Mrs. Wright’s Happy Campers!-First Grade 2020 Assignments

LOOK at the 'oo" sound!! Please click the link to go to this assignment. Your choice which article to read!

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Choose this set to learn more about this warm thing you are feeling outside these days!!
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Video to enhance understanding of food groups and Healthy Food Activity Booklet.

LOOK at the "oo" sound in SHOES! This one LOOKS fun! ChOOse the article you want to read.
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NOT for report card!
Please watch the video with a parent, which gives all of the directions for completing this assessment. You will need a parent to sit with you while you do it. You can do in 2 parts, or have a recess break in between. What is half of 26 letters?
Go sharpen your pencil!

Do lessons in your math book, and OK to skip ahead or do fewer parts of these lessons.

(Scroll down to see video) Like we discussed during your assessment call...
An opinion is your preference or what you like and it can be different than someone else’s. It is not fact, like whether or not it is raining outside right now, which is not arguable. Sometimes people have a difference of opinion because we like different things or think differently. We're unique!
Please watch the video with Mrs. Wright showing a sample of the opinion writing detail sentences. She will try to convince you that pizza is the BEST dinner! (I edited the beginning of my video because I didn’t like the introduction, so sorry that it starts abruptly.)
Afterward, find your writing paper that has the bears all over it (in your assessment envelope), and you can color a little bit (or draw your own picture on another page) as you think about your answer to the question: What is the best season of the year and why? WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER, or FALL?
This is an independent activity, so remember to sound out words to spell, and reread for capitals to begin sentences and if a name, and periods to end sentences. POST A PICTURE IMAGE for me!

As per the email letter, please...Login to MobyMax (with your same login as you use for everything) and click on the 2 fast facts tests. (You do not have to do the Placement Test if you did not do it in Sept. and it is on your assignments list). Do the fast facts on your own and quickly. In class, we would have tried for 30 problems in 90 seconds! This report will tell me how long it took you to do. If longer than 4 minutes, please practice hard over the summer!

Login to Renaissance Place and Click on the Star Reading Test on the left side, not the Accelerated Reader box. Please do your best ON YOUR OWN. As we talked about on the phone, it is a big kid test, too, so we don't expect you to score like they do. Just do the ones you know. Stick to it, and finish the whole test.

If we were still in school, working hard everyday getting ready for second grade, we would have done the Tasks at the back of the Being a Writer workbook for a quick assessment of your grammar skills for the report card. Keep the pages that come before the Tasks called "Student Grammar Guide". They are a really good resource for what grammar standards and terms we have covered, and may be helpful in the future.
I will post the answer key so you can check when you are finished with these multiple choice quizzes. (sorry illegible set off their website.)

There’s more than one short video snippet for this day. I wanted to tell you more about the rainforest from yesterday ( I posted a picture of the layers) on Day 2.
You can also do a couple pages tomorrow if you want to.

The cause is "why" something happens. The effect is "what" happens.
Think of adding "be" to "cause" and saying BECAUSE...
Example: John Muir convinced the President to protect Yosemite (effect) because he felt they were fragile and majestic.(why)

Please find this in turquoise folder. Write answers in sentences using the question to make it complete, and remembering neat letters, capitals, and periods. Then, reward yourself and go on a hike with your family!

Find the worksheet in your pocket yellow folder on the backside of the "All Mixed Up". After your year of experience doing Calendar each day, this should be as easy as a cool spring breeze.

https://app.studiesweekly.com/online/units/show_pdf/CA1V17/5#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0

I know you had to cancel your Metropolitan Opera and Symphony tickets after the shelter in place, but don't fret! Alas, the Met is offering FREE concerts to all! Sit back, close your eyes, and imagine yourself in the cushioned seats in NYC with your fancy friends! (Yet you can be comfy and even in your jammies!) Maybe we'll reschedule our field trip for next year!

Sound waves travel in a longitudinal way. This slinky is sort of my feeble attempt to demonstrate that.

Continued video after Mrs. Wright’s brain freeze...

Enjoy listening to this video description of the next two pages of our book! Practice drawing (or climbing!) a tree and also check out the phytoplankton picture and the layers of the rainforest. Also a list of products from the rainforest is attached.

Please do the Lesson and quiz in the Chapter 8 math book. One page of the lesson is a check--quiz style page, and the black and white is also a quiz.

We'll have to finish our beetle with beautiful coats when we return to school. Or, I can retrieve them the next time I escape the house. Here's a pic to spark your memory...

Okay, you know how I LOVE to eat! This reading made me really hungry! But this issue is a tribute to Mrs. Trent, who LOVES pizza, and must be missing her traditional Friday pizza lunch from Miss Kathy!

Are you wondering what to do with all those cans from the pantry food we're all eating? lol...
Deb Rocco shared this site called "Momtastic"! Use it for a fun break in your day, and perhaps journal about (or take a pic and post for all of us!) the birds observed at the feeder in your yard.
ps...Do NOT go out and buy 6 rolls of duck tape. Just decorate with whatever or leave au-naturale! In addition, maybe peanut butter (except you, Olivia!) and other grains can sub for bird seed if you cannot get to the store.

https://www.momtastic.com/diy/518739-recycled-can-bird-feeder/?fbclid=IwAR1gjzljX0Clv_wuH_skZMi1VhRZFdUxqsCtgUnfjCCuymbFdh1mBdhjZBg

See video as Mrs. Wright takes you through the writing and science on each page. Do a couple pages a day. More to come!

Join Mo Willems and learn to draw Piggie and Elephant!
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/

Yes, you can SEE evidence that you know the waves are there. Sound waves have force, and here's proof. Remember not to yell too loudly in someone's ear! The volume and force makes the sound waves hit the eardrum too hard. Ouch!

Do in Chapter 8 math book. Congrats on starting a NEW BOOK!

So sorry Chapter 7 not in the new orange folder! I thought we had done it already last week! Please see Test posted here, then I'll post the answer key soon to check.

Listen to the story called Journey Into the Center of the Earth, then see info sheet in turquoise folder, and read the color words and color the earth's layers. Try to make a necklace if you have modeling clay.

Can we feel sound waves? Try this with a balloon or a thin ball. Hold it up to a speaker where sound waves are coming out, or next to someone's voice talking, singing...

After all these slow, stormy days, get up and move together.
Click on the Go Noodle website and enjoy the dance party!!

https://www.gonoodle.com/for-families/

The sound "oo" makes in the word "book" is different than in the word "moon". I always have the kids use a microphone and pretend to sing the "oo" in words like "spoon". That "oo" singing sound can also be spelled with a "ue" like "blue" and "ew" as in "blew". (That is the sound pronunciation symbolized by a "u" with 1 dot over it, and the "u" with 2 dots over it is the "oo" sounding like "hook".)

Do in math book, and use GoMath Lesson videos if needed.

Watch how you can make water move without even touching it!

I know this is a longer installment, so you may want to break it up and watch it in two 10 minute parts. The mountain photos attached include Mount Whitney in California (14, 505 ft) and Denali in Alaska (20,310 ft). The pictures that have green in foreground are Denali. You can also see John Muir’s house in Martinez and his burial site.

https://youtu.be/K4mSpw-zQAI

The cochlea is the snail-shaped organ in your inner ear. It is filled with the liquid that vibrates and moves the little hairs inside which help the signal (sound waves) travel to your auditory nerve and then to your brain! See the liquid in the glass swirl? Watch Noah get dizzy! No foolin!
Check out the pictures of the smallest bones in your body! Also, did you guess what is the largest bone?
If you said your (upper) leg bone (femur) you're right!!

Tools you may need:
100's chart
Base 10 blocks in your math manipulatives bag. They are green foam and can help you build the numbers if needed.
Remember, when writing a number that is 10 more, it is the number BELOW it on the 100's chart. Ten fewer is the number ABOVE it on the 100's chart.

Watch Mrs. Francis demonstrate her cool zip line LEGO challenge!

Check out the great art lessons here!

https://artinaction.org/free-lesson-portal/?utm_source=Art+in+Action&utm_campaign=b1fb6ef167-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_12_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_572e855d10-b1fb6ef167-24525839

Put on some movement videos and get crazy! You NEED this! Thanks for thinking of us Mrs. Trent!

In reviewing the Soc St. Standards (attached below) to help myself plan for our last few weeks, a glaring concept that jumped out is the lesson comparing schools from long ago to now. What we are experiencing NOW, however, is also very different than just a few weeks ago! In this unprecedented time, it would be an historic record for your child to express in writing or pictures how they are "doing" or "going" to school in ways that were unfathomable when grandma and grandpa went. (or you, too!:)
To contrast, have your child "interview" the oldest family member or friend they can ask about in "their day".
Type on the Google Doc provided here (or write in journal) , and we can share ideas of then and now. They may also want to record or video tape the interview! (No due date set.)

Follow these directions and make your stereo! I can’t wait to hear what you think about this! Share it with your family and try some variations. Rub your fingers up and down the string or slide your fingers up and down or across the metal bar of the hanger and see what you hear also. It reminds me of the song we called “Jailbreak” when we were kids by rubbing fingers on the strings of a guitar. Ha ha!
Next Read the blue worksheet in your sound packet folder that is magenta colored. After thinking about it, you can also copy mine or check it to see if you were thinking along the same lines (or strings). LOL

This book was illustrated and written by our famous former Michelson kindergarten teacher, Mr. Gano! We'll first make the pocket and then read a little each day!

https://www.weareteachers.com/best-virtual-field-trips/

Get Moooovin!

Google Freckle.com and sign in as a student with our class code:
aj89zz
Enjoy!
I will get reports any time you sign in and practice skills.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/25/google-now-lets-you-explore-u-s-national-parks-via-360-degree-virtual-tours/

LOVE this one!
Also, another inventor and amazing man is Benjamin Franklin and you can find his animated classic video on you tube also.
You'll notice the packet on him has some pictures from the movie! If you see the "Name That Song" page, you can google the name and hear the song, too.
Try signing your name or a message to a family member. Use the signing sheet. Try to do your whole ABC's song!

Make your folder as per the instructions in other post. (see pics) Then, choose activities to do throughout the next 2 weeks. It includes literature, science, reading, art,... Do as many or as few as you want. Try to mix it up!
See the images below for samples and keys. Highlight info on the frog life cycle, and compare and contrast a frog and toad. (Later, see the Frog and Toad Are Friends video story). Make a booklet of "Pond and Other Fresh Water Habitats", Make a Life Cycle wheel using the stock paper and the metal fastener I taped inside the folder, Make a fun bookmark and glue onto the turquoise paper for sturdiness, Read stories about Baby Frog, and color in a cool intricate frog design when you just need some mindless activity time....ahhh....I mean..."ribbit!"

There’s a video for this one! Find This one in your St. Patrick’s Day packet! Time to check out the garden made by Betty, Bobo, Britney, and Bruce!

Use the dice in your math manipulatives bag. Put numbers or dots on them. (maybe do one of each)
Use these game boards to play a tic-tac-toe style dice counting game. Roll the die (1) and add the number on the sheet (like +7) to your die and find that sum's square and cover it. Get a full row and win! Maybe wager with a cookie for the winner?

I know you must have a lot of empty toilet paper rolls, after all that TP hoarding, so here's a fun art project we would have done together in class! As the story myth goes, St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland and into the sea, so that's why there are no snakes in that country. (I attached an article for mom and dad below.)
1) Go use up that little roll of TP, or get one out of recycling.
2) Paint inside and out in your favorite colors. If no paint around, you can make some with berry juice (any frozen berries in freezer?) or mustard, turmeric or other spices, or you can color with markers and crayons.
3) After drying, start cutting on one end and continue closely around to make a skinny body.
4) Decorate with designs, stickers, beads/sequins/jewels, and add a tongue and googly eyes if you have them.If not, draw on or use stickers. (You can make stickers using duck tape or drawing on masking tape?)
See mine below. I photographed inside (yikes!) and also in their natural habitat! Ha!
PS. Soon we'll do a fun experiment in our sound unit called "Can You Hear Like a Snake?"

Here's a cute poem that ties into our Healthy Eating theme. What food group is yogurt in? Please click the link to go to this assignment.

Another food related story?! LOL...In case you're thinking of making breakfast for mom on Mother's Day, this may be helpful! Please click the link to go to this assignment.

(Please find in your new orange folder). This is a keepsake book we can put in your Open House portfolio when you get it. In school, we were creating a Seasons Book in the computer lab. We started with tree pictures created in the Paint Program, then we collaborated on a paragraph telling detail sentences of what our 5 senses would experience during the specific season. I wanted to provide you with the 2 pages we finished, and I made a spring and summer stock paper page for you to complete your book. Watch the video for how to use the pipe cleaner to bind, and also the video for SUGGESTED describing sentences.

(Find these papers in the manila envelope set). Mother's Day is Sunday, May 10th! Show and share your love! Use the sentence prompts for writing about your amazing mom! Go with the first idea that pops in your head! You can trim around the worksheet and glue to the pink paper on the front and back, or another paper. Add a little flower, hug, song, dance, art piece, or treat you make for mom!
I colored a "circle scribble tree" and added hearts as blossoms/fruit.

Watch the attached video from Mrs. Francis, get inspired, grab your building materials, and get started! Test your bridge, and take a photo to post or send to Mrs. Francis. Good luck, engineers!

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Do Pronouns practice pg 55-56 in your blue/purple workbook.

Please practice reading aloud and writing neatly, with control, the sound of the week. (See snapshot of worksheets below.)
Please Do :SP47 and SP48 (Mon.)
In The Forest (Wed.)

Do the Lessons in your New Chapter 7 math book. You can also go on ThinkCentral to do practice and extension acitvities.

See file below. Write question first, then answer in at least 3 sentences. Proof read for capitals, spelling and end marks.

Here is a fun Friday Pizza Booklet (sight word "put") to make as you think of Mrs. Trent and how she's missing her pizza at school today. (And after reading the TIME magazine issue called "America Eats" with pizza featured! See "social studies") But did you know Mrs. Francis, on the other hand, is a pro at making grilled pizza on the BBQ?! She shared her recipe with me, and I really want to practice it again this spring! YUM!
Maybe you can make one tonight?! Biscuit dough, English muffins, hamburger or hot dog buns, and even flour tortillas work in a pinch! Or, use gluten-free breads, alternate flours for dough, or riced cauliflower (it's good!) Shmear with spaghetti sauce, add cheese, and your favorite toppings! Me? I love pepperoni with pineapple!
Find the pizza booklet in your Lang. Arts folder (yellow).

You know the drill...
Have fun with this one...

Tell all you can about this talent!

Tell what you did over spring break!
What was funny? What was yummy? What was surprising? Hmmmm...
I already know where you were, I think, and who you were with....
But, tell something I don't know!
(You don't need to write ALL the questions--just the first sentence at top)

PRO-nouns?! They are PRO-fessional Nouns! They are sooo good at being a noun, you don't even have to name the noun! lol...A pronoun can replace the noun in a sentence, and it matches the noun's gender, like a boy is "he" and a girl is "she". Use "we" if you are part of the group.

Do as fast as you can! Did you notice the "ou" sound tied in! Lol... I KNOW you did...
(Find in your green folder.)

Reading for meaning, writing/spelling practice. (Tell student term "antonyms".)
How any eggs did you find last week? Find worksheet in yellow LA folder.
What is a word that means the opposite? See word box below and write it in the rectangle. Color for fun. (optional)

These are the last letters in the stapled packet.
PLEASE notice the numbered stroke arrows and practice properly and NEATLY.
Do Letters: Xx, Zz, Kk
Save the cover sheet for an assessment next week.

We've talked about these all year, so this is not new. (Without both these parts in the sentence, it would be a fragment (part) sentence.) The term "predicate" may need some review, though.
Find GR76 and GR78 in the NEW yellow Language arts folder. Think of the simple subject part as the noun (person, place, or thing) at the beginning of the sentence, and think of the simple predicate as the verb (action word) in the second half of the sentence.
The whole subject and whole predicate may include articles, prepositions, and adjectives. First read the examples on GR76.

Find the Riddles worksheet in your Green Math Folder.
Use your 100 chart in your pencil box to help, or the one posted in "materials".

AFTER practicing the letters on the dittoes (which have the numbered stroke arrows),
Do the following pages in your Being a Reader Handwriting workbook NEATLY and SLOWLY. Do not go outside the traced lines while writing on the light AND bold print word, and stay out of the mud (below baseline)!
Do: pgs. 35-37 Circle your best ones.
Nice!

(First review Ch. 6 Review for accuracy. See KEYS posted)
Log onto ThinkCentral.com (same as other logins) and go to Things to Do.
See link below.
Complete on paper using journal to record answers.

Here are 10 more sight words to master for our end of year assessment. (They are part of the next 50 for our Trimester 3 ESGI Test.)
Read, spell, read. Use in a sentence.
One way we practice in class is called "RCRC": Read--Cover--Recite--Check
These are not spelling words, so recognition is enough. (If your child is already familiar, try to "level up" with the spelling (encoding) challenge!

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Listen carefully to Mrs. Trent and share what you learned with your family.
Happy Spring Break!

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Do pages GR59, 60, and 58 stapled set in Language Arts yellow folder.
Be neat and clear where the apostrophe goes in place of the "o" in "not".
Remember the little grape (make circle with hand representing "o") shrivels in the sun and makes a little raisin (pull circle fingers inward and make apostrophe shape with thumb downward).

Visual discrimination activity! Arrr, Maties! Find the Pirate Hidden Pictures page in your yellow folder! Color as you find the short "a" words.

Listen to Mrs. Trent share her lesson and read a book to you! Grab a blanket, curl up, and enjoy!
Tell mom and dad what you learned and SHOW how you'll practice it with your family this week.
Mrs. Trent is on our Google Classroom, so posting comments she can read is a great idea, too.

Let's do this worksheet together! (Video coming soon) Find the Sound Notes page in your sound folder packet.
The attached videos on the timpani and moth are because I was thinking about the bat's ability to use echolocation to send sound waves out that are reflected back to the bat and the rate of return tells the bat how close it is, and captures the moth for dinner. But! The moth has a tympanum (like our ear drum) and it detects the frequency range of bats' calls to avoid the bat. The scientific name for our eardrum is tympanic membrane.(see how I connected the dots?...) It is like a timpani drum shape. What is a timpani drum you ask? Just listen!

Aarrr! C'mon, get up and dance, Maties! See if you can keep up! I'm doing it, too!

Also, there's another one dedicated to Kaiya and we can just hear her singing it to us! You go, girl!
Can't wait til we'll be taking ourselves down the ol town road back to school! Yee Haw!

In your Spring Daily Question Writing packet... I want you to think about how much mom and dad and grandpas and grandmas and older bros or sis's are helping YOU right now as a first grader. So, how are you able to return the favor and help THEM, just doing YOUR PART as a member of the household?
Read over your response and proof for capitals, end marks and spelling.

Find the Pirate Gold worksheets in your Blue Folder, (I think...) Kaiya found it!
Follow the directions for making the map route and LABEL( with capitals!) for all proper nouns as you draw the route to the treasure!
Be sure to read each direction in your best piratey voice, matie!

Shiver me Timbers!
See the attached picture sample (not to copy but for inspiration!)
You'll need to tear a good size piece of a paper grocery sack for this canvas.
Draw using markers and crayons all the areas and land forms and regions we've studied. Try to include: mountain, valley, river, lake, cave, desert, forest, jungle, dunes, coastline/beach, etc. Label with neat, small writing (trying alliterations like Dusty Desert, or Mysterious Mountains) and make capitals for all proper nouns. Title your Island and don't forget to show where the jewels are buried! Aye, I'll be sure to find it when you're not guarding it! Tie up your map in a roll and put in a bottle or under your pillow! Ha!

Answer in your Spring Daily Writing packet. Write the question first, then answer.
Proof read for capitals and periods, question marks, or exclamation points.

How did your TP roll snake turn out? Post a pic if you get a chance!
For this review sheet, color the long vowels on each snake. Use any colors/designs you like.
Find it in your Lang. Arts yellow folder.

Read the Golden Rule article and answer the 3 questions that follow. Click on the purple rectangle with Bonus Sources and choose a couple articles/video to learn more.

See addends, sum, and differences inside the star. See sample. Practice a few fact families. Remember, 'Biggest number always goes first!" (in the subtraction part of a number sentence...ie 8=10-2 has biggest number in sub part...unless you want a negative number) So, usually, we start with whole-part=part when writing subtraction.

Do the Chapter 6 review/test in your math book, as independently as you can. Parents, please read all questions and assist, encourage, but limit explanation so we can have a valid assessment. I will provide answers so you can check on Friday, so kids please TRY to complete on your own so we find out what re-teaching you may need.
You did it! Completed Chapter 6! Final test to come soon!

No foolin! I really want to know! See the related video story called "When I Grow Up" (in Reading tab). You can tell about something you'd like to do, where you'd like to go, or what you'd like to be.
Also, I posted a picture of myself at your age, with a glint in my eye of my future ahead...
(see stream)

On this last day of March, say goodbye to the tricky Leprechaun til next year as you help him categorize these words. See sample attached.

Ooops! Last week, there was an impostor card (new vocab word...lol) that mistakenly was placed in the group. Rather than "fond" the card should have been "cooperate". See pic posted here.
For the new set, study the pictures, read the words with an adult and predict which picture they match. Then see the cards with meaning showing, and read again, finally see last picture showing matches.

Read and answer the questions. A project is coming!

Read and do comprehension questions.

Pronouns are words that take the place of a noun. For example, instead of saying: "Skylar, Elaina, Harley, Luis, and Wesley did the plank exercise for one minute." You could just say "They did the plank exercise for one minute." or use "he" for a boy, and "she" for a girl, and "it" for a non-living noun thing.
On page 56, notice capital letters to begin the sentences.
Now, YOU go get writing!

Find your worksheet that is in your sound packet in your magenta Ear Folder. Read the directions and watch the video to perform the activity.

Make a pirate hand print to practice the "AR" sound!
Either paint your hand with red, tan/yellow/black or trace your hand and color in with crayons/markers.
Make stripes on the bandana hat, add google or drawn eye and patch, a mouth with black/gold-glitter teeth, and a pirate flag on the hat. Around the pirate, brainstorm and write "ar" words. Use your worksheets assigned this week if you get stuck...and as you go down the alphabet and rhyme with ...art, cart, dart, __...well, you know...It's ok to laugh. Don't forget to "turn in" and post a pic so we can see! Captn Scallywag!

Grab a blanket, pillow, bean bag...and Watch this video by Mrs. Wright

Have you noticed the earth worms on the pavement after the rains?
Read and answer comprehension questions.

Read the sound spelling cards on the chart attached, and make a pirate voiced "arrrr".
Vowels are controlled by the "r" when combined, and the a is not short or long. Think of the "car" sound spelling card, or the "star" card on our wall. Read the first red cards (the rime is the ending...-arn, -art, -arm) and then make rhyming words changing the initial sound. Study the picture cards and say them aloud. Try to write some of the words in your black and white journal. Say in a sentence.

As always, spend quality time writing in your Spring Daily Questions packet. Write neatly, with capitals and end marks. Tell details about what it is, how you play it etc...

Watch the attached video of Mrs. Wright reading.

Read the I Am Responsible story and answer the 3 questions that follow. Watch the video "Responsible Helping Hands" video. To learn more...
Choose 1 or more articles to read in the Bonus Sources purple rectangle (at the top on right) by clicking on it.
We are just kinda exploring this site together as we see what's available, so it's OK to click around.
Michelson will be using this curriculum program for Social Studies next year, and we're excited to get familiar with it!

Use math book to do 6.9 and 6.10, including Practice page (black and white) Quick Check quizzes. ONLY draw 5 ones counters in a tower, so 7 is drawn as 5 and 2. PLEASE, or else I will go cross-eyed checking these papers.;)
Have parents read the teacher notes on bottom of first pages for directions (273 and 277). Use the attached number chart if needed, or make one of your own for counting practice.

Posted last week...See Lesson Plans for daily work. I missed putting these assignments in the Classwork section for Language Arts last week, although they were on the Weekly Lesson Plan, so I'm just keeping them on the new lesson plans as a reminder and asking you to check your yellow folder to see if you've completed worksheet pg. GR62 and GR63, and Skill Practice Book: Being a Writer pgs. 53/54 (on pg GR62: Parents please check for capitals for BOTH proper noun words, for example: Lake Alpine)

Find worksheet in yellow folder.
Write NEATLY as you practice the "ar" spelling.

I know it gets a little technical, but the travel of sound IS kinda technical, but also fascinating!
Did you know we can detect the location a sound is coming from within 3 degrees? Think of a circle being 360 degrees. In the classroom, I would have you all stand up and close your eyes, and point in the direction of my voice as I walk around the classroom. Surprisingly, you would have followed me very closely! Try it at home!

The incredible Amelia Earhart!

The miraculous Helen Keller!
Also, try some sign language symbols. Spell your name!

Watch and learn about some amazing women who contributed in valuable ways!
With adult supervision, you can google and learn more. There are many books and videos on YouTube.

Stay tuned for more!

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In the baggie, find the Super E logo to color and cut out and a popsicle stick for making a wand.
In yellow folder, find the Magic E booklet and cut, order, and staple together. (if no stapler, put a hole in corner and tie, or tape each page at seam to bind). Cut out the long vowel words and glue to matching vowel letter page. You can glue below the picture, or make a flap on top of short vowel word. (Doing that leaves a space to write a sentence using both words below. ( ie "I put on my cool cap and magic cape and ran off to save the world!" )
Hold Super E Wand up to word cards to make them go from short to long. Magic!

Write the long vowel words neatly on the lines after you magically change them with your wand!
(a_e and o_e words)
Read and spell to an adult.

Do you remember this one? Ha! Found this video and it is silly, but now we have some new moves to try dancing!
C'mon! I know you love surfing, baseball, and pizza!

Using the stapled handwriting packet, trace the "Mm", "Nn", "Hh", and "Bb" pages carefully, always noticing the number sequence of strokes and practicing air writing as you count the strokes. Trace the darkened and light letters and words, too. Then, do the corresponding pages in the Being a Reader writing Notebook. (pages 26-29)

***Parents: Please notice and correct hand grip, stroke sequence, neatness, and adherence to proper placement on lines. Have them circle ones they think are their best effort.

Think about your answer as you write the question neatly and with a question mark. Write a detailed answer telling what you would do and who would go with you. Imagine it is your best vacation ever!
And...you know me...my favorite would be knowing what you ate too!

We did not finish our snowflake writing project with the blue folder in your Blue Desk Folder. Inside, please glue two pages: 1) Bear Quilt page colored and stored currently in your Blue Desk Folder, and 2) Writing page describing your winter activities. Color and glue inside blue snowflake folder (bear on left inside cover and writing on right side) and save.
Tell about Winter 2020
"When the stormy days came and snow began to fall, outside I liked to...."
and
"Inside, I liked to..."
See attached samples. (We are using past tense verbs.)

Write for 15 minutes with sentences and proper nouns capitalized. Tell about a day in the life as your famous person. Are you a musician, actor, scientist, singer, leader, athlete, or author?
Post on the comments section of the stream anything you'd like to share?

See GoMath! book in green folder.

This is just a little intro clip to our sound unit!

Happy spring?! I know some of you awakened to snowfall from last night. This is a cute book you can create and read to your family! Let’s practice our cutting skills and remember when you’re cutting to put the paper deep into the scissors and curve the paper slowly as you come down with the scissors to prevent choppiness. To save a little time, you may lineup two mittens and cut them at the same time if you can see the edges that are overlapping, then hold them carefully in place as you cut. Parents please watch your child put these in order numerically. I always would ask them how many pages the book will be if we see two sheets with four mittens on each sheet (to do a little math.) Some students will say seven because they see the last page has a seven. And we usually talk about why (hint hint there’s a cover page.) Also we practice sequencing by either turning over the front page and stacking on top as we go, or holding the front page in our hand and building the book as we pick up each page and put behind. Have your child show you how they do this. Then as you’re reading it, and maybe it will be in your bear cave tent that was posted earlier, let’s play "I spy!"
1)I spy a long i words (ight), (-y)
2) I spy 3 compound words
3) I spy a long e word (ee)
4) I spy a long o words (ow)
5) I spy 6 present tense verbs (ing)
Color or decorate all your pages and enjoy your new book! Read it at least four times.

Do the worksheet practicing the "or" sound spelling in yellow folder Pg. SP45 and SP46

Make a fun picture here, or create one of your own!

OK don’t laugh! I’m serious. I realized too late that half my head was cut off for quite a bit of the video. I didn’t want to redo it! So just listen! Ha ha. Hopefully these will get better as we go forward.

Study each picture. Read each word with adult. Try to match up. Look at second picture to see if you were correct!
Tell someone a sentence using each word. Good job!

See sample in picture attached.
Materials you'll need:
Scissors, Sound Folder (magenta), Ear printout (salmon), glue stick, crayons, markers, or colored pencils
1) Listen with your eyes closed, going in different rooms, and outside.
2) Draw on the ear all the things that you hear in your environment.
3) Cut out ear in a continuous spiral to make it appear to have a sound wave
4) Glue only the outer ear, not the "wave spiral" down on the magenta folder (with fold on left!)
5) Write Unit title: SCIENCE (remember spelling "Saturday Can I Eat Nestle Chocolate Eggs") and Sound Unit

Read the r-controlled vowel "or" words with an adult. Above those are some previously learned sight words to review.
At the bottom of the chart are picture cards matching the "or" words to name. (Write or have an adult write them to see spelling.) To help reinforce, you may want to make a little flashcard set each week.

Remember my sight word necklace? We're counting down the top 6 most missed on ESGI, so I want to remind you of this one we already did. Even THOUGH we did it last week, and even THOUGH we are not together, you are still learning and growing!

Using the "Spring Daily Questions Writing" notebook in your yellow Language Arts Folder, respond to the following question: (see image link)
First write the question, then your answer. Write for 15 minutes (sans complaining time! :) in at least 3 proper complete sentences. Tell details why.

Think about the two versions of the story "How Beetles Got Their Beautiful Coats" that we discussed and acted out. Listen to the story in the link here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnwpgwr700

Write at least four sentences describing YOUR "hidden wings" or special talent few people know about. This is probably something not on your report card, right? Something that makes you special and unique.

Use these questions to form and extend your answer:
What can you do or what are you good at?
How did you learn it or develop the skill/talent?
Who helped you?
How long have you been doing this?
Who do you do it with?
How does it make you feel?

See Samples in attachment! And yes, Kaiya, that is your sweet bro talking about you!