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New Content Weekly Plans: April - June

March 30-April 3: Math Choice Board
Using a collection of objects (ie: old buttons, pieces of cereal, blocks...etc.), create a pattern. Name the pattern and find the core (the part that repeats). Can you extend the pattern? What about creating a new one with the same pattern?
With your child, select a recipe to create. Have the child read the directions (as much as they can) and measure or count out the ingredients.
Play Make 10 Go Fish with a buddy. Use A-10 cards. 5 cards per player. Ask for the pair that would make 10. (example: I have a 3. I ask for a 7).
Practice your magic number - try the number above and below! (example: Bears in a Cave, Creating a picture with 2 colors of objects).
Use objects to group and count to 120 by 2s, 5s, 10s.
Count sets of coins to $1.00 (only one type of coin at a time). Compare sets. Which is more? Less?
Count backwards from 30 orally. Can you start at 28? 21? 15?
Observe and graph the weather. Which type of weather happened the most? The least? How many more? How many less?
Go on a shape scavenger hunt at home. What do you see that is a circle, square, triangle, or rectangle shape? Make a shape collage of examples of these shapes using pictures cut from magazines.
March Math Menu Work on the activities on the March Math Menu.
Use objects at home to create addition and subtraction story problems (use pasta, cereal, toy cars, lego figures, etc.)
ABCya.com math games

March 30-April 3: Literacy Choice Board
Read a new book. Write a script for a commercial for the book. Record your commercial and post it on the Crenshaw Facebook group.
Write your sight words using sidewalk chalk outside.
After reading, choose one of the questions below to answer:

Get a journal and decorate it. Write to a friend, family member or teacher each day about one of the topics below.

Humphrey Activities
Story Time From Space - click on “Story Time Videos” to hear books read aloud by astronauts. You do not need to log in.
Visit https://www.storylineonline.net/ to listen to famous people read picture books
PBSkids.org literacy games
Starfall.com literacy games
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ research, learning and more!
Funbrain.com literacy games
Scholastic Code for Scholastic Magazine
- Gibbons & Smith: giftcloud5878
- Plumb: beepmint4955
- Hill: mineteam5335
- West: roombig425
- Kunkel: notedesk4270

March 30-April 3: Sci/SS Choice Board
Every couple of days, observe the trees. Draw a picture of the changes that are happening.
Sort Toys or Objects by the way they move (example: circular, straight, curved, up, down, back, forth...etc)
Go outside and have someone trace your shadow with chalk in the morning, at noon, and in the later afternoon. When was your shadow in front of you? Behind you? When was it the longest? Check out the Mystery Science shadow activity linked.
Make an instrument, bird feeder or home for stuffed animals out of recycled materials.
Hour of Code
Mystery Science - Choose a topic and watch a video to investigate.

If you had dinner with a famous Virginian (Maggie Walker, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Arthur Ashe) what questions would you want to ask that person?
Make a flag for your family using crayons, markers, construction paper. Think of colors, symbols, and shapes that may represent where your family is from, what they like to do, your family pets.
Look at a map of The United States. Find Virginia and look for what states border Virginia. Where is Washington D.C.? Look at the Virginia Map. What ocean is to the east? Where are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Make a poster of Virginia’s symbols. (Cardinal, dogwood (tree and flower), state flag.

Log into RapidIdentity. Click on the backpack. Choose the DreamBox icon.

Play 20-30 minutes a day.

Log into RapidIdentity. Click on the backpack. Choose the MyOn icon.

Read 20-30 minutes a day.

Log into RapidIdentity. Click on the backpack. Choose the Flocabulary icon.

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