April 14-17 Lesson Plans

Note to Parents: Not all items need to be sent back to me. Some items (weather chart, calendar) can be sent in at the end of the month.  I will indicate which items I would like to have a copy of completed work.  But use your discretion as time allows for you.  As far as reading goes, once your child is ready to read a book independently to me, you can send a 5 minute video clip. Do not worry if they cannot read the entire book in that time frame. I just need a glimpse of independent reading.  Once a week is what I am hoping for. Thank you for all the wonderful pictures/videos you have sent me so far!!! You are doing amazing work with your children.

Day 5--Tuesday, April 14, 2020 (Remember to practise your Bible verse for the month, each day or whatever necessary to learn for the month---see Bible verse posted on last week’s day plan!)

___Weather Calendar:  Fill in weather chart for the day.

___Calendar:  Insert new numbers from the weekend and up to today.  Discuss today is….; yesterday was…..; tomorrow will be…..

___Phonograms:  Oral review of all multi-letter phonograms.  Do you have the phonogram cards?  If not, do you have the green booklet that I sent home that will help you and your parents practise the sounds.  Here are the new phonograms we will be learning.  Beside each new phonogram is what you need to say for the sound of the multi-letter phonogram. Understand that some multi-letter phonograms have more than one sound. eigh (/A/--4 letter /A/), ei (/A/- /E/-/i/ that we may not use at the end of English words, ey (/A/-/E/-/i/ that we may use at the end of English words, ph /f/--2 letter /f/  

____Spelling:  Let’s go to the page on my blog called “Spelling City” to review the Spelling words. (under pages on the right side of my blog---click onto Spelling City)  I will send you the user name for your child and their password on a separate email.  After logging in, on the home page are the assignments for this week.  The spelling list is under the “List &Games” tab , April 6-17. For today, please try to do “Missing Letter” and “Word Unscramble”  (in that order)  Have fun learning these words in a new way.

____Writing:  Journal:  Let’s print this line in our journal-----Easter is all about…….Now complete the sentence and draw/color a picture of this! (send a picture please) 

____Reading:   10 minutes of quiet reading alone

____Reading:  Practise reading with someone the levelled books you have.  Ready to send me a  5 min. Video clip of you reading? That’s awesome!  Already done this?  Need some new reading?  Great, now you are ready to practise reading from books on-line.  (some of you have signed up for Epic books and that is great and will do)  Another choice is  Reading A-Z (click on my side page on the blog that says Reading A-Z)  Click on your child’s reading level.  Click on type of genre. (fiction, non-fiction) Scroll down to a book your child would like to read. Under the title Book Resources, click on single sided book and the download will show on the bottom left of your screen. Click on the download and the book will appear for reading. (use arrow keys to navigate pages) 

___Math:  Subtraction:  How do we do this?  You know.  Use your numberline.  Start with the first number (what you have) and hop backwards on the numberline (what you are giving away). Where you land is your answer!  Some of you do not need the number line.  You simply count backwards in your mind.  What works best for you?  Let’s try 2 easy work pages today.(send me a picture)  ;Bonus: Math Game: Play the roll and color game

____Socials:  “Me on the Map”.  (2 day project).  Color and label “This is my World”, “This is my continent”  “This is my country”  (see instruction on bottom of each page)  Cut out the circles on the dark lines (not the dashed line) and save for later assembly.  (The rest of the pages can be done tomorrow)

____ Art:  Learning About Line (what is a vertical, horizontal, diagonal line?)  Have fun and create your own design of these lines. (send a picture)

Day 6--Wednesday, April 15, 2020

___Weather Calendar:  Fill in weather chart for the day

___Calendar:  Insert new numbers from the weekend and up to today.  Discuss today is….; yesterday was…..; tomorrow will be…..

___Spelling:  Let’s do some more practise on the weblink on my blog called “Spelling City”.  This time let’s practise “Word Search”.

___Writing:  “Flying High”  Can you read the story out loud?  Now let’s answer the questions from the words in the story.  You can do this…...good job! (send picture)

___Reading: 10 minutes Quiet Reading on your own.

___Reading with parent:  A-Z Reading book. (practise two books)

___Math:  More subtraction practise. (Color the fishes) (send a picture) Bonus Game:  Play “Roll It to the Top” with someone. (Roll 2 dice. Add numbers. Each person has their own sheet (copy off two sheets) Color in your number of the added dice, starting at the bottom square. First person to complete a full column is the winner!

___Socials:  Finish project from yesterday. (my province, my town, me) Assemble the cut out circles into a booklet. (staple) (picture please) Watch Brain Pop Jr. (Social Studies---Continents and Oceans)

Day 7--Thursday, April 16, 2020

___Weather Calendar:  Fill in weather chart for the day

___Calendar:  Insert new numbers from the weekend and up to today.  Discuss today is….; yesterday was…..; tomorrow will be…..

___Spelling:  Spelling City---Do “Practise Test”  You are almost ready for the Spelling Test tomorrow!

___Writing:  “A Perfect Pig”  Can you read the story out loud?  Now let’s answer the questions from the words in the story.  You know how to do this! (send picture)

___Reading: 10 minutes Quiet Reading on your own.

___Reading with parent:  A-Z Reading book. (practise two books)

___Math: Measurement: In your measurement booklet that you have at home, try “Handy Measure” page. (if you do not have the pictured items in your home, change the word to measure the length of something else you can measure in your home. (send picture) Bonus:  Math game: “Fill in the Spaces”.  NOTE: Use only one dice for this game.

___Science: “Spring Weather”  Read the story and answer the questions.  The answers are in the story! (send picture)

___Bible:  Have your parent read the story of “Samuel”.  Question to discuss: What does this story tell you about obedience to God?

Day 8--Friday, April 17, 2020

___Weather Calendar:  Fill in weather chart for the day

___Calendar:  Insert new numbers from the weekend and up to today.  Discuss today is….; yesterday was…..; tomorrow will be…..

___Spelling:  Let’s take a Spelling test. (see Spelling Test paper)  Have your parent score your test and send me a picture of how you did!

___Writing:  “My mailbox” Practise reading the story.  Now let’s answer the questions from the words in the story.  This is easy!!

(send picture)

___Reading: 10 minutes Quiet Reading on your own.

___Reading with parent:  A-Z Reading book or Epic book  (practise two books)

___Math: Measurement: Use your measurement booklet that you have at home, try “How Many Books” page. (if you do not have the pictured items in your home, change the word to measure the height of something else you can measure in your home. (send picture) .

___Science:  Animals/Plants of the forest habitat.  Look and read the names of the animals on the listed pages. (keep these reference pages of animals for later reference)  Complete “What Belongs in the Forest” page.  Bonus:  “Wildlife Biologist” Pencil draw a picture of one of the forest animals and label the animal. (use the sheets of the animals as a guide.) (Send pictures) 

Teacher Song

I  know how well your children think of me as their teacher, hopefully they will think of you in the same way as you start on this new journey as their home teacher. Listen to this song as you become their new "cool" teacher.😃😎

Hello parents!  It has been so great to make initial contact with you.  Yes, we are working together through the glitches, but I want to thank you for your support and your perseverance.  I am learning how to navigate through this with you.  I support you and I am so thankful that you equally have support for me.  It has been wonderful to chat individually with your child.......I miss them so much and it has been a blessing to connect and hear and see them. We will keep this up, it is so valuable!  I am overwhelmed but pleased with the feedback on the lesson plans.  Good on you, mom,dad, grandparents and all who are helping your child, grandchild to succeed!  This is not an easy endeavor, but thank you for all you have done.  The pictures, the videos, are fantastic, and stored in your child's file.  Again, thank you for your support.

Here are the lesson plans which I will also send you in an email and on Google Drive. For Science, when you click on the link BrainPopJr on my blog, on top right of the website go to "enter code", the code is ACXCBUDP, after that fill in the form and you will free access to the website.

Day 3---April 8, 2020

____Calendar…...print in new number.  Talk about today, yesterday and tomorrow.  Can you say the day, date, year for each entry?  Yes you can!

____Weather…..fill in graph day 3

____Spelling:  One more time.  Blue Spelling books…..mix up the words in different order and have someone tell you the word, sound out the letters and try to spell.  Remember if you spell it correctly, give yourself a silent cheer. If not, erase, and correct. You can do this!

____Writing: Orange duotang.  Can you do another page in the booklet?  Yes you can!

____Reading:  You know it. Quiet reading alone for 10 minutes.  Look at books, read books but certainly enjoy a quiet time.  We’ve done this at school, you can do this at home!

____Reading: Ok, Let’s work one more time on the home reading program.  If you think you are ready to read a book to me, ask Mom/Dad to send a video of you reading the book.  Let me see the title and I can’t wait to hear you read! But if you are not ready, that’s ok, practise again.  You can do this!

____Math:  You are doing amazing with addition!  Let’s keep going. No blocks, but you can do this with a numberline.  You are so smart! Let’s do this one more workpage with addition.  

____Science:  Let’s go to Brain Pop Jr. and find out about our new habitat.  Forest. Can you link on and hear all about it? Go to my blog and you will see the link.  You need to go to Science and then habitats---voila---- good for you.. Now you got it!

Day 4, April 9, 2020

   __Calendar…...print in a new number.  Talk about today, yesterday and tomorrow.  Can you say the day, date, year for each entry?  Yes you can!

____Weather…..fill in graph day 4.   So what is winning? You know it.  

____Spellling:  How about Hangman?  Let’s give the first clue and watch and work and see if you can spell the spelling word before you are hung.  Can you play this with mom or dad or brother or sister?

_____Reading::  Reading alone (10 min)

____Reading:  Can you send a video of your reading?  Great job and I’m so proud of you. Not ready yet? That is ok, you are doing your best and I know it.. Can you keep practising

_____Math:   Let’s take a look at measurement. Can  you look at the first page of the booklet I sent you?  Find something in your house to measure with your shoe.  This is a lot of fun. Let’s remember to start at the very beginning edge and measure.  Do you have a partner? How about mom/dad/brother/sister?

               ___ _____Science: Spring is the new season after winter.  Let’s read a story about spring. The story is called
“The Thing About Spring” by Daniel Kirk.  It’s a read-aloud story (8 min) You will enjoy this story as it is read to
you, with pictures to accompany.  Click on the link below for the story. Question to think and discuss at the
end of the story: What do you like best about spring?  Now let’s do a work page about spring.
After filling in the blanks, go ahead and color the picture using your crayons or pencil crayons.
Can’t wait to see your beautiful printing and coloring!

_____ Easter:  Can you put this booklet together?  Yes you can. Fold and read to someone in your family.  HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!

                

For your information

Parents, this a duplication of everything that I have sent to you so far. From now on you will received your own information through Google drive and emails but it will also be posted here on the blog.😃

Welcome Back Video

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1j6JiBE4NDZEz7Q-vDm8-94pDnUxlxlm3

Google Meet sign up

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mWVwl3ucBXMecCo-CBrDAWw_fwjMiYyeeZkCm3W3SCk/edit

Lesson plans April 6-7

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1sj5KjmiJFr2jRlaPvnlQ2N0aH4xt9Bwv

Important message for parents

Dear Parents and students,

Welcome back. Usually, at this time, we would be welcoming you back into our classroom with sunny smiles, laughter and fun tales of holiday exploits filling the air. However, these are not usual times. Recent events have created lots of uncertainty and unknowns in our world.

One thing we do know is that God is great and powerful. He is someone who is always faithful. Even during this time, where plans seem uncertain and ever changing, we know He has a plan for us.

We have drawn a lot on our faith in God these past few days as we have begun to plan for what your child’s education will look like in the coming days and weeks ahead. Hopefully, this post will begin to provide you with some information on some of the things we are working on, providing you with some comfort and clarity. 

We want you to know that:

1.      School will continue - Teachers are hard at work preparing materials and activities to students to work on at home. Recognizing that there are many things vying for your attention on the homefront, we are trying hard to not overwhelm you. However, we do not want to just send home busy work but rather activities that are still strongly connected with the BC curriculum. 

       

2.      Establishing a routine is important - One of the best things for your child is establishing a routine that you can follow as much as possible. Therefore, a suggested daily schedule will be sent home to help with building those all important routines into your day. Children like knowing what is going to happen each day and what the expectations are.   

       

3.      Connections with your child are important to us - We are thinking and praying for our students. We miss their smiles, their unique personalities and their energy. We have built relationships with your child during this year and want those relationships to continue even at this time. We want your child to know that we are still here thinking of them and knowing that they are still important to us. Throughout the week, we will be contacting you and your child - on a scheduled basis - using a variety of methods (phone, email, and video conferencing).

       

4.      Technology can be a powerful tool for remote learning but may be difficult - Bringing a number of technology tools to work in delivering content, activities and materials to your child can make for a different kind of dynamic learning experience. However, we recognize that families have differing abilities in accessing technology at home. Over the next few days, you will be contacted and asked to complete a short survey which will help us to determine the needs and capabilities of families in accessing technology. At the Intermediate level, there are plans to send our Chromebooks home with each student so that they have equal access to a tool commonly used at school. 

       

5.      Students may need items from school - Elementary students use a wide variety of tools to complete work. In order to facilitate learning at home, some of these items will need to be returned to you. The Office and Admin are developing plans to provide families time to collect supplies from classrooms. This will allow you to have access to some common materials including pencil crayons, markers, scissors, rulers, paper, some duotangs, etc. Cognizant of the virulent nature of th Covid-19 virus, we are working on a way for parents to pick these materials up while maintaining the social distancing guidelines put out by Public Health. A schedule will be released by the office of pick-up times for your child.

    

6.   Primary content and activities will be distributed through your child’s classroom blog. Intermediate students will continue to use Google Classroom to get their materials, activities and content.

    

7.   There are many things we don’t know yet - We are working hard to answer as many questions as possible as quickly as possible and will strive to keep you updated as soon as we know more information.

We want to thank you for your patience during this time. God proclaims, 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you,  I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

 

You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. We look forward to continuing to work closely with you, even in the face of these challenges.  

Guatemala Team

The Guatemala Team is leaving today for the mission trip.  A BIG thank you to all the parents who donated baby bottles, sippy cups and soothers for their visit to the Restoration House for malnutritioned children.  Please keep the team in your prayers!

Bible Memory

For the remainder of March and all of April we are focussing on a "Heroes of Faith" theme in chapel.  Here is the memory verse students need to memorize.  "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."  Hebrews 11:6  Please take time to practise this verse at home.  Thank you!