Your Mark is Indelible

👋🏻💕☀️Keep making your mark!  The world needs more of your caring, creative and inspired determination.🌎💗🎉 You are an amazing class! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year may not have been all that we wanted, but I am grateful to have spent this time with you.  You are incredible!  Thank you. 🤟🏽💗🥳 Happy Summer!

🥳🎉😢Our Last Day ~ Thursday, June 4🥰🙌🏼😃

👋🏻I posted a whole day, but usually the last day of school is a half day. Pick and choose what you’d most like to do.  I hope you will read each other’s blogs and leave comments.  So far Max, Elena, Sophie, Katherine, Vera, Edward, Brady, May and Van have completed their state post.  (And I know a lot of you are almost there too! ~ Keep checking.) They’ve done some thoughtful research and writing.  Van posted his mystery.  It’s long, but creative and really good.  Landin, Sophie, Katherine, May, Anna and Brady have left you messages inspired by Say Something!  Please let them know what you think.  And finally, I hope you will make time to listen to Be You! and the song For Good. 🤟🏽🤗💗

👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! Oh my! There are so many things to share  ~ and that doesn’t include all the usual things like ~ The Name Game, math projects with Mrs. Douglas, chapter read-aloud, inquiry, magazine writing… Here is our door illustrating the poem, Ring Around the World by Annette Wynne and pictures from our Secret Friend Celebration and from 3E’s Inquiry Wonderland.

Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice. After seeing these pictures, 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–  Listen to Be You! and know that the mark you have left on my heart and what you have added to my life will be with me forever!

Take a break, get a snack and move around.

If you’d like, here is Go Noodle video: move to Celebrate.  Please listen to a favorite song. I’ve been thinking of it and you often this week.  It is from, Wicked and it is called For Good.  The words are for you.  Your handprint, is indeed, on my heart. ✋🏻💗🤚🏻 Because I’ve known you, I have been changed for good!

🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚

📖🇺🇸Shared Reading –  We’ll finish up reading about the country with The Scrambled States of America Talent Show. What part does your state have in the talent show?

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.

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’d like to work on your state research and blog post, that’s a fine thing to do.📝

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

  • What is something we did this year that you think you will remember for the rest of your life?
  • What are two or three things you hope you learn or do this summer?
  • What are the three most important things you learned this year?
  • If you were in the Summer Olympics, which sport(s) would you participate in?  Why?
  • You’ve been hired to build a water park.  What will it look like?   Describe the rides, shows, food, etc…
  • 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 – Today try one of these Problem Searches – but only if it feels fun to you!  It is a word search type of puzzle, but with math equations hidden in the grid instead of words.  The problems only read forward. Searches with 1 have only horizontal and vertical equations.  Searches labeled with 2 also have diagonal equations.  These are surprisingly tricky.  Be patient with yourself! Try Multiplication Problem Search 1 or Multipliation Problem Search 2 .  Practice division with Division Problem Search 1 or Division Problem Search 2.   This is a super challenge with all 4 operations, horizontal, vertical and diagonal equations: All 4 Operations Problem Search

UA’s for today…

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

And here’s a new message from Mrs. Oliver:

Dear Third Grade Families,

Thank you to everyone who has shared their child’s musical progress.  I have enjoyed hearing them play and seeing them.
I’ve uploaded a few pictures of some trees and flowers from my yard.  You can find beauty throughout this land of ours.  I hope you have some near you.
I hope you have a wonderful summer.  Please stay healthy.
Mrs. Oliver
🥳🎉🍦Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS! 🍦🎉🥳
Take care and be well. 🥰 Stay kind and connected!
Much love,
💗Mrs. Eaves
📚✏️🔢🌎 PS ~ Throughout the summer I plan to continue posting on the blog.  I’ll make some book recommendations on Monday, share math problems and puzzles on Wednesday and make quick write suggestions on Fridays.  Some of you may like that connection and some of you are DONE with school.  I understand both feelings.   You can continue to post on your blog too, if you’d like.🎶🎨🏊🏻‍♀️🚵🏻‍♀️
🙌🏼☀️🌈HAPPY SUMMER!  YOU ARE AMAZING!💕😎👋🏻

Our Day ~ Wednesday, June 3

👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! Here’s another fun accomplishment. Our Super Scientists Celebration! We conducted experiments to make raisins dance, create tie-dye milk and watch a Skittles’ rainbow appear in between presenting our Who Am I? projects. 

Morning Work – After looking at these pictures, what will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗

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

Morning MeetingListen to Say Something.

Your voice matters!  What  message will you share?  What are your hopes and dreams? What would you like to say to your class?  With your art and words, create a mini-poster share with your classmates.  Take a picture of it and post it on your blog.  If you can’t do that, email it to me, and I will add it to a post it for you.

Let’s send each other off with grateful hearts and caring wishes.

If you’re not sure what this means, there is an example on my blog.💕🌎☀️  Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not strong enough, or smart enough or brave enough!  Look at what you have done this year in 3rd grade. 😎🤩🥳

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Hip Hop Astronaut  and relax and reflect with Celebrate the Little Things.

🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚

📖🇺🇸Shared Reading –  Listen to Austin Lost In America.  What fun fact is shared about your state as Austin travels through it to find his forever home?

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. Reading about your state counts during this time too! 🏜🇺🇸⛰🗽🤠  You might want to read one of your classmates’ state post.  Max, Sophie, Vera, Edward, and Brady have shared the Wonders of their states.

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.📖  If you read about your state.  Share an interesting fact.

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’d like to work on your state research and blog post, that’s a fine thing to do.📝

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

  • In what area of learning do you feel you made your biggest improvements?
  • What is something you taught your teacher of classmates this year?
  • What was the best piece of writing that you did this year?  Why do you think it is your best?
  • Imagine you are going to build the world’s largest sandcastle. What would it look like?  Who would you ask to help you?
  • If the power went out this summer what would you do?  How would you stay cool?  What would you do without TV/electronics?
  • Other ~ whatever 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 – Start with this warm-up Multiplication, Division and Perimeter Practice and Operations and Equations.   

Next, here are today’s problems to choose from.  These are all solved with multiplication.  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 a bike shop.  A new bicycle cost $215 dollars.  Justin sold 6 bicycles last week.  How much money did Justin make?

Brady and 5 of his friends went to the arcade.  They each one 215 tickets.  They wanted to get a badminton set for 1250 tickets.  Were they able to bring the badminton set home?

Katherine shot and arrow 50 yards.  Estella shot her arrow three times as far.  How far did Estella’s arrow go?

There are 13 M&M’s  in each mini-package of the candy.  How many M&M’s would there be if each student in 3E had their own bag?

A pencil costs 70¢.  How much do 18 pencils cost?

A family went on a road trip.  The car traveled 60 miles per hour for 7 hours.  How many miles did the family travel?  They were going on an 481 mile trip from North Hampton to Washington, DC.  How many more miles do they have to drive?

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.

Dear 3E Friends,
Thank you so very much for letting me join in on your zoom meetings and blog. Even though I prefer to see you in person I enjoyed seeing your smiling faces and hearing your voices. Reading your posts allowed me to learn a lot about you that I didn’t know. All of you should be proud of how well you did with  remote learning. I hope summer brings you all you wish for. If you want a pen pal just email me at dvasconcellos@sau21.org
I look forward to spending time with you in 4th grade. It will be so much fun!!!
Hugs,
Ms. Vas💕

UA’s for today…

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

Library ~ Here’ a note from Mrs. McCombs  about book returns and the online book fair:

This information relates to library book return.
Got Books – click on this link for directions from Mrs. McCombs about returning books
This is the library website ~ there are a log to reading resources there.
This information relates to the Book Fair
The book-fair is open through September 4 so you can get what you need for reading through the summer.  Here’s a second flier about the book fair.
2020 Scholastic Book Fair  from now through September 4
Any questions, send them my way.
Thank you
Mrs.  McCombs

🌎🇺🇸🏔I hope you’re having fun learning about your state. 🏜 I am looking forward to learning  about the places you recommend visiting! 🏕🛶🌲  Thanks for sending your DOT pictures along!

Thank you for all you do each day.!😀💐

👊🏻💕🙌🏼Mrs. Eaves

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Day ~ Tuesday, June 2

👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! I thought we’d continue looking back on our year.  Here is Dot Day 2019!  Think of how you’ve made your mark this year! How can these memories spark feelings of gratitude?

Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice.   What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗

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

Morning Meeting–  Listen to The Dot and Emily Arrow’s Dot Song.  This video of the song teaches the hand motions that go along with it.

On the International Dot Day site there is a collection of Celebri-dots that have been created by different children’s authors and illustrators.  Here’s a collection by some you might know:

 

 

 

3E Celebri-DOT Challenge ~ Will you make your mark and share it with the class?  Please take a moment to inspire your classmates and encourage your families to make THEIR MARKS by making a DOT of your own to share with the world.  Please take a photograph of you with your dot and a close-up of your dot to  email to Mrs. Eaves by early Sunday, June 7.  This collection will be used to create a weekly summery of our school year together.  If you’re not sure what I mean about the photographs, you can go to my blog for an example.  If you’re not sure about a dot, scroll to the end of the post to see our dot gallery.

It will be wonderful to have everyone included and fabulous to see everyone’s faces all together. 💗

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

🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚

📖🇺🇸Shared Reading –  Listen to The United Tweets of America and Pie Is For Sharing.  They’re both short.  Stop the “Tweets” video on your state’s page.  I think you’ll be able to read it. You may learn some new fun facts.

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

Independent ReadingKeep reading everyday.  Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book. You can use this time to read for your state project as well.

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.📖  If you chose to read about your state, describe the most interesting fact you collected today.

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’d like to work on your state research and blog post, that’s a fine thing to do now.📝

If you’d like a new writing idea, here are today’s optional Quick Writes:

  • Of the books you read this year, which was your favorite and why?
  • What are three things you did this year to help you classmates stay connected?
  • What is something that was hard for you at the start of the year but is easy now?
  • July is National Ice Cream Month.  If you could do any thing to celebrate, what would you do?
  • Here’s what I love most about the 4th of July…

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 Multiplication, Division and Perimeter Practice and Naming Fractions.

Next, here are today’s problems to choose from. They are all subtraction problems.  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 and Landon set up a Lemonade stand.  They started the day with 65 cups.  At the end of the day they had 8 left.  How many cups of lemonade did they sell?  If each cup sold for 25¢, how much money did they make?

Vera and Landin were feeding apples to the horses.  They started with 361 apples.  They fed the horses 228 apples.  How many apples did they have left?

There are 265 Legos in a box.  Brady took 97 out.  How many Legos are left in the box?

Edward had $4,876 in his savings account at the bank.  He withdrew$1,895. How much money does he have in his savings account now?

There are 8,796 children living in Plainville.  6,989 of the children are old enough to attend school.  How many children are not old enough for school yet?

By how much is 3,756 less than 5,433?

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!  Remember to step boldly to make your amazing mark on the world!🥳☀️🌎

💕🙌🏻🌈Mrs. Eaves

Here’s  2019’s Dot Gallery!

Our Day ~ Monday, June 1

👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! I thought it would be be fun to look back at some  of our accomplishments.

This collection of pictures is from our first week of school.  In some of them we were working on small group challenges ~ Helping Harry and building collections of 100 and in others, reading and writing. Hopefully they’ll inspire some memories you’re grateful to keep.

Morning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice.   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 I thought you might like this favorite.  Happy Thought ~ by Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things,

I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Next, listen to Happy Dreamer.  Close to the end the boy says, “I’m really good at being me.  A dreamer surprising, caring, funny, gentle smart… There are so many ways to be a happy dreamer?  (What kind of dreamer are you?)”. Will you share a description of you and the kind of dreamer you are in a comment or on a blog post?  What hopes and dreams do you have for the summer?  We look forward to reading your reflections later today.🥳

Just for fun ~ here is a Happy Dreamer Fortune Teller

Take a break, get a snack and move around.  If you’d like, here are two Go Noodle videos: move to Wadillyocho 😀 (you’ll notice it’s similar to our gathering song) and stretch with Maximo .

🌎 Social Studies and Reading📚

📖🇺🇸Shared Reading

I hope you’ll enjoy learning how the Star Spangled Banner was created by listening to Our Flag was Still There and also thinking about what our flag stands for by listening to the short poem, Blue Sky White Stars.  Think about how this connects to your U.S. geography project.

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. You can use this time to read for your state project as well.

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.📖  If you chose to read about your state, describe the most interesting fact you collected today.

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

✏️Writer’s Workshop  – Please continue to write each day.  It can be writing for your state project, finishing a story you began a while ago, or working on your state research and blog post.📝

If you’d like a new writing idea, here are today’s optional Quick Writes:

Write a letter to your parents thanking them for all they’ve done to help you survive remote learning.

What is something you accomplished this year that you are proud of?

What was the nicest thing someone in our class did for you this year?

What do you like most about summer?  Explain why.

What are your favorite things to do outside during the summer?

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’s  warm-ups review area and perimeter Sandbox problems and  Naming and Labeling Fractions.

The answers to last Friday’s problems were: 1 P ( or A.  I didn’t write it clearly) 2. P, 3. A, 4. P, 5. A, and 6. A

Next, here are today’s problems to choose from. Today’s problems all use division.  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!

60 children come for tryouts.  They were divided into teams of 5.  How many teams were there?

Vera has stored 18 eggs in boxes.  If there are three books, how many eggs must go in each box?

Elena wants to fold 1,000 paper cranes.  She can make 8 cranes a day.  If Elena has already made 304 cranes, how many days will it take for Elena to make the remaining cranes?

There are 64 M&M’s in the dish.  4 children are going to share them.  How many M&M’s does each child get?

Brady has 92 crickets.  He is feeding them to 4 geckos.  How many crickets does each gecko get?

Pens come in packs of 6.  If the art room needs 78 pens, how many packs of pens should Mrs. Nardone buy?

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.

Guest Author/Illustrator Visit: Gina Perry (This is Piper’s mom! Check it out, if you haven’t already!)
Final artwork assignment:  Scroll down to bottom for final assignment.
Check out the fabulous art in the Online Galleries.  There are 3 galleries, a photo gallery and a Quarantine Self-Portrait Gallery of student artwork. Mrs. Nardone is hoping everyone will contribute a self-portrait.  Please take time to read the assignment and submit your artwork.

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. I hope you enjoy seeing things we did 9 months ago!  Time flies!🚴🏻‍♂️🌭🎾

Thanks for being awesome!🥳💐👋🏻

💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day ~ Friday, May 29

👋🏻🌎😃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 Talkwe 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 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  – 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:

I have another new song for students to learn uploaded to my Music website:
Thanks to all who have sent me videos of their children playing the recorder songs.  Many of you are making great progress!
Videos can be emailed to me here: moliver@sau21.org
Have a great week making music!
☀️🌳🇺🇸Thanks for working on a Friday!  I’m excited about what I’m seeing in the assignments and comments you are sharing.  Thanks to everyone who’s left encouraging comments (some of you have done it EVERY DAY!). Thank you for your dedication and commitment to finishing strong.🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🥇
📚📝🔢🌎💕Mrs. Eaves

Our Day ~ Thursday, May 28

🏔🇺🇸🏜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 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  – 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

Our Day ~ Wednesday, May 27

👋🏻☀️🌎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 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  – 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

Our Day ~ Tuesday, May 26

☀️🍃🌎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 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  – 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.

Guest Author/Illustrator Visit: Gina Perry (This is Piper’s mom! Check it out, if you haven’t already!)
Final artwork assignment:  Scroll down to bottom for final assignment.
Check out the fabulous art in the Online Galleries.  There are 3 galleries, a photo gallery and a Quarantine Self-Portrait Gallery of student artwork. Mrs. Nardone is hoping everyone will contribute a self-portrait.  Please take time to read the assignment and submit your artwork.

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

A Summary of Our Week

🌎☀️🍃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