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MRSD Distance Learning for Grade 5 Packet 4: May 5-May18 Dear MRSD Families MRSD Distance Learning for Grade 5 Packet 4: May 5-May18 Dear MRSD Families, As we release this next Distance Learning Activity Packet, please allow us to express our heartfelt appreciation for the efforts you’re making to ensure students’ most important needs are met, and to reassure those who worry if they’re “doing it right,” or “doing enough” that we are here to help and not to judge. If you’re doing what you can do – you’re doing it ​ ​ right, and we appreciate your support at home, in whatever capacity you are able to offer! Thank you! We know this is a challenging time for families – with competing priorities, uncertainty and isolation, and we want to reaffirm that we stand with you in ALWAYS putting family first! As ​ ​ the expert on your child, you’re in the best position to decide what, when and how they engage in the learning we’ve designed, and you have our full backing in limiting (or adding ​ to) the amount of school work they experience, based on your individual circumstance. We invite you to reach out with specific questions, worries, or needs you may have. Please know that we’re in this TOGETHER, and your school partners are here to help. ​ In gratitude, K-5 Staff Learning and Supplemental Meeting Nutrition and Wellness Teacher-Led Learning Activities Needs 90 Minutes Maximum 3 Hours Recommended 2 Hours Recommended Instruction, tasks, and Suggestions: Suggestions: activities as assigned by ● 30+ minutes of independent teachers in this document. reading or reading to family Meal Time member (books of student ● Integrate hand washing choice) ● Invite children to help ● Drawing ● Include all members of the ● Flashcards/math facts review family if possible ● 60+ minutes of imaginative play, ● Connect/talk during meals dance, exercise ● Journaling Outside Play ● Arts and crafts ● Walks together ● Board games, puzzles, dice, cards ● Bike rides ● Drama/acting/singing ● Jump rope ● Listening to audiobooks ● Sidewalk chalk drawing ● Watching educational programs or videos Inside Play ● Finding and continuing patterns ● Puzzles ● Create and solve story problems ● Games ● Crafting, sewing, knitting ● Stretching ● Measure amounts for cooking ● Listening to music 1 Please schedule your day as it makes sense for you and as it works best for family schedule and student needs. Each activity or subject does not need to occur in one sitting. Remember to take breaks, and enjoy the time with each other! Please see our Online Resources for Families to help with supplemental activities and wellness needs. ​ ​ Translate this Document Reading Math “Time spent reading books is the best predictor of a “What books are you reading, games are to math.” child’s growth as a reader. Students who read more, Dan Finkel - Mathematician read better.” —Anderson, R. et al. Reading Research Quarterly. 1988. K-5 Students have been using Math/Strategy Games - Suggested simple low-tech ​ Clever badges this year to sign games into all online products. This tool Games with Playing Cards will give access to the ARC Math Games Bookshelf. Math/Strategy Games and Activities You may also read from: Math Before Bed Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to ​ picture books, narrated in many languages. Math Games in Spanish/Juegos matemáticos en CommonLit- articles to read at a variety of reading español ​ levels Juegos matemáticos Eureka ReadWorks- Improve your students' reading ​ ​ Tarjetas con problemas matemáticos comprehension with ReadWorks. Access thousands ​ ​ of high-quality, free K-12 articles, and create online assignments with them. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 2 ✓ Day 1 Literacy: (RI.5.3) ​ Who Really Warned About the British Coming? A) Read these two articles: 1) Paul Revere 2) Sybil Ludington Vocabulary Strategies B) Make a list: Write down the words you don’t know from the articles. 1) Find out what the words on your list mean by using a dictionary, google the definition, or ask a family member. Writing: Quick Write Journaling Set a timer for 15 min, choose a subject you can write about the whole time. Then, when the timer is done, go back and read what you wrote. Your challenge is to change two sentences and make them better by adding detailed words. Then go and rework your first sentence into a HOOK. When you have completed this, find someone in your house to ​ ​ read it to! Math: Composite Figures A) What are composite Figures Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoTudvn5rA B) How to find Volume of Composite Figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKAfcqi3x4 C) IXL Skill: EE.14 D) Practice: https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Math/Volume/Determining%20Volume%20of %20Joined%20Rectangular%20Prisms/English/1.pdf E) More practice available here (anything marked with a red box with a 5md inside): https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Volumem.php Math Fact Practice A. https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_GrandPrixMultiplication.html B. https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_PenguinJumpMultiplication.html C. https://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcard?op[0]=multiplication&level=3 D. https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games Go To Top 3 ✓ Day 2 Literacy: (RI.5.3) ​ Who Really Warned About the British Coming? A) Reread these two articles: 3) Paul Revere 4) Sybil Ludington B) Complete the chart and questions on the page titled, Comparing Stories of Paul Revere ​ and Sybil Ludington. Writing: Intro to Figurative Language Watch video Then try it out and compose an example of each type of figurative language ​ ​ you learned about today. Do your best! Math: Continue with Composite Figures A) What are composite Figures Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoTudvn5rA B) How to find Volume of Composite Figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKAfcqi3x4 C) IXL Skill: EE.14 D) Practice: https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Math/Volume/Determining%20Volume%20of %20Joined%20Rectangular%20Prisms/English/1.pdf E) More practice available here (anything marked with a red box with a 5md inside): https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Volumem.php Optional Art: https://bit.ly/2Sa9A5u Mother’s Day is on Sunday, May 10th. Take some time to make your ​ ​ mom a Folding Mother’s Day Surprise! Remember, you can stop the video if you need to go more slowly. Music: Pick one spot, inside or outside. You can also go for a walk. Sit down or walk for 10 ​ minutes and take in all the sounds around you. Make a list of all the sounds you heard. You can be nonspecific like a “bird” or “TV” or specific like “Red Tail Hawk” or “Women talking on TV.” Go To Top 4 ✓ Day 3 Literacy: Considering Perspective and Point of View A) Watch the Video: 5th Grade Class Discussion of Paul Revere & Sybil Ludington ​ B) Think About the Text Think about the point of view of the author of each article you read this week: ● Why do you think Paul Revere’s story is more well known? ● What do you know about that time period that may have caused one story to be more popular than the other? ● Was there a bias during this time period about what women and men should do in dangerous situations? ● Share these two articles with a family member. Then ask why they think Paul Revere’s story became more popular than Sybil Ludington’s story. Writing: Quick Write Journaling Set a timer for 15 min, choose a subject you can write the whole time about. Then when the timer is done, go back and read what you wrote. Your challenge is to change two sentences and make them better by adding detailed words. Then go and rework your last sentence to have a lasting impact on your reader. When you have completed this, find ​ ​ someone in your house to read it to! Math: Continue with Composite Figures F) What are composite Figures Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoTudvn5rA G) How to find Volume of Composite Figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKAfcqi3x4 H) IXL Skill: EE.14 I) Practice: https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Math/Volume/Determining%20Volume%20of %20Joined%20Rectangular%20Prisms/English/1.pdf J) More practice available here (anything marked with a red box with a 5md inside): https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Volumem.php Hour of Code Math A. https://hourofcode.com/hopgeo B. https://hourofcode.com/frzn Go To Top 5 ✓ Day 4 Literacy: Different Perspectives (Points of View) A) Watch the Video: Points of View with Miss Piggy and more! (from eSpark*) ​ Reading Strategies: Draw it out B) Your perspective is the way you see something, based on your own experiences. Draw a picture showing an example of perspective (point of view). Draw an event ​ ​ happening. Draw at least two different people that are seeing the event in different ways or may have a different point of view on what is happening. Examples: Writing: More Figurative Language Watch video Then try it out and compose an example of each type of figurative language ​ ​ you learned about today. Do your best! Math: Continue with Composite Figures K) What are composite Figures Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoTudvn5rA L) How to find Volume of Composite Figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKAfcqi3x4 M) IXL Skill: EE.14 N) Practice: https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Math/Volume/Determining%20Volume%20of %20Joined%20Rectangular%20Prisms/English/1.pdf O) More practice available here (anything marked with a red box with a 5md inside): https://www.commoncoresheets.com/Volumem.php Math Fact Practice E. https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_GrandPrixMultiplication.html F. https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_PenguinJumpMultiplication.html G. https://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcard?op[0]=multiplication&level=3 H. https://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games Wellness: Social Awareness Empathy video: https://youtu.be/V1kUznJa2_o ​ 6 Empathy--Knowing or recognizing how someone else is feeling, walking in their shoes ● Facial expressions ● Body language ● Situation cues Practice: Watch for the facial expressions, body language and what’s going on in the ​ situation and ask your parent(s), babysitter, brother/sister if they are feeling___________________.
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