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Phase 2 Guidelines & Assignments on Following Slides

  • Each week you will find your learning assignments all together in Google Slides. (on this page you are reading now: just click on the slide, and it will go to next slide)
  • You will need to complete all required assignments! If you would like more things to do, you may complete the extra activities for each subject. Please put your best effort into each assignment.
  • You can find the Google Documents to complete each assignment in Google Classroom. ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE TURNED IN THROUGH GOOGLE CLASSROOM. Please do not send assignments in separate documents through email or sharing documents with your teacher.
  • PLEASE LOG INTO LAUNCH PAD AND GOOGLE CHROME BEFORE CLICKING ON LINKS so you are already logged in to what you will need.

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Classroom Information

Student Support Hours: 10:15am-11:15am daily - Feel free to email or submit a question through the Distance Learning Website.

Classroom Zoom Times: (Please find links to Zooms in your teacher’s email.) �Crow: Tuesdays at 1:00pm and Thursdays at 11:30amLabrador: Tuesdays at 11:30am and Thursdays at 1:00pm Rudd: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:15Boswell: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:15Ciernia: Monday and Wednesdays at 10:15

If you have any questions, please click on your teacher’s name on the distance learning website and submit your question!

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Reading Learning Target: I can infer the author’s message

The theme of a story is the underlying concept or message that the author conveys; themes are rarely stated and must be inferred.

  • Choose at least three of these books/passages to listen to or read:

  • After reading, respond to the following questions on your Google doc:
  • What lessons do the characters in these stories learn?
  • How can you relate to this lesson?
  • What connections did you make between the characters and events in these books and your own life?

  • Istation: April ISIP (monthly test). Once monthly test has been completed, do 30 minutes once a week.

Writing Learning Target: I can write a persuasive opinion essay.

  • Open the following document about standardized testing. In a new Google doc titled “Standardized Test” write an opinion essay.
  • Standardized Test Information Sheet

StoryWorks Jr:

The Awesome Power of Ethan Z

If link doesn’t work click here

Game Changer

If link doesn’t work click here

Required Language Arts

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Optional Language Arts

  • Additional Istation practice

  • Read the other books/articles on the list or from Scholastic Learn at Home or Storyline Online

  • Use this Padlet link to post a book talk about your favorite text from this week. Describe the book's message and how it relates to you or another book you’ve read.

  • Create a motivational mini-poster based on one of the common messages across the texts provided. You may draw the images or find and download photos from websites that you can print and incorporate into your posters in a style similar to the book illustrations. Discuss how the images you used represent the shared message.

  • Curious about service dogs after reading Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship? Research service dogs to learn more. Some questions you might search for are: What can service dogs do? Which breeds make good service dogs? How are the dogs trained, and how do people volunteer to help service dog agencies? For research, visit the NEADS website or the websites of other service dog agencies. Consider making a presentation of your findings including graphics and/or music to share with your teacher.

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MATH Requirements for April 6-9

Math Learning Targets: I can solve problems about the area and perimeter of rectangles. I can multiply and divide multi-digit numbers.

Support Sites for Learning:

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MATH Extra Assignments for April 6-9

Math Learning Targets: I can solve problems about the area and perimeter of rectangles. I can multiply and divide multi-digit numbers.

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Social Studies Requirements for April 6-9

Learning Targets: �1. Students will identify the impact of railroads on life in Texas including changes to cities and major industries. �2. Students will identify economic factors which affected patterns of settlement in Texas.

After the Civil War, Texas was in trouble. The state had very little money. In fact, it was just about broke. Texas didn’t have any cash. But luckily, it did have plenty of something that was almost as valuable: cattle. This industry, along with the railroad and barbed wire, developed economic opportunities and a unique culture in Texas.

Please complete: LOG INTO LAUNCH PAD AND GOOGLE CHROME FIRST!

  • Discover how railroads brought a ‘boom’ to Texas. (Log into Launch Pad FIRST)
  • Learn about Texas Service Providers in this video.
  • If you were a Texan in the late 1800s, would you choose to make a living from the railroad industry or the cattle industry? Write a paragraph explaining your choice.
  • Analyze graph using provided questions to show your thinking about the railroad industry in Texas.

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Extra Social Studies for April 6-9

LOG INTO LAUNCH PAD AND GOOGLE CHROME FIRST!

  • Watch a video about the invention of Barbed Wire.
  • Read or listen to “Ranching and a Changing Frontier”
  • Analyze graph using provided questions to show your thinking about the railroad industry in Texas.
  • Using this map of Texas,

(1) what connections can you make between this data and what you read in the “Railroads Bring ‘Boom’ to Texas” article?

(2) How can your knowledge of the regions of Texas help you understand the railroad boom?

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Science for April 6-9

Science Learning Targets: I can measure, record, and predict changes in the weather. I can differentiate between weather and climate.

Pretend you are a Meteorologist for the next week- pick at least one of the options below. You are welcome to complete more options if you would like.

Option 1:

Collect the temperature and precipitation. Compare this data to the climate data for Austin. How does the weather compare to the average climate? Is it similar? Different? Record your results and explanation.

Option 2:

Make a photo diary of the weather for the week. Use the photos to create a Google Slidedeck or other way to show a weather report and changes in the weather for the week.

Option 3:

Gather information about air temperature, wind direction, and precipitation for your location. Predict the weather for the next three days and record the actual weather for those days. Share your findings - were your predictions correct? What other data do you want to collect? Share your findings. Challenge: Try to use all metric measurements.

Option 4:

Create your own investigation that explores weather and/or climate. Write your question and observations in your field notebook.

Share your learning on Google Classroom in the assigned Science Google Doc for this week: you could...upload pictures, keep a science notebook, record directly to the Google Doc, video of yourself making a weather forecast, create a travel commercial that shares the weather and climate for a location, link a Slides Presentation.

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Supporting Information

Science for April 6-9

LOG INTO LAUNCH PAD FIRST!

Use the supporting information below to complete you science learning.

Tig Tag Videos-be sure to watch the videos

  • What is Weather
  • Climate

Presentation-determine which slides are weather and which slides are climate

  • Weather or Climate

Article-read the article

  • What is Climate

Climate by location-explore the climate of different locations

  • Climate Chart

The Sun causes all our weather because it heats the Earth unevenly. The Sun’s energy keeps cold and warm air moving, and that makes changes in air pressure.  Changes in air pressure cause wind.  The heat of the Sun also helps moisture to rise and form clouds, bringing rain, snow, or thunderstorms

Climate is a 30 year average of weather data for a location. When you go to a location on vacation, “Climate is what you expect, Weather is what you get.”

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Extra Optional

Science for April 6-9

Check out some of the links below to learn more about weather

KXAN First Warning Weather University Watch some great weather videos

CBS Weather 101 Daily Weather Lessons

DK Kids Weather Weather Information

Weather Wiz Kids Weather Information, Experiments and Jokes!

Nasa Climate Kids NASA Weather and Climate Website