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Academic learning at home resources have been created to provide opportunities for students to engage in meaningful learning experience during the school closure. Below you will find a list of activities that your child can complete both independently and with your support.
Learning Logs are to be completed each day when work is done. These logs will be turned in at the end of the week to your teacher. Your teacher will be in contact with you this week. If you have any questions, please contact your teacher.
Reading
Reading
Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot and read, read, read. Read to self, read to a stuffed animal, and/or read to a family member.
Write to explain (expository/informational text) how technology has impacted your life (this activity ties to social studies). Draw a picture of a type of technology that helps you. Next, write complete sentences to explain/describe how it is helpful.
Choose a new animal to research; it should be a different one from last week, (this activity ties to science).
Read about this animal and think: What does this animal need to survive? What is its habitat like? What are the parts of its food chain?
After you have learned about this animal, draw a picture of the animal. Be sure to include how it meets its basic needs. You might even draw a picture of its food chain (see science below).
If you cannot research an animal, then think and write about an animal you already know a lot about. Take a nature walk outside and observe a squirrel, bird, or insect.
Watch this video about spiders Tricky Spiders.
As you watch the video, jot down your noticings and new learning.
After the video, tell someone what you learned about spiders and how they meet their basic needs.
Then draw a picture about what you learned and label it.
Write 5-10 sentences about what you learned.
If you cannot watch this video, go outside and observe nature. Find an insect, bird, or other animal to observe and complete this activity.
Click Online Texts and scroll to Week 1 to read the book “A Spiderling Grows Up”, and “DIary of a Spider”. This will add to your learning.
Discuss the two books with your family. How are the books alike and how are they different?
Practice retelling the story “Diary of a Spider” to a family member.
Next, draw a picture of what you learned from the book “A Spiderling Growing Up”.
After you draw and color pictures about facts you learned, label your picture.
Write 5-10 sentences about what you learned.
If you cannot access the link above, read a fiction and nonfiction book you have at home and complete the activities listed.
*Note: If you have any problems connecting to any of the links above, these resources can be found on the Scholastic Learn at Home page: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html. Just choose the appropriate grade level and a variety of texts are available including the ones suggested here.
Math
Math
Living things in an ecosystem need each other to survive. Imagine a freshwater aquarium ecosystem with the following fish and plant life: 26 Longfin Zebra Danio, 11 Jack Dempsey, 32 Bettas, 1 Oscar Fish, 24 pieces of gravel, and 4 ground cover plants…
Represent each species with place value (by bundles/beans-see below, drawing, or a place value chart so 32 Bettas would be 3 bundles of 10 straws and 2 more).
Count all of the fish together. Count all of the ground covering together. What is the total of both sets?
Can you count again by 2s or 5s?
Compare the number of one type of fish with another. Which is more? Fewer? How much more?
Use index cards with a number on each card or draw a 1-120 Chart. (See the example to the left.)
After you build the 1-120 chart, Play a game where you remove a few of the cards and see if a parent or sibling can guess which numbers are missing.
Can you put the missing numbers back in the correct place? How do you know it’s correct?
Represent numbers with place value-use straws or beans in cups (e.g-a straw for ones, a bundle of ten straws=a ten, and ten bundles=one hundred).
Build a number (up to 120) with straws and write the numeral to match (standard form). Challenge-can you write it in expanded form?(e.g. 6 bundles of ten, and 4 extra straws;standard form-64;expanded form-6 tens + 4 ones)
Write some numbers (up to 120) on post it notes or index cards and put them in order from least to greatest.
Draw an open number line and on the left end, put 20 and on the right end put 50. Decide where to put 44, 35, 21, 49 and fill in the number line.
Challenge: Play “Mystery Number” with a family member-take turns being the caller and guesser. (e.g. I’m thinking of a “mystery number” that is 2 digits, and the tens digit is a 4 and the ones digit is an even number less than 5. Answer: 44, 42, or 40).
Science
Science
Basic needs are what an organism must have to survive. Animals require air, food, water, space, and sometimes shelter. Plants require sunlight, air, water, nutrients (food), and space.
Plants and animals have basic needs that are the same and some that are different. Draw a Venn diagram (two overlapping circles). Label one circle ANIMALS and the other PLANTS. In the overlapping area, write or draw the basic needs that plants and animals share. In the ANIMALS circle write or draw a basic need only animals have. In the PLANTS circle write or draw a basic need only animals have.
Take a walk and observe some plants. Take a leaf from two different plants. Back at home tape each leaf to a piece of paper. Have your child draw the rest of the plant around the leaf. Talk about how all plants have leaves to collect the sunlight. Plants have a stem or trunk to hold the leaves up to get sunshine. Underground there are roots to take in water for the plant. Some plants have big colorful flowers.
Gather some basic craft items: a straw (the plant’s stem), some string (the plant’s roots), green paper (the plant’s leaves) and colored tissue paper (the plant’s flower), glue and scissors. On a piece of paper or cardboard, glue the different materials to make a plant.
Continue watching an animal cam to see how the animals are meeting their basic needs.
A food chain shows the flow of energy from the Sun to plants to animals that eat plants to animals that eat plants, animals or both. You can write a food chain using arrows that show the flow of energy.
Draw a food chain for a horse or cow.
Draw a food chain for the birds or squirrels you are watching in the backyard.
Draw a food chain for your favorite animal.
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Sun
Food Chain
Social Studies
Social Studies
Technology is anything that makes our lives better. When people used to eat with their fingers, the invention of the spoon was a new technology.
Talk to adults in your family about how technology has changed how they do something, like communicate with others, listen to music or watch television. Draw a flowchart of how one type of technology has changed.
Talk to adults in your family about how cars have changed thanks to technology. Make a list of items cars have today that they didn’t have when the adults learned how to drive.
You have probably played games on some kind of handheld device. Interview the adults in your family and find out how technology has changed how games are played today compared to when they were your age. Write or record the interview.
Find out what these words means: vinyl record, 8-track tape, cassette tape, CD. Hint: they are all music technology.
Write or draw a set of directions for making a peanut butter and jelly or some other sandwich.
P.E.
P.E.
Activities you can do for a lifetime! Go walk, ride a bike, swim, hike!
Videos to help get you moving!
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