice the clues.

You are reading and listening to great books.  You’re leaving comments to share our reading recommendations for our classmates.

Some went on Spring scavenger hunts and some of us wrote about spring.

Some went on Noticing Walks and created map of what we sensed while me mindfully listened and felt and saw.

You’ve all been writing each day ~ some in our journals and some on our blogs.  Many more of you finished your souvenirs and travel journals.

You’ve all been learning more about area and the square units you’d use to measure it in in math.  You’ll finish that unit in this upcoming week.4.16-playing-with-area-1-1

Next week you can look forward to starting the mystery book clubs, trying to write our own original mystery, celebrating Earth Day, learning about fables and completing the math unit about x/÷ fact families, story problem writing and area.

Thanks for doing your best, staying safe and being wonderful friends to each other!

💕☀️🌈🙌🏼Mrs. Eaves

Mystery Book Clubs

Mystery Book Club Expectations

Book club members:  1.) read only the agreed upon chapter(s).

2.) have taken notes

3.) and are ready to make a prediction or inference about what might happen next

Since this is a mystery, let’s see if we can keep track of all the elements of a mystery like we have been during shared reading with the detective case report.  Let’s see if we can collect clues as we read.

Here are examples of note-taking strategies to keep track of your thinking.  Choose the one that works best for you or create your own unique combination.

My examples are for:

I learned from the cover so I’d be ready to look for clues right away.

Here’s an example of the Line-a-Page Strategy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An example of the Essence Strategy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An example of the Sketch-to-Stretch Strategy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep track of the clues you collect as you read on a Detective Case Report   Please read chapter 1 and be ready for a club meeting on Tuesday, April 21.

The Clubs are:

Justin, Sophie and Holden

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max, Katherine, Landon, Vera and Anna

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elena, Piper, Edward, Brady, May, Estella and Van