MKG Messenger May 11, 2020
The Principal's Office
As we move forward, we will be taking a firmer stance on the completion of work and we would like to ask that all parents and guardians please encourage your child to participate. Teachers will be keeping track of students who are and are not completing work as part of our re-entry plan for next year and all work will be noted as “credit” or “no credit”. Further, we will be exposing students to new content and standards through our lessons for the remainder of the year, consistent with the guidance from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
We understand that the continued closure of school presents many unique challenges. We are here to help and please reach out to us if you have questions, concerns!
Grade 1
This week's Extended Learning focus area:
Thank You Community Helpers! This activity fosters creativity, empathy, and civic awareness.
Materials: paper, art supplies. Activity: Discuss with your student that there are many helpers in our community. Share information about doctors, nurses, medical staff, police officers, firemen, mail carriers, grocery workers, etc. Ask your child: What is a message or a wish you would like to share with the people in our community? Then have them make a sign to share that message. Put the sign in your window or in your front yard so that other people who are staying home can see it when they look outside. And when you look outside, see if you can spot signs or messages that other people have made! Take a picture of your sign and send it to your teacher. Time: 20 min.
Please visit the Middleboro Public Schools home page for additional online and offline extended learning activities.
Grade 2
Focus for the week: What's (a) Matter?
Make a book about HEROES
A HERO is a person who shows courage and thinks of others before himself/herself.
Think about who is a hero to YOU.
Today, draw a picture of you with this Hero. This will be the cover of your book.
(30 minutes)
Please visit the Middleboro Public Schools home page for additional online and offline extended learning activities.
Grade 3
Focus for the week:
Road to the American Revolution! Last week, students reviewed the early colonists in Massachusetts and how their relationship with the Native Americans evolved in the 1600’s. This week, we will be introducing new material on “taxation without representation”, the differing points of view of Patriots versus Loyalists, and the Intolerable Acts. There were many events that led up to the American Revolution and our country’s independence. This week let’s discover the history that built our nation.
Write Your Own Riddle!
(10 min.)
When they weren't making contests out of their chores, the children of colonial times would sing, tell riddles, and practice tongue twisters to pass their chore time faster, for example:
1) What can be seen falling down, but never crying? (rain)
2) What kind of room is not in a house? (mushroom)
3) What has three feet, but cannot walk? (yardstick)
Share your riddle with your class on Zoom!
Please visit the Middleboro Public Schools home page for additional online and offline extended learning activities.
Grade 4
Focus area for this week: Travel down the coast to the Southeast Region
Go to Epic.
EPIC
In the search button type What Are The US Regions? Listen to the book and be prepared to answer the questions in the activity log on Google Classroom.
(10 minutes)
Please visit the Middleboro Public Schools home page for additional online and offline extended learning activities.
Grade 5
Focus of the week:
Back to Work- This week we are encouraging getting back to work. This event has our lives turned upside down. We want to try and make directions more clear and get back some good work habits. Teachers will be posting math work in their individual classrooms. Assignments are posted with more clear timeframes and expectations. We are looking for those great habits you were forming and building before we left. We would like to see more of your voice put into your work. Our writing focus this week is on persuasion and supporting our ideas. We are working in the Physical Sciences and beginning to look at slavery and the causes of the American Civil War. The lessons are more clear and direct as we are hoping and expecting to see more of you…….get back to work.
Today you will write a few sentences about a time you tried to persuade someone of something, like what to have for dinner, when to go to bed, which gaming system is best, why you should have a phone, or that you already did all your homework. There must be some point in your life.
Just write a few sentences on your classroom google doc For Persuasive Writing in the section provided.
15-20 Minutes
Please visit the Middleboro Public Schools home page for additional online and offline extended learning activities.