Not sure whether the winner will want a small candy reward or a homework pass. Quarters 1 & 3 get 1 value prize. Halftime gets double, and final score gets triple. Drop a comment if you stop by to visit this page :)
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Our 4S Friday picks for the four NFL Playoff games this weekend. I will list each teacher's and student's picks, and swap out names with a kind of rock. That way, you can see which -- if any -- bracket (group of four picks) is all correct, but you will have to wait until Monday to see which rock name you were given. The "total points" is the sum of all the winning teams' points. It's a tie-breaker if more than one 4S class member guesses all four games correctly.
For example: I will tell you that I gave myself the rock known as "granite" and these are my picks:
You can click on the name of the rock to find out more about it and view a virtual specimen. I just randomly assigned students with rocks, so there's no reason or rhyme to the name of the rock and your name. (So, for example, if your name starts with a certain letter, it's not a necessity that your rock's name starts with that letter.)
1)How many different possible outcomes are there for the weekend slate of games? 2) Have we covered all of the options for the outcomes? (FYI - I added a couple sets of picks for the students who were not able to make their own picks on Friday afternoon, and I tried to make those picks different from all of the others.) If you are not able to access the links I put onto the different rock names, please click here to get to the excellent Earth@Home virtual rock collectio to find the link for your rock type. Good luck to all of us -- may you "rock" your bracket. haha. Which books are our favorites for the next Caldecott award? Which is more true? The best part of of a book is the words; or the best part of a book is the pictures. .
These photos were taken the First Friday of November, 2017. Back then, the students visited our Pollinator Garden to observe and learn about the seeds that are out there on the plants that grew and flourished through the spring, summer, and fall. Looking all around our area, it is easy to find lots of plants whose flowers have died off, leaving behind large vessels of seeds to be dispersed and hidden over the winter. How will all the seeds be spread around? Where will they take shelter and "sleep" as the weather turns cold and frost begins to take hold? How many will sprout after the long, dormant winter? These are some of the questions we'll investigate as our Plant Explorers unit begins. Below is a slideshow of some plants that can be found right here in gardens, flower beds, and roadside patches of earth in the Brookline/Brighton area. Still, even a few years later, you're likely to see these kinds of scenes around -- maybe even moreso since our climate seems to be changing to support these flowers lasting longer into the late-year months. It's time for another survey! Which of these animals need a new name? Click on each image to see the idea for another identity you could give to either the mountain goat, raccoon, snake, or turtle. After seeing the new names, you might think the old names are just not accurate enough 🧐
You can only pick one, so leave your answer in our class survey. 4S surveys have been so much fun this year - I hope you'll participate. Thanks! This weekend, I saw a raccoon "in the wild" (climbing a two-story building to get to the upper porch) during broad daylight! There are many reasons to be impressed with raccoons. Are raccoons amazing to you? Can you think of any of these reasons yourself? Here are five raccoon photos from the Raccoon Every Hour photo vault. Which one do you like best, and why? Leave your comment/vote below.
Greetings, 4S, and welcome to this chilly March Monday! Below is your set of work prompts for today. I am keeping this post short because there are a few tasks for you to get done and an open comment section. Remember to set aside 30 minutes or more for sustained, independent reading of a "just-right" book. If you'd like to, leave a comment below on how you have been finding reading material, or anything that's been a challenge you've faced trying to get your reading done.
Good morning, and happy Friday, 4S! I hope you didn't find yesterday too chilly and raw outside. The good news, if you didn't enjoy the coolness of the first day of Spring 2020 yesterday, is that today's forecast is calling for warmer temp's to almost make it into the 70's! Nice, right? Not that there's going to be lots of sun, but we'll enjoy some warmth today. Are you ready for some classwork from your teacher? You can do the reading, writing, and math in any order, and you may choose to do something different for any of these topics if you wish. Feel free to leave a comment telling me/us what you liked or maybe what you chose to do differently in the comments. Comments on this post will be posted after approval. Anyway, before you get started on today's math, it might help to check out a video and practice reviewing area and perimeter. Click the button below to see it. If this is your first visit to the blog, you might want to check out yesterday's message and/or work ideas so you can get a better understanding of why I am posting here for you, and what kinds of things we are hoping you'll get out of the time and effort spent here. You can read that post by clicking here. If you are ready for today's work, here it is: You can share any of your work with me by creating any kind of Google Doc or Drawing in your 4S folder. Login to your @psbma account here. Also, you can have a parent take a picture of your work and send it to me by email. I would be happy to see it! Finally, I know some of you find pictures helpful to go along with writing, so I am adding a couple images below that you might find are helpful in thinking about today's work. Note: The above image comes from a blog post about multiplying, and even includes a lesson on how it works with fractions! You can check it out by clicking here -- or by clicking the picture itself, if I've linked it correctly :)
Finally, below you can see an idea of one writer's dream house creation. You can read more about it by clicking here. Hello again, 4S! Welcome back to the blog. If this is your first visit this week, I want to say how much your teachers are thinking about you and we're wondering how your time away from Runkle is going. It is not easy to get the hang of new routines, and this week away from your classmates and schoolwork might have you feeling like your learning habits are fading away. For example, I have to admit that I have not been reading or writing as consistently, and my math mind has gotten a little out-of-shape. It can be helpful to have some work routines to share with your classmates and friends, so I'll be offering some daily work suggestions and extra challenge ideas each day on this blog for you to follow along with. The teachers of 4P and 4E are giving their students many of the same assignments to try, so we hope there will still be some shared learning and fun things you can take part in together - even while we won't see each other in school for a while longer. Here are the first offerings: We have not taught perimeter a lot this year, but many of you have said you remember it from 3rd grade. In case you want to review perimeter and try some additional practice, click on the button below.
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