Welcome Back!

Hi.   Are you ready? Ready or not, we’ve gotta roll with it! You will see that in tough times just  how much you can learn and grow.  You guys are all intelligent and you are thinkers with great questions and make wise connections to whatever you are learning.  I am looking forward to the rest of the year with you, and I am grateful that we are all still together.

Our first week-Dojo crashed for some people, also, Microsoft Teams increased usage from about 28,000 prior to Covid19, to about 40,000 starting our first week online in quarantine lockdown.

I will contact you via Class Stories in Dojo and you can continue to post in the portfolio section as many of you already have.  I have been enjoying those videos and your comment posts. 👍Keep up the great thoughts. I will also post here to keep a stationary place for posting as some people missed many posts on DOJO. We will incorporate Teams in your portal under the orange 365 icon as some of you have already posted on the Reed’s Readers section of Teams. Great work! We will have a place to chat and try out Zoom video conferencing. It will be like an online classroom discussion.  😀 We are all still learning and developing strategies to grow together during this historical moment in time. I hope that everyone is well and ready to continue the learning process. Below, is an overview of our learning focus and getting into your online books-as you’ve watched many times in class.

Directions for logging in to your books:

• Log in to portal
• Click onto your book (for each subject) 
• Reading Writing Workshop (RWW) 
• Math - Interactive notebook - watch lesson 10.2
• Science. - finish Energy! 
• Social Studies: Goods and Services 

*Directions for Teams: log in to portal-go to the orange 365 box, click, go to Teams icon with heads of people. 👥 -It looks similar to this. Ms Reed’s classroom- I will post mostly everything within Reed’s Readers, but you will notice all of your subjects. *** If portal crashes, please also try to login to clever.com

ELA:  Unit 5/week2  READING: RWW-The New Hoop.    Anthology-Bravo, Tavo

Spelling/LA- Subject and object pronouns
Homophones: watch Discovery Ed video: What is a Homophone?

Spelling Words: 

1. here, 
2. hear, 
3. there, (Not here, but there)      Look over there!
4. their,  (ownership/possession) Their bookbags are ugly. 
5. they’re (The easiest- They are) They are avoiding the Coronavirus by staying. 
6. by  (She is not standing by them and keeping social distancing)
7. bye (We all said, “bye” the last day we saw each other)
8. High (I am sitting on the balcony, but not too high)
9. Hi                                                                                                                                               (Ms. Reed and Ms. Alvarez are saying, “Hi“ to their students) - Hey, did you notice their was there? LOL
10. Wear (Please wear your uniform when you come back to school)
11. Where ( At this point, you might be wondering, “where is my uniform?”) LOL
12. Your - ownership/possession (You may have grown out of your uniform.)
13. You’re (You’re missed very much.)
14. Be - Be aware that Attendance and grading begin the week of April 6th. 
15. Bee - I’ve been eating honey🍯 on some food items - Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Bee! 🐝 

Home learning: 

Monday: Rainbow, Tuesday: Sentences for #1-7; Wednesday; Sentences for #8-15: Thurs: ABC
Videos to make learning easier:
Homophones song -Between the Lions  funny ballad
Homophone Monkey -cartoon
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK- Rufus Xavier Sasparilla Subject and Object Pronouns
subject and Object Pronouns lesson.
Mr. Morton - Subject Pronouns Remember him? Posted for Olivia-before she arrived!

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