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.
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 these were sent home
again on Friday, if your child cannot remember just shoot me an email and I will
send it to you.
Raz-Kids
Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher's username, mwilkinson30
Step 3: Their username and password is their student ID number
again
Dreambox:
Their username is their student ID number but their passwords are
generated from the website. The passwords have been sent home but if you do not
have it you can email me for their password and I will get it to you as soon as
I can.
School Code: xe2y/9d4d
Classroom Code: 57756
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
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Short Vowel
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Long Vowel
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tag
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paid
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chair
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clams
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cap
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ran
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rain
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chat
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clap
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cape
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claim
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pad
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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:
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.
Letters
and Sight Words of the Week 2019-2020
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Date
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Letter/Blend/Digraph
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Sight Words
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August
1
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FIRST
WEEK
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August 5
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||
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August 12
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Short I
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I, it, is
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August 19
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M
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am, and, an
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August 26
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Short A
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a, as, do
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September 3
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S
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so, see, me
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September 9
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T
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to, the, my
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September 16
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N
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not, on, no
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September 23
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FALL
BREAK
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September 30
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Short O
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at, in, will
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October 7
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F
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he, she, we
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October 14
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P
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said, saw, was
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October 21
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C (hard and soft)
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can, came, come
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October 28
|
H
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his, help, her
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November 4
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B
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big, by, be
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November 11
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Short U
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but, up, us
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November 18
|
R
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ran, run, him
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November
25
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THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY
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December 2
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Short E
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when, then, well
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December 19
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G (hard and soft)
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go, give, get
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December 16
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D
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did, had, has
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January 6
|
W/Wh
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what, were
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January 13
|
L
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like, let, look
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January 21
|
J
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put, out, now
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January 27
|
K
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must, into, all
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February 3
|
Y
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your, you, yes
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February 10
|
V/Z
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very, love, of
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February
17
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FEBRUARY
BREAK
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February 24
|
Q
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want, went, who
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March 2
|
X
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little, have, with
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March 9
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Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)
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are, for, from
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Long A
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ate, make, say
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March 23
|
Long E
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please, eat, here
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March 30
|
Long I
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Find, fly, why
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April 6
|
APRIL
BREAK
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|
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April 13
|
Long O
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home, going, this
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April 20
|
Long U
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new, some, they
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April 27
|
OO
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soon, good, too
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May 4
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OU/OW
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down, our, how
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May 11
|
Sh,Th,Ch
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there, where
|
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May 18
|
LAST
WEEK OF SCHOOL
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Here is a link for Science Lab this week:
I am also asking if anyone would like to have their child draw a picture/write a letter to a senior in a senior living home to please do so. I know we have a lot of artists in our class and know that these seniors would love some letters as they are being quarantined and cannot even have family visit. I have an address for a friend of the family and will add it below. If there are other places or people you know of that would love this as well please feel free to send to them and if you would like give me the address and I will post it here as well.
Grace Cantrell
Gaines Park Sr Living
1740 Old 41 HWY NW
Kennesaw, GA 30152
Again you can also go to Addison's page to get some activities for specials. And if you need anything at all you can email me. Would love to see any pics of them as I am already missing them and would love to see what they are doing for school!
