4/30/2024
4/30/2024
Math
Main Lesson Today we reviewed the standards we've learned by playing a game called Hit The Jackpot! We worked in groups to solve math problems and win fake money! We didn't finish but will finish tomorrow. We also are joining in a Prodigy competition around the state to see which classroom can do the most correct problems. In about 20 minutes our class went from 10th place to 1st place and got over 300 problems from the Math Standards correct! ELA We took our RISE Language Arts assessment. Comprehension: We read an article about why there shouldn't be class pets and identify what strategies the author used to make their argument. (There were some strong feelings disagreeing with the author.) :) Science This week we are learning about life cycles. Today we discussed both animal and plant life cycles. We talked about birth, growth, reproducing, and death. After death, in nature, the body decomposes and goes back into the earth to help more plants. It's recycled naturally. We discussed the fact that only living things go through this cycle. This doesn't happen to rocks because they're not alive. Log on to Google with your username and password. Click on the waffle and then Google Classroom. Go to Classwork, and Science. Finally, click on Life Cycles. We got through slide 13 today.
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4/25/2024
4/25/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we took a math test on combined partitioning shapes and equivalent fractions. You can get to it by logging on to Google and going to google classroom. It's under math. ELA Phonics: We're working on compound words. Here's the new set of words. words cover Comprehension: We learned the new vocabulary words: energy, natural, pollution, produce, renewable, replace, sources, and traditional. We then read the passage "Here Comes Solar Power," from our Little Joe book. We discussed the text features: Table of Contents, Headings, Sidebar, and Captions in the article. Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. We worked phonological awareness. We had a make-up day finishing our cursive. Fluency: We practiced our Reader's Theater scripts. Science This week we are celebrating Earth Day. We're investigating Social Studies Standard 1: Objectives: 2b: Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems. 2c. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 3a: Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). 3b. Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. 3c. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). 3d. Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment. 3e. Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment. Today we talked about where our garbage goes. I used this slideshow with videos. We talked about the idea that our planet needs upstanders just like people do. We can reduce, reuse, and recycle, and encourage other people to do that too. We learned this song. I introduced them to two upstanders for the planet. One of them is John Muir. Here's the book I read. The illustrations are beautiful. Another group of people who are working hard to be upstanders for the environment are the Native Americans. This story tells of when the owners of the oil pipeline wanted to put it across their land, and they said no, because the pipelines always end up leaking and causing pollution. They fought for a long time to keep the pipeline off of their land. Here's the book. It's called The Water Protectors. This book won the Caldecott award and also has gorgeous illustrations. 4/24/2024
4/24/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we combined partitioning shapes and equivalent fractions. We did lesson 33 session 3 in the math book. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. Your homework is the last page of the lesson. ELA Phonics: Students got a new spelling packet today. We're working on compound words. Here's the new set of words. words cover Comprehension: We took a quiz where we needed to read two stories written by the same author about the same characters and compare and contrast them. Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. We worked phonological awareness. We learned how to write capital Z's. Fluency: We practiced our Reader's Theater scripts. Science This week we are celebrating Earth Day. We're investigating Social Studies Standard 1: Objectives: 2b: Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems. 2c. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 3a: Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). 3b. Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. 3c. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). 3d. Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment. 3e. Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment. Today we talked about things we can do to help preserve our natural resources, including reducing the amount we use, reusing what we have, and recycling what we have to turn it into something else. There are people that say that children are too small to make a difference, but that's just not true, and you'll see how much of a difference you can make in this lesson! I used this slideshow with videos. We calculated that if a kid used 3 plastic water bottles a day for a month, they'd use 90 water bottles. By using a reusable one, they're really helping save a lot! If you think of our whole class using a reusable water bottle, that would save 3,150 water bottles in just one month! We also talked about using clothes that were used before, by someone else sometimes instead of always buying new, which saves water, bees, fish, birds. . . because of the pesticides. We discussed only washing our clothes when they're dirty, instead of washing them just after trying them on for a minute or something. There are some things we always wash of course, like our underwear! :) We'll discuss other ways of Reducing, reusing, and recycling tomorrow, as well as ways that communities have done this! 4/23/2024
4/23/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we combined partitioning shapes and equivalent fractions. We did lesson 33 session 2 in the math book. We folded papers and labeled the papers with eighths, fourths, and halves. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. Your homework is the last page of the lesson. ELA Phonics: Today we sorted the different types of syllables. We got into partners and did a Jamboard. To get to the Jamboards, go to Google Classroom. Log in to Google and click on the waffle. Then click on Google Classroom. It's under Reading and is called 2024 Syllable Sort. We took a spelling test and a pretest today. To take it at home, go to Powerspelling.com and log in. Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. We worked phonological awareness. We learned how to write D's and L's in cursive. Fluency: We got new parts for Reader's Theater. Science This week we are celebrating Earth Day. We're investigating Social Studies Standard 1: Objectives: 2b: Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems. 2c. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 3a: Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). 3b. Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. 3c. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). 3d. Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment. 3e. Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment. Today we finished watching the video from yesterday. we watched a video, pausing every few minutes to discuss. We also watched this video about how fossil fuels are made, and why they are nonrenewable. Then we played a game to model renewable and nonrenewable resources. We put 100 chips into a bag. 80 of them were different colors and 20 of them were yellow. That bag is a model of the earth's resources. Then we took turns drawing out 10 chips each year. Each time a nonrenewable (colored) chip was pulled out, it had to stay out, because we can't make more. Each time a renewable resource was used(yellow) we got to put it back in. As the years went on, and everyone was pulling out 10 chips, more and more yellow chips were pulled out and fewer and fewer colored chips were left in the bag. We only got to year 12, but we're going to up to year 20 tomorrow. Here are materials to play the game if you'd like to play at home. It's suggested that you use beads. You could even use macaroni and color 10 of the macaroni a different color to be the renewable ones! I only use one bag, and I cross out the last 2 columns of the chart, so we're only tracking the number of renewable and nonrenewable resources drawn out, or used each year. 4/22/2024
4/22/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we took a math test about perimeter. Get to it by logging in to Google, then going to Google Classroom. It will say G8, Perimeter, Chapter 32. It's in the math section. Make sure you draw lots of pictures of shapes, and write down all of the addition problems. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. ELA Phonics: Today we sorted the different types of syllables. We did page 31 of this packet. Our spelling packet for the week is: cover words Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. Science This week we are celebrating Earth Day. We're investigating Social Studies Standard 1: Objectives: 2b: Identify important natural resources of world ecosystems. 2c. Describe how communities have modified the environment to accommodate their needs (e.g. logging, storing water, building transportation systems). 3a: Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry). 3b. Compare changes in the availability and use of natural resources over time. 3c. Describe ways to conserve and protect natural resources (e.g. reduce, reuse, recycle). 3d. Compare perspectives of various communities toward the natural environment. 3e. Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment. Today we brainstormed all of the things we could think of that the Earth gives us that we use. We came up with plants, water, sun, soil, minerals, wind, and fossil fuels. These things are called Natural Resources. We wrote that as the title in our notebook. Then we wrote down all of the ways we could think of that we used those natural resources. There were so many ways that it almost filled up a page!! We even ran out of space. Then we watched a video, pausing every few minutes to discuss. We only got to minute 6. I promise that the lesson doesn't stop here, and I'm not teaching you this so we can feel sad about using up our resources! We'll go on to learn and discuss ways that we can use our natural resources and take care of our earth at the same time. We'll talk about using renewable resources, and come up with things that kids, and adults can do to make a difference, since we only have one planet, and it gives us SO much! 4/18/2024
4/18/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we learned that you can have the same area and many different perimeters, and the same perimeter and many different areas. We got 24 foam squares (you could use cheez-its or wheat thins) and made as many different arrays as we could with the same area We counted the perimeter of all of them. Then we made irregular shapes with them and counted the perimeters. After that, we made as many shapes as we could with the perimeter of 18. The most we found was 6. For homework we are doing page 731-732 odd numbers, and page 725-726 even numbers. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. ELA Phonics: Today we learned about the consonant le pattern. MOST words that end in the consonant l sound end with le. If the first syllable is closed, the middle consonant is doubled before the le. Our packet for the week is: cover words Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. Science We cut up a giant aloe vera leaf and rubbed the inside on our skin. We were amazed at how soft it made it! We started watching Bill Nye talk about the desert. and took notes. We had an earthquake drill. We went to the library. 4/17/2024
4/17/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we learned that area and perimeter can change a lot. I read Spaghetti and meatballs for all to them and they moved mini tables and chairs around on their desks. We then recorded the area and perimeter of each setup. We did not use our math books today and there is no homework. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. ELA Phonics: I gave them a very quick lesson in consonant le patterns. MOST words that end in the consonant l sound end with le. If the first syllable is closed, the middle consonant is doubled before the le. Our packet for the week is: cover words Comprehension and Fluency: Today we got together with our partners and worked on 6 minute solution. We also got into partners and read two books written by the same author about the same character. We compared and contrasted those books. We also read an article about Native Americans who lived in the desert. We then worked on using context clues to figure out what vocabulary words meant. Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. Science We finished watching the video from yesterday about how clay pots are made. We went to an assembly for Battle of the Books We went to music. 4/16/2024
4/16/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we practiced finding the perimeter of shapes, and finding missing sides of perimeters. This is lesson 32 Session 2. We did it together. The last pages with the green top is homework, though we did a lot of it together. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. ELA Phonics: We turned in our spelling packets and took a spelling test. Our packet for the week is: cover words Comprehension and Fluency: Today we got together with our partners and worked on 6 minute solution. We also got into partners and read two books written by the same author about the same character. We compared and contrasted those books. Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. Science We are learning about the desert. Today we watched a video about the traits of desert plants.. Then we played a game where we acted out being a cactus. First we had to spread out around the room with our feet planted on the floor. I threw out a bunch of little playing bingo chips. I gave the cacti 5 seconds to pick up as many yellow chips as possible. That represented sunlight. If they got at least 5, the cactus survived. Next, they had to pick up as many red chips as they could. That represented water. If they got at least 5, they survived. If not, they had to go sit down. They learned pretty quickly to go away from other people. They had challenges like super hot days where they had to drop 4 water chips because it was so hot that their water evaporated. Then some of them got thick waxy skin and got to hold onto their chips on super hot days, and some of them got wide, long roots, and got to move one foot out away from where the other foot was planted. Those cacti had a much better chance of surviving than the others! And the ones who had both traits had a GREAT chance of surviving! Finally, we dissected a cactus leaf and tried eating it. Many of us loved it but some of us didn't. Go to Google Classroom and Social Studies. It's the first assignment there. Listen to the first two rows. One is a video and one is audio only. Answer the questions in the right column. We spent about 15 minutes investigating. Then we did some word art. 1. Go to my home page, technology, , and scroll down to art. Click on it. Then click on the very last link, called "Word Art." 2. Click on the green button that says, <" Create Free Word Cloud." 3. Click on "Blank." 4. Get a piece of paper and write down 20 words that remind you of the grasslands. These could be animals, plants, weather, anything. 5. Have someone check your spelling. 6. Look at the computer screen. See the word filter? Type your words in the spaces under the word "filter." 7. Click on the word "Shape." Choose a shape that reminds you of the grasslands. You'll probably have the most luck under the categories nature, animals, or clouds. 8. Click the red "Visualize button. 9. Click the word font. under the shapes. Choose a font. Click the red Visualize button to see it. 10. Click the layout button. Choose the direction of your words. Click Visualize to see it. 11. Now Click Download on the top blue bar. Click JPEG-free. Have an adult help you with this part to tell you where to save your art. The desktop is a good place so you know where it is. Finally, have a parent email it to me. I'm going to print it and we'll hang them on the wall. 4/15/2024
4/15/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Main Lesson Today we learned about perimeter. I had them make an array of square tiles with 3 on the side and 4 across the top. We counted the squares and saw that the area was 12. Then I explained that the perimeter isn't squares. It's the distance around the edge of something. We counted the inches around the rectangle we made and found out it was 14! How strange that it isn't also 12! We discussed what it was different and found out that the corner pieces had 2 sides that we counted twice, and the center pieces didn't touch the edges, so we didn't count those at all! We then learned the poem "Pink perimeter goes round and round. Add up all the sides and write them down. YO!" and then repeat it. We traced the perimeter of the rectangle in our notebooks and glued a pink string to it. Then we wrote down perimeter = 14 inches, noting that it wasn't squared. Then we got out our math books. In our math books we did lesson 32 session 1, skipping the web. Homework was the last page of the lesson. It's only one problem. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. ELA Phonics: We learned about adding the inflectional endings -ed, -s, and -ing. Our spelling words for this week are: cover words Comprehension and Fluency: Today we got together with our partners and worked on 6 minute solution. We are also working on comparing and contrasting two stories written by the same author about the same characters. Science We are learning about the grasslands/prairie. Today we watched a video about the Native Americans of the Plains. We also had class game time and PE. 4/11/2024
4/11/2024
Math
Small Groups: 1. We did x-tra math. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. X-tra math is on your teacher page. 2. We did i-ready for 15 minutes.. Go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. 3. We reviewed what we've learned so far in math with A.M. work. Main Lesson Today we practiced categorizing quadrilaterals. We did pages 697-702 together. They took pages 703-704 home for homework. Here's a song that goes along with the lesson. To get to your math book online, go to Clever and log in with your student ID [email protected] . The password is the same password you use at school. Click on the little cube that says I-ready. This link has great instructions on how to use the bookshelf from home. ELA Phonics: We learned about adding the inflectional endings -ed, -s, and -ing. Our spelling words for this week are: cover words Comprehension and Fluency: Today we got together with our partners and worked on 6 minute solution. We read Native American Folktales and worked on finding the theme. We also took a test on finding the theme by reading The Little Red Hen and taking a quiz that they can get to by logging on to Google Classroom and clicking on reading. Grammar and Writing: We practiced our grammar in morning work. We practiced building sentences. Science We are learning about the grasslands/prairie. Today we worked on a hyperdoc where we could learn about the Native Americans of the Plains. Go to Google Classroom and Social Studies. It's the first assignment there. Listen to the first two rows. One is a video and one is audio only. Answer the questions in the right column. We spent about 15 minutes investigating. Then we did some word art. 1. Go to my home page, technology, , and scroll down to art. Click on it. Then click on the very last link, called "Word Art." 2. Click on the green button that says, <" Create Free Word Cloud." 3. Click on "Blank." 4. Get a piece of paper and write down 20 words that remind you of the grasslands. These could be animals, plants, weather, anything. 5. Have someone check your spelling. 6. Look at the computer screen. See the word filter? Type your words in the spaces under the word "filter." 7. Click on the word "Shape." Choose a shape that reminds you of the grasslands. You'll probably have the most luck under the categories nature, animals, or clouds. 8. Click the red "Visualize button. 9. Click the word font. under the shapes. Choose a font. Click the red Visualize button to see it. 10. Click the layout button. Choose the direction of your words. Click Visualize to see it. 11. Now Click Download on the top blue bar. Click JPEG-free. Have an adult help you with this part to tell you where to save your art. The desktop is a good place so you know where it is. Finally, have a parent email it to me. I'm going to print it and we'll hang them on the wall. |
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