👋🏻🌎😃Good Morning! I hope you’ve got you’re state in mind as you make time to watch the videos and read-alouds on today’s post.  You might discover something as you explore what’s here.🗽🏟

💕Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice. Take a look at these pictures from our National Parks. They are from The Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, Acadia in Maine, Then Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, Big Bend in Texas, Isle Royale in Michigan and The Everglades in Florida.  From coast to coast our country is full of natural beauty.  What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?☀️

Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Thanks for staying connected!👊🏻💗🙌🏼

💕😃Morning Meeting–  We’ve been thinking about our choices and how people behave.  Lots of time we expect others to change.  We can hope, but we can’t make it happen.  The only person’s behavior we can change is our own.  Though just like Maya in Trouble Talk, we can set a good example and keep an open heart.  Listen to Most People to see why having an open heart matters.💙

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Sweet Georgia Brown  and relax with Take On the Day.

🌎Social Studies and Reading📚

Shared Reading –  If you haven’t already, leave a comment naming the state you have chosen as your #1 choice.  Listen to A Chip Off The Old Block  Are any of Rocky’s relatives landforms that are famous from your state?  (All the rocks in the story are actual famous landmarks in the United States and the world.

Spend some more time with the Research Resources.  Your goal is to be ready to post your blog convincing us that your state is the best vacation destination in our country by June 4th.  The full assignment was posted yesterday, and is in Google Classroom along with note taking sheets as well.

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

📖Independent 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, 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  – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that.  If you want to continue working on your state research, that’s a fine choice!

This week’s optional prompts are a random collection. Challenge yourself to write something different ~ a poem, a play, a song, a news article, a puppet show…  Write as if you’re a sports announcer, or a meteorologist, a squirrel or a cupcake…📝

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

• Write a short story about a group of friends who make a special agreement with one another.
• If you were performing in the circus, what act would you do?
• If you could choose a fictional character to be friends with in real life, whom would you choose? Why?
• Write a short story about a dog that begins talking instead of barking one day.
• Write a poem about a friend’s best qualities.
• Other ~ what would you like to write 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.  It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.

🔢Math Workshop – Start with these warm-ups Area and Perimeter and Find the Missing Side . 

Here is a list of problems people solve everyday in real life.  Your task is to name how the person in the problem would accurately find the solution ~ multiplying to find the area or adding to find the the perimeter.   Record your thinking by putting the problem number with an A for area or P for perimeter in the comments section of the blog. You don’t have to give the answer to the problem.

Example:  34. Jim wanted to to buy molding to go around a window that was 5 feet tall and 8 feet long.  How much molding would he need to buy?

Answer in the comment:  34. P. 34 is the number of the problem in the example.  P stands for perimeter and that’s what Jim would have to know in order to buy the right amount to wooden molding to go around the window.  

You’ll be writing number 1 – 6 and labeling them with an A or a P to show you understand the difference between the two math concepts.

I won’t approve them until the end of the day, so your answers won’t be copied.

1. Abby wanted to sew ribbon on six place mats that were each 18 inches x 11 inches. How much ribbon would you need to buy?
2. Bill needed to buy fencing to keep the deer out of our garden the  was 22 feet long and 12 feet wide.  How much fencing should he buy?
3. Beth wanted to make a banner that said, “Welcome Home Dad” so there was space for fourteen, 2 foot tall letters.  What size should she cut the paper?
4. Hannah wanted to hang blue twinkle lights all around here room that was 12 feet by 16 feet in size. The strings of lights were 8 feet long.  How many would she need?
5. Jim wanted to get enough fertilizer for his garden.  He needed to know the square feet his garden that was 6 feet by 8 feet.  Each bag cover twelve square feet.
6. Eliza was tiling her kitchen floor with 1 foot tiles.  Her kitchen was 11 feet long  and 7 feet wide.  How many tiles did she need?

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!

Max put some Legos away.  He sorted them into four bins.  Each bin had fifty-five Legos in it.

How many Legos did Max put away altogether?

Piper was decorating her journal cover with stickers.

She organized the stickers into four equal groups.

Each group had six donut stickers, three popsicle stickers and two cookie stickers.

How many donut stickers did she put on her journal cover altogether?

How many popsicle stickers did she put on her journal cover altogether?

How many cookie stickers did she put on her journal cover altogether?

How many stickers in all did she put on her journal cover?

There were three bowls of gummy bears. Each bowl had 163 pieces of candy in it.

How many gummy bears were there altogether?

There were four bowls of gummy frogs. Each bowl had 124 gummy frogs in it. How many gummy frogs were there altogether?

Were there more gummy bears or gummy frogs?

How many more?

Katherine made 2 books.

Each book had 36 pages in it.

How many pages did she use altogether?

Katherine put 3 illustrations on each page.  How many illustrations did she make altogether for her books?

Landon was making model airplanes. He started making them at 10:15. He worked on making them for 48 minutes. What time was it when Landon stopped making his model airplanes?

Landon made 4 model airplanes. Each airplane was made with 235 pieces. How many model pieces did Logan put together in total?

Holden had 49 dimes, 17 nickels and 526 pennies.

How much money did Holden have altogether in dollars and cents?

He went shopping and spent $7.35.

How much money did he have left?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing 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.

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

🏔🇺🇸🏜Good Morning! 👋🏻As we continue exploring the United States, make time to watch the videos and read-alouds so you gain a stronger awareness of the unique features of our country.🌲

🌎🏕Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice.  Take a look at these pictures from   our National Parks.  They are from Saguaro National Park in Arizona, Canyonlands in Utah, Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico and Crater Lake in Oregon.  Our country is grand and gorgeous.  What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?☀️💐

Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Thanks for staying connected!👊🏻💕🙌🏼

💗Morning Meeting–  We’ll continue to focus on steps 3, 4, and 5.  

Listen to Trouble Talk.  Have you ever experienced “trouble talk” – that’s any kind of talk that leads to nothing by trouble.  It includes gossiping, spreading rumors, lying, giving unasked for opinions or advice or sharing information that’s not yours to share. How do you think Maya did with steps 3, 4 and 5?  It’s not easy.  It’s challenging to know what to do.  Ask for help, and keep an open heart. 💚💙💜

🤔 Take some time  to reflect on different parts of the story here: Trouble Talk ~ Problem Solving Practice or in Google Classroom.

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

🇺🇸Social Studies and Reading📚

Shared Reading – Listen to Lady Liberty’s Holiday as you begin to think about the people, places and things from your state that make it UNIQUE ~ the perfect place to visit. Did Lady Liberty pass through your state? 🗽

In the Categories section of the blog sidebar you’ll see a Research Resources. That will take you to a blog post with links to help you discover what’s incredible in your state.  In this assignment you’ll be identifying wonders from your state and convincing us that is the Number 1 place in our country to visit!

Research to find at least 1 “wonder” in each of the following categories:

• a Natural Wonder (something created by nature – waterfall, lake, canyon, mountain…)
• a Man-Made Wonder (something made by people – a building, bridge, museum…)
• a Historical Wonder (an important piece of history from your state)
• a State Hero (a famous person who was born, grew up in or lives in your state now)
• and State Symbol you think is most important to your state.

The details of the assignment and the requirements for your final blog post are here State Project ~ Exploring the United States and in Google Classroom.  You’ll also find note taking worksheets here State Project ~ Note Taking Sheets or there.  Remember put things in your own words 📝😃👊🏻

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

📖Independent 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, 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  – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that.  This week’s prompts are a random collection.  Maybe you just want to work on your state research, that’s perfect if you do.  

Challenge yourself to write something different ~ a poem, a play, a song, a news article, a puppet show…  Write as if you’re a sports announcer, or a meteorologist, a cat or a dog…

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

• What is friendship really about?
•  What is the best ice cream topping? Why?
• Write a story about you and your best friend going on an adventure.
• Do you believe in magic or miracles? Why or why not?
• Look out the window—and then write about the very first thing you see.
• Other ~ what would you like to write 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.  It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.📝

🔢Math Workshop – Start with this warm-up One More Look At Emery’s Tables.  This talk about you creating more table arrangements, but this time for 20.  I’m not asking you to do that  I think you have the idea.

Review rounding: Round the Table.  If you’re not certain you remember how to round numbers to the nearest 100 or the nearest ten, what this short video about Rounding Rules to remind yourself of what to do.

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!

Estella had 112,080 Legos. 3,127 of them got vacuumed up.  How many Legos did Estella have then?

Estella worked with Landin to build a castle out of the Legos she had.  They used 38,762 of the Legos in the castle. 

How many Legos did Estella have left at the end of the project?

Ten people went to a cookout. There was fruit for dessert.

Each person ate four slices of kiwi.

Each person ate six strawberries.

And each person ate three grapes.

How many slices of kiwi did the people eat?

How many strawberries did the people eat?

And how many grapes did the people eat?

How much fruit did they eat altogether?

Anna was making a snack mix for herself, and her brother.

In each of the snack bags he put:

            8 pretzels

            12 goldfish crackers and

            10 M&M’s.

How many pieces of snack mix did she put in the snack bags altogether?

Elena had 30 pencils. 

She put them in five equal groups to share at the classroom tables.

How many pencils were there in each group?

Justin had some crackers.

He put six crackers in each bag. When he was done he had fourteen bags.

How many crackers did Justin have to start with?

Sophie made three necklaces.

She used 4 different colors of beads on each of the necklaces she made.

Her pattern was: yellow, blue, green, purple.

If she repeated her pattern five times on each necklace, how many beads did Sophie use for one necklace?

How many beads did she use to make all four of the necklaces?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing 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 have fun learning more about our country. 🏜 There are so many interesting places to explore and discover! 🏕🛶🌲

Thank you for all your time and effort!😀💐

👊🏻💕🙌🏼Mrs. Eaves

👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! As we finish up our  tour of  the regions of the United States, I hope you’ll make time to watch the videos and read-alouds to gain a stronger awareness of the unique features of each region in our country.🏜

Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice.  Take a look at these pictures from our National Parks.  They are from Bryce Canyon in Utah, Arches in Utah, Mount Rainier in Washington and The Badlands in South Dakota.   Our country is stunning and grand.  What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗

Thank you for taking  time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Your compliments are an important part of staying connected!💕🙌🏼💐

Morning Meeting–  In our Social Problem Solving practice we’re very good at naming our feelings and making “I statements.”  Let’s practice the next part of the process ~ setting goals and brainstorming ideas by reflecting and wondering about others.   What can we do differently to change upsetting or annoying situation?

To get started, listen to Horace and Morris, but Mostly Dolores.  Do you know about peer pressure?  It’s when you feel like you should or shouldn’t do something  because it seems like everyone else your age is doing it. Horace and Morris do what boys have to do.  Dolores does what a girl has to do, even though it makes them unhappy.  Think about times when you’ve been excluded or ignored.  Write a letter here to Horace and Morris or maybe Dolores ~ …Problem Solving Practice or in Google Classroom.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Never Eat Soggy Waffles  and workout doing The Touchdown Dance.

🏔🏕Social Studies and Reading🛶🐊

Shared Reading –  We’ll explore two regions of the country.  Listen to Traveling with Charlie ~ Travelin’ the Northeast and Traveling with Charlie ~ Down South.   Take a break in between them.

Choose a state from each region.  Leave your choices and reasons in a comment.  Now you have a list of four states ~ one from each region. What one do you think you’ll have most fun learning new things about?  We’ll begin working on that tomorrow ~ just think for now.

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

📚Independent 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, 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  – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that.  This week’s prompts are a random collection. Challenge yourself to write something different ~ a poem, a play, a song, a news article, a puppet show…  Write as if you’re a sports announcer, or a meteorologist, a chicken or a pig…

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

• Would you rather have a pet unicorn or a pet dragon? Why?
• When is it challenging to be a good friend? How do you handle those situations?
• Write a short story using the words pizza, kazoo, tree house, puppy, and bicycle
• Write about some of your favorite memories with your best friend.
• Other ~ write about any thing that you find interesting 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.  It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.

🔢Math Workshop – Start by listening to The 329th Friend.  Many of the worksheets and activities you will do are about the characters in this book and  the story.  If you don’t listen to it first, math will be confusing.  Plus it’s a fun book.  Poor Emery Raccoon!🦝

Emery had a lot of planning to do make sure there was enough table space for all his guests.  He had to think about both area and perimeter.  Did he have enough space in his yard for the tables?  Was the perimeter around his table long enough for all his guest to find a seat?

Here’s what it would look like if he set a table up for four people.  Emery wondered what it would be like if he put two tables together.  He found that would make space for six people to sit.  Next he wonder how he could make space for ten people and this is what he discovered.

He decided that groups of 18 might be nice.  Emery had 6 square tables to use, but he wasn’t sure he would use them all.  Each table seats 4, one on each side. Please help Emery find all the possible ways he can arrange his tables to seat 18 people.

To do this you’ll need the 1″ paper squares you cut out on April 13.  Here’s another unit squares – 1 inch if you can’t find them. Record your work here: The 329th Friend ~ Seating for 18.

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 had $25.00.  She went to Target.  She bought the new Shopkin Shopper Pack for $10.99.

She bought a bottle of pink nail polish for $3.00.

She bought a bottle of blue nail polish for $3.00

How much money did Landin spend altogether?

How much money did Landin have left after shopping?

Landon has 21,850 crayons.  Holden has 17,039 crayons.

How many more crayons does Landon have than Holden has?

Vera has 2,258 more crayons than Landon has. 

How many crayons does Vera have?

When Landon, Holden and Vera put their crayons altogether to donate them to kid who don’t have art supplies, how many crayons will they donate altogether?

Edward has 10,000 balloons. 2,126 of the balloon are blue. 3,486 are red.  2,029 are yellow.  The rest of the balloons are different shades of green.

How many of the balloons are green?

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

Brady’s family had a cookout. 

They used five packages of hotdogs and three packages of hamburgers.

There were 12 hotdogs in each package. There were 6 hamburgers in each of those packages.

How many hotdogs did they use altogether?

How many hamburgers did they use altogether?

Van went for a walk.  He collected food for the birds.

He found 135 acorns, 46 pinecones and 37 red berries.

How many things did Van collect altogether for the birds?

He put the food in a feeder at the edge of his yard.  The birds ate half of the food in one day.  How much food was left?

May baked 124 muffins.

Katherine baked 13 times as many. How many muffins did Katherine bake?

Katherine baked some blueberry muffins and some chocolate chip muffins. 

If 826 of the muffins were blueberry, how many of them were chocolate chip?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.

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.  While you’re deciding, I suggest you choose a state you know only a little about, but that you’d like to learn more about.  We’ll begin researching and collecting information for persuasive blog post.  Convince us that we should visit your state first!🏔🛶🎆

👊🏻🙌🏼💕 Mrs. Eaves

☀️🍃🌎Good Morning! As we begin our tour of  the United States, I hope you’ll make time to watch the videos and read-alouds so you’ll have a stronger awareness of the unique features of each region of our country. This map shows where each of the National Parks is in the United States.

Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice.👋🏻💗🥳 Take a look at these pictures from our  National Parks.  These pictures of from The Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, Zion in Utah, and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming.  Our country is a majestic place.  What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💕

🌈Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Thanks for staying connected!👊🏻

😃 Morning Meeting–  We’ll continue on with our Social Problem Solving.  We’re very good at Steps 1 and 2.  We can calm down and we can identify the problem.  I also noticed from the work you did last week that we’re good at making clear “I statements.”    This week we’ll look more closely at steps 3, 4, and 5.   We need to work on the next part of the process ~ setting goals and brainstorming ideas of how we may be able to achieve our goal.  Let start by listening to Better Than You.  If Tyler were to work through our Problem Solving Steps, what do you think his “I statement” and positive goal would be?  Remember a goal has to be safe and  has to take everyone’s feelings into consideration.   Before reading further on the blog, leave a comment a with your answer. 😉

Did you notice that by the end of the book, Tyler had solved his problem, but he had never said his “I statement” to Jake.  He also didn’t depend on Jake to change so he could be happy.  Tyler talked to his uncle.  He looked beyond himself and his feelings.  He changed his perspective about why Jake was always bragging. And finally he found a friend who didn’t compete and use put downs.  🤔 Take some time  to reflect on different parts of the story here: Problem Solving Practice ~ Better Than You or in Google Classroom.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Peanut Butter in a Cup  or with 100 Fast – Jumping Jacks.

🇺🇸🚜🌪Social Studies and Reading

Shared Reading –  We’ll continue to explore the regions of our country.  Listen to The Scrambled States of America  and Travels with Charlie Across the Midwest. Watch the slide show so you can see each state unique features.

As you learn about the midwest, which state in this region seems like a place you’d like to visit?  Leave the name of that state and your reason for choosing it in a comment below. Tomorrow we’ll explore the other two regions and you’ll select states from those regions as well.

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

📚Independent 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, 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  – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that.  This week’s prompts are a random collection. Challenge yourself to write something different ~ a poem, a play, a song, a news article, a puppet show…  Write as if you’re a sports announcer, or a meteorologist, a cat or a dog…✏️

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

• Do you think you would enjoy living on a boat? Why or why not?
• What is the nicest thing a friend has ever done for you? How did it make you feel?
• What are the responsibilities of friendship?
• If you could have any zoo animal as a pet, which would you choose? Why?
• Other ~ any topic you’d like to write 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.  It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.

Math Workshop – Today we’ll be reviewing PERIMETER.  People find the perimeter of a figure or shape by measuring the length of each side and adding the measurements altogether.

For the first worksheet you’ll be measuring with inches (in).   For the second worksheet, you’ll be measuring with centimeters (cm). If the shapes do not print with even inches or centimeters, round up.

Practice calculating perimeter here with Perimeter Practice and here with Paper Quadrilaterals Perimeters.  Here is an example of what a completed shape would look like on the Paper Quadrilateral worksheet.

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!

Justin had three mini-bags of pretzels for snack.

There were eight pretzels in each bag.

How many pretzels did Justin have altogether?

If Justin had that same amount every day for a week, how many pretzels would he have eaten then?

Max had 13,500 Legos altogether in a bin.

 He used 6,154 red bricks, 4,437 white bricks and 594 blue bricks to make a spaceship.

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

How many Legos did he have left in the bin?

Elena practiced basketball for thirty-five minutes each day during the week.

She practiced forty-five minutes each day of the weekend. 

How many minutes did she practice basketball in one week altogether?

Sophie was making a snack mix for her family and making equal bags for each of them.   In each of the four bags she put:

            6 pretzels

            5 goldfish crackers

            7 peanuts

            8 Cheez-its and

            10 M&M’s

How many pieces of snack mix did she put in the four bags altogether?

Piper collected stones at the beach. She was using them to create an art project.

She found 2,332 white stones, 1,564 brown stones and 1,816 speckled stones.

How many stones did Piper collect for her project altogether?

Katherine went for a hike.  She collected food for the animals.

She found 1,235 acorns, 456 pinecones and 387 red berries.

How many things did Katherine collect altogether during her hike?

She put the food in a pile at the edge of the forest.  When she went back the next day, the animals had eaten half of what she had collected.

How much food did the animals eat in one day?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.

UA’s for today…

Art – Click out the new lessons. Here’s what Mrs. Nardone has for you to explore in Art today.

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

🏀🍦🚴🏻‍♀️I hope you had a great day today.  We’re almost done.  Stick with it.  I know you can!🚴🏻‍♂️🌭🎾

Thanks for being awesome!🥳💐👋🏻

💕Mrs. Eaves

🌎☀️🍃This week we re-explored the continents by viewing National Geographic Destination World videos for each continent.  After reminding ourselves of all we have to be grateful for, we began to review and think more about our 6-step social problem solving process.💗

👊🏻You completed the Forces and Motion checkpoint at the conclusion of our investigation of Invisible Forces.  Kids who listened to most of  the books and viewed most of the videos did well.  Thanks to those who used their own time to complete the bridge projects.  Projects do take extra time.🙌🏼🎢

Kami Export – Finding-Shapes-In-Bridges-1  5.19 LM You continued to name and label polygons and quadrilaterals.  You completed a checkpoint to assess your understanding of aspect of geography.  Some of you were able to experiment with shape and wind resistance by completing the Polygon Parachute challenge.

🇺🇸🥳We began reading about the regions of the United States and are looking forward to a mini-research project about a favorite state.

📚Our mystery book clubs are winding down and some new clubs are starting.  So far five kids have chosen new books to read.  If you think you’d like to join a club for the last weeks of school, and a couple beyond please leave your choices in a comment on the May 22nd Book Club Blog Post.📖

✏️You’ve been writing so many different pieces of writing ~ giving colors voice, creating original mysteries, teaching other about games: either directions or cheats, writing science fiction, creating dialogue, personal narrative and interacting with siblings through writing.📝

It is pretty amazing to look back on our blog and see all you’ve done in the last 11 weeks.  You are rock stars.🤩🎸🥁  I mean that sincerely.  No 8 and 9 year-olds have done more than you have.  I am proud of you!

💗👊🏻😀 Mrs. Eaves

Good Morning!  A few people took the time to leave a comment about the region of the United States that seems most interesting to explore.  Thank you.

👋🏻 Morning Work – I hope these are boosting your enthusiasm for our morning gratitude practice.  Check out these videos: Destination World ~ North America and Destination World ~ South America.  After you watch them, what can you add to your Gratitude Jar today? ☀️🌎💕

Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼💗👊🏻

Morning Meeting is connected to the morals you wrote last week of the Leo Lionni books. This book celebrate you and the positive strategies you have for dealing with problems. Listen to Quiet Please, Owen McPhee.  This book makes me think of Clark the Shark that a few of you listened to in the Storyline Online audio book collection.

Think of a situation when you felt annoyed by what was happening around you. What are some productive steps you can take when you’re feeling that way ~ whether it’s in the classroom, at home, in a game, with friends…

Complete the fourth part of Problem Solving Practice Thursday here or in Google Classroom.

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

Social Studies and Reading

Shared Reading –  Thanks for taking the time yesterday to make a record or what you already know about our 50 States.  Thanks to the few who shared which region you are most interested in and why.  You all had such different ideas. Cool!🇺🇸🌎

Listen to Liberty’s Journey and Travels with Charlie Way Out West.

I made a slide show of the book so you could look closely at the pictures.  Each state has such unique features ~ some of them are beautiful and others are silly.  Can you find Charlie?  He’s on every page.  As you learn about the west, which state in the region seems like a place you’d like to visit.  Leave the name of that state and your reason for choosing it in a comment below.

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

Independent 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, 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  – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that. 

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

• Would you rather have a magic carpet that flies or a see-through submarine?
• Would you rather everything in your house be one color or every single wall and door be a different color?
• Would you rather have a personal life-sized robot or a jetpack?
• Would you rather have eyes that change color depending on your mood or hair that changes color depending on the temperature?
• Would you rather eat an apple or an orange?
• Other ~ whatever 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.  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 – Begin with How Long Is That Bridge? as math warm up.

Use this resource to remind yourself how mathematician label right angles (a red box), parallel lines (a red arrow on the line) and congruent sides (1 blue line one the first set of sides ~ 2 blue lines on the second set of sides).

Label the Quadrilateral Cards to show if they have right angles, parallel lines and congruent side.

Next, use this resource to remind yourself about lines of symmetry.  Use a straight edge to draw the lines of symmetry on the Quadrilateral Cards.  Some of these quadrilaterals have 0 lines of symmetry, others have 2 and some have 4.

Once you’ve labeled your shapes, choose a way to sort them:

•  4 right angles, 2 right angles, 1 right angle, 0 right angles
• 0 lines of symmetry, others have 2 and some have 4
• 0 parallel sides, 1 set of parallel sides, 2 sets of parallel sides

Quadrilateral Sort After you’ve sorted the shapes, take a picture of it.  You can upload it into Google Classroom or send it in an email. Thanks for sharing what you understand about quadrilaterals and polygons.

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!

Piper has 12,056 markers.  If she threw away 2,268 because they had dried up, how many markers would she have left?  Round your answer to BOTH the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100.

Max measured a crayon and found it was 2 inches shorter than the marker.  Max measured a colored pencil and found it was 3 ½ inches longer than the marker.  The marker was 5 ½ inches long.  How long was the crayon?  How long was the colored pencil?

Katherine wanted to frame some of her artwork.

Each piece of art was a rectangle that was 6 inches long by 8 inches wide. 

How many inches of wood will Katherine need to make a frame for one piece of art?   (In other words, what is the perimeter of one of her pieces of art?)

Katherine is going to make frames for 6 pieces of her art.  How many inches of wood does she need to make all six frames?

Paul was building a tree house.  The floor of was 6 feet by 4 feet.  He wanted to get tiles to put on the floor.  The tiles were 1 foot by 1 foot. 

How many tiles would Paul need to cover the floor of his tree house? 

If each tile cost $1.25, how much money did Liam spend when he bought the tiles?

Elena really likes goldfish crackers.  She ate 28 in the morning and 26 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 he had on the first day. 

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

Landon was reading about space.  He learned that The Hubble Telescope took a picture of the stars between Earth and Mars.  There were 164,368 stars in the picture. 

8,457 of the stars were white.  104,863 stars were red. The rest of the stars were blue.

How many blue stars were in the picture?

If you’ve worked through this, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing 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.

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

Thank you for another week full of polygons, social problem solving, U.S. Geography  and awesomeness!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas.  You are amazing!

Mrs. Eaves

Good Morning! Two of the book clubs are going to finish this week.  Some kids would like to keep meeting even if we don’t finish the book together.  I will put together another post and if you’d like to start a new book, make your choice and I’ll deliver it on Saturday so we can have as much time together as possible.

Morning Work – I’m concerned that you might be losing enthusiasm for our morning gratitude practice.  Check out these videos: Destination World ~ Australia and Destination World ~Antarctica .  After you watch them, what can you add to your Gratitude Jar today?🌏 💐💗

Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Thanks for staying connected!🙌🏼🌎🌳

Morning Meeting is connected to the morals you wrote last week for the Leo Lionni books. This week we’ll read books celebrating you and the positive strategies you have for dealing with problems.

Today listen to Only One You and Howard B.  Wigglebottom Learns about Sportsmanship.

Complete the third part this week-long Problem Solving Wednesday here or in Google Classroom.

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Jump and learn with How to Say Hello in 15 Different Language.

Social Studies and Reading

We’ll spend the last 2 and a half weeks of school exploring the United States.  Before you listen to any of the books, take a few minutes to complete these worksheets.  They will be our starting point and we’ll see what you learn from here. You can find them here: How Many States Can You Name? and How Many States Can You Label on the Map? or in Google Classroom.  Please find some way to share them with me – email, uploaded photograph… thank you.

Shared Reading ~ We’ll start by learning about our country’s regions.

Listen to Wow! America!  and What Are the U.S. Regions?

Leave a comment below telling which region sounds most interesting to you right now and why.

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

Independent 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, 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  – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that.  That’s your writing for today. Work on it 20 minutes or so.

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

Please don’t just answer all the questions.  That’s not the point of a quick write.  Please take time to develop your ideas and think a bit differently.  Here are the “would you rather” ideas for today ~ it might help you to write a more organized and logical piece if you begin with some planning.  Once you’ve chosen a question, make a pros and cons list to get your ideas flowing and see what kind of paragraphs, essay, play, poem… you write. Be awesome!

• Would you rather be a famous inventor or a famous writer?
• Would you rather see a firework display or a circus performance?
• Would you rather be able to create a new holiday or create a new sport?
• Would you rather be the author of a popular book or a musician in a band who released a popular album?
• Would you rather meet your favorite celebrity or be on a TV show?
• Other ~ whatever topic you’re interested in 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.

◼️⏢▰▭ Math – We’ve done quite a bit of work with polygons over the last few weeks.  Please complete the Polygon Quadrilateral Checkpoint 1 and the Polygon and Quadrilateral Checkpoint 2 today.  Please find a way to share them with me.  Thank you.

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!

Vera had 8 brownies that she wanted to share equally with five of her friends. (Vera and five friends make a total of six people sharing.) When she was done – everyone had the same amount and there were no parts of the brownies left over

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

Holden has read 147 pages.  The book had 403 pages altogether.  How many pages does Holden have left to read? 

If Holden reads 30 pages a day, how many days will it take him to finish the book? 

Edward was looking for sports books in the library.  There were 8 shelves of sports books.  Each shelf had 14 books on it.  How many sports books did Edward find in the library altogether?

Edward chose three about baseball.  One had 203 pages.  One had 186 pages and the last one had 197 pages.   When Edward finished the three books, how may pages had he read?

Brady sorted Pokemon cards.  He had three piles.  One had 78 character cards, another had 138 energy cards and the last had 85 trainer cards in it.

How many Pokemon cards did Brady altogether?

Brady went shopping and got 32 “GX” and 61 “EX” cards.  How many cards does he have now?

Landon measured 7 parking spaces.  They were 28 feet wide altogether.  What is the width of 3 parking spaces?

May has 850 crayons.  Estella has 339 crayons.  How many more crayons does May have than Estella?

Landin has 258 more crayons than Estella has.  How many crayons does Landin have?

If May, Estella and Landin 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. Find a way to keep practicing 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 day. 🍃 Thank you for sharing your thoughts, putting forth your best effort for every thing you do!📚📝🔢🏎🌎

❤️🧡💛You are wonderful!💚💙💜

💝Mrs. Eaves

🎉🥳🎂Happy Birthday Piper!🎂🥳🎉

👋🏻 Good Morning! I hope you had fun exploring solving problems, experimenting with friction and making polygons in addition to finding time for reading, writing and math. You are wonderful.💗

Morning Work –  Remember watching these at the start of our global geography project. Check out these videos: Destination World~ Africa and Destination World ~ Asia .  After watching, what can you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💕🌍🙌🏼

Please take some time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two.  Thanks for staying connected!💐🏀🌎🎨

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Happy Merry Everything  or with Birthday Hooray for Piper .

Science and Reading

Shared Reading –  Today will be our last day exploring forces and motion.  You may have your Friction Investigation to complete today.  Have fun with that if you do.

Listen to the Cut-Ups Crack Up.

Here’s what happened with my last slider trial.  Here’s the The Winner of the Friction Contest.

When you’ve completed all of your force and motion experiments, take a bit of time to see if you can explain what you know about forces ~ pushes and pulls, tension and compression ~ by completing the Invisible Forces Checkpoint here or in Google Classroom.

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

📚Independent 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, 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  –If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that.  I know you’ve got some really exciting mysteries that are almost ready to publish.  

Justin finished his epic mystery. The Wand of Wonderman is linked here.  It’s a long story, so plan on reading it in parts.  Please read it and leave him a comment.  He worked on planning it and writing little by little for nearly a month.  It was hard, but he did it!💎

📝This week I chose a “would you rather” format for the quick writes ~ it might help you to write a more organized and logical piece if you begin with some planning.  Once you’ve chosen a question, make a pros and cons list to get your ideas flowing.

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

• Would you rather become five years older or two years younger?
• Would you rather be incredibly funny or incredibly smart?
• Would you rather have a full suit of armor or a horse?
• Would you rather be a master at drawing or be an amazing singer?
• Would you rather be a wizard or a superhero?
• Other ~ whatever topic you’re interested in 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.

Math –  Start with this math warm-up, How Big Is That Bridge??

While searching for more doable challenges I came across this video: Make A Parachute activity. I thought, “Hey, I wonder what polygon makes the best parachute?”  I hope you’ll want to give it a try. Watch the video so the written challenge directions make sense to you.

Polygon Parachute Challenge

Supplies: Four plastic grocery bags (check for holes), scissors, tape, a hole punch (or something to make a hole), a ruler, string and an action figure (If you have 4, one for each shape will be easier ~ you can test a couple shapes at a time or all of them if you have help.)

Procedure:

1. Draw 4 different polygons ~ one on each of the four bags. Ask for help to hold the bag smooth.  I traced a roasting pan for my rectangle, and used that as the basis for my trapezoid and parallelogram.  (I tried to make my polygons as even as possible so  the experiment is about shape rather than size.)
2. Cut the shapes out of the bags
3. Strengthen the corners with tape as in the video
4. Cut for 12″ pieces of string
5. Tie them to the corner of each shape
6. Tie your action figure to the strings.
7. Write down your hypothesis here ~Polygon Parachute Challenge or in Google Classroom ~ What shape do you think will make the best parachute and why?
8. Conduct your experiment.
9. Write your conclusion

I hope you had fun! 🙌🏼⏢▰▭◼️👊🏻

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!

Justin has 10,000 Legos for a building project. He used 7,573 of his Legos to make a dragon.  How many Legos were left?

Van had 2,080 Legos.  He used 774 of the Legos to make a model of church in Mexico. 

How many Legos did Van have left?

Max had a collection of sports cards.  He had 273 hockey cards.  He had 326 football cards.  How many sports cards did he have altogether?

He gave his friends 236 of his cards.  How many sports cards did he have left then?

Sophie had a collection of 8,000 Legos before she began building with them.

She used 1,485 bricks to make London Bridge and 3,642 bricks to make the Tower Bridge.

How many Lego bricks did she use in the bridges?

How many Lego bricks did she have left for other projects?

Anna organized her art supplies.

She sorted and counted 1,543 crayons, 1,308 markers and 2,925 colored pencils.

How many art supplies did Anna organize altogether?

She gave 3,712 supplies to kids who didn’t have any.  How many art supplies did she have left?

Landin made a loaf of bread that was 16 inches long.  She cut it into 8 equal pieces.  How thick was each slice of bread?

If you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.

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!  Celebrate friendship!

🎉🥳Mrs. Eaves