​Why Students Should Say “No” To Drugs
 
I think students should not take drugs. Students shouldn’t take drugs because they are very dangerous. Sometimes people die from overdosing on illegal drugs. If a student is on drugs, they might take more risks than normal and get hurt that way too. They might jump out of a window on LSD. Some illegal drugs are very addicting. That means once you start using them, it can be very difficult to stop. Once a person is addicted, they will do anything to get the drug, including commit crimes. Some drugs affect the development or structure of the brain. They can make the brain not work as well, which can affect the person’s future. Finally, students shouldn’t take illegal drugs because they are, well, illegal. If they get caught, they could go to jail. They could lose their spot at college, or they could lose a scholarship. Clearly, students should avoid taking illegal drugs.

Check out Comet Swan!

See Mercury, Venus, and the moon all at the same time in the night sky.
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Google Arts and Culture
Start with their top 10 museums around the world.
Like musicals? You can have a 7-day free trial to stream Broadway musicals.

Creative prompts for art projects
​Check out out the tree project in this Seattle Times article!
On the Seattle Art Museum site, there's an article called, "Things to Do for Earth Day & Every Day." Scroll down to the section about the artist El Anatsui’s sculpture and learn how you can do similar things. 

Go to their parent resources page.

In the new NSTA Daily Do, How Does the Hot Air Balloon Take Off?, students engage in science and engineering practices and the thinking tool of the flow of energy and matter (crosscutting concept) to figure out what is "rising" and how the science ideas of energy transfer and the movement of matter can explain this and other phenomena. This task is adapted from the OpenSciEd Weather, Climate, & Water Cycling Unit (Lesson 5: What happens to the air near the ground when it is warmed up?).
 
Share your photos of your family completing this Daily Do with us on Twitter, and visit our entire collection of Daily Do sensemaking tasks -- now grade-banded to find what you need faster!

And now Ireland is honoring their debt. 

I imagine you have all seen the letter from the district about how things are going to look a little different once we get back from spring break. (That’s right! Spring break! Ah, the trip to the beach, the Bahamas … the back deck?) I want to share a few things with you now so you can see what I’m planning for April. Then I want you to take the week of April 6 off from doing any school work. (As much as possible, we are trying to keep the structures of our regular routine going. Vacations are an important part of the school year, especially for the children. Even during a pandemic.)
 
One structure no one is going to miss? There will be no SBA testing this year!
 
One that stays in place? Yearbooks! If you ordered one, you will get one. Questions? Call Ms. Warr at 360-396-3851.
 
COMMUNICATION
 
You can contact me by email jkragen@nkschools.org or you can call me.
 
NOTE: If you haven’t yet contacted me for the link to the site with the answer keys for the math quizzes and tests, call me. I will give those to parents. I don’t want students to have access to them.
 
Please don’t text me. I am not allowed to communicate with families by text.
 
REMOTE LEARNING
 
My daily 90 minutes of remote learning will be broken down into three segments:

• 3:00-3:45 pm

I plan to have 45 minutes of whole class instruction daily, or close to daily.
(There is no expectation that we will do whole group instruction via Zoom every day, but we will see how it goes for my class.) BTW, I was assigned the 3:00-3:45 time, so I can’t those accommodate parents who asked for a time closer to lunch. The school scheduled Zoom times for each grade level according to the grade’s specialist times. No one got to Zoom at lunch time since that’s the time for lunch and materials pick-up at the school.

• 1:00 pm

I will a Zoom meeting time at 1 pm every day for students who want extra help in math. This is slightly different than what I said in the letter I sent home, but it is what I said in my plans for the week.
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CONTACT ME FOR THE ZOOM LESSONS LINKS IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY GET THEM.
 
WEEKLY PLANS AND GRADES
 
I will email you my weekly plans. I will post the plans on my website. You do not have to look at the district pacing guide for ELA and math, which don’t apply to my students.
 
You can continue to give and grade vocab tests and math quizzes and test. Just send the results to me. As soon as your child is done with the Boy worksheet, email the finished doc to me and I will grade it.
 
I’ve really enjoyed seeing all my kids during our Zoom meetings last week!  And I really appreciate the hard work the parents are doing now, during our state’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order. I salute you all!

The links will send you to a page with lots of different files. Look for the title of the article you are supposed to read in the file name. Or look for the number 5 in the file name (since you want the 5th grade materials).