Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
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!
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”
Friday, March 27, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020
Did you see that Grace had read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus?
Welcome to Day 8 of Virtual Kindergarten
Today is study buddy day. Who is your study buddy?
We are loving all the posts on Seesaw and being able to say hello to everybody. Thank you to all who have posted.
I bet her parents are happy she read that book. Max posted a video of him reciting his address. Way to go. If you have any skill you would like to share, go ahead and post a video on
Seesaw too. Show us how you add, subtract, double or half a number even!
I have posted a video for the students on Seesaw with a challenge for the class. Please check it out.
Speaking of writing and letters I have received two videos of students telling me their address all on their own! So I am sending them a letter. Remember it will take a few days but would love to know when you get it. So keep practicing your address and have your parents send me a video clip and I will get a note out to you!
Seesaw too. Show us how you add, subtract, double or half a number even!
I have posted a video for the students on Seesaw with a challenge for the class. Please check it out.
Pete the Cat loves letters and will sometimes write back if you include a return
address. This might be another way to get students to practice learning their address:
Dr. Sampson, our music teacher has some music choice boards posted on her Weebly if you are looking for music lesson ideas:
Hello Parents! Welcome to the Addison Music Room webpage. The link found below will take you to a page where you will find all the digital learning days activities for all grade levels. Documents...
aesmusicroom.weebly.com
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Phonics: Long E sound (where e says its name as in “easy”)
Try this word sort to illustrate the difference between the two sounds and to explain why the vowel might change its sound (bully-e or two vowels go walking)
Hello Kindergaters,
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.
• 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: please, eat, here
Letter sounds of the week: Long E as in “see” and “pea”
Math Monday:
Write one asking and one telling sentence that have the word “please” in them.
Read 20 Minutes
Compare the numbers below by placing either a < or > or = symbol between them.
a. 8 10
b. 7 3
c. 5 4
d. 6 6
Letter sounds of the week: Long E as in “see” and “pea”
Math Monday:
Write one asking and one telling sentence that have the word “please” in them.
Read 20 Minutes
Compare the numbers below by placing either a < or > or = symbol between them.
a. 8 10
b. 7 3
c. 5 4
d. 6 6
Compare the numbers below by placing either a < or > or = symbol between them.
a. 18 10
b. 72 73
c. 50 40
d. 68 68
Technology Tuesday
The sight word “eat” and the sight word “ate” are used differently. Fill in each sentence with the correct sight word.
1. He _____ my cookie.
2. I want to ____ a cookie.
Read 20 Minutes
Go to the site www.readingeggs.com
Login to your reading eggs account and complete one lesson of reading eggs.
Go to the site www.readingeggs.com
Login to your math seeds account and complete one lesson of math seeds.
Writing Wednesday:
The sight word “here” is in the sight word “there” but the “e” makes a different sound. Write both words in your journal and then write a rhyming word for each.
Read the story of “Leaping Eve” with your family. Highlight all the long e words you find and read them to your family.
Read the story of “Leaping Eve” with your family. Draw a picture of the three different settings of the story and label each picture to show where she was.
The Story of “Eve’s Leaps”
Eve is a girl who enjoys seeing the world. Each day, Eve leaves her home in the country and walks to school in the city. Along the way, Eve usually stops to enjoy the baseball games, peer into the deep blue streams, gaze up at the tall green trees, and peek into car windows as they pass by on busy streets. But when Eve is late, she wishes she could shorten her walk by not having to go around the baseball fields and tall trees, wait for green lights to cross busy streets, or walk to bridges to cross streams.
While playing leapfrog one day, Eve started thinking of how Superman can leap even the tallest buildings in a single bound. That night Eve began to dream. In her sleep, Leaving Eve leapfrogged over the swiftest streams, busiest streets, biggest baseball fields, and tallest trees with a single leap.
When Eve woke up the next morning, she decided to see if her dream was real. First she tried to leap over a stream, but she got all wet. Then Eve tried leaping over a baseball field, but she got stuck on the fence. Fortunately, the light was green when she came to a busy street, so she tried leaping three green trees. Eve couldn’t have been more pleased when she cleared the trees without touching a leaf, but the trees were only three inches high.
Thinking Thursday:
Practice your place in space including continent, country, state, county, city and home address.
Sort these words into two groups based on whether they have a long or short vowel sound in them.
bed
|
meat
|
sent
|
bead
|
met
|
tent
|
fed
|
seed
|
set
|
feed
|
tree
|
seat
|
Complete the “Family Birthdays” brain teaser
For optional activities through out the week please see below as well as the optional activities in the email (more detailed info in the word attachment as well as optional worksheets):
Phonics: Long E sound (where e says its name as in “easy”)
Try this word sort to illustrate the difference between the two sounds and to explain why the vowel might change its sound (bully-e or two vowels go walking)
See email that went out this morning for possible word sorts.
Math: Composing shapes from other shapes.
This can be difficult for students to see but we made a video showing how to help the kiddos practice the skill at home. And below you will find some squares to help your child practice with this week if you choose.
Check out this awesome video by Mrs. Powers to help with this standard! https://youtu.be/jgjdY6r9oQ0
Science: Sorting and classifying animals: mammals
Here is a great video about what mammals have in common:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kACaok7DRlM
Mammals offspring usually look a lot like their parents, since they are born outside of an egg as a “baby.”
Looking for similarities and difference between parent and offspring, and between one group of animals and another is the heart of this unit!
Social Studies: One of our standards this 9 weeks is for your child to independently state their street address, city, state and country in which they live. There is no great trick for teaching this. It is mostly repetition. But, as in incentive… Any child that takes a video of themselves stating their full address and emails that video to me will get a handwritten letter back from me to them to that address. They should email it and not post any video of their address on Seesaw app please.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
March 19, 2020
Hello Kindergators,
Mrs. Powers' dog Holly wants to pose a question for you today….
“I love to stare out the window and bark at almost everything I see. The only critters I do not bark at are birds. Today I saw these three things outside the window:
Which one would I never bark at and how can you tell?”
Feel free to reply with your answer in the comment section below and be sure to think about our animal classification video about what helps us know certain types of animals!!!
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
Vitual Homework 1
This Week in Virtual Kindergarten May 16th - 20th
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 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
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: 63026
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
Friday, March 13, 2020
Home Work Plan for Kindergarten
Dear Kindergarten Parents,
Due to the school closures related to COVID-19, we are now moving to a digital learning plan in order to continue our learning.
Each day your child should:
- 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.
- Work on the homework for the week which will be posted Monday March 16th by 9:00 am.
- If your child attended school on Friday March 13th you can also complete part of the packet that was sent home as well.
While we operate this digital learning plan, please keep the following things in mind:
- Kindergarten teachers will post/email assignments daily for students.
- Emails and Blog Posts will go out by 9:00am each school day we are using this digital learning schedule.
- Assignments will be up to a 1 hour total for all subject areas.
- Virtual office hours will be offered each weekday we are operating under this digital learning schedule. The elementary teacher virtual hours will be from 9:00am - 10:30am. This time will be used for answering questions, communicating with you and your student, and providing feedback as needed. We will be available via email during this time.
- Communicate directly with your child's teacher if you have a question concerning an assignment. Please continue to use their preferred means of communication while we use this online learning plan.
- Students have accessed all of the above digital tools (ReadingEggs, Raz-Kids, MathSeeds and Dreambox) throughout the school year but if you need their login information email your child’s teacher during their virtual hours from 9:00am -10:30am.
- Check out the following YouTube channels for fun educational videos and songs we use as well.
Please make sure you share our digital learning plan with your child so they understand what we are going to be working with during this time.
Thank you for your support as we embark on this digital journey. We are excited that the learning will continue and are looking forward to the opportunity to be back together soon.
Wishing each of you health during this time. You are all in our thoughts!
Sincerely,
Kindergarten Teachers
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