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This week we meet author Tomie DePaola. Mr. DePaola wrote many many books during his life but he is best known for Strega Nona. Mr. DePaola often retells fairy and folk tales in his books in a new way.

Does the story of Strega Nona remind you of any other tales you may have heard?

Watch: Tomie DePaola tell you about his inspiration for Strega Nona

Watch: Muppet Strega Nona and Tomie DePaola tell a story about laughter being the best medicine.

Activity: Can you draw the setting of the Strega Nona stories? Remember, setting is where the story takes place.

Activity: Match the computer with the job using this cut and paste activity.

Read Aloud: The Garbage Barge by Jonah Winter

• Learn: This week we break from Google to learn a little more about computers and how they work.

What is A Computer and

How Computers Computers Work: What Makes a Computer a Computer?

• Adventure: Computer Safari Where do you see computers in your everyday life? Keep a list of where you find computers over the next week and what those computers do. If you use the list on the Computer Safari activity page use your device to take a picture of the completed list and send the picture to me using your school Gmail. If you do not have a printer use a Google doc and share it with me.
• Remember to read every day.
• Read Aloud The Night I Followed the Dog by Nina Laden

This week we start exploring algorithms and computational thinking- how to think like a computer. How can we learn to solve problems better by noticing how computers solve problems?

2. This video on Computational Thinking is for teachers and students. Linda shows exactly how exact one needs to be to create a toothbrushing algorithm.

Activity: What's the Order? Use this activity sheet to think like a computer and break a simple activity into steps a computer can follow. If you don't have a printer use a blank paper to draw out your processes.

Now, how would that toothbrushing look as block code? Try to code brushing your teeth using this activity.

Use your device to take a picture of your process or your block code and either email the picture to me or insert it into your Google Classroom in the space I provide.

Learn: This week we review Google Sheets. Sheets is the spreadsheet app in Google that lets us organize data, information, and create graphs and other visual representations of that data and information. Watch the following video introductions to Google Sheets:

Introduction to Google Sheets

Modifying Cells

Activity: The best way to learn is by doing so take this WebQuest and plan a party using Google Sheets to organize party planning. Be sure to read the introduction and other text because important information for your spreadsheet is included in that paragraph. The directions are step by step. When you finish Q1 go on to Q2 (quest 2) until you finish all five. The last quest is to share your spreadsheet so please share it with me at Kelly.mccollum@watertown.k12.ma.us.

This assignment will be in your Google Classroom. Completing this means we can also play a game with our classmates using Google Sheets :)

Read Aloud with Lauren Tarshis and the I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 chapter One

• Learn: Citing Sources. Review a proper citation format with this BrainPop video.
• ACTIVITY: Kahoot Challenge: Copyright and Citation Review: This week we try something new- a Kahoot Challenge. With a challenge, you will receive a game code and play on your own with the code at any time during the challenge window. At the end of the challenge, we can view the results.
• This assignment is in your Google Classroom.
• Read independently for 20 minutes.

Junior Library Guild: Lowell Library subscribes to this book service and now they are offering free online reading of some books in their catalog for the next several weeks. Selections include elementary, middle school, and teens. There is no password required. (3/30)

Watertown Free Library: What's Available During the Closure (Article)

ALL MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS can sign up for a Boston Public Library eCard online, and can use Overdrive, Hoopla and much more! To get a BPL eCard, visit bpl.org/ecard.(3/23)

Free Audible stories for Kids while school is out.(3/23)

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