Otters, April 20

Thursday April 23

Project Time: I Took a Walk Read Aloud by Ms. Aja.

Choose a project from Epic’s Bugs in the Garden book

Morning Letter: Morning letter

Meditation or Movement: The Beginning of the Armadillos audio book by Ms. Julie

Outdoor Choice:

Numeracy: Story Problem Math

Writer's Workshop: Finish your persuasive writing piece. Check for capital letters, neat penmanship, and ending punctuation. Send a photo of your final copy to Ms. Aja.

Read Aloud/Doodling: Listen to free Audible audio book or Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

Content Explorations: Watch The Next Time You See a Cloud. Do some cloud watching. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

Treasured Reading: Complete a page in your bug word puzzle packet

Read a new book on Epic, or read from your group’s book shelf below.

Friday April 24

Project Time: Game Day! Play a board game with a family member. Or spend time cloud gazing outside.

Morning Letter: Morning letter

Meditation or Movement: Cosmic Kids Yoga

Outdoor Choice:

Numeracy: Create a digital bar graph of your choice. It could be a graph of toys in your bedroom, fruit in your fruit bowl, or vegetables in your garden. It could be a digital graph or a graph on paper

Writer's Workshop: Write a birthday letter to Roxinny. Include three sentences that describe what you like about Roxinny, what you like to play with her, or what she’s good at. Mail your letter to Roxinny when you are finished. Her address was sent in our weekly email.

Read Aloud/Doodling: Listen to free Audible audio book or Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

Content Explorations: Live Zoom Meeting with Ms. Aja and Ms. Julie. Be ready to share what you found in your backyard blitz.

Treasured Reading:
Buddy Reading- Ask a parent or sibling to record you reading a picture book and email it to Ms. Aja to post on ELC Online. Or read to a pet, stuffed animal, or sibling

Notes

Otter Learning Goals for the Week of
April 20th-24th

Literacy
Read for at least 20 minutes a day

Numeracy
• First Graders-
o Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories. (Be able to ask and answer questions about the data; including how many in each category and how many more or less are in one category than another.)

• Second Graders-
o Draw a picture graph and bar graph to represent data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put together, take-apart, and compare problems using the bar graph.

• Third Grade
o Draw a scaled picture graph and scaled bar graph to present data set with several categories. (Ex- each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets)

Writing
Write a persuasive text that includes
• Hook
• Your goal/belief
• 3 reasons why
• Conclusion

Science
Make observations of plants and animals to compare diversity of life in different habitats.