May 4th - 8th

Literacy

Learning Focus: Comparing ideas in a story and constructing meaning.

1. Listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs.

2. In your journal, write about the following:

• Which house is the strongest?
• Why is it the strongest?
• If you were to build a strong house, what materials would you use?
• Draw a picture of this type of house.

3. Send me a picture of your writing on Seesaw and/or a video of you reading me your answer.

Here’s an extra (fun!) optional activity for Science:

1. Build 3 little houses out of different types of materials.  Use recycled materials or anything you can find in your house. Some ideas include popsicle sticks, tin foil, straws, marshmallows, sugar cubes, deck of cards, cardboard from your recycling bin or LEGO.  It’s okay if it falls apart right away.  That’s an important thing to notice about the type of material you used.

2. In your journal, tell me which material made the strongest house. What made the weakest house?

3. Send me a picture of your houses on Seesaw.

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Introduction to 3D Shapes

1. Watch this video:

2. Find the following 3D shapes around the house or outside:

• Sphere
• Cube
• Pyramid
• Cylinder

3. Take a picture of your objects or draw them and post on Seesaw.

Happy Birthday Ava!

Go to Seesaw to watch a special video and complete an activity for Ava’s birthday!

Literacy

Learning Focus: Re-telling a story.

1. Do you remember the story of The Three Little Pigs from yesterday? Now it’s your turn to tell this story on Seesaw.  If you’d rather re-tell it without the use of the pictures on Seesaw, feel free to video your child telling the story and send that to me instead.

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Introduction to 3D Shapes

1. Watch this fun song about 3D Shapes:

2. Find the following 3D shapes around the house or outside:

• Cone
• Triangular prism
• Rectangular prism
• Hexagonal prism

3. Take a picture of your objects or draw them and post on Seesaw.  Were they easier or harder to find than yesterday’s shapes?

Literacy

Learning Focus: The concept of perspective/point of view.

1. Listen to this story about The Three Little Pigs from a different point of view:

2. How are the stories different?  How are they the same?  Write your answers down on the worksheet.

3. Share a picture of your worksheet with me on Seesaw.

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Introduction to 3D Shapes

1. Follow along with this great book about shapes called “What Was Here?”.

2. Try the activity listed with the book about shapes in a tangram.

Literacy

Learning Focus: Constructing meaning from texts.

1. Think of the two stories we listened to this week about The Three Little Pigs. In your journal, answer the following writing prompts:

• Who is telling the true story, the pigs or the wolf?
• Why do you think that?
• Double check your writing. Did you start each sentence with a capital letter?  Did you end each sentence with proper punctuation?

2. Follow along with this fun drawing video on Art Hub for Kids and draw your own Three Little Pigs:

3. Share your writing and art with me on Seesaw.

Numeracy

Learning Focus: Introduction to 3D Shapes

1. If you have a printer, print the nets on this website and make your own 3D shapes (you will need paper for printing, scissors for cutting and glue or tape for holding your folds in place): https://www.math-salamanders.com/3d-geometric-shapes.html

2. If you don’t have a printer, head out for a walk in nature and find the natural 2D and 3D shapes that nature has to offer us! Can you find:

5 - rectangles or rectangular prisms
4 - circles or spheres
3 - triangles, triangular prisms, or pyramids
2 - squares or cubes
1 – diamond

Good luck! **if you can't find the shapes, feel free to make them (i.e., use four sticks to make a rectangle).  

Happy Birthday on Sunday Vivian!

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

Literacy

Learning Focus: Demonstrate attentive listening and viewing.

1. Watch a musical re-telling of the story presented by Walt Disney and the Silly Symphony:

2. In your journal, tell me what was your favourite version of The Three Little Pigs that you read/listened to/watched this week and why you liked it best.

3. Share your answer with me on Seesaw.

Numeracy

Learning Focus: 3D Shapes 

1. Head to Art for Kids Hub to learn how to draw one of our 3D shapes!

2. Post a picture of your drawing on Seesaw.

3. Spend some time on Happy Numbers (where you created an account last week). If you haven’t yet, here are the instructions:

• Choose the yellow button “I am a student”
• Enter our class number: 198 910
• Click your name and enter your password from the email Mrs. Unrau sent last week. If you don’t have it, please email me and I will look it up.
• Push the button “Ready to start”.
• It will read the instructions to you. Complete the math tasks. This first activity is a placement test to see what areas your child needs help with. The site will adjust the assignments automatically.
• Here is a video to help with logging in.