Good Morning! Happy Sunny Tuesday!
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.
Pick up you gratitude rock and think of something new to add it to your Gratitude Jar. If you can’t think of anything, read through your strips, check through your blog comments. Your friends have left some kind words there over the past few days and weeks. You matter. You make me smile every day. My world is so much better with you in it. Thank you.
Check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two. It feels great to be noticed. Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼☀️💕
Morning Meeting – Here’s the second classroom favorite of celebrating differences and friendship. This weeks books are all by Amy Krouse Rosnethal. Today we’ll share Chopsticks and explore “the importance of sticking together – and standing on your own.”
Yesterday you folded and cut a piece of paper into fourths. On the second section write Chopsticks and one sentence (or so) telling what you think the author’s message is. That would be naming the theme of the book. What did the Chopsticks learn? Turn it over and draw a picture of your favorite part of the story – it can be as simple or as detailed as you’d like. Put it in a safe place with yesterday’s picture – the plan/hope is that we’ll share your thoughts and pictures on Thursday.
Take a break, get a snack and move around. If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos move to Pop See Ko and Stretch with Maximo.
Shared Reading – We’ll keep practicing solving riddles and mysteries. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas yesterday. Riddles aren’t easy! I have to say, you are much better at them than I am. Here are yesterday’s answers: an egg(Your ideas of peanuts and silence fit too!), a candle and all the months.
Here are some new riddles to solve ~
Riddle #1 What gets wet while drying?
Riddle #2 What goes up, but never comes down?
Riddle #3 What question can you never answer yes to?
Next listen to this new mystery, Grandfather’s Teeth. This one is tricky. I had to read it a few times the catch all the clues. When you’ve finished, try to the story complete the Detective Case Report. In Piggins yesterday, he was the detective, because he used the clues to catch Lord and Lady Rastby. Inspector Bayswater was a distraction. Mysteries can be complicated. Do you think you could plan and write an original mystery story of your own?
Take a break, go outside and try a Spring Scavenger Hunt Nature Walk. I wonder how many items you can find today? I wonder if it will change in a week’s time. Sing a song, play a game, make some art.
Reading – Keep 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 today, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.
Go outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Mrs. Oliver has added some new songs. 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. Thank you for so many great souvenir pictures yesterday. You can work on your weather writing or illustrations and submit that piece when you’re done.
Whenever you’re ready for a new writing ideas, here are the Quick Writes for today:
I know it’s spring when…
When everything turns green, I think about…
The best game to play outside in spring is…
If you could plant a garden of anything, what would be in it?
When I see baby animals, I think of…
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 – What is area?
Area is an amount. Four classmates made an estimate about the area of rectangle Z. The estimates were: 21 sq. in., 10 sq. in., 15 sq. in and 18 sq. in. (One dad thought it might be 18 sq. in. too.)
I am aware of four classmates who calculated the area of the four rectangles. The area of rectangle A = 9 square inches. The area of rectangle B = 8 square inches. The area of rectangle C = 12 square inches. And the area of rectangle D = 12 square inches.
When people measure area, they find out how many square units it takes to cover a shape with no overlaps or gaps. We are going to use 1 inch paper squares to measure the area of different rectangles.
Gather together three common rectangular objects like a book, a journal, a box of pasta or rice, an envelope or a card. Don’t choose anything much larger than a chapter book. Why – because keeping the unit squares in line is challenging. Once you’ve selected your three objects, record your work here. Write the name of the three objects, record your estimate in square inches, cover each object to find that actual are in square inches. Finding the Area of Common Objects
Look at this picture and read what to do if there is a remainder.
When I covered the book with square inches, there was a remainder at the bottom of the book. The area of the cover is 48 sq. in. But I think that the remaining part is a half inch in each row. That means six half inches would be three inches. So the total are of the book cover is 51 sq. in.
If you find you had a remainder in the objects you choose, decide what would me most accurate and you record the area of your three common objects.
Finish your math warm up with this Area and Multiplication Practice
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!
Edward raked leaves. He raked up three piles. One had 1,567 leaves, another had 2,134 leaves and the last had 2,385 in it.
How many leaves did Edward rake up altogether?
2,482 of the leaves were from a maple tree and the rest were from an oak tree.
How many were oak leaves?
Brady went for a walk in the woods. He kept track of the trees he saw. He counted 250 trees altogether.
There were 38 beech trees, 16 pine trees, 86 oak trees and 22 hemlock trees.
The rest were maple.
How many maple trees did he see and count?
May collected shells on the beach. She found 1,568 white shells, 2,374 yellow shells and 2,019 speckled shells.
She used 2,465 of her shells to decorate a box.
How many shells did May have left?
Estella was making her souvenirs. She worked for 25 minutes for 5 days in a row and 45 minutes for the next 3 days in a row to finish them. How many minutes did Estella spend creating her souvenirs? How many hours and minutes is that?
Javey was building with Legos. There were 1,105 bricks in the bin when he started.
There were 328 bricks left when he finished.
How many Legos did Javey use while he was building?
Landin has 2,850 crayons. Anna has 1,739 crayons.
How many more crayons does Landin have than Anna?
Van has 1,258 more crayons than Anna has. How many crayons does Van have?
If Landin, Anna and Van put all their crayons together, how many crayons will that be?
If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Seven classmates have given Prodigy a try. They say it is a lot of fun and a just-right challenge. Talk to your parents to get your login information if you want to give it a try too. Did anyone else find different game or activity 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! You’ve got this!
👊🏻📖✏️
💕Mrs. Eaves
I enjoy reading your blog and seeing what Sophie is doing, even though I can’t be there and hear about her day. You do an awesome job with the virtual learning forum. I know it can’t be an easy task putting together every learning lesson! Thank you for all you do!
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I appreciate knowing that the blog connects you to Sophie and all the thoughtful work she is doing during this period of remote learning. That is a benefit, I’d not thought of.
Brenda
~Riddles~
Towel
Age
Are you asleep?
~riddle~
1# Towel
2# Your age
3# sleep or dead
1. TOWEL
2. Cloud
3. honesty
pleas be right!
#1 A towel
#2 A ballon once a person let’s it go or your age
#3 Are you dead
1- bath towel
2- your age
3- are you asleep yet
1 towel
2 Steam
3 I did not know
I read Dessert First and so far it’s about a girl named Dessert who has a family that owns a restaurant called Fondue Paris. Dessert has a lot of people in her family. She has a teacher named Mrs. Howdy Doody and she says to “March to your own drummer”. Dessert eats some of some Double Decker Brownies and she’s not supposed to. She is hoping she won’t get in trouble. My favorite part is when tells her sister Charlie to clean up Dessert’s room because Dessert is reading while Charlie is cleaning the room for just a tiny piece of gum.
Hi Anna,
Thanks for sharing your reading. This sounds like a good book with a lot of food in it. I am wondering if Dessert got away with eating the Double-Decker Brownies, or if she got caught? I also think it is funny that one sister has a usual name, Charlie and one sister has an unusual name, Dessert. Did you discover the reason for that?
Would you clean your brother’s room for a piece of gum? Would he clean your’s?
📚Mrs. Eaves
~The Riddles~
#1 A towel
#2 I don’t know
#3 I don’t know
2. Your age or a year
Riddles for today.
1. Towel
2. Your age
3. Are you sleeping?
For reading I listened to a book on Storyline Online, “When Pigasso met Mootisse.” Pigasso didn’t know about Mootisse and Mootisse didn’t know about Pigasso even though they were really famous artists. One day Pigasso and Mootisee got overwhelmed and they both moved to the same farm and were neighbors. Then when they got there Pigasso went over to meet his new neighbor and Mootisse wanted to meet his new neighbor and they bumped into each other. First they started as friends and gave each other some of their artwork. Then Pigasso criticized some of Mootisse’s art because they created art differently. Mootisse then criticized Pigasso’s art. They built a big fence between their houses so they couldn’t see each other. After a week or two, Pigasso and Mootisse got lonely in their houses and they missed each other. They painted their feelings on their sides of the fence, and each snuck to the other’s side of the fence to peak at what they had painted. Pigasso named his side of the fence “When Pigasso met Mootisee” and Mootise named his side, “When Mootisse met Pigasso”. The fence was hung up in a museum and everyone called it amazing!
🙂 May
Hi May,
Thank you for sharing such a complete and thoughtful summary of this story. I appreciate the time it took you to write such a detailed response.
Well done! I love this story too!
🎨🖌Mrs. Eaves
The three rectangular objects that I picked to discover area are
1 a letter envelope =an area of =32
2 mobile charger=an area of 21
3 an Airpod case =an area of 4
Hi Vera,
Those seem like good choices. How close were your estimates? Were you able to cover each object completely, or did you have a “remainder” like I did on the book I chose?
Thanks for always working to complete every part of our day.
I appreciate your effort!
👍🏻Mrs. Eaves
I read Junie B. Jones Aloha ha ha! by Barbara Park.
In the book Junie is paking her bags for Hawaii. and her Mom gave her a Hula girl for her trip.And she had to stand in LOTS of lines. pore Junie B.
Elena
Hi Elena,
Thanks for sharing your reading. I’m sure the lines are long and boring – poor Junie is right, but somehow I think it will all be worth it once she is there. I wonder if she is going to a luau and if she will hula there.
📚Mrs. Eaves
I read Ruby Redford by Lauren. The book is about a genius girl spy that is kinda spoiled and very SMART she has thousands of note books that are all yellow but one and the one that is not yellow is green. I think the person that is telling the story is ether the narrator or Ruby.
Hi Mrs. Eves
Hi Estella,
Thanks for sharing your reading. It seems as though you are just starting this book and are just learning about who Ruby is and what she does. Does she have anybody helping her? She sounds like someone who is going to solve mysteries.
I wonder why on of the notebooks is green. I wonder if it is for a reason, or if it’s a red herring?
📚Mrs. Eaves
Today I read Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire and here are my book talk questions
The conflict in the story so far, well there are two, they are not able to play Quidditch this year because of the Triwizard Tournament. The other conflict was that you are not alowed to enter if you are below the age of 17, that was a real issue for Fred and George. The setting of the story is at Hogwarts! Thank you for all you are doing to previde to our class! You are rocking it!
-Sophie
Hi Sophie,
Thanks for sharing your reading and what is happening in The Goblet of Fire. Thanks for the pep talk too. I appreciate it!
💕Mrs. Eaves
Here are my answers to the riddles.
1) towel
2) age
3) what is the opposite of yes?
I am reading Beverly Cleary’s book, The Mouse and the Motorcycle Ralph Will Be Taking the Ride of His Life! There is a family that came from Ohio and drove to a motel in California. When they got there they discovered that there were mice in the motel. The kid in the family brought toys with him and he brought a motorcycle and that’s how far I got in the book.
Hi Justin,
This is one of may favorite books. I read it when I was your age and I’ve read it LOTS of times to different classes. It is a story that never gets old. I love the idea that the mouse can ma… better stop. I don’t want to spoil it for you. I can’t wait to relive the story as you share.
Thanks for sharing your reading!
📚🐭🏍 Mrs. Eaves
Today I did math and here it is
Jenga piece estimate: 2 sq. in real area: 3 1/4
Pokemon card estimate: 12 sq. in real area: 12 1/2
Match Attax soccer card box estimate: 20 1/2
Area To Find Page
#1 14 unit squares
#2 40 unit squares
#3 27 unit squares and the problems below I also did and my mom was working 20 feet away so I sang the answer and my mom sang if it was correct or not, I got all of them correct!
Hope you and your family are doing well -Sophie
Thank you for sharing all the steps of your math thinking. I appreciate how completely you express your thoughts. I feel as though you understand the concept of area.
And thank you, my family is doing well.
Take care,
Mrs. Eaves
I read Prince Caspian. It is a book from the Narnian book series. It takes place in Narnia. (Most books do.) My favorite part is when they had a huge fight because it was the ONE picture in the ENTIRE BOOK. It is the 4th book in the Narnian series.
Hi Edward,
Who is your favorite character in this book?
What has happened in the story that you connect with?
If you could go to Narnia, which adventure would you want to join and why?
You’ve made me interested in reading these books again.
I wonder if they are part of the Audible list. Maybe I could listen while cooking dinner.
Thanks for sharing.
📚Mrs. Eaves
Riddles
1. beach sand
2. clouds
3. am I sleeping
Great thinking! I like your original ideas!
Thanks for sharing,
Mrs. Eaves
I finished my writers workshop on extreme weather!
Hi Max,
Thank you.I’ll check it out. That must be a good feeling- two big projects, Egypt and weather, complete!
Yay for you!
🐪🌧✏️Mrs. Eaves