Whales, May 4
🦉 Birds 🦅
Monday May 4
Classroom Choice: Classroom Choice: Set up for telling time to the hour and ½ hour. Name and count shapes as parts of a whole, recognizing relative sizes of the parts. Video of Ms. Ellie. Complete worksheets 1 & 2.
Calendar: Fill out May calendar (1) and answer 5 questions.
Literacy: Watch this fun video about R-Controlled vowels!
Fill out Morning Letter 1
Snack Break: Ms. Ellie reads My Side Of The Mountain (Chapter 16)
Outdoor Time:
Unit Study: Choose your bird to research on our google doc here.
Locate your bird on Audubon. Spend time marveling at the pictures, listen to the sound that the bird makes. Try making the sound together!
Outdoor Time: Go for a Listening Walk. How many different bird calls can you hear? Close you eyes. Can you hear even more?
Lunch: Watch Transformation: From Dinosaur to Birds
and It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Dinosaur!
Wiggle Time: Bird Olympics – The Owl Stare
Silent Reading: Book Bag or new book from your child’s Leveled Book collection on *EPIC
Creative Expression: Look closely at the body of your bird. Use the second and third page of our Bird Research document to draw like a scientific illustrator.
Bedtime: Complete one “Daily Problem” in Bedtime Math together!
Tuesday May 5
Classroom Choice: Set up for telling time to the hour and ½ hour. Name and count shapes as parts of a whole, recognizing relative sizes of the parts. Complete worksheets 3 & 4
Sight Words: Play Sight Word Bingo with a sibling or parent!
Snack Break: Ms. Ellie reads My Side Of The Mountain (Chapter 17 & 18)
Outdoor Time:
Unit Study: Watch the video All about birds
Using the Bird Research document. Go to Audubon for help answering the questions on the first page.
Outdoor Time: Learn how to become a birder with Mr. Chris, Mara’s dad! Watch the video here.
Lunch: Stories with Ms. Ellie – What Makes a Bird a Bird?
Wiggle Time: Bird Olympics – Hummingbird wings in flight
Meditation with Ms. Julie: 5 Senses Body Scan Meditation
Silent Reading: Book Bag or new book from your child’s Leveled Book collection on *EPIC
Creative Expression: Make a Torn-Paper Owl
Bedtime: Complete one “Daily Problem” in Bedtime Math together
Wednesday May 6
Classroom Choice: Set up for telling time to the hour and ½ hour. Count by 5’s to 100. Watch this video two or three times. Sing and dance along!
Calendar: Answer 5 questions on May calendar (1)
Literacy: Fill out Morning Letter 2
Snack Break: Ms. Ellie reads My Side Of The Mountain (Chapter 19)
Outdoor Time
Unit Study: Listen to Ms. Ellie read Birds Make Nests.
Go back to Audubon for help answering the research questions on the second page of the Bird Research document
Outdoor Time:
Lunch: Poetry with Ms. Andrea
Wiggle Time: Bird Olympics – Stand like a Great Blue Heron
Silent Reading: Book Bag or new book from your child’s Leveled Book collection on *EPIC
Creative Expression: Finish your Torn-Paper Owl
Bedtime: Complete one “Daily Problem” in Bedtime Math together!
Thursday May 7
Classroom Choice: Set up for telling time to the hour and ½ hour. Partition shapes and identify halves and quarters of circles and rectangles. Video of Ms. Ellie. Complete worksheet 5
Sight Words: Play Sight Word Hangman with a parent or sibling.
Snack Break: Ms. Ellie reads My Side Of The Mountain (Chapter 20)
Outdoor Time:
Writers Workshop: Poetry Lesson 1 Onomatopoeia bird poem Poetry paper
Outdoor Time
Lunch: Poetry with Ms. Andrea
Wiggle Time: Bird Olympics – Measure your arms against the wings of an eagle!
Silent Reading: Book Bag or new book from your child’s Leveled Book collection on *EPIC
Creative Expression: Make wings of an eagle!
Bedtime: Complete one “Daily Problem” in Bedtime Math together!
Friday May 8
Classroom Choice: Set up for telling time to the hour and ½ hour. Partition shapes and identify halves and quarters of circles and rectangles. Complete Worksheet 6
Literacy: Read Once I Saw A Little Bird
Snack Break: Ms. Ellie reads My Side Of The Mountain (Chapter 21 & 22)
Outdoor Time:
Meditation with Ms. Julie: Guided Visualization
Writers Workshop: Poetry Lesson 2 How does it feel? Poetry Paper
Outdoor Time:
Lunch: Poetry with Ms. Andrea
Wiggle Time: Bird Olympics – fly like a Peregrine Falcon
Sharing: Synchronous Sharing with Ms. Ellie, Ms. Julie and Ms. Andrea at 2:00pm
Bedtime: Complete one “Daily Problem” in Bedtime Math together!
Notes
Curriculum Objectives and “As-You-Go” Learning: Learn at home week with the Whales #7
*EPIC Instructions:
Click here: https://www.getepic.com/students (Please note that Epic may try to redirect you to their sign up page. You do NOT need to sign up. Check the url to make sure it is exact. Try refreshing the page or typing in manually getepic.com/students until you see a place to enter in the classroom code)
Enter the Classroom Code: uid5487
Click on your child’s name.
You will be taken to their homepage. Click on the Mailbox in the top right corner.
Click on a collection of books and then choose a book to read!