April 27th Week Overview
Thank you for all the wonderful projects we got to see last week. We had 15 out of 23 students participate and that is a credit to you, our amazing parents! We learned so much about animals that we hadn’t known before which made it fun for everyone!
There is a math project we want the kiddos to participate in this week and present on Friday’s Zoom. It does not have to be as grand as the poster/project they put together for last week’s presentation. Details are in the math section below.
Here is what we would have been working on had we been in school this week:
Phonics: the two sounds of “oo” (short as in soon and Long as in good)
Here are some fun electric company videos with the sounds in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IRT2vcAMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQrjgHlO0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48c6s5MrkhY
I have attached lots of worksheets for oo practice this week to the email. I have not included screen shots here because many of them are in “packs” with multiple activities or sorting cards. Included in these packs are reviews for many long vowel or vowel team sounds. They will make good review for the summer as well if you intend to keep a learning regiment during that time. Your child should still have access to their Reading Eggs, Raz-Kids, Mathseeds and other online apps during those months as well.
Reading: We are continuing on with our main idea standard. There are some main idea activities attached to the email that can help. One is where the students read clues and have to put the clues together that match the main idea.
This activity can be done without printing materials. You can provide your child with a main idea from around the house (for example Abbie) and they can come up with 3 details (dog, medium, active) or you can give three details (green, vegetable, sphere) and they have to guess the main idea (brussel sprout).
You can also have them find the main idea of what they watch. Many movies or TV shows have a main idea or theme for the episode. It may be harder for them to summarize the whole thing into one main idea, but little kids are often very good at seeing through the details to the big deal message. This is a great way to practice this skill.
Know that finding the main idea of non-fiction is way easier than finding it for fiction usually as the main idea for non-fiction is usually the title and explicit. That makes finding it for fiction an advanced skill to try.
Math: We have pretty much worked through our math standards for the 4th quarter. Much of what you do should be a review. Make sure you're practicing math skills in MathSeeds and/or DreamBox!
This week we will try to do a math project with 4 steps:
I would love to have the kiddos choose a type of measurement from this list:
Time and temperature are also forms of measurement to choose from, but know that these might be more difficult for your child to comprehend.
Next, your child will investigate which tools people use to measure in that type (rulers, tape measures, bathroom scales, balance scales, measuring cups, bowls etc.) They can find these around the house, draw pictures, print pictures or build some themselves.
Then have the students present a comparison chart of three things they measured using this type of measurement. For example:
The child can use estimation to complete their chart or actually measure if you have the tools available to do so.
Finally your child should practice presenting their work aloud to their family
On Friday we would like to hear about them describe the type of measuring they did, present one or two tools they used to measure the show their chart.
Social Studies: It seems my Star-Spangled Banner Project is quite unpopular as no one submitted a video of your child attempting to sing it on SeeSaw so we will move on to our standard of describing Memorial Day.
There is also a page in Pebblego Social Studies to help them learn about it: easiest way to get to PebbleGo (CLEVER, Cobb Digital Library icon, Pebblego Social Studies, Holidays, Memorial Day)
We would love to hear your child explain what the holiday is about in a video on Seesaw this week. We would love to see any pictures of family that have been memorialized if possible. One of the key elements to explain is when this holiday occurs as we are pre-teaching it so a calendar might be helpful as well.
Science: We are still working on plants. This week we are working on leaves. Here is a great video about leaves. It is a 4th grade video so you may have to stop and discuss the vocabulary, but it has great labeling and examples. You can stop the video at 4:50 when it teaches about photosynthesis if you wish. Please note that we are not interested in all the details of leaf vocabulary. We want kids to notice the difference in shapes, top side and bottom, color, or how many leaves are attached to each stalk. I learned a lot about leaves from the video and hope you do to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpvSGLBEPE&t=26s
We would love for the children to take a leaf discovery walk and post it to Seesaw this week.
We've offered many activities above to support the 4th quarter standards we would have been working on in the classroom. We've also offered several ideas to post to SeeSaw as well as another project to work on and present on Friday. If you are able to do the above activities (or as many as you can) it would be amazing. If you are unable to remember that our digital plan is below for you to fall back on. If you are adding some of the above activities you do not have to do the digital plan daily. If you are only doing the digital plan then please follow it daily Monday-Thursday. If you are adding the above activites to your week then have your child get on digitally at least once a week (ReadingEggs, Raz-Kids, MathSeeds & Dreambox).
Our digital learning plan asks only that your child….
Complete the “Moving Along” measurement sheet attached to Homework in email.
**Don't forget to practice small batches of sight words each day**
There is a math project we want the kiddos to participate in this week and present on Friday’s Zoom. It does not have to be as grand as the poster/project they put together for last week’s presentation. Details are in the math section below.
Here is what we would have been working on had we been in school this week:
Phonics: the two sounds of “oo” (short as in soon and Long as in good)
Here are some fun electric company videos with the sounds in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6IRT2vcAMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQrjgHlO0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48c6s5MrkhY
I have attached lots of worksheets for oo practice this week to the email. I have not included screen shots here because many of them are in “packs” with multiple activities or sorting cards. Included in these packs are reviews for many long vowel or vowel team sounds. They will make good review for the summer as well if you intend to keep a learning regiment during that time. Your child should still have access to their Reading Eggs, Raz-Kids, Mathseeds and other online apps during those months as well.
Reading: We are continuing on with our main idea standard. There are some main idea activities attached to the email that can help. One is where the students read clues and have to put the clues together that match the main idea.
This activity can be done without printing materials. You can provide your child with a main idea from around the house (for example Abbie) and they can come up with 3 details (dog, medium, active) or you can give three details (green, vegetable, sphere) and they have to guess the main idea (brussel sprout).
You can also have them find the main idea of what they watch. Many movies or TV shows have a main idea or theme for the episode. It may be harder for them to summarize the whole thing into one main idea, but little kids are often very good at seeing through the details to the big deal message. This is a great way to practice this skill.
Know that finding the main idea of non-fiction is way easier than finding it for fiction usually as the main idea for non-fiction is usually the title and explicit. That makes finding it for fiction an advanced skill to try.
Math: We have pretty much worked through our math standards for the 4th quarter. Much of what you do should be a review. Make sure you're practicing math skills in MathSeeds and/or DreamBox!
This week we will try to do a math project with 4 steps:
I would love to have the kiddos choose a type of measurement from this list:
Time and temperature are also forms of measurement to choose from, but know that these might be more difficult for your child to comprehend.
Next, your child will investigate which tools people use to measure in that type (rulers, tape measures, bathroom scales, balance scales, measuring cups, bowls etc.) They can find these around the house, draw pictures, print pictures or build some themselves.
Then have the students present a comparison chart of three things they measured using this type of measurement. For example:
Heavier
|
Lighter
|
Mrs. Rodgers
|
Abbie (my dog)
|
Abbie (my dog)
|
Hazel (my cat)
|
Hazel (my cat)
|
My cell phone
|
The child can use estimation to complete their chart or actually measure if you have the tools available to do so.
Finally your child should practice presenting their work aloud to their family
On Friday we would like to hear about them describe the type of measuring they did, present one or two tools they used to measure the show their chart.
Social Studies: It seems my Star-Spangled Banner Project is quite unpopular as no one submitted a video of your child attempting to sing it on SeeSaw so we will move on to our standard of describing Memorial Day.
There is also a page in Pebblego Social Studies to help them learn about it: easiest way to get to PebbleGo (CLEVER, Cobb Digital Library icon, Pebblego Social Studies, Holidays, Memorial Day)
We would love to hear your child explain what the holiday is about in a video on Seesaw this week. We would love to see any pictures of family that have been memorialized if possible. One of the key elements to explain is when this holiday occurs as we are pre-teaching it so a calendar might be helpful as well.
Science: We are still working on plants. This week we are working on leaves. Here is a great video about leaves. It is a 4th grade video so you may have to stop and discuss the vocabulary, but it has great labeling and examples. You can stop the video at 4:50 when it teaches about photosynthesis if you wish. Please note that we are not interested in all the details of leaf vocabulary. We want kids to notice the difference in shapes, top side and bottom, color, or how many leaves are attached to each stalk. I learned a lot about leaves from the video and hope you do to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpvSGLBEPE&t=26s
We would love for the children to take a leaf discovery walk and post it to Seesaw this week.
We've offered many activities above to support the 4th quarter standards we would have been working on in the classroom. We've also offered several ideas to post to SeeSaw as well as another project to work on and present on Friday. If you are able to do the above activities (or as many as you can) it would be amazing. If you are unable to remember that our digital plan is below for you to fall back on. If you are adding some of the above activities you do not have to do the digital plan daily. If you are only doing the digital plan then please follow it daily Monday-Thursday. If you are adding the above activites to your week then have your child get on digitally at least once a week (ReadingEggs, Raz-Kids, MathSeeds & Dreambox).
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 several sentences each day from one of the April Writing Prompts be sure to use proper capitalization at the beginning of your sentences, punctuation and encourage proper spelling of sight words. All other words can be written as they sound. Sounding out and writing words is a very important skill to practice!
- Work on the homework for the week
Sight words for the week: soon, good, too
Letter sounds of the week: oo as in spoon and look
Math Monday:
Write the numbers you would say if your were counting by 5’s to 50. Say the numbers all the way to 100.
Practice counting up from numbers other than 1!
1. Start with 36 and count up to 51.
2. Start with 59 and count up to 77.
3. Start at 82 and count up to 100.
4. Start at 96 and count up to 110.
Solve the word problem below. Be sure to include a math model (draw circles to represent quantities) and number sentence.
Brooke had 11 books in a nook on her shelf. Some of them were fiction and some of them were nonfiction. If there were 7 nonfiction books, how many fiction books were there in her nook?
Technology Tuesday:
The letters “oo” make two different sounds. Write 4 words that have the “long u” sound and rhyme with “soon.”
Go to the site https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/word/homonyms/
Brainpop Jr.
Username: addisonbp
Password: alligator
Type homonyms into the search box and watch the movie about homonyms.
Write two pairs of words that sound the same that you learned from the movie.
Writing Wednesday:
Write the numbers you would say if you were counting by 5’s from 50 to 100. Say all the numbers from 0-100 counting by 5’s.
Read the story of “Woody Woodchuck” to your family.
Practice the tongue twister…”How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He’s chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.” Tell this to you teacher tomorrow.
Read the story of “Woody Woodchuck” to your family. Think about the words “wood” and “would”. Use each word in a sentence to help you learn the difference between the two words.
Woody Woodchuck’s Story
Woody is a woodchuck who loves good cookies. Fortunately, Woody Woodchuck lives in a cookie forest where good cookies grow on trees. Woody’s mom keeps telling him that roots and berries are better for him to eat than cookies, but Woody still can’t resist eating too many good cookies.
Each morning, Woody is the first woodchuck to wake up and poke his head out of his hole. Woody should eat roots for breakfast, but instead he uses binoculars to look for good cookies. One morning, Woody was disappointed when he discovered that all of the cookies on the low cookie tree branches were gone. The only cookies Woody could find were on branches too high for him to reach. As Woody stood under the cookie tree, his mouth began to water and he started looking for ways to get the cookies. Woody tried standing on books, he got a ladder, and he even threw a piece of wood at the cookies. But when nothing else worked, Woody grabbed the cookie tree and shook it.
Woody couldn’t believe his eyes when a pile of good cookies fell right on his foot. For a moment, Woody just stood there looking down and smelling the fresh cookies. But just as Woody was about to take a bite, he heard footsteps, looked around, and saw his mother behind him. What do you think she said?
Thinking Thursday:
The letters “oo” make two different sounds. Write 4 words that have the “short u” sound and rhyme with “look.”
Sort these “oo” words based on the sound the “oo” makes.
soon
|
mood
|
lagoon
|
took
|
brook
|
room
|
crook
|
shook
|
food
|
look
|
cook
|
balloon
|
Complete the “Moving Along” measurement sheet attached to Homework in email.
**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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