Week #3 - Earth Week April 20-24

Hi Everyone,

I hope you and your loved ones are well .  I have sent out an email to all of you which includes a PDF of this schedule and the Zoom times/login information for the upcoming week.  Please email or send pictures of this week’s 

April 20-24^th Earth Week Must Do’s!

1) Monday’s literacy 

2) One of the Numeracy activities from the week (not necessary if doing Prodigy as I can see your child’s progress there) 

*Please note: Students are encouraged to read 15-20 minutes/day in addition to the activities outlined below. This can be done using books or magazines that you have at home, RAZ kids, Epic or Tumblebooks etc.

Please note: I am following the guidelines set out by our District Superintendant, Sylvia Russel.  The activities I am offering are ‘learning opportunities’.  Please feel free to use my weekly suggestions as you see fit.

'Kindergarten-Grade 3 planning will focus on language and literacy as well as numeracy from the provincial curriculum; an average of five to seven hours of learning opportunities per student per week'.  So, that would equal approximately 1- 1.5 hours/day.

Monday ZOOM @ 1:00

Literacy

Spelling Lesson 5 (blue or green your child should know if not please ask) – please write words in their planner, work on the lesson that is in drop box, mark together do not email OR If you can’t print you could write sentences with the words OR choose any different literacy activity(Writing Ideas at the top of blog)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4h10pq6vtp5fjlv/AAC00i1Px5ybm4EMFvNqK6rha?dl=0

Numeracy

Record the temperature outside in the early morning and in the late afternoon. How many degrees did it change? Record the a.m. and p.m. temperatures all week. What do you notice?

DPA (Daily Physical Activity)/Outdoor Learning

Take a family Walk. Can you find 5 beautiful things? When you get home draw/paint/sketch one of the beautiful things you saw. 

Tuesday    

Literacy

Finish up spelling lesson and go onto Spelling City to practice https://www.spellingcity.com/users/srowledgetoscani
Numeracy

Work on Prodigy or work on a sheet from K-5

DPA (Daily Physical Activity)/Outdoor Learning

Go outside for a walk. Can you see or hear any animals? Can you identify the animal? Where does it live? What does it need to survive? Can you see any adaptations that might help it survive in its habitat? How do you think humans are helping or harming this animal? 

Wednesday - EARTH DAY – STORYTIME ZOOM 11:00

Happy Earth Day!  Please see the Youtube link in the ‘Just for Fun’ section for how to draw a ‘cute earth J’  This could be part of the ‘Design a Poster’ below if your child is interested. 

Literacy

Design a Poster encouraging people to take good care of our planet.  It can be focused on cleaning up litter, using less energy, saving endangered animals etc.  You pick the topic and a slogan.  You can share your poster during our Zoom meeting on Friday.  ORRead the Earth Day poems, Write I can Care for the Earth and the Environment Detective sheet (Drop Box link above - finish Thursday)  

Numeracy

Go for a walk in your neighbourhood, please take a note pad to do a tally of the different colour of flowers you see.  Once you get home make a bar graph showing your results.  See printables 

DPA/Outdoor Learning

Salmon – YouTube videos suggested by Mr. Maxwell (if you haven’t already seen them) They are on the Online Learning Resources at the top of the blog

Thursday

Literacy

Finish Earth Day activities from yesterday, Abcya – Holidays do Earth Day word search or crossword puzzle and/or go onto Raz Kids and find an environment story – fiction or non-fiction

Numeracy

Gather 3 store receipts. Round to the nearest dollar. Find the total amount that was spent. (rounding lesson-rounding rollercoaster picture)

DPA/Outdoor Learning

Exploring Your Recycling Bin: What do you have in your recycling bin(s)?
Design and create a futuristic machine using what you choose. 

Friday   ZOOM @ 11:00 (Pet day - pets can join first few minutes)

Literacy

Read Earth Poems, Write 3-5 sentences about different ways we can help protect our earth and if you’d like do a Spelling quiz (I did 5 words and then a bonus following the phonetic rule but feel free to do what you and your child decide), 

Numeracy

Plant a tree Sum or Difference Game (drop box link) or Prodigy

DPA/Outdoor Learning

*Leaf Person:Collect nature supplies and make a leaf person. Source:fantasticfunandlearning.com/leaf-people-fall-craft.html 

*Watch: The Lorax movie or read the book – discuss important messages that you from this fantastic Dr. Seuss book

Just for Fun:

Thanks to Neena 1) Why did the jellybean go to school?

and Sean 2) Where do you take a sick🤒boat? 

If you have jokes to share, please email them to me and I will continue to include a couple each week in our blog. 

Directed Drawing: (Earth Day). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FhIa6614bE 

This week’s tongue twister – The big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back! (Try to say it 3x fast - time it and see what your record is)  

This week’s challenge is… 

The Paper Tear Challenge...You need a piece of 8 and ½ x 11 inch piece of paper (the regular size paper you use at school to draw) and nothing else but your imagination and steady hands. If you don’t have the correct blank paper, cut a piece of paper to the proper size. The goal is to tear your paper in a creative way to make the longest, continual piece of paper without tearing/breaking the paper into any pieces. No scissors, glue, tape etc. can be used. When done, measure your paper from end to end in centimeters and record your score...email it to me and I will post the winning entry on the blog...good luck!

Answers:   1) To become a smartie   2) To the dock!!!😂