Remote Learning Unit Three
Week of May 4
May the Fourth be with You... that's a little Star Wars pun for you this morning.
Today, your writing piece about school is due. Please send it to me as an attachment, or send a link to a Google document. If you wrote by hand, you can take a photo and attach that. Please also tell me how many journals you have written in total so far. You do not need to send me the journals. Just please give me a number.
Check back tomorrow to learn about our last big unit-- a passion project!
I hope everyone is doing well. I miss you like crazy. Be sweet to your families.
<3 Mrs. Riley
Week of May 4
May the Fourth be with You... that's a little Star Wars pun for you this morning.
Today, your writing piece about school is due. Please send it to me as an attachment, or send a link to a Google document. If you wrote by hand, you can take a photo and attach that. Please also tell me how many journals you have written in total so far. You do not need to send me the journals. Just please give me a number.
Check back tomorrow to learn about our last big unit-- a passion project!
I hope everyone is doing well. I miss you like crazy. Be sweet to your families.
<3 Mrs. Riley
Remote Learning Unit Two: April 27-May 1
How is everyone doing? It sure was nice to see the sun yesterday after all that rain Saturday!
This week, please continue to keep a journal. You'll need four entries as Friday is a planning day for teachers, and you don't have to do any work if you don't want to.
Today, Monday: go outside if you are able. If you cannot go outside, then look out a window. Take notes of what you observe according to your five senses. You might even be able to get credit for geography, too, if you haven't done the similar choice on his board.
Please check back tomorrow; I am still working on the rest of the week.
If you have not sent me your extended metaphor, please do.
Have a good day. I miss you all very much.
WEDNESDAY-- well, looks like you got a day off Tuesday. I hope no one was too disappointed ;-) Maybe you had one of our old "condiment" days to "ketchup" or "relish' your time if you have been up to date.
Here is what I would like for you to do for the rest of this week, and you can take the weekend if you need it. Now that we have been home for quite a while, maybe you have been thinking about regular school. Some of you loved it. Some of you hated it. Lots of you were somewhere in between. Now in remote learning, or crisis schooling as some are calling it, probably we have the same situation: some love it, some hate it, and lots are somewhere in between.
I would like for you to write about what you think school should be.
There are topics I would like you to include:
What would the day be like? How long? How often?
What would you study? Who would decide the courses? The topics?
How would kids demonstrate learning? Grades? Tests? Projects?
Some other ideas to think about, but you don't have to think of these as a checklist that must be included:
What do you like?
What do you need?
What do your friends, classmates, or others need/want?
What is the purpose of school?
This should be more than a journal entry. I want you to think big thoughts and explain yourself as well as you can. Plan to turn it in next Monday. Please keep doing your journal. Feel free to email me questions. I miss you guys a bunch.
<3 Mrs. Riley
Remote Learning Unit Two: April 20-30
Welcome back! I am glad you're here, and I really miss seeing your smiling faces. Here's the scoop for the week of April 20th.
First-- please send me an email (let's get this done by the end of the day Tuesday) with two things:
4. Plan to send me a final draft Friday, please.
Questions? Or do you just miss me ;-) Feel free to email.
Be good, stay safe, and take care of yourselves! I am sad that we won't be able to have class together again this year. I miss you more than you know. This is still a very new thing for us all. Let's try to make the best of it we can.
Welcome back! I am glad you're here, and I really miss seeing your smiling faces. Here's the scoop for the week of April 20th.
First-- please send me an email (let's get this done by the end of the day Tuesday) with two things:
- An attachment of a Word or Google doc, or a link to a google doc, or a photo if you hand wrote, that includes the longer piece that you wrote last week about or inspired by a National Park. (Basically, send me something I can read, please...)
- A note that includes how many journal entries you have written so far.
- Each day, please continue to write journal entries Monday-Friday. As I have been suggesting, three or more solid sentences about your days, what you're doing, what you think about all this, etc. would be fine. I did say last week that you could start writing your own questions if you would prefer.
- We are going to write an extended metaphor this week. Remember that a metaphor is a comparison between two things in which the writer says one thing IS another thing without using like or as.
- First think of two things that can be compared. Some ideas students have used in the past include: life is a roller coaster, school is a prison, and Forrest Gump's mother said life was (like) a box of chocolates. Maybe for us this year, a comparison that needs to be thought through is how to compare/explain a "Stay at Home" order! What about middle school or adolescence?
- Then brainstorm/list ways that they are similar or qualities that they have in common.
- When you are ready to start drafting, explain how the one thing is similar to the other. Use figurative language to make your thinking clear to your reader.
- Your product can be a short essay of three or so paragraphs, or if you are feeling adventurous, try a poem of at least twelve lines.
4. Plan to send me a final draft Friday, please.
Questions? Or do you just miss me ;-) Feel free to email.
Be good, stay safe, and take care of yourselves! I am sad that we won't be able to have class together again this year. I miss you more than you know. This is still a very new thing for us all. Let's try to make the best of it we can.