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.
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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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Just wanted to say that we (Mr. S. and the other teachers who see you every day) miss seeing you in room 224, and I hope you are doing ok with all your time at home! What are you doing to pass the time? Reading? Making up stories to write? Creating artwork? Practicing your instruments and/or composing songs? Playing games with the family or online? Spending time outside when it's not too cold? The list of options could go on, I'm sure. I will be updating this blog each day with ideas that you can try out if you are looking for some specific work to do to keep up your development and growth in areas you are wanting to challenge yourself in. We'll see how it goes as the days go on, but for the first post, how about you just post a comment to let me know if you got a chance to visit this evening. It's almost dinner-time as I write this, so there may not be a chance for any of you to visit and respond today, but I'll be back tomorrow with something new to post here. Before you post, just know I will probably have a delay in posting your comments, just so I can "approve" them for this kind of post. I don't have any pictures of recent days in school, so I will post one below of a recent structure one of you built when we were working on decomposing fractions! I am sure it will bring back memories :) |
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