Today we will learn about Malala Yousafzai and read a book she wrote called, "Malala's Magic Pencil"! As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil, Malala realized that she could still work hard every day to make her wishes come true.
In the story, Malala writes that she hopes that readers will realize that every pencil can be magic because the real magic is “in you, in your words, in your voice.” Everyone needs opportunities to talk about issues that concern them and to be involved in bigger issues that affect them. What does it mean to speak up for something you believe in? How can we share our ideas and use our voices to be heard? Think about it: What if you had a magic pencil? How would you change the world for the better? Let's write!
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Today, we will learn about a courageous girl, Sadako Sasaki, and the story behind the 1000 paper cranes. According to a Japanese legend, the crane lives for a thousand years, and a sick person who folds 1000 origami cranes will become well again. A young girl, Sadako Sasaki from Hiroshima, set out to do just that when she developed leukemia as a result of her exposure to the atomic bomb dropped on her city, Hiroshima.
Sadako died at age 12, before her project was completed, but her classmates folded the remaining cranes for her after her death and placed them at the foot of a monument constructed in Sadako’s memory in Hiroshima’s National Peace Park. The statue shows Sadako holding a golden crane in her arms. At the base of the statue a plaque reads, “This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world.” Each year, on August 6, thousands of origami cranes from all over the world are placed beneath Sadako’s statue. (This blurb was taken from Kathryn Schultz Miller's "A Thousand Cranes" enrichment guide: https://www.firststage.org/media/pdf/cranes_eg.pdf).
Click here to read Judith Loske's "Sadako's Crane". Next we'll watch Naia Shedd's video on the story of 1000 paper cranes. The voice you hear in the video is her grandmother, a survivor of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She taught Naia how to fold paper cranes when she was 5. Over a 15 year period, they folded 1000 paper cranes together!
This week we will also learn how to make an origami dove. The dove is a symbol of peace and is also easier to fold than an origami crane:
Today we're returning to Dick King-Smith's, "I Love Guinea Pigs," to explore facts and opinions. Fact or Opinion? How can we separate what’s true from what someone thinks is true?
Here are your instructions for today's activity:
From cover to cover, from here to there, this story has a message I'd like to share! This week we'll be learning to identify main ideas and supporting details, in the things that we read. Finding the main idea isn't always a piece of cake. Click here to watch a BrainPOP movie that is all about finding the main idea. Tim and Moby will show us how to figure out the main point and we'll also discover things like what a topic is and what details are.
Update: Check out a few of our perseverance slogans below. As a class we talked about how a personal slogan or motto can remind you of who you are and what you stand for. Students then came up with slogans that they could use to motivate themselves and others to persevere:
“What’s wrong?”Hmphhh. “Are you ok?” Grunt. “Why are you grumpy?” Grumble. Today we Suzanne Lang's "Grumpy Monkey". Jim Panzee is in a terrible mood for no good reason. His friends try to help, but maybe he just needs a day to feel grumpy? The book is about feeling your feelings (instead of pushing them away) and learning to ride out uncomfortable feelings.
Here's your writing prompt for "Grumpy Monkey". Write about a time you felt grumpy. What made you feel this way? What did you do to feel better? What are some things you could do to feel better the next time you feel grumpy? Please complete this text-to-self writing response in your Language Arts workbook. |
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