March 30th and week overview

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This Week in Virtual Kindergarten: 3.30.20

 As you hopefully already know, we will be digitally learning from home until at least April 24th with a brief Spring Break from April 6-10. So, let’s gooooooooo!

 We would still like for more of you to share work on SeeSaw! 

 **See email that went out this morning for additional activities that are optional. 

 New Science Lab lesson can be found here: https://addisonfoundation.wordpress.com/category/kindergators/ 


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:
Sight words for the week:  find, fly, why
Letter sounds of the week: Long I as in “bike”, “pie”, “light” and “by”

Math Monday:

The sight word “fly” is a multiple meaning word. Draw pictures to represent the two meanings and label them with this sight word. 

Read 20 minutes

Think about a square. Now think about a cube. Write one thing that is different about them and one thing that is the same! 

Draw pictures in your journal to represent the following positional words:

Between
Below
Behind
Beside

Technology Tuesday

Sometimes when  “-ind” are together they make the long i sound like in your sight word “find.” What are two other rhyming words that have the “-ind” sound at the end? 

Read 20 Minutes

Go to the site www.readingeggs.com 
Login to your reading eggs account and complete one lesson of reading eggs.


(www.abcya.com, then click grade 1, skills and shape match game)

Play the memory match game to find what shapes we see around us. Try to get 20 matches. 

**Disclaimer** This game may not work on ipads or tablets. Complete choice 1 if this does not work for you.

Writing Wednesday

Practice your “place in space” including country, state, county, city and home address. Don’t forget your zip code!

Read 20 minutes

Read the story of “Ike’s Bike Ride” with your family.  There are 3 ways to make the “long i” sound in the story (igh, i with sneaky/bully e and y sounding like i). Highlight three words (one for each different way to make the “long i” sound) from the story and write the three words in your journal.

Read the story of “Ike’s Bike Ride” with your family.  
Highlight all the words with the “long i” sound and read them to your family.  

The Story of “Ike’s Bike Ride”

Like his sister, Leaping Eve, Ike likes to dream that he can go high into the sky. But Ike isn’t interested in looking down at the streams, trees, fields, or streets like Eve, and Ike doesn’t imagine that he can leap or fly. Ike’s interests lie beyond the clouds, the moon, and the sun. Ike dreams that he can peddle his magical bike to stars that shine brighter than the sun, and planets with snow that tastes like ice cream.

Each evening at five, Ike rides his nice new bike to the top of the highest hill. As the fiery red glow of the setting sun slips below the horizon, Ike plans his nightly flight. 
At nine each night, Ike goes to bed and his adventure begins. First Ike rides right through mighty bolts of lightning as they try to strike his shiny bike. Then Ike says, “Hi!” to the man in the moon and takes a bite of green cheese as he peddles still higher. After exploring brave new worlds, Ike takes his feet off the peddles and glides back down to earth just in time to see the sunrise and eat his breakfast of Rice Crispies and a slice of rye toast. 


Thinking Thursday

Write an asking sentence that uses the sight word “why.” Think about how it should start and end!

Read the word problem below to your family then solve it to find the answer.  Don’t forget your math drawing and number sentence!

Mike likes to dine on pies and fries outside by the pine trees. If Mike ate five pies and nine fries tonight, how many things did he eat?  

Read the sentence below to your family. Draw a picture to show what happens in the sentence. 
The bright light blinded his sight and stopped the fight with the knight!

Had we been in school this week, here is what we would have been working on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0meslYrZKk

Our focus this week is all about patience. Sometimes we get very excited about things and it makes it hard to wait. Our book this week is The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach. This story is all about a caterpillar that finds it very hard to wait to become a butterfly. He finally learns that good things come to those who wait.

Vocabulary from the book:

·       Impatient: not willing to wait for something
·       Transform: to change completely
·       Chrysalis: the stage when a butterfly is turning into an adult and is in a hard case
·       Twirl: to turn around and around quickly
·       Migrating: to move from one place to another

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

·       Put a surprise in a box and give your child a time frame before they can open it.
·       Bake cookies with your child. Take one out before they are ready to show why it is important to be patient when cooking.

Phonics: The sound of long i
This is a tougher long vowel sound in that there are lots of ways to make a short i tun into a long I (bully e as in bite, igh together as in light, ild, as in child, two vowels go walking as in pie and y at the end of a word like fly). We have attached a few extra activities to help with this since it may take a bit longer to work on. Choose which one(s) work best for you! We have attached some of these to this email also to help with printing.

Long I Riddles
1. This long I word is what we say when we first meet someone.
2. This long I word is what birds and superman can do.
3. This long I word is a toy I ride on with two wheels.
4. This long I word is a favorite dessert made with apples inside it.
5. This long I word is what I do when I am really sad.
6. This long I word is what I do to my shoelaces.
7. This long I word is what I turn on when I go into a room so I can see better.
8. This long I word is a toy that flies in the air while I hold onto its string.
9. This long I word means that someone is afraid to talk to other people or scared to meet new people.
10. This long I word means to argue with someone, yell back and forth with someone or hit each other.
11. This long I word is what we say when we are leaving to go.
12. This long I word is what happens when something isn’t alive anymore.
13. This long I word means to not tell the truth.
14. This long I word means the opposite of wet.
15. This long I word means I really think something is cool but I don’t LOVE it.
16. This long I word means that something belongs to me and no one else. It is _____.
17. This long I word is a question word I ask when I want to know the reason that something happened.
18. This long I word is what happens when we cook something in a flat pan with oil like chicken or fish.
19. This long I word is a type of tree that has needles instead of leaves-beginning with P.
20. This long I word is when the earth turns away from the sun-the opposite of day.
21. This long I word is when there is no noise. It’s what you teachers want you to be in the hallway.
22. This long I word means to travel in something else. To go for a ______.
23. This long I word means to get out of your house and not stay inside.
24. This long I word is when we measure something but not to see how tall. It starts with a w.
25. This long I word is a type of plant that grows like it is on a string. They can wrap and twirl around things –starts with v.

For more long i activities see attachment from Monday March 30th email! 

Math:
Continuing Composing shapes with triangle: 3 things to work on this week (See Mrs. Barnwell’s video at https://youtu.be/XRgv0kLjvjI ) as well as  review the names of 3D shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism). 

 Mixed addition and subtraction practice: in Mathseeds, the driving tests are great for math fact practice.

 Science: 
Continue on with finding evidence of how animals can be grouped by their feature with the topic of fish. Below are the attributes of fish. Please use the chart below, or go to BrainpopJr  (CLEVER, Cobb Digital Library icon, BrainpopJr, science, fish) and maybe then to Pebblego (CLEVER to Cobb Digital Library icon to pebblego animals and study different kinds of fish)



Then have your kiddo sort some animals into groups using this Brainpop game:
https://www.brainpop.com/games/sortifyanimals/

Social Studies:
We would like the kiddos to still work on learning their address please.
We would have been learning about The Statue of Liberty. Pebblego is a great resource for this (CLEVER, CDL icon, Pebblgo Social Studies icon, U.S. Symbols icon then Statue of Liberty)
You can have your child make their best Statue of Liberty costume and post it on Seesaw, or try downloading a green screen app and place their picture in front of this memorial then post it to Seesaw.

Writing:


We would have been working on non-fiction writing. That means doing some research (maybe about fish this week) and turning that research into a non-fiction written report. To make it more exciting we usually start the report with a question like “Do you want to be a fish expert?” or “What do you know about fish?” We can also start with an exclamation mark sentence such as “Fish are amazing!” In this way they are practicing their writing and working on the other standard of learning ending punctuation as well.

 **Don't forget to practice small batches of sight words each day**
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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