Friday is Hat Day, your child can wear anything for a hat. (One teacher wore a cat, another wore a mop head). Try to think outside the box and be creative.

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Activities for Thursday, January 27th, 2022

The following activities should be broken up over the day. We do not expect the children to be sitting for more than 10 minutes at a time.

1) 9am Google Meet with Mrs. MacKenzie. The link will be posted here meet.google.com/api-psyi-nup at 8:50 in the morning to give everyone time to log in. IF the link does not take you to the meeting when you click on it, then please cut and paste the link in a new window to gain access to the meeting. (30 Minutes). TODAY IS SHOW AND TELL DAY. HAVE YOUR CHILD BRING A PET OR A TOY TO TALK ABOUT. THE CHILDREN WITH LIVE PETS WILL GO FIRST J

2) Watch the following video for Fundations, our new Phonics Program. We are learning about the letters H, K and L.

Parents, you will need to cut and paste the following link into a new window to access the video. ( 17 minutes)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RIwLothzaVM9JwtiWmH33HiRNTeTVLCJ/view?usp=sharing

This link should work for both Chrome Notebooks and home computers.

3) Video with Mrs. MacKenzie – .My Puppy (5 Minutes) https://youtu.be/gS4zpO4SyIg

Chrome Note Book link : https://video.link/w/KLfXc

4) Have your child watch the Tens Frame Song . (6 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLiwP_hxdQc&ab_channel=Mr.R.%27sSongsforTeaching

Chrome Notebook link: https://video.link/w/C8pWc

5) Read the little guided reader called Rain in the Country. Talk to your child about rain and what happens outside when it is raining. You can read the book to your child first and then your child can read the book to you. Please have your child point to each word as they read. Look at the pictures for clues to the story. (5 - 10 minutes). Count the words in each sentence. If you have time, let your child read Animal Sounds, Animal Coverings or What has this tail? to you again for practice. Your child could read these books to you as a bedtime story. Take these books with you in the car for your child to read. Encourage them to read the books for fun on their own.

6) Review all three Jack Hartman’s sight word video. Have your child dance and sing along to our sight words.

(10 Minutes)

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSwtN7RWtU&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ZDgAVQEqo&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TNX9MzAxzI&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

1) Chrome Notebook : https://video.link/w/eO3Vc

2) Chrome Notebook : https://video.link/w/onpWc

3) Chrome Notebook : https://video.link/w/nzpWc

7) Sight Words: Use the sight words as flashcards and have your child name all the words they can. Put a check mark on the ones they know and put them to one side. If your child could name 2 or 3 sight words, then add 2 or 3 new sight words to the pile. Review all the sight words that your child has covered.

(5 - 10 minutes)

8) Have your child write their name at the top of the paper.

If you are running out of printing paper, then just use the plain white paper or the construction paper for the children to write on. Time to write some sentences. Take the sight words (I, my, you, ) and place them on the table in front of your child. Have them write the sentence I hear my Mom. They can sound out the word hear/Mom/Dad/Sister etc. or you can write the word love out for them. Some other sentences they can write are I hear my Dad, I hear my sister, I hear my cat, I hear my toy etc. (5 - 10 minutes)

9) Find the Beginning Constants worksheet in the second supply package. It has the letter B at the top and shows pictures of a flower, a bird, a bee, a baseball, a balloon and a set of drums. The sheets for B to Z are stapled together. Name the pictures for your child and have them circle the pictures that start with the letter B.

Have them do the letter C and D as well (6 minutes).

10) Check out the link for our Gym activities. If you have any energy left, feel free to check out the Music activities as well.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Hi Parents: If your child is finding the hours long there are some sheets from the second supply package that your child could work on at home or take them to childcare to work on.

Find the sheet called Identify groups with more/fewer objects in the 2^nd supply package. The first set is mice and the second set is ladybugs. Have your child look at both sets of mice and guess which one has the most without counting. Then have them count the two groups of mice and see if they were right.

Do the same for the ladybugs. Do the backside of the sheet as well.

Please have fun with the activities. Dance with your child to the videos, do the exercise activities in the gym videos with your child, draw a picture with your child and have them guess what it is. Sing along with the songs and have fun. As always, if there are any questions, please email srmackenzie@edu.pe.ca

IF your child wants to change their background for the Google meetings:

When you are in the meeting, look at the 6 black circles under your picture. Choose the circle that has three dots in it. Click on the three dots. The fifth option is to Apply Visual Effects. Scroll down through the options and let your child chose what they like.

The only issue with using the backgrounds: if your child steps too far back from the camera, they disappear into the background.

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Activities for Wednesday, January 26th, 2022

The following activities should be broken up over the day. We do not expect the children to be sitting for more than 10 minutes at a time.

1) 9am Google Meet with Mrs. MacKenzie. The link will be posted here meet.google.com/zox-aoqd-zcn at 8:50 in the morning to give everyone time to log in. IF the link does not take you to the meeting when you click on it, then please cut and paste the link in a new window to gain access to the meeting. (30 Minutes)

2) Watch the following video for Fundations, our new Phonics Program. We are learning about the letters H, K and L.

Parents, you will need to cut and paste the following link into a new window to access the video. ( 14 minutes)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I2CcsfZkdcmlhlfCdcP7Am-0YL74OjTD/view?usp=sharing

This link should work for both Chrome Notebooks and home computers.

3) Video with Mrs. MacKenzie – Brown Bear Brown Bear (5 Minutes)

https://youtu.be/lNcvoGv5Zo0

Chrome Note Book link : https://video.link/w/6vpWc

4) Have your child watch Jack Hartman’s video on What Numbers Make 10. (3 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBkpC29_GaI&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

Chrome Notebook link: https://video.link/w/wzpWc

5) Read the little guided reader called What has this tail? Talk to your child about the different animals that are pictured where they would normally live. You can read the book to your child first and then your child can read the book to you. Please have your child point to each word as they read. Look at the pictures for clues to the story. (5 - 10 minutes). Count the words in each sentence. If you have time, let your child read Animal Sounds and Animal Coverings to you again for practice. Your child could read these books to you as a bedtime story. Take these books with you in the car for your child to read. Encourage them to read the books for fun on their own.

6) Have your child rap along with Jack Hartman’s new sight word video. (4 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TNX9MzAxzI&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

Chrome Notebook : https://video.link/w/nzpWc

7) Sight Words: Use the sight words as flashcards and have your child name all the words they can. Put a check mark on the ones they know and put them to one side. If your child could name 2 or 3 sight words, then add 2 or 3 new sight words to the pile. Review all the sight words that your child has covered.

(5 - 10 minutes)

8) I am assuming that everyone is out of the printing sheets in the supply package. . (The sheets have a sun/cloud at the top line and a worm at the bottom line). Please just use the white paper or the construction paper I included in your child’s supplies. Have the children practice writing their name on a sheet of paper.

They can also practice writing their sight words (a, and, I, in, is, it, look, me, the, you, can, go, for). Parents, you can try spelling the sight word aloud for your child to write or the children can copy from the sight word cards. (10 minutes)

If you are running out of printing paper, then just use the plain white paper or the construction paper for the children to write on.

9) Time to write some sentences. Like the printing sheets, we had last week, your child will now write some simple sentences. Take the sight words (I, my, you, ) and place them on the table in front of your child. Have them write the sentence I see my Mom. They can sound out the word love/Mom/Dad/Sister etc. or you can write the word love out for them. Some other sentences they can write are I see my Dad, I see my sister, I see my cat, I see my toy etc. (5 - 10 minutes)

10) Check out the link for our Music activities. If you have any energy left, feel free to check out the Gym activities as well.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Hi Parents: If your child is finding the hours long there are some sheets from the first week supply package that we did not finish. Your child could work on these sheets at home or take them to childcare to work on.

Letter Recognition: First row has the capital T. Have your child circle the lowercase letter that matches the uppercase letter on the left. Have them do both sides of the sheet.

Trace the Letters: Have your child trace the uppercase and lower case letters. A parent or an older sibling can call out any letter and your child must point to the letter and then trace the letter.

Please have fun with the activities. Dance with your child to the videos, do the exercise activities in the gym videos with your child, draw a picture with your child and have them guess what it is. Sing along with the songs and have fun. As always, if there are any questions, please email srmackenzie@edu.pe.ca

IF your child wants to change their background for the Google meetings:

When you are in the meeting, look at the 6 black circles under your picture. Choose the circle that has three dots in it. Click on the three dots. The fifth option is to Apply Visual Effects. Scroll down through the options and let your child chose what they like. The only issue with using the backgrounds: if your child steps too far back from the camera, they disappear into the background.

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Activities for Tuesday, January 25th, 2022

The following activities should be broken up over the day. We do not expect the children to be sitting for more than 10 minutes at a time.

1) 9am Google Meet with Mrs. MacKenzie. The link will be posted here meet.google.com/gsp-zzye-uje at 8:50 in the morning to give everyone time to log in. IF the link does not take you to the meeting when you click on it, then please cut and paste the link in a new window to gain access to the meeting. (30 Minutes)

2) Watch the following video for Fundations, our new Phonics Program. We are learning about the letters H, K and L.

Parents, you will need to cut and paste the following link into a new window to access the video. ( 17 minutes)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gRUA2r3VjeoUHl5aFp9dEuKHSoE8m1Tw/view?usp=sharing

This link should work for both Chrome Notebooks and home computers.

3) Video with Mrs. MacKenzie –

https://youtu.be/_iYz2JjCsbI How many words in a sentence and how many letters in a word.

Chrome Note Book link : https://video.link/w/vlpWc (4 Minutes)

4) Have your child watch Jack Hartman’s video on Number Pairs. (4 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7KzI3n2Zk&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

Chrome Notebook link: https://video.link/w/LcpWc

Play the number pairs game with your child. You hold up 5 fingers and they have to add enough fingers to get to 10. You hold up 3 fingers and they have to add enough fingers to get to 10, etc.

5) Read the little guided reader called Animal Coverings. Talk to your child about the different animals that are pictured and if these animals live on/around P.E.I. You can read the book to your child first and then your child can read the book to you. Please have your child point to each word as they read. Look at the pictures for clues to the story. (5 - 10 minutes). Count the words in each sentence. Count the letters in each word. If you have time, let your child read Animal Sounds to you again for practice. Your child could read these books to you as a bedtime story. Take these books with you in the car for your child to read. Encourage them to read the books for fun on their own.

6) Have your child rap along with Jack Hartman’s new sight word video. (4 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ZDgAVQEqo&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

Chrome Notebook : https://video.link/w/onpWc

7) Sight Words : In your child’s supply package from this week there is a set of sheets called sight words, The first page has 4 squares with the sight words a, and, away and big. Cut all the sight words apart. Wednesday we worked on the sight words a, and, I, in, is, it, look, me, the, you.

Thursday we added can, for go.

Use the sight words as flashcards, any words that your child can identify put a check mark on them and put the cards back in the supply bag. Save out the words that your child cannot identify and add three new words. (IF your child cannot identify of the sight words from yesterday, please do not add any new words to their pile. If you find that your child is having difficulty identifying the words, split the pile in half and only work on a few at a time).

We were working on these sight words before Christmas but it has been a month so your child may need to review them a number of times. Use them as flash cards, you show your child the word and they call it out. Tape the words to the fridge, every time your child walks by the fridge they touch a word and call it out. Use the flash cards as a game, lay the cards facedown, each player picks a card, if your child can name the sight word they get to keep the card. Whoever has the most cards at the end, wins the game.

(5 - 10 minutes)

8) There are printing sheets in the supply package from last week. (The sheets have a sun/cloud at the top line and a worm at the bottom line). Have the children practice writing their name on this sheet.

They can also practice writing their sight words ( a, and, I, in, is, it, look, me, the, you, can, go, for). Parents, you can try spelling the sight word for your child to write or the children can copy from the sight word cards. (10 minutes)

If you are running out of printing paper, then just use the plain white paper or the construction paper for the children to write on.

9) Time to write some sentences. Like the printing sheets, we had last week, your child will now write some simple sentences. Take the sight words (I, my, you, ) and place them on the table in front of your child. Have them write the sentence I love my Mom. They can sound out the word love/Mom/Dad/Sister etc or you can write the word love out for them. Some other sentences they can write are I love my Dad, I love my sister etc. (5 - 10 minutes)

10) Check out the link for our Gym activities. If you have any energy left, feel free to check out the Music activities as well.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Hi Parents: If your child is finding the hours long there are some sheets from the first week supply package that we did not finish. Your child could work on these sheets at home or take them to childcare to work on.

All About ME sheet

Have your child fill in their name. How old they are. Whether they are a boy or girl. Help your child read trough the list of action verbs at the bottom and pick one to add to the I like to sentence.

Alphabet Uppercase Letters: Have your child write the uppercase letters. This sheet does not need to be completed all at once. Your child could write 5 letters, then do jumping jacks, they could write 5 more letters and then run in a circle, they could write 5 more letters and then sing the ABC song etc.

Please have fun with the activities. Dance with your child to the videos, do the exercise activities in the gym videos with your child, draw a picture with your child and have them guess what it is. Sing along with the songs and have fun. As always, if there are any questions, please email srmackenzie@edu.pe.ca

IF your child wants to change their background for the Google meetings:

When you are in the meeting, look at the 6 black circles under your picture. Choose the circle that has three dots in it. Click on the three dots. The fifth option is to Apply Visual Effects. Scroll down through the options and let your child chose what they like.

The only issue with using the backgrounds: if your child steps too far back from the camera, they disappear into the background.

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Activities for Monday January 24th, 2022

The following activities should be broken up over the day. We do not expect the children to be sitting for more than 10 minutes at a time.

1) 9am Google Meet with Mrs. MacKenzie. The link will be posted here meet.google.com/ktv-wxzv-wvm at 8:50 in the morning to give everyone time to log in. IF the link does not take you to the meeting when you click on it, then please cut and paste the link in a new window to gain access to the meeting. (30 Minutes)

2) Watch the following video for Fundations, our new Phonics Program. We are learning about the letters H, K and L.

Parents, you will need to cut and paste the following link into a new window to access the video. (19 minutes)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SdsjR8QKPHt5pQ7_FomY4_zi7ua16d0x/view?usp=sharing

This link should work for both Chrome Notebooks and home computers.

3) Video with Mrs. MacKenzie – Dividing 10 Part 2 (6 minutes)

https://youtu.be/bPdUwaT9MEs

Chrome Notebook link: https://video.link/w/D34Vc

4) Have your child watch Jack Hartman’s video on Number Pairs (4 minutes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7KzI3n2Zk&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

Chrome Notebook link: https://video.link/w/LcpWc

Play the number pairs game with your child. You hold up 5 fingers and they have to add enough fingers to get to 10. You hold up 3 fingers and they have to add enough fingers to get to 10, etc (5 minutes).

5) Read the little guided reader called Animal Sounds. Talk to your child about the sounds that animals make. You can read the book to your child first and then your child can read the book to you. Please have your child point to each word as they read. Look at the pictures for clues to the story. (5 - 10 minutes) If you have time, let your child read My Brain, Rain in the City, Winter Fun or Light and Heavy to you again for practice. Your child could read these books to you as a bedtime story. Take these books with you in the car for your child to read. Encourage them to read the books for fun on their own.

6) Have your child rap along with Jack Hartman’s new sight word video. (6 Minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSwtN7RWtU&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel

Chrome Notebook : https://video.link/w/eO3Vc

7) Sight Words : In your child’s supply package from this week there is a set of sheets called sight words, The first page has 4 squares with the sight words a, and, away and big. Cut all the sight words apart. Wednesday we worked on the sight words a, and, I, in, is, it, look, me, the, you.

Thursday we added can, for go.

Use the sight words as flashcards, any words that your child can identify put a check mark on them and put the cards back in the supply bag. Save out the words that your child cannot identify and add three new words. (IF your child cannot identify of the sight words from yesterday, please do not add any new words to their pile. If you find that your child is having difficulty identifying the words, split the pile in half and only work on a few at a time).

We were working on these sight words before Christmas but it has been a month so your child may need to review them a number of times. Use them as flash cards, you show your child the word and they call it out. Tape the words to the fridge, every time your child walks by the fridge they touch a word and call it out. Use the flash cards as a game, lay the cards facedown, each player picks a card, if your child can name the sight word they get to keep the card. Whoever has the most cards at the end, wins the game.

(5 - 10 minutes)

8) There are printing sheets in the supply package from last week. (The sheets have a sun/cloud at the top line and a worm at the bottom line). Have the children practice writing their name on this sheet.

They can also practice writing their sight words ( a, and, I, in, is, it, look, me, the, you, can, go, for). Parents, you can try spelling the sight word for your child to write or the children can copy from the sight word cards. (10 minutes)

If you are running out of printing paper, then just use the plain white paper or the construction paper for the children to write on.

9) Time to write some sentences. Like the printing sheets, we had last week, your child will now write some simple sentences. Take the sight words (I, you) and place them on the table in front of your child. Have them write the sentence I love you. They can sound out the word love or you can write the word love out for them. Some other sentences they can write are I see you, I like you, I hear you, etc. (5 - 10 minutes)

10) Check out the link for our Music activities. If you have any energy left, feel free to check out the Gym activities as well.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Hi Parents: If your child is finding the hours long, there are some sheets from the first week supply package that we did not finish. Your child could work on these sheets at home or take them to childcare to work on.

2 printing sheets: I like my cat. I like my toy. Have your child read the sentence and write it twice.

Matching upper and lower case letters: We have Q to Z left to finish - set a timer for 3 minutes or play a song and see if your child can finish the sheets before the timer/song.

Please have fun with the activities. Dance with your child to the videos, do the exercise activities in the gym videos with your child, draw a picture with your child and have them guess what it is. Sing along with the songs and have fun. As always, if there are any questions, please email srmackenzie@edu.pe.ca

IF your child wants to change their background for the Google meetings:

When you are in the meeting, look at the 6 black circles under your picture. Choose the circle that has three dots in it. Click on the three dots. The fifth option is to Apply Visual Effects. Scroll down through the options and let your child chose what they like.

The only issue with using the backgrounds: if your child steps too far back from the camera, they disappear into the background.