A Summary of Week Three

Here is a collection of photographs and work samples you sent this week.  Thank you for sharing.  They make me so happy.  I love reading your posts each day!

We explored Gratitude and are trying to develop a daily practice of taking note of what we are grateful for.  We’ve got our gratitude rocks and jars.

 

 

We are keeping up with daily independent reading and recording our thoughts in a comment each day.

 

 

We are taking time to learn more about leads, topic sentences and paragraphing in a developing weather essay.  I’m excited about what I am reading in your drafts.  They will be ready for publishing in a week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ve explored fact families with  chocolates, cupcakes and cake.  We’ve also practiced writing problems to match particular equations.

Anna journal cover   You’ve worked on your travel journals and covers.  This week we’ll begin creating the souvenirs (some of you already have, and that’s great)

And the deadline for the Winterhouse Challenge is coming on Wednesday.  You can already see some of those posts that include a favorite character, a list of personality character traits supported by evidence from the books – what did the character do, say or think.

On top of that you are creating art, playing games and your recorder, going for walks and bike rides and shooting baskets and practicing Spanish when you can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are outstanding! 💕 Even from far away, you are digging deep and doing all that you can to learn and grow.  I am GRATEFUL for YOU!

Ms. Griffenhagen found Jaggy on her deck trying to cheer her up on our last rainy Friday.  She said it worked and sent the video on to us.  Even though it’s sunny today, I thought you’d enjoy seeing Jaggy dancing in the rain.

Keep on being awesome – I miss you!

🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜Mrs. Eaves

 

Our Day – Thursday April 2 – Day 12

🥳🎂🎉Happy Birthday Holden!🎉🎂🥳

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.

Stop to put your gratefulness rock in your pocket. Think of something new that you are grateful for as your day begins and add it to your Gratitude Jar.  Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two.

Keep up with independent reading suggestions by checking out all the comments of you’ve all been leaving and keep reading each and every day!

Morning Meeting –  It’s another wonderful day.  Listen to this reading of The Awesome Book of Thanks by Dallas Clayton.  I like the message and the colorful illustrations.  I am grateful for color.  Let’s see what happens when we each try to make a monochromatic picture.  “What,” you ask, “is that?”  It is a picture that is created by using different shades of only one color.  If you decide to give it a try, make sure to post it on you blog. Here are a few examples. Be inspired.  Have fun!

 

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos.  The first one here is one to move with and the second one here is one to help us become more mindful.

Reading, Writing, Science and Art

Shared Reading – To start today listen to the poem called The Storm by Laurie Harley.

Next listen to What Will the Weather Be Like Today by Paul Rogers.

I hope this book is reminding you of the difference between weather and climate.  Think back to the climate maps you made a week ago in the Mystery Science activity.  Can you describe the difference between Climate and Weather?  Create a blog post to explain the  difference between the two.

 

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

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

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

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

Writer’s Workshop  –  Beginning on March 31, we will spend six days to work little by little to craft a piece of writing sharing the weather information you have been collecting. We are going to learn about creating paragraphs. Yesterday you wrote your lead.  If you had a chance to take advantage of that opportunity,  you’ll find some feedback waiting for you in your draft.  9 of you did that writing assignment.  If you didn’t have the chance, go back to yesterday’s post to find the information you need to complete it now.

Today you will be planning the order of how you will present your storm information and you will be writing a paragraph or two about that one type of weather.

Here’s my plan.  You can use it, but it would be more fun if you followed your own line of thinking. Some of you chose other kinds of extreme weather altogether so this plan won’t work – that’s FABULOUS!  You come up with your order.

I decided to start with the subtopic of  Thunderstorms.  Then I chose to move to Tornadoes because they start in Thunderstorms.  I going to tell about Hurricanes next and connect to the fact that both, Tornadoes and Hurricanes have high winds and 5 different classifications.  And finally I am going to explain what I know about Blizzards because they are also windy.

The first sentence in a paragraph is called a TOPIC SENTENCE.  It lets the reader know what they will learn about in that paragraph.  It’s like a mini lead or introduction to the subtopic.  Every sentence that comes after the topic sentence, should add a different detail.  Altogether the paragraph teaches about that subtopic completely.  

I’ll get some of my sentence details from my concept map.  The details are the facts I collected in the small circles.   I’ll also have to remember to write about some I didn’t collect on my map – I may even have to look some up by going back to the resources.

Here’s an example of a paragraph with a topic sentence and six supporting details from Writer’s Toolbox by Nancy Loewen.

When you’re ready to write, open your weather post, make revisions to your lead, delete the feedback  and add the new paragraph(s) about that one subtopic.  Remember to use your elaboration strategies.  When you have finished writing about that topic.  Stop and save your draft.  Don’t submit it.  You’ll be adding more the next time you write.

(If you have bits and pieces of your travel journal to finish up, do them when you have time.)

Math Workshop~

Math Mini Lesson Warm-Up –  It seems like almost everybody is feeling certain of how multiplication and division meet together to create fact families.  You did great with the chocolates and cupcake problems. (Here’s a tip : using the option key and the / together will allow you to type the division symbol÷.). Today in honor of Holden’s birthday let’s do some birthday cake math for the first part of our math warm up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are four pictures of cakes cut into equal pieces.  Choose a just right challenge for you, and without telling us which picture you selected, please create a blog post that shares the four equations in the fact family represented by the cake you chose and one story problem that illustrates an equations from that fact family.

Complete these Multiplication and Division Review1 and Multiplication and Division review2 worksheets to help you have even more practice with fact families in the second part of the math workshop.

Problem Solving ~ Next, here are today’s problems to choose from.  These were written to model ways to write division and multiplication story problems.  Solve as many as you can.   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 counted the crayons.  He found out the class had 80 crayons.  He places the crayons in boxes.  Every box contains 8 crayons.  How many boxes will Edward need?

Brady organized the paper.  There were three piles of clean white paper.  He decided to place the paper in envelopes that could hold 10 pieces of paper her.  How many envelopes does Brady need if there are 120 pieces of clean white paper in each pile? 

May collected the watercolor paintings that class had created.  She wanted to hang and equal number of paintings on each of the four walls of the classroom.  How many paintings did May hang on each of the four walls.

Estella combined 526 colored pencils, 385 markers and 1,217 crayons from the classroom supplies and put them in a box to send to a shelter so kids their could create pictures.  How many art supplies did Estella put in the box?

The box weighed 3 and ½ pounds.  When Javey took it to the post office to mail he found out it would cost $6.95 per pound to mail the package.  How much money did it cost to mail the package of art supplies?

Landin painted Gratitude Rocks for everyone in 3E – including Mrs. Douglas and Mrs. Eaves.  On each rock she painted 35 green dots, 46 light blue dots, 27 yellow dots and 18 dark blue dots.  How many dots did she paint on each rock?  How many dots did she paint on the entire set of Gratitude Rocks?

Math Games and Activities ~ If you’ve worked through the first three parts of math workshop, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. If you want to try Prodigy talk to your parents.   Does anyone else have 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.

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

New School Week Expectations
Dr. Lupini and Ms. Snyder set some new school expectations.  The plan is that students will have new assignments Monday through Thursday.  Friday is a day for you to catch up on things you haven’t had the opportunity to do or complete. It’s a day work on larger projects – like our Winterhouse Challenge.  The hope is that this will make the weeks feel a bit more relaxed.
Teachers have been asked to spend Friday getting ready for up-coming lessons with time to work together in Zoom to plan grade level activities.  Don’t worry, I’ll still be checking the blog and will be near by to answer your questions as they arise.  I’ll be there for you! ☀️💕🙌🏼
So that means you’ve gotten all the new assignments you’ll have for this week.  The travel journals you’ve been able to share with me are WONDERFUL. (It’s fine to still be working on them.) Next week, we’ll start creating the souvenirs.
This week you have done amazing writing, math and reading.  You shared joy with each of us and the world as you expressed your gratitude for all of our many blessing.  You played music and created pictures.  You went for bike rides and hikes.  You are remarkable!
Thank you for being you!
📚📝➗⛈🌎
💕Mrs. Eaves
Here’s something interesting.  Ms. Griffenhagen just sent this video.  How can this be?  I thought we had that figured out…

Our Day – Wednesday, April 1 – Day 11

🥳🎂🎉Happy Birthday Estella!🎉🎂🥳

Good Morning! Happy April Fools Day!

Morning Work – I hope you will start off your learning day by completing your weather graph – I think we should be able to use the same one we began on March 18, noting the temperature on the section of the graph you color in and the type of cloud you see.  Use the symbols on the cloud finder.

Stop to put your gratefulness rock in your pocket.  Think of something new that you are grateful for as your day begins and add it to your Gratitude Jar.  Then check out each others blogs and leave a comment or two.

Keep up with independent reading suggestions by checking out all the comments of you’ve all been leaving and keep reading each and every day!

Morning Meeting It’s Wonderful Wednesday.  To begin our day, here’s a video of Ms. Griffenhagen reading, I Am Enough.  It fits really well with our conversation about gratitude and feeling confident in who you are. Next watch this video about the importance of practicing gratitude.  What’s on your Top 10 List?  We’d love to see your list in a blog post. 

 

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two  Go Noodle videos here, No Crust dance and here, You are Courage mindful moment.

Reading, Writing, Science and Art

Shared Reading

Let’s start with a new song to the tune of “Oh My Darling”

What’s the weather?

What’s the weather?                                      Listen to Wild Weather

What’s the weather, everyone?                    The author created characters

Is it windy?                                                      to share weather facts.

Is it cloudy?                                                     I think it is different

Is there rain?                                                  and unique.

Or is there sun?

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

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

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

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

Writer’s Workshop  –  Over the next six days we will work little by little to craft a piece of writing sharing the weather information you have been collecting.  Today we will write the lead.  We learned  about 4 types of  leads and conclusions. They are:

Snapshot leads that paint a picture,

Dialogue leads where conversation opens the writing,

Question leads the pique your interest through questions and

Onomatopoeia leads that open with sounds.

Before you begin read through the leads on the chart.  These are from four nonfiction books about frogs.

Look at the lead from Super Storm by Seymour Simon that you listen to on Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at the lead to Wild Weather  by Thomas Kingsley Troupe that you listened to today.

 

 

 

 

 

Using that information, decide how you will begin your writing about wild weather.  What kind of lead will you use to hook your readers?

When you have decided, open a blog post and write your lead.  It is likely to introduce your topic in several detailed sentences that use the elaboration strategies all authors use.  When you have finished writing your lead.  Stop and save your draft.  Don’t submit it.  You’ll be adding more tomorrow

(If you have bits and pieces of your travel journal to finish up, do them when you have time.)

Math – Great job yesterday with the Chocolate math.  (Here’s a tip : using the option key and the / together will allow you to type the division symbol÷.). Today in honor of Estella’s birthday let’s do some cupcake math for the first part of our math warm up.

Here are three pictures of boxed cupcakes.  Without telling us which picture you selected, please create a blog post sharing the four equations in the fact family represented by the box you chose.   After, that write one story problem that would fit with one of the equations in the family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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!

Sophie has 2,232 crayons.  She threw away 267 because they were broken.   How many crayons did she have left?

Round your answer to the nearest 10.

Round your answer to the nearest 100.

Piper went to the store and counted 21,624 pairs of shoes.  She went to another store and counted 2,531 pairs of shoes. 

How many pairs to shoes did Piper count in total?

How many shoes did she see altogether?

Round that answer to the nearest hundred and to the nearest one thousand.

Katherine had a bake sale.  She sold pieces of Tiger Fudge for $.20 each. 

At the end of the sale she had earned $14.40.

How many pieces of Tiger Fudge did Katherine sell at the bake sale?

(Hint:  How many .20’s = 1.00?)

Landon bought 28 cans of food for his dog, Kelty. 

If Kelty ate two cans of food each day, how many days worth of food did Landon buy?

If each can of dog food sold for $1.35, how much money did Landon spend when he bought the food?

There are eights books in the Clementine book series.

Four of them have 212 pages each. 

Four of them have 184 pages each.

How many pages are there in the series altogether?

If Vera read half of the pages, how many pages would she have left to read?

Holden has 1,374 crayons.  Edward has 2,896 crayons.

How many more crayons does Edward have than Holden?

Brady has 512 fewer crayons than Holden has.  How many crayons does Brady have?

If Holden, Edward and Brady 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.  Sophie recommends Adventure Man and Counting Quest on ABCya.  Check them out. 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 for read aloud, and opportunities to draw with author illustrators like Mo Willems (Piggie and Gerald) and Jarrett Krosoczka (Lunch Lady)