The digital learning we began when schools shut down abruptly in March has continued into this next school year.
We have even taken the next step from full Digital learning into our Hybrid model of partial Face to Face and partial Remote learning. Our class is full of "roomers" and "zoomers". Our lessons are delivered through the CTLS platform and Zoom, and most work is submitted through SeeSaw.
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ZOOM CHAT AT 10AM.
(Target students are not required to do the Writing and Math today.) Writing: Weekly Journal: What are your favorite memories from 5th grade? If you could go back and relive one day (IN SCHOOL) again, what would it be and why? Math: Login into Clever and then choose Freckle and complete your assignments: ZOOM CHAT AT 1 PM. Note different time because I’ll be at school volunteering from 9-11am during bag pickup. Social Studies: Log in through Clever, go to Studies Weekly and find our newspaper. Choose Week 29: “The Collapse of the Soviet Union”. Read the entire paper. Click on “Think and Review”, which will take you to the questions, which you need to answer and send to me. You CAN’T submit these questions online. You can type out your answers or write them on paper. Be sure to answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! Email them to me. Reading: Login into Clever and then choose Newsela and read the article, “Ruff Ruff’s Hotel Adventure”. Take the quiz afterwards. Next, take a look at the picture, titled “What the Things Around Us Are Thinking”. Think about what your pets have though about this quarantine…or even the inanimate objects in your house. Make your own version of the picture I sent…“What the Things Around Us Are Thinking”. Send me either a picture or a drawing of 3 objects/animals/ items and a quote for what each of them is thinking. Tuesday, May 12 NO ZOOM CHAT TODAY. THE PLUMBERS WILL BE HERE ALL DAY AND LIKELY MAKING A LOT OF NOISE! Science: Login to Clever and then choose BrainPop. Search for this video: “Scientific Process”. Watch this movie and take the quiz (be sure to SEND me your score!). Then answer the following prompt: “If you could research ANYTHING scientific, what would it be and why? (NOTHING related to Covid-19/ Coronavirus) What are your wonders? What are your questions? Do you have any hypotheses about this topic?” Math: Toilet Paper Math, part 2. Complete the attached (and shown below) Toilet Paper Math sheet and send to me. Pay attention to the numbers (including the number of sheets, rolls, and packs). ZOOM CHAT AT 10AM. “For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends when you are 18. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into WWII until you are 45. At 50, the Korean War starts. At 55 the Vietnam War begins. When you are 62 the Cuban Missile Crisis threatens to end life on our planet as we know it. When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Perspective is amazing. Yes, we are in a challenging time nowadays. Try to remember everything that those born in 1900 endured and accomplished, and have faith that we will endure as well. Let’s be smart, and help each other out - we will get through all of this.” (author unknown, shared on Facebook) Social Studies/ Writing: Your weekly project is to interview a parent or grandparent or aunt or uncle (someone at least one generation above you). We’ve talked about how you are living through a momentous event, something you will remember for a lifetime. We’ve even talked about the events that have happened in the past, ones I lived through before you and ones your parents and grandparents have lived through. The purpose of your interview is to find out about the significant events that stand out in your parents’ (grandparents’) lives. Some of your family may have lived in America for generations, but some of you may have been born somewhere else or your parents may have grown up somewhere else. This means their experiences will have been shaped by where they were living during different periods of history. Your family is your history book come to life! Come up with at least 5 questions to ask first. Interview the person you chose. Mandatory questions to provide background, which don’t count for the 5 are:
Be sure to ask about significant events that stand out in their lives. This will involve facts, opinions, and their experiences. Your job is to ask, listen, try to imagine and relate…and take notes on their answers. You will report back with a list of the 5 questions above, as well as your 5 questions, and the answers to all 10. I hope that you can learn something new about your family. My daughter had a similar project recently and I learned things about my father (whom she chose to interview) that I had never known! I hope that this will give you insight into the person you talk with. Reading: Login into Clever and then choose BrainPop and search for the topic “Distance Learning”. Watch the movie and take the quiz (be sure to SEND me your score!). Now make a list of the 5 BEST things about Distance Learning and the 5 WORST things about Distance Learning. Send me your list. ZOOM CHAT AT 10AM. (Target students are not required to do the Writing and Science today.) Writing: Weekly Journal: What plans do you have for this summer? What would you want to do if we are able to “return to normal”? OR Reader’s Response to our read aloud, Masterminds. Science: Login to Clever and then choose BrainPop. Search for this video: “How Soap Works”. Watch this second episode of Brain Pop News and take the quiz (be sure to SEND me your score!). Tim refers to “Killer Soap” in the news report. Make a “WANTED” poster for soap. Explain what it does that KILLS and why we want to find it. Send me your poster. ZOOM CHAT AT 10AM. Reading: Login into Clever and then choose Newsela and read the article, “Isolation Porchraits”. Take the quiz afterwards. If you have access to a camera (or a phone that takes pictures), take some “porchraits” of your family to remember this time period. Try to think about natural pictures as well as posed ones. Which pictures will tell the story of this quarantine? Send me at least one picture, with ONE sentence to tell me YOUR STORY of this picture. Social Studies:
Log in through Clever, go to Studies Weekly and find our Social Studies Weekly newspaper. Choose Week 27 “A New Frontier”. Read the entire paper. Click on “Think and Review”, which will take you to the questions, which you need to answer and send to me. You can type out your answers or write them on paper. Be sure to answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! Email them to me. Cinco de Mayo NO ZOOM CHAT TODAY. I WILL BE AT SCHOOL PACKING UP OUR CLASSROOM ALL DAY! Math: Login into Clever and then choose Freckle and complete your assignments: Science: Login to Clever and then choose BrainPop. Search for this video: “Flattening the Curve”. Watch this first episode of Brain Pop News and take the quiz (be sure to SEND me your score!). In the news report, they discuss a system used in China to flatten the curve, sort of a “hall pass” system. Respond to this prompt in at least 5 sentences: Should we instill a “hall pass” system (or one like it)? If so, what rules and restrictions should we set up? If not, why not? Send me your response. “May the Fourth Be With You!” ZOOM CHAT AT 10AM. Social Studies and Writing: During Zoom, we watched a quick video clip (see the link below it you want to watch it again or share it with you family) and discussed the events that “define” our generations. My grandparents (your great-grandparents) had the Great Depression and the War, my parents (your grandparents) had Kennedy’s assassination and the Vietnam and Korean Wars, my generation (your parents) had the Challenger explosion, the Gulf War, and September 11. Now your generation has this Pandemic and the economic fallouts. We read about the above events in history books and our Studies Weekly newspapers. So your Social Studies assignment is to take all that you have learned and experienced and write an article (much like our Studies Weekly articles) about the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is something that is meant for students to read 10 years from now. The students who will be in 5th grade in 10 years are not old enough now to know what is going on, so what will you tell them. Include FACTS about what is going on. But also look at both sides of what has been happening: tragedies and triumphs. Your article should be at least 3 paragraphs long and have 3-5 GOOD 5th grade sentences. Send me your final article. Reading:
Login into Clever and then choose Newsela and read the article, “Doing Good During Coronavirus”. Take the quiz afterwards. Now make a list of 10 things you can do or you’ve heard about others doing to “get through this”. What have people been doing to shine a light on the GOOD going on, to bring happiness to others, to help a friend or neighbor? Send me your list. (Target students are not required to do the Writing and Science today, but your Social Studies/Writing and Reading Game projects are both due by Saturday, as you’ve had all week to work on them.)
Writing: Weekly Journal or Reader’s Response to our read aloud, Masterminds. Write at least 3 paragraphs, of at least 3-5 descriptive sentences each!!! If you DO NOT write what is expected of a 5th grader, I WILL send it back to you to do over! Science: Log into Moby Max. Continue with the assignments listed under Science. You should spend at least 30 minutes on Science today. ***Keep working on your Social Studies/Writing project and your Reading Game project! They are both due by Saturday night, but you can send each one whenever it is complete. |
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