As we work through these recent challenges, there are several ways that you, as parents, can help us out! First of all, we would like to continue to strongly encourage you to drop-off as close to the 8:45 time as possible. For after school, students need to be picked up before 3:15 at the very latest so we can minimize the congregating of parents and students on the school property.
If you are feeling uncomfortable with having your child at school or your child is feeling ill, and you are keeping your child home please let the office and myself know so that we can plan accordingly. In this blog post, you will find activities that you can do with your child at home that are based on the activities happening at school.
You will be able to find explanation videos of a number of the following ideas posted on Freshgrade over the next day or two. I realize you won’t have the recording sheets for some of the activities, but I trust that you will be able to find some paper at home to work with.
Math
Counting Collections (See video uploaded to Freshgrade)- students have done this activity many times in the classroom
Patterns- students can use items from around the house to create repeating patterns (Sock, shoe, sock, shoe/ or sock, shoe, shoe, sock, shoe, shoe… etc)
Practice skip counting by 5s with the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxVL9KUmq8
Language Arts
Phonogram Practice- you can use your phonogram cards at home, the Spalding App if you have it on your device, or have your child watch the video uploaded to Freshgrade to practice)
Writer’s Workshop (See video uploaded to Freshgrade)- students have done this many times in the classroom
Story Workshop (See 2 videos uploaded to Freshgrade)- students have done this many times in the classroom
Popcorn words- we have been working on the Fry’s list of 100 sight words- you can find the lists at the link https://sightwords.com/sight-words/fry/
Science
We have been learning about plants and insects- draw a picture of a plant and label the important parts (flower, leaf, stem, roots)
-draw an insect- make sure it includes 3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen), 6 legs, 2 antennae
Art
https://www.artforkidshub.com/how-to-draw/animals/insects/ – go to Art for Kids Hub and choose an insect or creepy crawly video to and follow some art instructions!
