Happy Tuesday, 5th graders!
We are so happy that so many students are joining the video chats from 9:00-10:30am every day, Monday-Friday.
Mr. Woolsteen (art): https://mrw-art.weebly.com/ Dr. Lyman (music): http://musicattheferry.weebly.com/ Coach Buckley (physical education): http://physicaleducationwithcoachb.weebly.com/ Summary of Assignments for March 30-31:
2) Read: “The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath” **(Studies Weekly, Week 21: “Stopping the Spread of Communism,” through Clever login) 3) Answer 4 questions in Seesaw.
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Vocabulary Book 4, Lesson 1 (March 30-April 3, 2020) Can you determine the antonym of these vocabulary words? 1) benefit: to help or be helpful to antonym: ignore someone or not help or harm 2) complete: having no missing parts antonym: incomplete 3) develop: to go through a process of growth antonym: get worse, not learn, weaken 4) dismay: to cause feelings of worry, fear, or even surprise antonym: feel happy, calm 5) ease: a state of being comfortable; no worry, pain, or trouble antonym: uncomfortable, dismay 6) hail: small lumps or balls of frozen rain antonym: nice, cool, sunny, hot weather 7) lack: to be without antonym: having what you need, own, in your possession, to benefit from 8) master: greatly skilled at something antonym: lack a skill, amateur, in progress, beginner, not professional, growing 9) patriot: someone who loves, supports, is loyal to his/her country antonym: unloyal, unsupportive, careless, traitor 10) project: a plan or idea for something antonym: no plan, only have a statement, no steps, no evidence/details, chaotic with no lead to start 11) recommend: to make a statement of praise antonym: scold, you don't have skills, point out bad qualities, you're bad at something, negative comments, unskilled 12) remark: to say or to make a comment antonym: no response, quiet, asking questions, protest/refusing 13) represent: to stand for or in place of antonym: not to represent, against, object that doesn't represent something/doesn't make sense 14) sufficient: enough to fill a need antonym: not enough, insufficient, meager, scarce, morsel 15) utter: to make sounds with your voice; to speak antonym: speaking clearly, just quiet, whisper, full sentence
Please watch the video from Ms. Pierre and Ms. Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa5VELPqFZk&t=1 Ms. Williams and Ms. Pierre, the wonderful counselors at Powers Ferry Elementary, have a message for Powers Ferry Panthers! You can also reach the counselors through their blog: https://powersferrycounselors.weebly.com/ Mrs. Alwardt’s Reading and Language Arts Classes:
March 30-31, 2020 Hello, 5th grade Reading and Language Arts students! Below is what we will be working on for Monday, March 30th and Tuesday, March 31st. I will be on Teams video chat from 9:00-10:30am if you would like to join for our instruction and discussion. Ms. Alston will be online with us, to give you instruction in math. The link to the Teams video chat will be sent through Remind, so that it is not available to the public. Please e-mail me ([email protected]) if you are not set up on Remind, so I can send you the information. Summary of Assignments for March 30-31: Reading: Read two articles, and answer 4 questions in Seesaw. Writing: Answer one writing prompt in Seesaw. Spelling: Play two games on Spelling City. Vocabulary: Play two games on Spelling City, and complete 6 sentences on Seesaw. Study the meanings and antonyms. Reading: We will be learning about the end of the Cold War. We will be working on two articles on Monday and Tuesday from Studies Weekly. 1) Please log on to Clever through Cobb County School District: Click on: https://clever.com/oauth/authorize?channel=clever&client_id=4c63c1cf623dce82caac&confirmed=true&district_id=5798a584ac8d990100000850&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclever.com%2Fin%2Fauth_callback&response_type=code&state=32926c9a53984e58dcc64a827499d281f9df5900ac3dabba3b149e1268058a77 2) Your username is your MicroSoft Office e-mail address (remember how you logged in when we did our Sway projects?): student first name.student last [email protected] Ex.: [email protected] Password: 123 3) Once on Clever, click on the red “Studies Weekly” button under “More Apps.” 4) Read the two articles, A) “Clarity of Thought: President Ronald Reagan and the USSR” and B) “The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath.” 5) Log in to Seesaw to respond in writing to two comprehension questions:
Seesaw screen you should see when you log in: Writing: Let’s start a writing journal! We will respond on Seesaw! We can share our ideas and become better writers together. 😊
My biggest goal in life is _____ Spelling: We will work on Spelling Week 28 Spelling words: ar Pattern er, ir, ur Patterns or Patterns ar, or Ending Patterns snarl partly participate artificial charity derby concern barrier avert controversial forecast portrait restore assorted according altar irregular vendor spectacular investor Assignments:
Play two games to help you practice spelling! Vocabulary: We will be working on Vocabulary Book 4 Lesson 1 words this week: benefit ease patriot represent complete hail project sufficient develop lack recommend utter dismay master remark We will practice the meanings and antonyms this week. Assignments:
Play two games to help you practice meanings and use of words in sentences!
(B and D): Hail is frozen rain. Also, please check out the activities provided by your Specials teachers, Mr. Woolsteen, Dr. Lyman, and Coach Buckley. This will help you with your physical activity and your creative skills: Mr. Woolsteen (art): https://mrw-art.weebly.com/ Dr. Lyman (music): http://musicattheferry.weebly.com/ Coach Buckley (physical education): http://physicaleducationwithcoachb.weebly.com/ .It was great to see so many 5th graders logged in to our video chat today! Keep up the great work!
Today, we worked on using context clues in a passage, paragraph, excerpt, or part of a text (piece of reading). We used the words around the bolded vocabulary words to figure out what the author was trying to say (we know that our vocabulary words can have more than one meaning). We used a paragraph from "The Velveteen Rabbit." Here's what you can work on next: 1) Log in to Seesaw (app.seesaw.me; use code in Remind) and complete questions in: Reading Comprehension (2 activities), Journal Prompt (2 activities), and Vocabulary Practice (1 activity). *Once you submit the activity to me, I can comment, and send it back to you. To respond, **Click on the button on the bottom right corner of your activity with the three dots. **Click on "Edit Item." **Add more information. Click on the check mark at top right corner two times. 2) Log in to Flipgrid through Ms. Alston's blog to practice math: https://matman01.weebly.com/. 3) Practice Spelling Week 27 words on Spelling City for a video chat quiz Friday: www.spellingcity.com/salwardt/, as well as Vocabulary Week 20 words. 4) Practice reading and language arts on Headsprout. *R.J. Palacios will be reading Wonder live every day from 12:00-12:45pm! Happy Tuesday, 5th graders!
I hope you have been able to get on Seesaw to complete Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary practice: (app.seesaw.me). The reading passage is still on Clever---Newsela: "Video games strain Italian internet as coronavirus keeps kids home." See you at 9:00am on video chat tomorrow. The link will be posted at 8:30am tomorrow, 3/25! -Mrs. Alwardt Our Principal, Dr. Jones, will be on Facebook Live, tonight at 8:00pm, to read a bedtime story, Llama Llama Red Pajama.
Tune in on Facebook, under "Powers Ferry Elementary" at 8:00pm for a live reading! Report cards for Quarter 3 are available through ParentVUE and StudentVUE here:
https://parentvue.cobbk12.org/ If students know their student numbers (same as lunch numbers), they wil be able to login through StudentVUE. We enjoyed having school on video chat with so many students this morning!
I will be adding more activities to Seesaw soon. Here is the information on the Wonder read aloud by the author, R.J. Palacios, starting tomorrow, March 25th. She will be reading every day, from 12:00-12:45pm, until the book is finished: Happy Week 2 on digital learning!
New assignments are posted in full, under the "More" tab, under "Digital Learning March." I would like to try a new way, through Seesaw, for students to respond (by typing response) to: 1) The daily comprehension questions for our weekly article (from Newsela). 2) Our daily writing prompt. Here's where the assignments can be found:
Mrs. Alwardt’s Reading and Language Arts Classes:
March 23, 2020 Hello, 5th grade Reading and Language Arts students! I can’t wait to learn with all of you tomorrow! Below is what we will be working on for Monday, March 23rd. I will be on Teams video chat from 9:00-10:30am if you would like to join for our instruction and discussion. Ms. Alston will be online with us, to give you instruction on math. The link to the Teams video chat will be sent through Remind, so that it is not available to the public. Please e-mail me ([email protected]) if you are not set up on Remind, so I can send you the information. Reading: We will be working on an article each week from NewsELA *1) Please logon to Clever through Cobb County School District: Click on: https://clever.com/oauth/authorize?channel=clever&client_id=4c63c1cf623dce82caac&confirmed=true&district_id=5798a584ac8d990100000850&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclever.com%2Fin%2Fauth_callback&response_type=code&state=32926c9a53984e58dcc64a827499d281f9df5900ac3dabba3b149e1268058a77 *2) Your username is your MicroSoft Office e-mail address (remember how you logged in when we did our Sway projects?): student first name.student last [email protected] Ex.: [email protected] Password: 123 *3) Once on Clever, click on the blue “Newsela” button under “More Apps.” *4) Read the article, “Video games strain Italian internet as coronavirus keeps kids home” *5) Answer the following questions in your notebook: 1) How does the extra video game playing in Italy by children and adults affect how children can have on-line school? 2) How else could Italian students keep up with their schoolwork if there is no Internet? Writing: Let’s start a writing journal! You can use your reading notebook if you brought it home, or lined paper that you staple together. I will answer the writing prompts, too. We can share our ideas and become better writers together. 😊
Write about the best thing about digital learning, and the one thing that could be better.
Spelling: We will continue with Spelling Week 27 Spelling words: ee Pattern ea—long e ie—long e ea—short e ee Pattern keel leer leech freedom committee ea--long e Pattern feat league appeal ideal realization ie--long e Pattern grief lien species grievance occupied ea--long e Pattern leather meadow peasant deafening jealousy Assignments:
Click on “Spelling Week 27” Click in the blue “Games” button Play one game to help you practice spelling! Also, please check out the activities provided by your Specials teachers, Mr. Woolsteen, Dr. Lyman, and Coach Buckley. This will help you with your physical activity and your creative skills: Mr. Woolsteen (art): https://mrw-art.weebly.com/ Dr. Lyman (music): http://musicattheferry.weebly.com/ Coach Buckley (physical education): http://physicaleducationwithcoachb.weebly.com/ |
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