LIFELONG GUIDELINES
Active Listening: Listen to: The Cat Who Wore a Pot on Her Head (below). Play an Active listening game like 20 questions or Simon Says. You can also play the Listening Game on Cosmic Kids (video).
Trustworthiness: Listen to The Empty Pot (below). Draw paint, or color a flower or a bunch of flowers. Tell someone what it means to be Trustworthy.
Telling the Truth: Listen to The Wolf Who Cried Boy! Think of 2 truths and 1 lie about yourself and post them on Flipgrid. (link above). Watch your friend's videos!
FICTION
Characters
Watch the lesson below about characters.
Click on the book cover to listen to Chrysanthemum.
In your yellow reading notebook, draw a picture of the main character(s) from your Kids A-Z book and write some words or sentences that tell us about them.
Setting
Watch the lesson below about setting
In your yellow reading notebook, draw a picture of the main setting of your story. Write about it.
Problem and Solution
Click on slides below to learn about problem and solution in fiction.
In your yellow Reader's Notebook, draw a picture from your Kids A-Z book. Draw a line down the center of the lined page and write what the problem was on one side and the solution on the other. Look at my example:
Let's try finding the problem and solution again. Look at slide show
In Seesaw, take a picture of the cover, and record yourself telling me who the characters are, and what the problem and solution is.
Story Maps
Watch this video and look at these slides about story maps.
Retelling (THESE LESSONS MAY BE OUT OF ORDER)
Watch retelling video:
Go to Seesaw and do the Imogene's Antlers retelling activity.
Go to Seesaw and do the Strega Nona Retelling activity.
Practice Retelling. Go to Seesaw and do the Dog Breath Retelling activity.
Practice Retelling. Go to Seesaw and do the Gugi Gugi Retelling activity.
In your yellow Reader's Notebook, write about your favorite part of your Kids A-Z story. Be sure to also write the title, author, and draw a picture.
Reading Skills
Watch this video about sharing your thinking after you read. Share your thinking about a part of your story with someone.
When you Read to Self, mark a spot you want to talk about. Tomorrow you will write about it.
Go to the blue "Books I Read" section of your Reader's Notebook. Write the title, author, and draw a picture from your story. Look at the spots you marked yesterday. Write sentences telling us about your thinking.
ASKING QUESTIONS
Reread your book. Think about what you learned. Watch the video below, then in your black journal, write a 3 question quiz about the animal you read about. Be ready to give your quizzes tomorrow in our Zoom meeting.
Gray Wolf and All About Coyotes
Nonfiction
Watch video:
Go to Seesaw and do the fiction/ nonfiction activity
Watch video: Reread your Kids A-Z book. Tell someone at home 3 things you learned.
Write about Reading:
3-2-1 activity - In your Yellow Reader's Notebook (watch yesterday's video if you don't know what to do)
3 things I learned
2 interesting facts
1 question
Bonaparte Falls Apart
Open and look at the 3 slides below:
Seesaw - problem/ solution (3 pages):
Seesaw idioms activity:
Watch this video about bones, then do Seesaw paragraph:
Seesaw Put Bonaparte back together!:
Create your own symmetrical art
Watch first 3 minutes of video below:
Make your own project. You can use objects you find inside or outside.
Text Features
Watch video:
Do first 4 pages in text features book. Do 4 pages in text features book. Do 4 pages in text features book. Do last 3 pages in text features book.
Watch video:
Do Seesaw Text Feature Activity
Thanksgiving Week
Listen to How to Catch a Turkey
Seesaw Obstacle Course. Pretend you are a turkey trying to get away. Create an obstacle course around your house or outside. See instructions and record on Seesaw.
Listen to Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving in Seesaw.
Seesaw Activity - Story elements
Listen to A Plump and Perky Turkey
Winter Holiday Reading - Quarter 2 Language Arts - Week 15, 16, 17
Compare/Contrast Fairy Tales
Compare/Contrast Fairytales. Open and look at the slides below. It has instructions for the week
Read "The Ugly Duckling" (above), then fill out the Comparing and Contrasting Stories paper (Story 1).
Listen to Gugi, Gugi, then fill out the Comparing and Contrasting Stories paper (Story 2).
Think about what is the same about both stories you read. Fill out the "Both" section of your Story Map.
Take a picture of both sides of your compare/contrast paper and put them on Seesaw. Record yourself talking about how the 2 stories are the same and how they are different.
Animal Research
Animal Research: Watch video below, then read and do worksheet.
Animal Research Watch video below, then read and do worksheet.
Pebble Go Research Watch video below, then research and do worksheets.
Choose a question written by a classmate. Research it on Pebble Go and write your answer + one new thing you learned about that animal. Do another question if you have time!
Use information from your Kids A-Z book and from Pebble Go to write a paragraph about the animal or person you are studying. Your topic sentence could be: ______ had an interesting life for many reasons. OR _______ are interesting animals for many reasons.
Biography
Watch the video below about biographies:
Read your Kids A-Z book. DON'T take the quiz yet!
Look up the person you are studying on Pebble Go. Listen to and read article.
Use information from your Kids A-Z book and from Pebble Go to fill out the biography report form. You can work on it tomorrow too.
Finish your biography report form.
Poetry
1. Go to Epic Books (class code kew1000). Find the books in your mailbox. Read "Cat Poems"
2. Write your own cat poem OR write a paragraph about which cat poem is your favorite and why.
Go to Epic Books (class code kew1000). Find the books in your mailbox. Read "You Might Be a Monster"
Write your own monster poem OR write a paragraph about which monster poem is your favorite and why.
Go to Epic Books (class code kew1000). Find the books in your mailbox. Read "A Child's Calendar"
Write a poem about April OR write a paragraph about which month poem is your favorite and why.
Go to Epic Books (class code kew1000). Find the books in your mailbox. Read "Lion in the Sky"
Write 2 or 3 riddle haiku poems OR write a paragraph about which haiku poem is your favorite and why.