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Watch and Learn: Let's read words with "oo" and "u".
Your Turn: Read A Look at Breakfast (little red book with the giraffe) OR continue working on A Good Day for Fishing.
Practice: Select one of the following activities to continue building reading fluency:
Watch and Learn:
Your Turn: Reread Meet Rosina in your big book on pgs. 302-321.
Then answer questions on page 323; save them for a check-in with your teacher!
Practice: Read any story from your big book or little book for 15+ minutes. Can you identify the author's purpose in your story?
Watch and Learn: If needed, review the strategy of "Monitor and Clarify" and the skill of "Author's Purpose" from yesterday. The videos are below. IF you do not need a review then please go straight to the "Your Turn" section.
Your Turn: Using the skill and strategy for this week read the story Meet Rosina in your big red book. Look in the table of contents to find the page number.
Watch & Learn: Review this weeks vocabulary words and see what activity you are going to do with them today!
Your Turn: Write as many synonyms (same) and antonyms (opposite) for each vocabulary word. You must have at least one in each column.
Practice: Do the last activity for the week that you have not done yet.
Watch and Learn: Watch Mrs. Neidigh as she introduces fantasy stories! Then, watch Adam Raccoon and the Mighty Giant to see if you can recognize fantasy characteristics in the story.
Practice: Create your own character for your new fantasy story! Remember to think about the "type" of character you're creating, its personality, and likes/dislikes! Draw a picture of your character!
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Consider this quote,“Not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
Jesus said,“For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”– Matthew 6:14
Find and Read these bible verses to discover why else we are called to forgive- Ephesians 4:32, Matthew 18:21-22, 1 John 1:9, Proverbs 3:5-6 .
Material To Make Exploding Vinegar Bag: A lesson on Forgiveness
Start with 1/4 c. warm water in a Ziploc bag. Next, add 1/2 c. of vinegar to the same bag.Measure out 3 tsp of baking soda and dump that in the center of a tissue. Fold up the tissue around the baking soda. Drop the folded tissue into the bag and close it completely.Step back and Put on Goggles, or Glasses for Safety! If the reaction doesn’t happen quickly, shake the bag to agitate it and start the chemical reaction.Need: 4 cups vinegar
4 tablespoons of baking soda
a pot, a pie or cake pan, a spoon
Heat safe glass jar
Step 1: Put 4 cups of vinegar into a pot
Step 2: Add the baking soda to the pot one tablespoon at a time. Be careful it will erupt if you add it too quickly. Stir until the fizzing stops
Step 3: Boil the pot of liquid on Medium Low for an hour!
Step 4: Using your spoon gather some of the white powder from the side of the pot and place it in your dish.
Step 5: Pour the liquid into your heat safe measuring cup or jar. You should have about 3/4-1 cup liquid left. Cool for 30-40 min. in the fridge.
Step 6: After it is cooled, grab the dish you placed the powder in and the container of liquid. Take care not to jostle it!
Step 7: Pour the liquid onto the crystals in the dish and see the ice form right in front of your eyes!
Step 8: Once all the liquid is poured. Touch your ice! What do you notice?
For more information on this experiment and why it works check out the link here.
Mrs. Rose and Miss White's classes use ST Math in the classroom.
Mrs. Coles and Mrs. Neidigh's classes use Zearn in the classroom.