May 19-24

Date: May 19-May 24

Introduction: Hola Grado 4 We hope you had an excellent long weekend! On Tuesdays & Wednesdays we will have some small group time. You can find your time and group on Google Classroom. Please make sure to come to your Google Meet if you cannot make it please join another group. On Fridays we will also have our “Café de Español” with Sra Davalos between 11-12 in order to practice oral Spanish. We will be having a Google Meets this Friday at 1:30 pm with the whole class.  If the time does not work just email your teacher at their @educbe.ca account. Some of you will have a different time in comparison to last week. Every week we will have material for you to go through as well as assignments. You will be able to find them all on Google Classroom. Remember that you need to be respectful and follow the digital citizenship expectations!  Please go through the Google Presentation entitled “Grade 4 Weekly Schedule” You will notice on the “stream” that there is very little you have to go through your classes for the information! Remember that the work should take approximately 5 hours each week. When you are done with the assignments and you know you have done a good job, you can continue to read on Raz Kids, and do math prodigy for extra practice!

Math:  This week we will be doing a Math assignment related to Esperanza Rising. In Las Cebollas (Onions), Esperanza and Mama see their new living arrangements for the first time, una cabaña. Read the slides in Google Classroom with your task for the week.

English Language Arts: Post 1: Please write a journal entry about your week. Include what you have been doing, what you have been learning, what you have been feeling, what you have been reading. In other words explain what it is like to be a grade 4 student during the covid crisis. Post 2: This week we will be starting our novel study. We will be listening/reading the novel “Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan Muñoz. Please listen to Las Cebollas (Slide 40 of the material) Review the vocabulary & the quote (Slide 41) Please listen to Las Almendras (Slide 45) Please review the vocabulary and quotes (Slide 41) Please do the journal prompt (Slide 47) You will be responding to the following prompt in your online Journal: If you were Esperanza, what would be the most difficult thing about living at the new home in California? Explain your reasoning and provide at least two examples from the text. Be sure to imagine how you would feel if you were in Esperanza’s situation. Please include details from the text and read over your work.

Spanish Language Arts: This week you do NOT have to write in your Spanish journal. 1. In your presentation "Los personajes de la novela Esperanza Renace," add any NEW information you know about the characters. You MUST add information about Isabel. 2. This week you will be PLANNING an oral presentation.  You will present during the week of May 25th (next week). Read the attached slides with instructions and examples of how you can prepare for your presentation. 3. Click on the document "Mi Maleta Sign Up" so you can choose the day and time when you will be presenting.

Google Classroom & Parent Resources: There are documents that break these assignments down in google classroom under parent resources. Teachers have also moved all past assignments to week 6. Students have 1 week (Monday-Sunday) to finish the assignments.