Grade 4 Learning Board DAY 1---May 11 Reading (~30 min) Math (~30 min) Science (~30 min) MAPEL (~30 min) Learning Target: Learning Target: Learning Target: Learning Target ​ ​ ​ ​ I can take note of my I can follow the order of I can identify how caves I can complete or ​ characters traits, operations to correctly form and change perform and turn in 2 struggles and triumphs solve an equation. activities to determine a theme. Watch the video on Watch Read the book ​ MUSIC ACTIVITIES Landforms: Caves by theme. PEMDAS RAP CALENDAR Sonya Olson on Epic! ​ Choose 2 Activities for the week Then complete 15-20 Today in your own Take a pic of it, record it, reading start to stop minutes of IXL Skill: ​ write about it. (NEW and jot your thinking 4.F.14 activities have been about possible themes. added at the bottom) Or No assignment needs to be submitted today. Or Read the Paper notes Complete the paper Do 2 activities from Day practice sheet in Day 1 ​ 1 paper packet. packet. DAY 1 (5/11) Reading I can determine a theme by reflecting and Unit End Goal citing text evidence about my characters traits, struggles, and triumphs. Steps: Instructions: Day 1 : Developing ideas 1. Read the transcript below on Theme from the BrainPop for a theme video. 2. Today as you read to stop and jot about the characters Learning Target: traits, struggles and triumphs. Use these to start to I can take note of develop ideas about possible themes for the book you are my characters reading. traits, struggles and triumphs to determine a theme. Finding Theme Theme is a lesson that can be learned from a text. You may have learned that some common themes are love, family, and friendship, but these are not true themes; these are just topics. These are important and they helped us get to the theme but they are not in themselves themes. The first step to finding a theme is to finish reading a text. As an example let's take a look at a Disney movie we're all familiar with Frozen. The second step is to create a list of topics. What are some ideas for topics that appear in Frozen? ● Olaf's willing to melt Ana. (Friendship) ● Ana and Elsa stick together. (Family) ● Ana fights through the forest to find Elsa. (Courage) ● Hans is trying to take over. (Power) ● Elsa doesn't share that she had ice powers. (Secrets, be yourself) ● Kristoff goes back to help Anna (Love) Once you have a list of topics the third step is to pick a topic and write a sentence about what the author believes about that topic. Let's take friendship because it's all over the place and frozen. The author believes what about friendship? The author believes that true friends will help each other when they're 1 DAY 1 (5/11) in need. Notice how this is not specific to the text; there are no character names. This should be something you can apply to your own life. The fourth step is to cross out the author believes that and rewrite the sentence true friends will help each other when they're in need. Congratulations you just came up with a theme and you used these four steps: Step 1: Finish reading a text Step 2: Create a list of topics Step 3: Pick a topic and write a sentence about what the author believes about the topic ​ Step 4: Cross out the author believes that and rewrite your sentence 2 DAY 1 (5/11) Math I can identify factors and multiples Equations and between 1 and 100. Word Problems Unit I can identify if a number is prime End Goal or composite. Steps: Instructions: Visual: Day 1 : ● Read through the paper PEMDAS notes. ● Complete the Practice page. Learning Target: I can follow the order of operations to correctly solve an equation. 3 DAY 1 (5/11) Math Instruction: 4 DAY 1 (5/11) Math Practice: 5 DAY 1 (5/11) Science I can create a one-pager describing my End Goal: knowledge of caves Steps: Instructions: Day 1 - Read the book Landforms: Caves Please read the book Landforms: Caves by ​ ​ ​ by Sonya Olson on Epic! Sonya Olson on Epic! Or read Landforms: ​ Caves by Sonya Olson in your packet. Landforms: Caves By Sonya Olson Transcript: Chapter 1: Underground Wonders Hundreds of stalactites hang from the ceiling. They look like icicles. But they are solid rock. Water drips from stalactites. It falls into a shallow pool. Each drop makes a spooky echo in the cave. A cave is an empty space in the ground. Many caves are dark and cold. They can also be long and deep. Most caves take thousands of years to form. And once they are formed, most caves are always changing. FUN FACT: The world’s deepest known cave is the Krubera Cave. It is in the country of Georgia. It is more than 7,200 (2,195 m) deep. Chapter 2: Wearing Down The Earth There are several types of caves. Solution caves are common. When this kind forms, groundwater flows through the cracks in rock. The water slowly dissolves the rock. Over time, an empty space forms. Lava caves form after a volcano erupts. Lava burns a path into the ground. The lava on top cools and hardens. But the lava below stays hot. This hot lava keeps moving down the side of the volcano. It leaves behind a hollow space under the hard lava. This process forms a tunnel-like cave. FUN FACT: Washington has many lava caves. Ape Cave is in Washington. It is approximately 2.4 miles (3.9 km) long. Waves can make sea caves. They form as waves crash against a cliff. This happens over and over. The waves erode the cliff over time. After many years, a cave is formed. In cold places, caves can form in thick ice. When seasons change, the weather becomes warmer. Some of the ice melts. A hole forms in the melting ice. As more ice melts, the hole gets bigger. Over time, a cave forms. This is called a glacier cave. FUN FACT: The world’s longest cave system is in Kentucky. The Mammoth Cave System stretches more than 345 miles (555 km). Chapter 3: Always Changing Caves change over time. They become larger as more rock erodes. Many caves stay damp all the time. In these caves, minerals from the water stick to the rock. They keep the thin ceiling strong. If a cave gets too dry, the ceiling can fall down. This creates a big hole that is open to the outside air. More light gets in. This changes what plants are able to grow in the cave. It also changes what animals can live in the cave. 6 DAY 1 (5/11) Many caves are made out of rock. They may seem very strong. But they are fragile. Humans sometimes cause harmful changes in these caves. For example, touching stalactite can affect how it grows. Humans have germs and oil on their hands. These things can damage the rock. The germs can also make animals sick. Pollution and climate change put cave creatures in danger, too. The plants and animals that live in caves need the temperature to stay the same. They can be harmed if it changes. That’s why it is important for people to protect. FUN FACT: Some people explore caves for fun. This activity is called spelunking. LANDFORMS OF THE WORLD: Son Doong Cave Son Doong Cave is the largest known cave passage in the world. It is in the jungles of Vietnam. The cave was found in 1991. Son Doong Cave is more than 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long. Some parts of the cave have large openings in the ceiling. These openings can reach heights of 400 feet (122 m). In one area, the cave roof fell apart. This change allowed light to get in. Over time, this part of the cave became a jungle. Plants and trees grew underground. The trees grew to be nearly 100 feet (30 m) tall. Chapter 4: Life Underground Caves support many kinds of life. But each part of the cave is home to different plants and animals. There are three main parts of a cave. The light zone is the beginning of the cave. It gets the most light. Many ferns grow here. Raccoons and bears use it for shelter. Next is the twilight zone. It is darker and cooler. Moss grows here. Salamanders eat insects that live on the cave walls. Bats also sleep in the twilight zone. Bats use echolocation. It helps them fly through the dark cave. Bats make high-pitched sounds. These sounds bounce off the hard cave walls. The sounds come back to the bat’s ears. The reflected sounds tell the bats how close they are to objects. FUN FACT: Bats are important to other living things in caves. Their waste is food for spiders and insects. It also helps moss and fungi grow. The last part of the cave is the dark zone. There is no light. No plants are able to grow. But spiders, shrimp, fish, snails, and worms all live here. These animals are blind. They use their hearing feelers to move around. FUN FACT: Bacteria found nowhere else on Earth can live in caves. Some look like jelly. Others look like fluffy white balls. 7 DAY 1 (5/11) Music Music Activities for 4th and 5th Grade 3 Columns of new activities have been added at the bottom.