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Activity of the week May 27

Today's 2-minute activity

If you only have 2 minutes to spare, please consider trying the following:

If your home is anything like mine, it has bugs. Talk to your child about the bugs you see. Use some specific words to talk about them. For example, "Ugh! Another ant?! I hate the way they crawl all over the cupboards. They scamper so fast when I try to catch them. Look! It is scampering away!"

Word of the Day-"BUG"

First - make each of the letters in the word. Use magnetic letters or write each letter on a scrap of paper.

Next - talk to your child about the name of each letter and the sound each letter makes .

Last - help your child to slowly blend (say) the sounds together until they have sounded out the word "bug".

Can you name any bugs?

Dr. Jean's - "Insect's Body" song is sung to the tune of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". As you sing the song, use the insect body parts print out to point to each body part when it is mentioned in the song.

Microsoft Word - Insect Body Parts Song.docx.pdf

Story Time

Listen to the story " I Love Bugs!" by Emma Dodd.

After listening to the story can you name any bugs?

If you could be any bug what would you choose? why? (I would be an ant because they are so strong).

Insect Poem

We are going to write an Insect poem.

We are going to learn about DOING Words and DESCRIBING Words.

We will use DOING Words and DESCRIBING Words in our poem.

DOING Words

DOING Words tell people about actions.

The ant is crawling.

Crawling is an action word.

Other action words are flying, running, buzzing, wiggling, hopping, jumping, marching, stinging, crawling

DESCRIBING Words

DESCRIBING Words tell people what things are like.

The caterpillar is long and fuzzy.

Long and fuzzy are describing words.

Other describing words are tiny, huge, fast, slow, happy, spotted, pretty, itchy, furry, feathery, slimy, striped.

We can also use colours to help us describe something.

Writing Activity

Here is a poem.

Read the poem about a butterfly .

ButterflyBeautiful wingsFlying flitting sippingGentle Colourful

This poem used DOING Words and DESCRIBING Words to tell about the butterfly . Can you find these words?

Now its your turn to write an insect poem. Grab a piece of paper and pick you favourite insect to write about. Your parents can write down your words for you.

Title (Name of your insect)Describing wordsAction wordsDescribing wordDescribing word

After you have finished writing your poem please upload it to the Google classroom so that we can read it.

Copy of Bug Riddles.mp4

Check out these bug riddles. Can you guess what bugs are hiding in the backyard?

Parents, you may need to open this super cute video in another tab.

What is deletion?

"Deletion" is when you learn how to say a word without one of its parts. Let's use some bugs to learn how!

Parents - you may need to use the "pop-out" feature to get the video to play and/or play the video in another tab.

Buggy Deletion.mp4

Craft Time-Build a Bug

Now that you know about a bug's body parts, let's see if you can create a bug using material from around your home (e.g., egg cartons, toilet paper rolls, construction paper, bottle caps, playdough, buttons, yogurt containers, paint, rocks etc.) Can you give your bug a name and tell us two things about your bug? Remember to use describing words. We'd love to see pictures of your bug creation and read about it. Please upload them to the Google classroom .

Check out our Additional Resources for some more bug craft activities!

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