Week #4 April 27- May 1st

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had a good week despite the fact the weather has changed and that rain is expected all next week’s forecast.  Keep smiling!  I am impressed by the work everyone is sending in.  Keep up the great work! Please email me if your child is struggling with a concept or needs some extra help. I will arrange for an individual zoom to go over the difficulties or even make some small groups.

On Monday I will be doing a lesson on 2 Dimensional shapes and there are some numeracy activities to reinforce this skill below. At zoom meetings I will introduce new concepts but also continue rotating review/practice of previously studied skills.   I will keep doing this through ours weekly learning plans.  This week I have planned the same Zoom meetings but next week may change this schedule to Monday 1:00 and Thursday 10 or 11 with some small groups on Wednesday. (There are some conflicts with siblings – please let me know if these changes would NOT work). Students are encouraged to join when they can. 

Please email or send pictures of this week’s Must Do’s!

1) Tuesday’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) 
This week's Printables: 
Week #4 Printables    

If interested go toSpelling City to practice go to this link (you don’t need to register)   https://www.spellingcity.com/users/srowledgetoscani

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 6 (Go to Printable Links on top of blog)

Review - we’ll take two weeks – please just write every other word in planner (next week do the other half) 

eg) Green – cab, bat, ham Blue – stand, club, clock

Numeracy 

Lay out 20 cards on the table (leave out face cards or change them to equal 0, while aces equal 1). Remove sets of cards that add up to 10, try to remove all the cards from the table. Repeat.  Challenge: Race against a friend on zoom or a family member.

DPA (Daily Physical Activity)/Outdoor Learning

Estimate how many jumping jacks you can do in 3 minutes (1 minute intervals with rest in between) recordthis number. Have someone count how many jumping-jacks you can actually do in one min. intervals. Try this three times, compare your results. 

Tuesday    

Literacy

Send me a list of 5-10 hints about something in your room or house.  I will try to guess what it is J  See if you can guess mine! Example: It is electric. It is glass and turns a pretty blue. It sits on the counter in my kitchen. I use it many times a day!  What is it?   Email me your guess of mine when you send yours!
Numeracy

Go on a 2Dimensional Shape Hunt around your house. Make a tally of the shapes you have found.  Use your information to complete a graph.  You can choose to use the bar graph from last week or design your own graph (in week 3 Printable Links) 

DPA (Daily Physical Activity)/Outdoor Learning

Fitness Stations. Create fitness stations around your space (living room, backyard, garage, driveway). Lay out the equipment you’ll need at each station. Rotate through the stations. and spend 1 minute at each. (Station Ideas: skipping, hopping, rolling, arm circle, jumping jacks, ball toss). 

Wednesday – ZOOM – 11:00 

Literacy

Dr. Seuss writing! I introduced this before the break and it’s finally happening! Today roll and plan out your story.Use the template in the week 4 Drop Box to outline your Dr. Seuss story.  You will have two days to write this so please focus on developing a story with a beginning, middle and end.  Remember to use descriptive language and that stories often have problems that are resolved near the end of the story.  On Week 4 Printable Links

Numeracy

Create a symmetrical picture using: triangles, squares, circles and/ or trapezoids. Draw the line of symmetry. Create another but this time fold your paper in half and only draw on one side. Ask a family member to finish the symmetrical picture. 

DPA/Outdoor Learning

Building Challenge: Using items found outside or around your house, build a tall structure. How tall and stable can you make your structure? 

Thursday

Literacy

Continue working on your Dr. Seuss story. Self/edit (with coloured pencil crayon), ask a parent/sibling to peer edit, illustrate and publish your story.  I’ll add some of these to the blog.  

Numeracy

A packet of gum has 5 pieces in it. How many pieces of gum in 3 packets? 5 packets? 7 packets? 10 packets? Use things to help you count and record. 

DPA/Outdoor Learning

Indoor Bowling: This is a great way to reuse water bottles! Line six to ten water bottles up at the end of your hall or living room. Place a line of masking tape at the starting line. Grab a medium-sized indoor ball and start bowling! 

Friday   ZOOM @ 11:00 Guest – Mr. Maxwell

Literacy

Stay- In Restaurant – have child(ren) create menus for tonight’s meal. Menus can be used that night for “customers” to choose from and children can record the orders on a note pad and then read out the order to the “cook”.  

Numeracy

Add a dollar amount to each item on your menu.  Remember to write it in dollar form.  Example $2.75 or $5.00.  Add the total for each person’s meal (you can round the numbers or use a calculator for the exact amount if needed)

DPA/Outdoor Learning

Roll a dice and do the exercise that you roll (or 6 pieces of paper with numbers 1 to 6 in a cup)  1 – 25 Bicycles, 2 – 10 Jump Squats, 3 – 1 Minute of Plank,
4 – 25 Jumping Jacks, 5 – 20 Walking Lunges, 6 – 5 Push Ups Roll the dice 10 times! 

Just for Fun:

Thanks to Chase 1) Why don’t you bring a Pokémon card to the bathroom? 

And AJ  - Knock knock....Who's there......Any.....Any who?      Anybody home?

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:  The Cat in the Hat cartoon style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsPAVJN_LQ

This week’s tongue twister –

(Try to say it 3x fast-time it and see what your record is)  

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

This week’s challenge is… 

The Elbow Coin Catching Challenge...Select coins you would like to use for the challenge (dimes are the smallest but also the lightest). Next, point your elbow to a wall at about eye level with your hand next to your ear. Next, balance the coin stack by your elbow on the flat part. Then, in one motion either flip up the coins and catch them with the one hand of the same arm or swipe in a downward motion catching the coins in your hand. Note: You can try as many coins as you like but you must catch them in one hand only. Try as many times as you like and only record the actual number of coins you caught in your hand in one turn (not the ones that fell to the ground)...good luck! (Due May 1st) Demonstrations on YouTube if interested. 

Answers:   1) Because it might Pikachu.