Monday, March 23, 2020

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.

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

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.