Optional Home Extension Activities

Timeline: Students received a timeline, that will be kept at school, to keep track of people we study throughout the year. Send a small photograph (roughly 1" square) of your student for them to add to the last spot on their timeline.  

Handwriting Karate Link 

Week 1

Biographies:

• Practice our memory statement: George Washington Carver was an inventor and scientist who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.  

• Send a 1" photo of your student to school to be added to their timeline.

Poetry: Students were introduced to the Pledge of Allegiance during morning assemble.

• Look for American flags while driving around.

• Practice saying the Pledge of Allegiance

Literature: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

• Have your child retell the story using their popsicle stick puppets.

• Discuss sequence of events (first, next, last).

• Read/Listen to The Three Billy Goats Gruff on Learning Ally.

Handwriting:  Practice writing lowercase c and a.

Week 2

Biographies:

• Practice our memory statement: George Washington Carver was an inventor and scientist who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.  

• Read/Listen to “The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver” on Learning Ally.

Poetry: Practice reciting "Roses are Red."  

Literature: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

• Have your child retell the story using their sequencing activity.

• Discuss sequence of events in other stories (first, next, last).

Handwriting:  Practice writing lowercase c, a, d, g.

Nature Study:

• Practice observing things outside using your senses.

• Read/Listen to "Miss Rumphius" on Learning Ally.