Archive for May, 2020

Online activities for Wednesday, May 6

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students worked on researching Mackinac Island today and creating a Google Doc or Google Slides presentation. They will continue working on this tomorrow. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: We worked on drafting poems today. We read more from the book, Love that Dog, and talked about musical poems and concrete poems.

A collection of poems will be due Friday, May 15. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links. Students should have two to three poems written by now.

Math: Students worked on comparing fractions with unlike denominators by comparing fractions to common benchmark fractions or by using common denominators. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: Students worked on a scientific explanation about how sound travels, how changes in waves change sounds, and how digital messages are sent. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Social Studies: None today.

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Online activities for Tuesday, May 5

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students listened to a short story and then used clues from the text to determine the theme. Students also practiced theme skills at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: We continued to prewrite about possible poetry topics. We also read more from the book, Love that Dog, and talk about nature poems, animal poems, small poems with visual details and common topics, and turning a story into a poem.

A collection of poems will be due Friday, May 15. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links. Students should have a list of poem ideas and one or two poems started by now.

Math: Students worked on comparing fractions with unlike denominators by comparing fractions to common benchmark fractions. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: Students started watching a movie about the Underground Railroad to learn about movement factors in slavery. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Online activities for Monday, May 4

Monday, May 4th, 2020

See our Online School Agenda to see what we worked on today. You and your students can easily get to the agenda from go.mrhowd.com/online.

Reading: Students continued to learn about finding the theme of a story and practiced theme skills at MobyMax. Most students haven’t finished the theme topic at MobyMax Reading Skills Literature that we started last week. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: We started a new writing topic about poetry. Today, we started reading a book about poetry, called, Love that Dog, as we also talked about the three ingredients of poetry:

  • Imagery: visual details or other senses
  • Music: a sing-song quality using rhymes or beats
  • Emotion: the poem conveys a feeling

Not all poems need to have all three ingredients, but poems have at least one.

Today, students watched a video read aloud of Love that Dog and then started working on prewriting for their poem collection. A collection of poems will be due Friday, May 15. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Math: Students worked on comparing fractions with unlike denominators using pictures. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: Students used a tool to encode an image into binary code, posted the code for others, and then practiced decoding the codes that other students shared. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Social Studies: None today.

Notes:

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.