Hi everyone! I hope you had a relaxing spring break and got to spend some time with your families. I know it was a different spring break than we are used to.
We will have the same spelling words for the next two weeks as both weeks are short. The words are: eat, car, friend, off, there. You can do any word work activities any time over the next two weeks to practice these words. As well, when your child is ready to move on to the next list of popcorn words, you can go ahead and start practicing. If you would like, you can send me a video of them reading their words. Thanks for the videos I've received so far!
In LA this week, the week looks something like this: journal writing, word work, respond to a story and a making words activity. Throughout the week, children can also read to themselves or listen to stories. Every day new services are adding free audio books. I will add the links to the websites on this page.
In math this week, we will finish up numbers to 100 and do a bit of adding and subtracting review. Adding and subtracting games are fun to play any time and are good for making basic facts solid! Next week, we will begin to learn about geometry, which will be our focus for most of April, with some different adding and subtracting games thrown in for fun.
I am in the process of creating a sign-up for smaller groups to connect on Google Meet. It was fun to see everyone altogether, but our class is so large that it made it hard to talk to everyone. I will create a sign-up where we can meet as a group of 5 to chat and check in!
**A bonus activity for today that you could do if you want is to graph the weather we had in March. Students will look at their weather book and count how many days were yellow(sunny), green (partly sunny), red (snowy), purple (windy), grey (cloudy) or blue (rainy). They then colour the graph at the end of the month accordingly (you can look at past months for an example.) They could also colour the April page and write down any important days happening in April like Easter.
Happy Monday! Love Mrs. B
Monday 6 April 2020
Friday 27 March 2020
Friday March 27
On Fridays, we do our spelling test. Today, you can either write your words on paper and take a picture or try typing them in the document in Classroom. This week, we have done word work, sentence writing and listening to reading. Today I have an assignment where your child can read to themselves or you.
Tips for figuring out new words
- use stretchy snake to stretch out the whole word eg. cat becomes c-a-t
- use eagle eye to look at the pictures to give you context clues about what the word might be
- use chunky monkey to chunk bigger words into pieces. eg yesterday becomes yes-ter-day
- if you're still stuck, then you can ask for help after trying some strategies.
Mrs. Awid has a game for you to try for math today that will help with greater than and less than.
Over Spring Break, there will be no work assigned. I hope everyone takes some time to relax, reenergize and destress. Looking forward to seeing you at 1:30! Love Mrs. B
Tips for figuring out new words
- use stretchy snake to stretch out the whole word eg. cat becomes c-a-t
- use eagle eye to look at the pictures to give you context clues about what the word might be
- use chunky monkey to chunk bigger words into pieces. eg yesterday becomes yes-ter-day
- if you're still stuck, then you can ask for help after trying some strategies.
Mrs. Awid has a game for you to try for math today that will help with greater than and less than.
Over Spring Break, there will be no work assigned. I hope everyone takes some time to relax, reenergize and destress. Looking forward to seeing you at 1:30! Love Mrs. B
Thursday 26 March 2020
Thursday March 26
Assignments in Classroom are good to go for LA and Math. In LA, a combination of spelling practice and sentence writing. You can do the assignment in classroom or make some sentences on paper. If you'd like, you can also choose some activities from Word Work to try again, read or book or practice your popcorn words.
In math, there are two activities. Today we are focused on counting by 10's. 1 assignment is similar to counting by 2's and 5's and the other assignment is an app that you can have fun with. I have made a video to explain how to use it.
Mrs. Awid has a game for tomorrow that requires a deck of cards. If you don't have cards, you can write the numbers 1-9 on some small squares of paper and repeat this 4 times to play the game. Good number writing practice. :)
I will send an email to parents to day about setting up a Zoom video chat with the class tomorrow. I will send an email with more information and a form to pick the best time.
Have a great Thursday, Love Mrs. B
In math, there are two activities. Today we are focused on counting by 10's. 1 assignment is similar to counting by 2's and 5's and the other assignment is an app that you can have fun with. I have made a video to explain how to use it.
Mrs. Awid has a game for tomorrow that requires a deck of cards. If you don't have cards, you can write the numbers 1-9 on some small squares of paper and repeat this 4 times to play the game. Good number writing practice. :)
I will send an email to parents to day about setting up a Zoom video chat with the class tomorrow. I will send an email with more information and a form to pick the best time.
Have a great Thursday, Love Mrs. B
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Wednesday March 25
Good morning everyone! I loved seeing your pictures yesterday. I hope you are having fun learning at home at spending time with your families. There are two new activities in Classroom today. In math, the activity is similar to yesteday except now we are counting by 5's! In LA, I have one of my favourite stories for you to listen to called Duck! Rabbit! It is a book that really emphasizes differnt opinions and how things can change depending on how you look at them.
I also have a video message here that Mrs. Awid sent me. She is still busy working on those awesome math games we love! I will send you some of her ideas soon.
Mrs. Awid video - I hope this works, but if it doesn't, let me know and I will try to email it to you!
If you are looking for extra activities to do each day, try some of the links in Awesome Websites. You can also read daily, get outside as much as you can, practice your spelling or popcorn word games or try some Cosmic Kids Yoga. I have a new link in Awesome Websites called Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems. Mo Willems is one of my favourite authors. he has written "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and the Elephant and Piggy Series. On his YouTube channel, he has some drawing lessons for kids, and I know you all love to draw!! If you want, check it out!
Have a great day! Love Mrs. B
I also have a video message here that Mrs. Awid sent me. She is still busy working on those awesome math games we love! I will send you some of her ideas soon.
Mrs. Awid video - I hope this works, but if it doesn't, let me know and I will try to email it to you!
If you are looking for extra activities to do each day, try some of the links in Awesome Websites. You can also read daily, get outside as much as you can, practice your spelling or popcorn word games or try some Cosmic Kids Yoga. I have a new link in Awesome Websites called Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems. Mo Willems is one of my favourite authors. he has written "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and the Elephant and Piggy Series. On his YouTube channel, he has some drawing lessons for kids, and I know you all love to draw!! If you want, check it out!
Have a great day! Love Mrs. B
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Tuesday March 24
I hope everyone is doing well! I'm so happy most of you found your way to Google classroom. This is where I will be posting the LA and Math assignments for the day. There will be a new assignment for each subject each day, but please work at your own pace. To supplement these activities, you can try any or all of the awesome websites I have posted on the side. You can go for a socially distanced walk, call grandparents on the phone, read stories, play game or do a Cosmic Kids Yoga. In your school supply bag, we also sent home a Shuffle into Math package from Boxcars and One-eyed Jacks that you can look to for dice and cards game ideas.
A totally optional activity that you could do that might also add some routine for your child is to track the weather. If you have your student's supplies, you can use their weather calendar from school. If you don't have it and want to track the weather on your own calendar you can do so as well. Each day at calendar time, we would record the weather by colouring that date on our calendar according to our legend. Sometimes there would be two kinds of weather, so we'd divide the date in two colours, and sometimes we'd even need three colours. At the end of the month, we would graph how much of each weather we had experienced. Our legend is:
yellow-sunny
green - partly sunny/cloudy
grey - cloudy
blue-rainy
red - snowy
purple - windy
**I have also sent an invitation to your child's gmail account to join Google Hangouts. It is an instant messaging system from Google that can allow me to say hi and chat one-on-one. To access this, when you are logged into Chrome with your child's account, you can go to their gmail and find the invitation from me. Just another way to stay in contact.
Today's math activity is all about counting by 2's. In LA, I have provided some offline ways to practice spelling and popcorn words. Head over to classroom to check them out! Have fun and let me know if you have any questions!
Love Mrs. B
A totally optional activity that you could do that might also add some routine for your child is to track the weather. If you have your student's supplies, you can use their weather calendar from school. If you don't have it and want to track the weather on your own calendar you can do so as well. Each day at calendar time, we would record the weather by colouring that date on our calendar according to our legend. Sometimes there would be two kinds of weather, so we'd divide the date in two colours, and sometimes we'd even need three colours. At the end of the month, we would graph how much of each weather we had experienced. Our legend is:
yellow-sunny
green - partly sunny/cloudy
grey - cloudy
blue-rainy
red - snowy
purple - windy
**I have also sent an invitation to your child's gmail account to join Google Hangouts. It is an instant messaging system from Google that can allow me to say hi and chat one-on-one. To access this, when you are logged into Chrome with your child's account, you can go to their gmail and find the invitation from me. Just another way to stay in contact.
Today's math activity is all about counting by 2's. In LA, I have provided some offline ways to practice spelling and popcorn words. Head over to classroom to check them out! Have fun and let me know if you have any questions!
Love Mrs. B
Monday 23 March 2020
Monday March 23
Welcome to Day 1!
For language arts, you can practice whichever popcorn words your child is on whenever you want. These are listed on the side for your availability. When students have a list mastered, you could take a video and email it to me. :) We will still practice spelling words weekly. The words this week are: give, house, tell, them us
You can practice spelling words whenever you would like. I am going to divide language arts skills up throughout the week - Monday will be for journal writing, Tuesday will be working with words (spelling practice), Wednesdays are for listening to and responding to stories, Thursdays will be sentence writing or making words and Fridays will be spelling test/read to self or stuffie, or parents. I will try to keep this kind of language arts schedule to make an easy routine for children. I would say try to read together every day if you can. I will also try to add links on the side to websites for reading, listening to stories and other activities.
Today we will just be dipping our toes into online learning. I have assigned a practice log-in post in Google Classroom for students to make sure they can get into Google classroom. After that, there is a language arts game and a math game that they can try by clicking on the links in Classroom. These games are on ABCYa, which the children have used before and should be fairly comfortable with.
Here is a link to a video of logging in to Classroom:
Getting into Google Classroom
The best thing about your Google log-ins and passwords is that they are the same for all Google apps. If you take a picture with a device, you can save it in your child's Google Drive. If you are already logged into classroom, just go to the Google Drive website and you will be able to add new files like pictures in here. If you save them in Google Drive, they will be easier to share on Google classroom as well. I may be able to make a video about this in the future.
I will also send an invite to your child's account for Google Hangouts. This is an instant messaging platform that works through you child's Google password, and I can just send a message to your child individually.
This week in math, we will finish up some skills for Numbers to 100 before Spring Break. I'll be posting activities in Google Classroom and on here for you to try at home.
Have fun with math and language arts games today. I will have a new post about tomorrow's activities soon! I will do my posts for the next day's activities in the afternoons. Take it easy today and we will go one day at a time!
Take care, Love Mrs. B
For language arts, you can practice whichever popcorn words your child is on whenever you want. These are listed on the side for your availability. When students have a list mastered, you could take a video and email it to me. :) We will still practice spelling words weekly. The words this week are: give, house, tell, them us
You can practice spelling words whenever you would like. I am going to divide language arts skills up throughout the week - Monday will be for journal writing, Tuesday will be working with words (spelling practice), Wednesdays are for listening to and responding to stories, Thursdays will be sentence writing or making words and Fridays will be spelling test/read to self or stuffie, or parents. I will try to keep this kind of language arts schedule to make an easy routine for children. I would say try to read together every day if you can. I will also try to add links on the side to websites for reading, listening to stories and other activities.
Today we will just be dipping our toes into online learning. I have assigned a practice log-in post in Google Classroom for students to make sure they can get into Google classroom. After that, there is a language arts game and a math game that they can try by clicking on the links in Classroom. These games are on ABCYa, which the children have used before and should be fairly comfortable with.
Here is a link to a video of logging in to Classroom:
Getting into Google Classroom
The best thing about your Google log-ins and passwords is that they are the same for all Google apps. If you take a picture with a device, you can save it in your child's Google Drive. If you are already logged into classroom, just go to the Google Drive website and you will be able to add new files like pictures in here. If you save them in Google Drive, they will be easier to share on Google classroom as well. I may be able to make a video about this in the future.
I will also send an invite to your child's account for Google Hangouts. This is an instant messaging platform that works through you child's Google password, and I can just send a message to your child individually.
This week in math, we will finish up some skills for Numbers to 100 before Spring Break. I'll be posting activities in Google Classroom and on here for you to try at home.
Have fun with math and language arts games today. I will have a new post about tomorrow's activities soon! I will do my posts for the next day's activities in the afternoons. Take it easy today and we will go one day at a time!
Take care, Love Mrs. B
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