April 20th - 24th

Literacy

Learning Focus: Sounding out words to write.

1. Welcome back from Easter Break! Write in your journal to tell me what you did during your time off.

You need to:

• Write at least 3 sentences. Write more if you can!
• Remember to use spaces, capital and lowercase letters where needed, and punctuation. Here is the writing checklist to make sure you've done your best work!
• Illustrate your journal entry.
• Sound out your words! It is so important to write the letters that you hear; that is how you become a stronger reader and writer!
• Post a picture or video of your journal entry on Seesaw!

Parents: Feel free to write the correct words underneath your child's writing if what they've written is difficult to understand or read, but please do not have them correct their spelling. I know this is hard! If your child is consistently asking you to spell for them, you can help them by slowly saying the words to help them sound out, remind them to write the letters they hear, and tell them that Mrs. Unrau wants to see that they tried themselves.

Here is a letter from our District Lead Literacy Teacher explaining why it is so important for students to spell words by sounding them out at this age, rather than having the words spelt for them. 

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Practicing addition.

1. You are going to play a math game called Knockout Dice! Watch this video made by a grade one teacher at Senator Buchanan School, Mrs. Rozee, to learn how to play.

To play, you will need:

• a partner
• paper and something to write with
• two dice

Have fun practicing your addition skills!

Literacy

Learning Focus: Earth Day

1. Read the slideshow about Earth Day and discuss it with your family as you go through.

2. Watch this short video on recycling.

3. Go to seesaw to complete the sorting activity about recycling, composting, and trash.

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Measuring Length using Non-Standard Units (your pet rock)

1. Watch Mrs. Unrau’s video lesson at the bottom of this page, to learn how to measure length with non-standard units.

2. For today's math activity, you will use your pet rock to measure the length of different objects around your house.

• When you find an object on the Measurement Scavenger Hunt, you will carefully measure with your pet rock to see how long it is.
• Each object will be _____ pet rocks long.

Happy Birthday Casey!

Go to Seesaw to watch a special video and complete an activity for Casey's birthday!

Literacy

Learning Focus: Sight Word Practice

Practice your sight words by playing a game of Sight Word Snakes and Ladders.

From the Resources and Games Envelope I sent home, you will need:

• The sight word cards. Please cut them out if you haven’t already.
• The Snakes and Ladders board
• One of your dice

You will also need to find some small objects to use for your game pieces; one small thing per person playing the game.

• You could use legos, cereal pieces, noodles, erasers, pebbles, etc.

To play

1. Lay out sight word cards on each of the game squares
2. Put your game pieces at the starting square and take turns rolling the die.
   • On your turn, move the number indicated on the die then read the word you land on.
   • If your word is at the bottom of a ladder, go up the ladder.
   • If your word is at the top of a snake, slide down the snake.

Make sure you go to Seesaw to complete the special activity for Casey’s birthday!

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Measuring Height using Non-Standard Units

Watch this video to review what height is. Sesame Street: Grover Finds the Tallest Monster

Measurement Activity

Parents or older brother/sisters, you will need to help with this first part of the measurement activity!

1. The grade one student should lay down on the floor and have one of their family members mark how tall they are. Some different ways you could do this are:

• Put an object (a shoe, a toy, a piece of tape, etc.) at the top of your head and at the bottom of your foot. Be careful not to move the object.
• Cut a piece of string that goes from the top of your head to the bottom of your foot.
• Go outside and use chalk on the sidewalk. They could even trace your body.
• If you think of another way, that is great too!

2. The student needs to get up and measure how tall they are. They can choose any non-standard unit to do this.

• Some examples are: their pet rock, their shoe, blocks, a certain toy, pencils, etc.
• Carefully line the objects up or use your finger to mark as you measure. Please re-watch yesterday’s video if you are not sure how to do this.

3. After you have measured yourself, measure one or more of your family members using the same unit of measurement.

Questions to think about:

• Who is the tallest?
• Who is the shortest?
• Can you put the heights in order?
• Were you surprised by how many units tall each person was?

Happy Birthday tomorrow to Eli and Eastyn!

Wow! It is so neat that you two have the same birthday!

Go to Seesaw to watch special videos and complete activities for Eli and Eastyn's birthdays!

Literacy

Learning Focus: Writing an Information Book

For today’s writing activity, we are going to pretend that your pet rock is a real pet that you have to take care of. You are going to write a book explaining how to take care of your pet rock. Be creative and imaginative!

1. Write your book.

• Your book needs to be at least 3 pages long.
  • Here is the template for the book.
  • You can print it or make your own on paper.
  • If you want to write more pages, go for it!
  • If you need more lines for writing, you can add more on the back of your page.

• Your pages can be about any of the things someone who owns a pet rock needs to know to take care of it.
  • Some examples are:
    • a page about how to feed your rock and what they eat
    • a page about where your rock sleeps or lives
    • a page about exercising or playing with your rock
    • a page about bathing or cleaning your rock

2. Illustrate your book. You could also make a cover page for your book.

3. Send me a video or some pictures on Seesaw to show me your great work!

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Practice Addition by Playing a Math Game

In your Resources and Games envelope, you will find Spring Addition: Five in a Row. This is a two player game.

You will need:

• The game board
• Small objects to use as markers (each person needs a different object)
• Two Dice

To Play:

1. On your turn, roll the two dice and add them together to find the sum. Use one of your objects to cover the sum on the game board. Take turns.

The object of the game is to get five of your markers in a row. Your line can go horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Make sure you go to Seesaw to complete the special activities for Eli and Eastyn's birthdays!