May 11th- May 15th

My hope is that distance learning will be fun and enjoyable for you and your child. If you don’t have a printer, no worries don't print it out. Use any paper you have around the house. Your child can use a notebook, scrap paper, a white board, a chalkboard, the inside of a cereal box or a digital word file. Feel free to use pencils, pens, crayons or markers. If you don't have the appropriate materials just talk through the lessons from your screen or just skip that lesson. Don’t forget to take a picture of your child’s work to send to me so that I can give your child some feedback.

There is also a student online resource page that has many educational websites that your child can work on. Just click on the EXTRA TVDSB Learning Activities.

www.tvdsb.ca/en/our-board/learn-at-home.aspx

https://www.tvdsb.ca/en/our-board/continuity-of-learning---special-education.aspx

LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES:

Read to Self- Read independently each day for a minimum of 20 minutes using books from home or books from an online platform (e.g. Read Theory, Epic!). Lexia Core5- Play Lexia Core5 independently for a minimum of 20 minutes each day.


Listen to Reading - Listen to a read aloud a minimum of two times each week using an online platform (Epic!, Storyline, TumbleBooks, Pebble Go, BookFlix).


Shared Reading- USE THE LINK BELOW. Read the following shared reading “Spying on Polar Bears” three times each day then complete the following activity that corresponds with the day of the week. https://sn3.scholastic.com/issues/2017-18/121117/spying-on-polar-bears.html#On%20Level

  1. Monday- Discuss the big idea of the text. Ask yourself... What type of text is this? How do I know? What is the main message? Is this a fiction or nonfiction text?
  2. Tuesday- Read with punctuation. Look for all the punctuation in “Spying on Polar Bears.” What does it tell the reader to do? For example, if a reader sees a period they know to stop, if they see an exclamation mark they know to add excitement to their voice.
  3. Wednesday- Good readers visualize the words they are reading. Today discuss what pictures you see in your mind while reading “Spying on Polar Bears.” If you printed your shared reading feel free to draw a picture of what you visualized on the back.
  4. Thursday- Make connections. With a family member discuss any connections you make with the text. Remember they can be text to text connections, text to self connections or text to real world connections.
  5. Friday- Fluency Friday. Show off your fluency skills by reading the text to a family member.

Bonus: Answer the comprehension questions at the bottom of your shared reading. Remember to use a highlighter to highlight the important information in the text that supports your answer


Word Work - Tell your family everything that you know about nouns. (For example, teacher, house, pencil).

1) Watch the videos below.

2) On paper, create a chart divided into 3 categories: person, place, thing. Record at least 10 examples of various nouns in each category. Feel free to look at the book you read during read to self or listen to reading to help you locate nouns.

3) Extra: Visit http://www.wordle.net/create and create a wordle that includes your list of nouns.

Writing -

Procedural Writing : How To Make…

Watch the video : https://safeyoutube.net/w/0oEA. After watching how to make these 3 fun breakfast foods, think about what one of your favourite things to make with an adult might be (For example, peanut butter and jam sandwich, grilled cheese etc.).

Working with your parent or guardian, make one of your favourite foods. While creating this food, be thinking about all the steps involved to create this food successfully. Next, create a piece of procedural writing describing how to make this favourite food. Remember to include:

  1. Title: How To
  2. Materials needed: ingredients and materials
  3. Steps / Procedure: including numbered steps, important linking words and all important details
  4. Conclusion : How do you know when you are finished?
  5. Illustrations to support the details.

MATH ACTIVITIES:

Play PRODIGY MATH for a minimum of 20 minutes each day.


Number Sense & Numeration

1) Watch the following BrianPop video on multiplication. You will need your BrainPop login information (username: kkirschner / password: 3kirschner)

https://www.brainpop.com/math/numbersandoperations/multiplication/


2) Solve one of the multiplication questions below. Show your thinking and defend your answer by showing the strategies you used (equal groups, repeated addition, array, number line). Can you name the strategies you used?


  1. 6x7= OR b) 3x4=


Probability

1) Watch this video - LOOK KOOL Season 2 - Probability

2) Probability is the likelihood that an event will occur. We can use different probability terms to describe the likelihood of an event.

Certain: 100% will happen without any doubt.

Likely: Probably will happen with a small chance it will not happen.

Equal Chance: a 50 - 50 % chance an event will occur.

Unlikely: Probably won’t happen but a small chance it could happen.

Impossible: Can never happen without a doubt.


Identify a probability term to match each event below and explain your thinking.

  1. It will rain Skittles tomorrow.
  2. I will use a computer this week.
  3. I will be older next year.
  4. I will clean my room today.
  5. If I flip a coin, it will land on heads.


3) EXPERIMENT: Heads or Tails?

Materials:

  • You will need a coin.


  1. Prediction: If you were to flip the coin 20 times, which side of the coin do you think will face upward most often - heads or tails? Consider the probability terms above and explain your thinking.
  2. Complete the experiment and record the outcome in a t-chart.

3. What did you observe?

4. Was your prediction correct?

5. Try the experiment a second time and record your results.

6. Does one side of the coin have a better chance of facing upward? Explain your thinking.

ART ACTIVITIES:

Have fun creating some 'FOOD ART'!

Materials:

  1. Noodles
  2. Parmesan Cheese
  3. Tomato Sauce
  4. Your IMAGINATION!

Procedure: Ask an adult to cook up some noodles for you. Once they have cooled, use them to create some abstract art! Use some Parmesan cheese or tomato sauce if you like. Have fun!

Food Art.docx

BONUS ACTIVITIES:

Daily Gratitude: Start each day by writing about one thing you are grateful for. You can write this in a journal, tell a family member or create a google doc titled daily gratitudes. (If you log in to your Google Drive (use your @gotvdsb.ca login & the password found on your "Student Passwords" page I sent you) you can type your 'Daily Gratitudes' in Google Docs and I will be able to respond to you in the comment section! Just click on the blue 'Share' button in the top right hand corner and type 'Kimberly Kirschner' in the box...my name will pop up. Click on my name and hit the blue share button.)


Mindfulness: Complete some activities from this mindfulness choice board. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/119oJWDLyv03z9A-QTe8MuP0LkTOlIB8dKnXKSS4S680/edit#slide=id.p


Blue Spruce: Each year the Ontario Library Association runs the Forest of Reading program. The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest recreational reading program with over 270,000 participants every year. At McGregor, we participate in the Blue Spruce branch of the program which has 10 nominated picture books, all by Canadian authors.

Mrs. Telfer will be adding new books to this site each week. Each book's page will contain ideas for before and after reading. Don't worry about having the book available. The Blue Spruce authors have all recorded themselves reading their nominated books so we can "read" them at home. HAPPY READING!

Don't forget to checkout Ms. Craig's, Mr. Ambrose's, and Mrs. Telfer's google sites for some Music, Gym and Science activities this week!