This week in Media

Kindergarten, First and Second Graders

This week in Media May 18-May 22 please look in the Connect Team folder for your grade level. Please return your library book this week or next week when you pick up your packet or return your completed work!

This week you will be listening to the story Carla's Sandwich from Storyline Online

There are questions and activities outlined in the folder for you to complete this week! Have fun drawing and writing about your special sandwich!

For the week of May 11 th - May 15th

We have been talking this year a lot about words and we have even read a wonderful book about collecting words. It was The Word Collector by Peter Reynolds, one of our North Carolina Children's book award books about a boy who collected words! He did not collect stamps, or bugs, or coins or baseball cards. Remember what the little boy did with his words? Not only did he collect words but he wrote his words down on pieces of paper! That is a great way to remember words. Certain words "popped out" and caught his attention! What words have you learned about in your study of trees and pollination? Can you remember what words you thought were interesting and popped out for you? Write down 2 one syllable words that you have learned and 2 two syllable words that you have learned about trees, or pollination. (hint: leaf - is one syllable acorn - is two syllables) (bee is one syllable, flower is two syllables) Can you think of any longer words? Can you draw a picture to go with each word? Just like Jerome in The Word Collector the more words you know the more clearly you can share what you are "thinking, feeling and dreaming." Remember at the end of the book, Peter Reynolds reminds us all to "Reach for your own words. Tell the world who you are and how you will make it better." (Peter H. Reynolds). Use your words this week, and try to use new words that you have learned!.

Kindergarten and First Grade: This week May 4-May 8th This week we will be learning through the book "Lotus and Feather" by Ji-li Jiang. Please listen to this story at Storyline Online read by Michelle Yeoh. Based on the cover do you think the book is fiction or non-fiction? Why? What gives you the clues?

After reading: How did your feelings about Lotus change from the beginning to the end of the story? Give two details from the story to support your answer?

After reading: Here is a part from the story: "A crane! Lotus shouted silently! She had heard many stories about the endangered cranes from Grandpa, but she had never seen one. They had stopped coming because the wetland was disappearing." Think for a minutes about endangered animals. Why do animals become endangered? Talk with a family member about endangered animals. Go to pebblego.com (login: engaged the password is: learning) Go to science and read about endangered and threatened animals that you want to find out more about. How are this animal you selected like the crane? How is the animal not like the crane? What can you do to help animals?

Week of April 27th -- This week I want you to look at your drawing of a tree and try to think of five animals that live in trees. Your challenge this week is with help to write five words that you think of when you hear the word tree.

Last week, April 20th you were working on Module 4 in your English Language arts curriculum. In your imagine lab we will be also be talking about trees. How can you use your imagination to create a model of a tree? Think about every day items you have at home and think about the parts of a tree. What could you use to make the trunk? What can you use to create the leaves? Can you use different kinds of materials to make the trunk, branches and leaves? If no materials are on hand, draw a picture of a forest. What animals will live in your tree? Click on the pebblego button above and login to pebble go. (login: engaged and password learning) Type in the words "woodland plants" to hear information about trees. Be sure to look at the photos, as this will help you in drawing your picture.

First Graders: For this week May 4-8

This week April 27th you will begin writing your story about a bird with a problem. I hope you have noticed as you have read that a lot of stories begin "Once upon a time.........or one morning, or one day." In the story words that tell about time are used. "That afternoon" or "Later that day" or "Suddenly" or "that night" all tell when the next event takes place and helps the reader to understand that time has passed. Hopefully you have chosen a bird and a problem. Please use this sheet (bit.ly/3eRt0pv) to help organize your thoughts this week and begin to write your story. Can you tell your story to someone at your house?

Last week, April 20th we started working on Module 4 of your English Language arts curriculum . In the Imagine Lab we will be working on how to write a story using your knowledge of birds. Remember that we have talked and read many stories this year. All stories have a setting (where the story takes place), characters (one or more main characters), a problem (so start thinking about a problem a bird might have), a solution (how could the bird's problem be solved? Who could be the helpers that help the bird?) and the ending (what happened to the bird at the end of the story?) So, the first thing you need to do is to decide what kind of bird you feel you know the most about -- are you a robin expert, a penguin expert, an eagle expert, a humming bird expert.........? After you choose your bird think about what problem your bird could have.............. If we were in class we would brainstorm what birds might have problems , so I will list a few (in danger from predators, injured body part, no safe place to live/lay eggs, separated from family, or can't find, get food.) Choose one that you want to write about. Please someone at your house read the story to you so that you can hear about a bird with a problem. https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/20310568/The-Bird-Who-Couldn-t-Fly Next week we will create the story but be thinking about your story and who could help your bird with his/her problem. We will be writing a rough draft next week, so be thinking: How could your story end? Be thinking and we will move into writing next week.

Second graders: Week of May 4-8 Listen to the story "Please, Please the Bees" from Storyvine Online

Listen for the problem in the story and be able to tell how the character solved the problem. After you listen to the story explain why Benedict decided to help the bees. What kind of character is Benedict? Use two words to describe his character. How would the story have changed if Benedict did not care about the striking bees? (What if Benedict had been selfish and mean?) A character's actions and words can change the way the story ends. The bees felt unappreciated and went on strike. Do you think the bees should have gone on strike? Why or why not? Give two or three reasons.

When we read books we try to understand the characters' life lesson and to understand from what characters have learned. Write a note to a friend about bee - ing a good friend.

Week of April 27th. This week we are starting to write our new fable. Please review the parts of a fable from this link: https://bit.ly/2VHQoxO Create a story map of the story you planned from last week. Plan to use a lot of detail words. By that I mean action words: such as flutter, fly, race soar glide; time words such as "later that day, before bedtime, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the night, early in the morning, etc." The animals in fables always show feelings. How does your animal feel: jealous, .....cheerful..............resentful, grateful, etc. As you begin to write I am sharing a sheet to help you outline your story. https://bit.ly/3eRt0pv This week please plan your storyboard of your story so that you can write from your outline.

We are beginning Module 4 of your unit on pollinators. Listen to the famous Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper. (online version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxjNXlbVNXs ) Think about the moral of the fable (the lesson to be learned). We are going to use our knowledge of pollinators to write a new fable. We are going to make up our story based on what we know about pollinators. The moral for our new fable is: "Every member of a community, despite size or difference, can play an important part. " Think about examples of problems/resolutions that our characters could face to teach this moral: (here is one: "A pollinator cannot fly but learns how to help pollinate".) All fables have a setting (telling when and where). Will your fable take place in winter? in fall? in summer? or in spring? Where will your fable take place ......in the city? in the country? on a farm? in the forest? Will your character be a bird, a bee, a butterfly, a hummingbird? What can the problem or challenge be that will help the reader to understand that everyone little or big can play an important part in pollination? Is the problem in the story solved? We will start to write next week -- so this week think about pollinators and fables.

For fun:

You can check out the Home Reading Helper from Read Charlotte - Scroll down a little more than half way to see that you can work on your letter recognition, sight words or phonics! What are your goals for yourself this week? Play the "Guess my Letter" Game under the Let's Go Charlotte link!

If you have internet please EVERY DAY read something and visit this site: https://www.stimolalive.com/

Every day a read aloud or activity by an author or illustrator is planned.

This site will read informational text aloud to you. What are you interested in learning about? First Graders: Read about your favorite bird!

Second Graders: You can read on Pebble go about bees, and after reading explore more about how they pollinate by reading the ebook at the end of the article!

Write in your journal about what you are learning!

Also do you have a favorite author? Please see if they are on this page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCowhHSUaWp3KJDcuI0nR0vw/videos

Please click on the North Carolina Children's Book Award link above and listen as you remember all the wonderful books we have read. Vote for your favorite!

Third, fourth and fifth graders: There are new assignments in the google drive folder for media for your grade level! Please look at the questions and the articles we are reviewing this week! Please start returning your library books whenever you come to school! Information will be coming from your classroom teachers!

Third graders please sign up for my google classroom using the code jneqx3x . Here are the step by step directions:

Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In. Sign in with your Google Account. Chromebooks and Google apps for Education Login

USERNAME: StudentID@student.cms.k12.nc.us (student ID#@student.cms.k12.nc.us)

Default Password: yyyymmdd

At the top, click Add. Join class.

Enter the class code for your grade level/classroom gave and click Join. A class code consists of 6 or 7 letters or numbers.

4th graders your code is: mbhgfrm

Mrs. Barber's class you will use njcjzxo since most of you have already signed up.

5th graders your code is: el3n6ml

Mr. Caulley's class you will use the code f53n6tg since we have already been using Google classroom.

Look for assignments this week!