4-27-2020

Good morning, Kindergarten!

What did you enjoy most about your weekend? This week's supplemental activities include a lesson on creating your own "treasure jar" to store your gratitudes (things you are grateful for). I highly encourage you to check it out!

Our Zoom class meeting will include a directed drawing lesson of a chicken. Do you remember what a rural community is? Hope to see you there!

Today makes 144 days of Kindergarten!

Love,

Mrs. Bradley

Estimate: 20 minutes

Math Warm-Up: Sign into your Boom account and choose the Telling Time to the Half Hour deck. Review what we learned last week!

Today's Lesson: Today we will start learning about the PENNY! Ask an adult if you can have a handful of coins. It does not matter exactly how much it is.

First, I want you to closely examine the coins. Sort them into 2 piles: coins with bumpy edges and coins with smooth edges. In the "bumpy edge" pile, you should have a very small coin (dime) and a large coin (quarter). In the "smooth edge" pile, you should have a copper/brown coin (penny) and a silver coin (nickel). Separate the pennies into their own pile. That is the coin we're going to learn about today!

First, I want you to listen to this CRAZY song called "Hey, Honey Bunny!" It sounds wacky- but it is easy to get stuck in your head... which helps you remember!

How much did the song say a penny is worth? (1) Yes, a penny is worth 1! But we will always use the unit of cents or dollars to describe money, so we will say that a penny is worth one cent.

Coins have 2 flat sides - called "heads" and "tails." The heads side shows a face. Who is on the heads side of the penny? That is a former President, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. He was actually the 16th President of the USA in the year 1861! The tails side shows a building called the Lincoln Memorial. You can see pictures of Mr. Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial to the left.

Now, I want you to find a brown crayon if you can. Place a penny underneath the paper and rub the crayon on top of the paper. You should be able to see some of the details of the penny! Flip the penny over and do the same thing again. Now get a new piece of paper, and I want you to look very closely at the penny and draw what you see on the tails side and on the heads side. What are the words that you see? Did you notice is says "One Cent"? That is how much the penny is worth! It takes 100 cents to make 1 dollar, so we would need 100 pennies to equal a dollar. Label your paper with the word Penny and 1¢. The cents symbol is drawn like a c with a line through it.

For fun: Listen to this catchy song about the penny (I promise, it is WAY prettier than Honey Bunny!)

Practice: Roll a dice to determine how many pennies you need. Roll it again to make a second pile. You can use these digital dice if you don't have any at home! Now add the coins altogether. Continue practicing for a few minutes, or until you feel comfortable counting pennies.

Challenge (not required): Fruit Splat Money Game

Estimate: 15 minutes

ABC Warm-Up: Get out your ABC Chart, start with any letter you'd like by saying the letter name, sound, and picture. From there, take any path that you choose until you get all of the letters practiced!

Phonemic Awareness: Listen along with Mrs. Bradley to practice manipulating medial vowel sounds!

Phonics: Click on the video to learn about silent E and practice with Mrs. Bradley.

Estimate: 10 minutes

Fairy tales exist all around the world and tell all kinds of wonderful stories. Some are about magic slippers and others tell tales of enchanted castles and wicked witches. Yet though thousands of different fairy tales exist, nearly all of them share the same six basic elements:

• good characters

• bad characters

• a fantastical setting

• a problem

• a solution

• a bit of magic

Choose a fairy tale to read/listen to. You may use these links, find your own, or use a book you have at your house! While you're listening, try to identify the 6 story elements from the list above... Who was good and who was evil? Where did the story take place? What happened? What in the story was magical?

Rapunzel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel.

Estimate: 15 minutes

Do you remember the new terms we learned on Thursday for animals that are born from an egg and for animals that are born alive?

Animals that are born from eggs are OVIPAROUS. Animals that are born alive are VIVIPAROUS. (Remember my tip... the letter O in Oviparous reminds me of an egg shape!). On Thursday, you listened to the read-aloud Chickens Aren't the Only Ones. Today, we will listen to another book by the same author/illustrator! Animals Born Alive and Well

Now, I'd like you to make a T-Chart on a piece of paper. On one side, label the chart "Oviparous" and on the other side "Viviparous." Think about rural communities and the animals you might find there. Write the names or draw pictures of these animals on your chart, but make sure to list them under the correct side!