Tuesday 4.14.20

Hello My wonderful darlings!

Tomorrow let's all wear a fun hat. Come with a hat.

Remember!! Ms. P and I are still going to hold the Talent Show! This is April 22! It's going to be awesome and fun. I promise.

So I was wandering around in the forest this morning. Just out for a walk and I found this curious thing. I realized it was a shoot. Ooh look a shoot! 

But then as I looked around I found another one and I thought to myself 'Oh, it's a pair -a shoot!'

Might Mathematicians, I need you to let me know if you want to keep doing Khan Academy. If you don't like it we can do Engage NY, the curriculum from the beginning of the year. It's what you are probably familiar with. 

Science today: We are going to have to switch tracks guys. I've done a lot of thinking and planning and it's just not going to work for us to do the earth science project over the internet. HOWEVER: we can do work on CHEMISTRY and MOLECULES! So we will start with physical change. I will send the lab sheet over to you. To do your own experiment at home (while I do mine here) you will need:

Some ice
A few small bowls
A kitchen scale
A hair drier
A piece of cardboard
Scissors
Some salt
Some water 
A bottle that you can put a balloon over
A balloon
An Alkaseltzer (if you don't have that some citric Acid and baking soda will work too)


Life skill: How to Apologize. You might not realize it but there is a good way, and a not good way to apologize. Telling someone you're sorry and then saying the word 'but' and trying to tell them why it's not your fault you messed up, isn't really apologizing. I'm going to tell you a story:

Joan was sitting on the playground at school, she was feeling sad that day because she found out that her mom couldn't take her to Family Fun Center in the afternoon that day. Being so bummed out she didn't feel like playing with her friends. 
Cathy came up to Joan and said "You should come play with me." 
Joan said "No, I don't feel like it, thank you though."

This made Cathy mad. Cathy then said "If you don't play with me you're a stupid looser. I hate you. You're the worst!" and she stormed off. 
This made Joan feel even worse. 

Later Cathy came up to Joan and said "I'm sorry I called you names. But I wanted to play with you and you wouldn't play with me. If you had played with me I wouldn't have called you names."

This apology did not make Joan feel better. It made Joan feel like it was HER fault Cathy was mad and called her names. 
Joan thought "It's not my fault she called me names. She is in charge of her own actions."

Joan said to Cathy, "I don't accept that apology. Your actions are not my fault. I didn't feel like playing and I was polite."

When you apologize and say the word 'but' you are not taking responsibility for your own actions. This makes your apology sound like you don't really mean it. When we do things that are mean or hurtful, it's best to just suck it up, and say we messed up and hope our friends forgive us. What Cathy SHOULD have said was:

I'm sorry I called you names. That was mean and unkind. I should have asked you why you didn't want to play instead. I will do my best not to call you names again. 

You guys have DEAR today! It's a time to read for fun. I hope that you have a good book to read to anyone or yourself. I am making a log (or you can just start one) where you will enter your reading on it. You enter the date, name of the book, and how long you read for. 

Today I would like you to spend 30 minutes in free write. You should work on a story or writing about something you've done. Whatever you want to write. If you need a prompt let me know. 

We are on episode 5 of Liberty Kids!  I will send out the graphic organizer again. However, today we are going to watch it together. Log into the zoom chat and I will watch this with you and answer questions as we go along, like we would do in class. 

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