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Thursday, June 4, 2020

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SUMMER! (Break/Vacation)

Hi.  Miss you guys!

Hope you've had time to get your supplies and the tote bag I left for you last month! I'm so glad that I purchased those items early for you-who knew any of this would happen? What an experience we've had this year! It seems like something out of a movie, but look how far we've come! We ALL learned and grew tremendously! I'm very proud of you. You each have a certificate in your channel in teams.  Hope to see you soon next school year! Enjoy your summer-be safe!

Beat the summer slide with Imagine Math!
Free access for grades 3-8 for ESOL Levels 1-4 from  6/8-7/31
*New ELL links on the portal


WAY TO GO M-DCPS!

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

WHAT YOU WONDER, WANT, WISH WEDNESDAY! A.K.A. HAPPY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! PARTY DAY!

 HAPPY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!  PARTY DAY!  LET'S GET READY TO CELEBRATE!

Some wants and wishes:

Wish for Coronavirus to end
Wish we had an in person party! LOL
Wish for peace and kindness
Wish for Flash’s superpowers
Wish for Moxie Roblock
Wish for vacation when Covid19 is goes away
Wish for a mini dirt bike
Wish/want to go to the beach
Wish for a puppy
Wonder if we will start fourth grade online

THANK YOU to everyone who celebrated with us! It was great "seeing" eveyone again! Remember, if your camera broke on the device that the school provided for you-please alert them.  Thank you.
If fourth grade begins virtually, please have the camera on daily for credit in addtion to summer schhool if you are contacted to join.  I appreciate everyone's hard work and dedication to learning during this time-can you believe how much you've learned? Teachers, parents, principals, superintendents, government officials, and even world leaders! We've all learned-even McDonald's, BK, and ChicFilA learned! Everyone even learned ways to shop! lol 

Happy Birthday to all of the Quarentine babies and to those with summer birthdays! See, Amanda, you still get your birthday-not like the girl in Staying Nine! lol  My niece, CiCi's birthday was yesterday! That's Buddy and Max's sister and Connor and Megan's cousin! Max has asked about you gusys and said hi to everyone.  If I can ever get him to join a meeting-feel free to jump in! Remember, I'll still say hi and post things on the blog now and then. It'll still be here for you next year!  Let's enjoy our summer! 💥Love you guys LOTS! 😀


TELL A JOKE TUESDAY!



You guys told some pretty funny jokes all morning!

I couldn't remember them all, but if you want them posted here-let me know!

How do aliens celebrate parties? They PLAN-IT
What do you call a pile of cats? A meow tain
Why did the kid cross the playground? To get to the other slide
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? A dino SNORE

Monday, June 1, 2020

MUSIC MONDAY!

Happy share your favorite music day!
Share your favorite song! Pick one.   I'm picking one that I've liked since I was a kid! The Unicorn Song - based on a poem by Shel Silverstein.

The Unicorn Song - The Irish Rovers  Liked it most of my life!

Unicorn PDF
The Irish Rovers, The Unicorn Sono

The Unicorn Song, The Irish Rovers, Poem by Shel Silverstein


Thomas liked Vamos a la Playa
Thomas shared his app-Rivet has many interesting books.
Rivet app

Rodrigo and everyone like this classs enjoys this one!
I Got a Pea, Bryant Oden  Use your skills-Homophones, rhyme, context clues!

The Bazillions Class favorites: Silent e, Similes and Metaphores, Try Triangle, Polygon


U2, MLK Another Class favorite about Martin Luther King.  Still Stands true!
U2 Sunday, Bloody Sunday  A class/teacher favorite Against prejudice! Still important now.



Monday, May 25, 2020

Please have assignments submitted by Wednesday! Reading Tests in Teams, Spelling sentences, Brain Pop activities: Prefixes, Prefixes, Suffixes, Rootwords,  Main Idea, Pronouns, Adjectives, Gradebooks will be closed Friday by all of your teachers in order to close for the end of year and report cards.  We are at the end!


For those who are up-to-date: 
Reading/LA Unit 6, Week 4 
Respect for Animals
Genre: Expository Text (Nonfiction)
Reading Writing Workshop: Butterflies, Big and Small
Anthology: Alligators and Crocodiles; The Monkey and Crocodile
vocabularyendangered, fascinating, illegal, inhabit, requirement, respected, unaware, wildlife
Spelling: r-controlled vowels again  1. cellar 2. later 3. circus 4. prepared 5. author 6. restored 7. severe 8.perfect 9. actor 10. silver 11. doctor 12. sister 13. report 14. third 15. Coronavirus *(tricky)😷
Grammar-
Suffixes: -able, -ment again! 
Adverbs: Words that compare verbs (New-first time this year discussed and demonstrated in class, but never assigned by MDCPS! You will use these a lot in your writing in fourth grade!)
Tom Lehrer Ly Song

Math
Finish chapter 12 and those still missing chapter 11! Send mid chapters and chapters-finish BrianPops: Area, Perimeter, Area of Polygons, Points/Lines/Segments/Rays, Plane Shapes, Choosing an Operation 

Getting Ready for Fourth Grade
Reteach - lessons from third to prepare for fourth-make sure you know these concepts!
Reteach lessons as you need print or write answers to practice-not graded. Bring your "A Game"! (metaphorically speaking)
Getting Ready for Fourth continued-print as needed-KNOW BEFORE YOU GO!
Getting Ready for Fourth-tests to practice.   Get Ready for Fourth! Reteach TESTS-not graded-Get Ready-KNOW! 
Math Antics: videos and worksheets to get ready for fourth grade!                                                  

Content Science/SS
Science:
Finish BrainPop activities from April-May!
Energy activities
Heat
Plant parts, plant life cycle, seed plants, plant adaptations, 
classifying animals, birds, fish, anphibians, reptiles, mammals, invertebrates,  classifying animals    birds  fish   reptiles   mammals  amphibians   invertebrates
SS
Goods/Services
Coronavirus
Needs/wants
Recycle, Repurpose, Reuse
Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage
Mindfulness
freshwater habitats
prefixes


Memorial Day is a day to remember the people we know and all the people we don't even know who gave their lives for us to live in our free country!