March 16th-20th Work From Home Plan

This Week in Virtual Kindergarten:

I will check emails on Monday (3/16) as soon as I am home from my scheduled pregnancy doctor appointment which is during the "virtual office hours". The rest of the week I will be near my computer from 9:00-10:30 am Tuesday through Friday to answer any questions you may have. 

Our digital learning plan asks only that your child….

• Complete at least 10 minutes or a lesson on ReadingEggs or read on Raz-Kids and complete quizzes 
• Complete at least 10 minutes or a lesson on MathSeeds or Dreambox
• Read a story with your family
• Write a sentence or more about your favorite part of the story in a journal or on a piece of paper. (Please be sure to capitalize, punctuate and spell sight words correctly!)
• Work on the homework for the week. It is posted below.

https://addisonfoundation.wordpress.com/

https://aesmusicroom.weebly.com/

https://addison.typepad.com/golden/

https://artataddison.weebly.com/

https://addisonlearningcommons.weebly.com/

https://addisoncounseling.weebly.com/digital-learning-days.html

ReadingEggs and MathSeeds are the same website once logged.

Your child's login is their student ID number for username and password. Most of the students already know their numbers but we also wrote them in the front of their agendas at the beginning of the school year. 

https://readingeggs.com/

Raz-Kids

Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com

Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher's username, jrodgers4

Step 3: Their username and password is their student ID number again
https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login

Dreambox:
Their username is their student ID number but their passwords are generated from the website. You can email me for their password and I will get it to you as soon as I can.

School URL: https://play.dreambox.com/login/xe2y/9d4d

School Code: xe2y/9d4d

Classroom Code: 95668

Homework for the week --   Long A -- ate, make, say

Math Monday:

The word “ate” has many rhyming words. Add these beginning sounds and draw pictures of the new words you make. 

pl_____

g_____

l______

cr ______

This quarter we are studying positional words. Hide something in your house and use positional words such as: next to, under, by, above, or inside to guide someone in your family to find the thing you hid.  

Counting up from a Given Number!

1. Start with 28 and count up to 45.

2. Start with 72 and count up to 90.

3. Start with 14 and count up to 36.

4. Start with 50 and count up to 75.

Technology Tuesday

Write a sentence telling three things you can “make” on your own.  

Go to the site www.readingeggs.com 

Login to your reading eggs account and complete one lesson of reading eggs.

Go to the site https://jr.brainpop.com/Mnay 

Brainpop Jr.

Username: addisonbp

Password:

alligator

Type in “solid shapes.” Watch the movie about solid shapes.  Write the name of this shape in your journal.

Writing Wednesday

Answer the following review questions below.

1. What holiday was created to honor people who served in the military?

2. What holiday began with cooperation between the Pilgrims and Native Americans. 

Read the story of “Abe the Skating Hare” with your family. Sort these long A words from the story based what letter combinations make the long A sound.

bay

tail

Kate

hare

skate

fair

sail

race

Read the story of “Abe the Skating Hare” with your family.  Highlight all words that make the long A sound and read them aloud to your family. 

The Story of “Abe The Skating Hare”

On foot, Abe was the fastest hare alive. The only footrace he ever lost was that famous one to the tortoise, and Abe never again rested during a race. But because Abe was so fast, the other animals soon refused to race him. Without competition, Abe became lonely and bored. So Abe decided to find a way to race that was more fair. First Abe looked at the sky and thought about racing airplanes, but Abe looked across the bay and considered racing sailboats, but remembered that he couldn’t swim, and he was afraid of the water. Abe looked down the street and thought about racing cars, but race cars were so noisy that they hurt Abe’s large ears. Finally Abe noticed a girl gliding gracefully around the bay on skates and decided to try racing on roller skates. 

At first, Abe fell down every time he tried to skate. But after lots of practice, Abe was skating all the way around the bay waving to his friends with his cotton tail bobbing up and down. 

When Abe challenged Kate, the girl he had first seen on skates, to a race, Kate said, “Great!” It was the first really close race that Abe had been in, unless you count the time he went to sleep, but Kate crossed the finish line just ahead of Abe. You might think Abe was sad to lose another race, but he really felt quite glad. For Abe discovered that he had won the most wonderful prize of all. You see, Abe and Kate became best friends, and winning a friend is more important than winning a race any day. 

Thinking Thursday

Sing the first line of the “Star Spangled Banner.” What sight word of the week do you hear? What is a “Star Spangled Banner?”

This quarter we will be studying parents and off spring or how kids can look like their parents. Talk to your parents. List three features you have that look like they are from your parents. Write down which parent you think you got that feature from. 

This quarter we are studying how to group animals. That means looking for what is the same between animals and what is different. Think about the three animals below. Which one does not fit in with the others? Write the answer in your journal and explain why. 

Ape, Hare, Blue Jay

We still want to know how the kiddos are doing. Please feel free to send pics of their activities, or accomplishments and ask us any questions you have about their learning needs. 

Please note that these tasks below are not required. 

Had we been in the classroom this week we would have been working on the following skills: long a sound, positional words, sorting and classifying and grouping animals by their observable features (birds for example). Here are some strategies you might use to help with these skills.

Long A Sound (when "a" says its name): We try to emphasize to children that vowels usually don’t change their sound unless there is a reason. The two reasons we focus on bully-e who can jump back over one letter to bully a vowel (ex. cape) or two vowels go walking so the first one does the talking and says its own name usually (ex. rain or say.) I have attached a sorting sheet to show you how we might have had the students work through the concept and some videos you can watch to reinforce the skill.

Long and Short Vowel Sort A

Short Vowel	Long Vowel

tag	paid	chair
clams	cap	ran
rain	chat	clap
cape	claim	pad

Video about bossy-silent e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVeq9a4dFIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV48Ujv4yzg

two vowels go walking video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScAfL8AkRn4

Positional Words: These are words to describe and objects position (prepositions to us grown up.)

 Some examples are: on, above, below, under, next to, in, to the right of, outside of

A fun way to teach this through the hide and describe game. One person hides an object in your house and describes where the object is hidden to another. For example, “It is in something metal, on a shelf” or “It is next to something orange, above a book.” If your child excels at this, you can make the game a bit harder by telling them they have to hide it under something and to the right of something else.

Sorting and Classifying: Provide your child a group of things to sort like buttons, toys, cooking utensils and ask them to sort them into 2 or even 3 groups. The ask them to explain what the name of each group would be and describe something that would not fit into that group.

Science: As we extend our sorting and classifying skills, we pull that skill into our science unit. We will be looking for similarities and differences in animal features that might help us connect a parent and its offspring or group animals together into one name like “birds.”

Here are some videos that might help:

Brainpop Jr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCm5CcQhU-c

What do birds have in common:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vL_2rF8JHU

Remember, we are not asking them to learn all the vocabulary from the video. We just want the children to begin thinking about what all birds have in common.

We would have read The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone as well as other Three Billy Goats stories to compare and contrast to end our Fairy Tales Unit. 

Who’s that trapping over my bridge? Our focus this week is all about the three Billy goats. We will read The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone and continue learning about fairy tales. We will be comparing texts this week. We will see that pictures can give us clues to help us understand words that we do not know the meaning of. We will learn that there is more than one way to retell stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMBhGPU1_U 

Vocabulary from the book:

valley: a long area of low land between two mountains

fine: very good or excellent

rushing: moving quickly

roared: to make a deep shout in anger

trampled: to be stepped on or crushed

Here are just a few activities you can do at home with your child this week:

-Reenact the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff by having a puppet show.

-Make a bridge out of toothpicks and marshmallows. 

Letters and Sight Words of the Week 2019-2020

Date	Letter/Blend/Digraph	Sight Words
August 1	FIRST WEEK
August 5
August 12	Short I	I, it, is
August 19	M	am, and, an
August 26	Short A	a,  as, do
September 3	S	so, see, me
September 9	T	to, the, my
September 16	N	not, on, no
September 23	FALL BREAK
September 30	Short O	at, in, will
October 7	F	he, she, we
October 14	P	said, saw, was
October 21	C (hard and soft)	can, came, come
October 28	H	his, help, her
November 4	B	big, by, be
November 11	Short U	but, up, us
November 18	R	ran, run, him
November 25	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 2	Short E	when, then, well
December 19	G (hard and soft)	go, give, get
December 16	D	did, had, has
January 6	W/Wh	what, were
January 13	L	like, let, look
January 21	J	put, out, now
January 27	K	must, into, all
February 3	Y	your, you, yes
February 10	V/Z	very, love, of
February 17	FEBRUARY BREAK
February 24	Q	want, went, who
March 2	X	little, have, with
March 9	Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)	are, for, from
March 16	Long A	ate, make, say
March 23	Long E	please, eat, here
March 30	Long I	Find, fly, why
April 6	APRIL BREAK
April 13	Long O	home, going, this
April 20	Long U	new, some, they
April 27	OO	soon, good, too
May 4	OU/OW	down, our, how
May 11	Sh,Th,Ch	there, where
May 18	LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

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