Category Archive for 'Class activities'

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.

Online activities for Thursday, April 30

Thursday, April 30th, 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 practiced finding the theme of a story again today and continued to practice theme skills at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Students watched the screencasts recorded by other students of them presenting their research.

Math: Students took a quiz about equivalent fractions and common denominators today and continued to work on fraction skills. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: Students read a primary source about the orphan train migration and wrote notes. 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 Wednesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 29th, 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 practiced finding the theme of a story and then practice theme skills at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Today was our last publishing day for the I-Search project. Students were asked to make a Loom screencast of them presenting their research, and then to share the link on our agenda. We’ll look at the presentations tomorrow! Homework is to finish the screencast if not done yet. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Math: We worked on finding common denominators today. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: Students practiced encoding and decoding images into binary code. 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, April 28

Tuesday, April 28th, 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 learned more about the theme of a text today and practiced reading at MobyMax. Check the Online School Agenda for details.

Writing: Today was a publishing day for the I-Search project. Students should be making final preparations for finishing their presentation and making it ready for readers. Students will be recording a screencast of themselves presenting it tomorrow.

The I-Search presentation is due Wednesday, April 29. Here are more details about this project. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Math: We worked on equivalent fractions again today. Check the Online School Agenda for directions and links.

Science: None today.

Social Studies: Students read a text about movement factors in US history and reasons why people have moved in the past. Homework is to finish the accompanying note page if not done this morning.

Notes:

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