Week of 5/18-Please turn in all work missing from reading, spelling, math, and brainpop-all subjects. We're nearing the end!

Can you believe it? This is our last full week in May-next week will be Memorial Day! Everyone usually uses that as a day of celebration for a day off, when really, it is one of the country's most somber days.  It is a day of remembrance for all who died keeping America safe for all of us.  The people who risk their lives and work hard to keep us safe really believe in a safe, free country/world.  They are selfless-not selfish! They do this for those they know and more surprisingly, those they don't! So, next Monday, the country takes time to remember their sacrifices for our safety and freedom! 

Week of 5/18 (School Week 37) - Make sure all assignments are turned in! Your superintendent tweeted that he wanted all students to turn in all work.  Follow him on Twitter for the latest updates.   Please read the feedback in portfolios.  Some of you post without reading or making adjustments.  At this point, the quality of your work should be that of a person demonstrating readiness for 4th grade - this is not the time to be laissezfaire. Always do your best as many of you already do! 
Check assignments per subject: Reading, Math, Science, SS in Teams and BrainPop.


Reading/SS Unit 6; Week2:    
Genre: historical fiction again.
Anthology-Nora's Ark, The Wind and the Sun
Reading Writing Workshop-The Big Blizzard 
Focus on the Main Ideas of the stories and the themes (The author's message).   The history is true, but the characters are fiction.  Every class has loved these stories-you will, too!  When we finish this, there's only one more set to go and we're at the end of the year! Last one: Unit 6; week 4
"How do weather conditions change what we do?" Your last journal topic was to tell about an experience you had with weather.  Now, we are back to weather-getting ready for fourth grade.

• Games: spelling, vocabulary, grammar 
• Brainpop/easy quiz  Catch up your work! It's the end.                           *videos: Vermont Flood of 1927-real footage    Vermont's Super Flood-footage     Vermont's Great Flood documentary 21 minutes-great info!                                            *The 1947 New York Blizzard - real footage

Local historical weather: 1992 Hurricane Andrew as it happened part 1 
School was cancelled; some destroyed! Two of my principal's did not live in their destroyed home for one year! My old school took five years to reopen! The gym was destroyed. Only the floor remained.
 Hurricane Andrew clips: before/during/after footage
Hurricane Andrew- Now and Then photographer interview
Andrew sounds, people's stories of home destruction, etc.  Andrew-25th anniversary special
Hurricane Andrew movie  Yep, I was in the closet at 4:00 in the morning!
Miami Waterspout 1997   


Brain Pop: 
Natural Disasters
Spelling: el/le
able, purple (an adjective), 3 riddle, 4 handle, 5 puzzle, 6 castle, 7 eagle,  8 little (also an adjective),
9 pickle, 10 towel, 11 nickel, 12 camel, 13 travel, 14 tunnel, 15 squirrel
Mon. - Write sentences for numbers 1-4  Tues. numbers 5-8,    Wed. 9-12,    Thurs. 13-15 Make them fourth grade ready! Watch capitals, punctuation, spelling, and sense.
Vocabulary   argue, astonished,  complained,  conditions,  forbidding, forecast,  relief,  stranded
Here's a trick -silly video
Get in your sentences.  Some of you are missing many weeks!

Math

• Math Antics activities-points, lines, and planes  
• Continue to review concepts in chapter -12 as needed - 
• Turn in Chapters 11 and 12!!!!!!!!!!!
• Practice with Math Antics turn in activities.  Write: number 1___, 2____, etc. Challenge.Know this before you go forth to fourth! Write your answers in Teams or portfolio. 

 Angles basics activity-Math Antics-Know/do! Some of you already do that-it's easier than sending pictures-especially if you are using dojo portfolios! Don't do all at once!
Review concepts through third to make your foundation strong for fourth-a lot more work, a lot quicker! Reteach-Get Ready for Fourth! 
Get Ready for fourth-Practice as needed-not graded.
BrainPop: Choosing an operation  
Math Antics: https://www.mathantics.com/lesson/what-is-arithmetic Know this!                    Arithmetic exercises         Properties, Operations, Fact Families

Science
Turn in all assignments.  The year is coming to an end.  Don't keep those Zs! 
Finish plants, habitats/ecosystems
Biology for kids
NBC LEARN-What do you think? Could you do this? I've eaten mealworms nicely flavored and even chocolate covered! LOL Zoo Miami even had chefs prepare them in delicious meals! Yep, ate them, too. 
Begin Animals Do BrainPop quizzes for grades:     Classifying animals    Birds    Fish     Amphibians     Reptiles    Mammals        Invertebrates    
 Metrozoo/ZooMiami flamingos in bathroom sheltered during Andrew Cool picture!

Benji the therapy dog! lol

Animals roaming during Covid19 lock down -we had peacocks by the pool! lol

Next up, we connect science with reading (animials): Unit 6; Week 4 We will read and finish the year!