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.
Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot and read, read, read!
Read a nonfiction book or have someone read a nonfiction text to you. What was the book mainly about? How did the text features help you as a reader (pictures, captions, maps, etc.)
Choose a topic you are passionate about and create a K,W,L chart with adult assistance. Write K- what you already know about the topic, W-What you want to learn about the topic, and then begin to research the topic. Once you have read several different resources about the topic, add to your KWL chart. Write L- what you have learned about the topic. Then create a brochure or poster that tells someone about the topic you have researched. Be sure to include text features including illustrations and captions.
Make letter cards. Use the letter cards to make words. Things you can use to make your letter cards: index cards, notebook paper, recycled cereal boxes, construction paper, and printing paper
Draw or write what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the book you chose to read.
Use any kind of paper and draw a picture and then write a story about your picture.
Choose a favorite fiction book to read with an adult.
Choose a fiction book to read by yourself. Retell the story to a family member or friend.
Practice rhyming skills with a book or poem. Choose a word you read. Write or say other words that rhyme with the word you chose.
Practice writing your high-frequency words.
Practice writing your first and last name.
Practice writing a complete sentence using a capital letter and end mark.
Read a book aloud to practice expression. Reread it twice.
How many words can you read correctly in a minute? Choose any book or article on your reading level and time yourself.
Practice singing and writing the alphabet. Sing it multiple times in different voices (like your best monster voice) for a little variety!
Put 10 objects in a bag. Pull an object out and say and write the beginning sound. Try to find matches!
Help your parents with a chore! Draw and write about what you did.
Ask your child to write/ draw a book about something they know a lot about. Are they an expert in animals, superheros or your family? Encourage them to include lots of details.
After reading a story, have your child draw a summary of what they have heard. Ask them to include details in their picture found in the book.
Provide your child with paper and ask them to write down all the words they can read throughout your home.
Provide your child with playdough and practice rolling, forming and making CVC words (consonant vowel consonant) like bat, cat, mop, top, etc.
Sit outside with writing materials. Encourage your child to write and draw what they see.
Let children hold the book and use the pictures as visual cues to retell the story. Talk about what happened in the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the story.
Encourage dramatic play/acting-out the story you read. Have family members pretend to be a character in the story as you retell the story.
Play with words! Say a simple word and ask your child to tell you the sounds that make up the parts. Like “What sounds do you hear in the word dig?”
When reading stories to your child, let them make up the ending, or retell favorite stories with “silly” new endings that they make up.
While reading a story, engage your child in conversation by asking open-ended questions and expanding their comments through back and forth dialogue
Example of Letter Cards
*Objects can include things in your house such as q-tips, buttons, paper clips, toys, shoes, etc.
Continue to practice numbers by:
Counting a set of 20 objects (beans, toys, etc)
Drawing a picture to show how many you counted
Write the numeral to show how many
Continue to create and act out joining and separating stories problems using objects. (up to 10-e.g. There were 4 puppies in the yard and 3 more puppies came. How many puppies are there? There were 10 birds on the wire and 6 flew away. How many birds are there now?) Use *objects or drawings to represent your story.
Create your own addition/subtraction story (up to 10) and share with a family member.
Find a small collection of coins to describe and identify the names of each coin.
Find 2-D shapes at home with a family member (circle, triangle, rectangle, square). Can you sort them by shape? Can you sort them by how many sides and corners?
Find 3-D shapes at home with a family member (cylinder, cone, sphere, cube). Can you describe them using words like, “faces, edges, corners”? Can you find a 2-D shape in one of the faces? (e.g. the cylinder has 2 circle faces.) Can you sort the 3D shapes?
Go outside and count things you see. If you have sidewalk chalk, you can draw sets of objects, practice writing your numbers or even make up more addition/subtraction problems.
Go on a number scavenger hunt. Count the things you see such as birds, trees, rocks, etc. Record the data when you get home. Try making a bar graph or pictograph of the things you saw.
Count out 100 pennies. Then make groups of ten. Count by tens. Which way is faster?
Keep adding pictures to your weather journal. Can you predict what the weather will be like this week?
Everyone has a junk drawer or a catch-all container. Dump out the contents and group the objects by characteristics, like color, shape or texture. Can the objects be grouped more than one way?
You are a toy inventor. Invent a new toy that produces light or sound. Give your new toy a name and be ready to tell someone what it does. Give your child a sheet of manila paper and crayons and ask him/her to draw the invention.
Read aloud or listen to Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman. Students can mime the different positional and directional activities of the dogs as they move fast, slow, up, down, in and out throughout the story
Why do you think hats were invented? Do we need hats inside buildings or our homes? Usually not! Hats are made to help us with the weather. Ask your child to describe several different hats and discuss how they are used. Your child can draw the “perfect hat” that would protect him/her from all weather conditions!
Children love to mix two different plants or animals to make a new creature. Ask your child to draw a plant or animal that he/she invents by combining two different living things. Discuss the new creature to correctly label all the names of the parts.
Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.
Keep adding pictures to your “Quarantine Calendar”. Can you find something different to do this week?
Go on a Scavenger Hunt in your house then talk about the items with a family member. What is it used for? Where did it come from? What is the story about it? See if you can find:
a baby picture of a parent
a map
a sales receipt
a hand-written note or card
a clock with hands
a cookbook
something handmade
a ruler, yardstick or tape measure
a school yearbook
a kitchen tool
Look to the future. Draw a picture of yourself when you will be 25 years old. What job will you be doing? What will your house look like? What will your car look like? Share your future with a family member.
Set up a store and play shop-keeper and customer. You can use coins or play money.
Go back and complete any activities from the previous week.
Have fun with a few hand jive songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNeWSoLQZA
Now let’s draw some Easter Chicks. I would like to see your pictures. Send them to cake@lipanindians.net Have fun!! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/122019471137528434/