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Morning Message
Morning Message
4-30-2020
Good morning, Kindergarten!
Do you enjoy reading fairy tales? Which is your favorite?? I do enjoy reading them but I think writing them is even more fun! I am so excited to read your fairy tale stories.
Our Zoom class meeting will include the Balloon Pop Word Guessing Game. Hope to see you there!
Today makes 147 days of Kindergarten!
Love,
Mrs. Bradley
Math - Important
Math - Important
Estimate: 20 minutes
Math Warm-Up: Listen to "Hey Honey Bunny" and sing along!
Today's Lesson: Today we will learn about the DIME! Get your pile of coins back out. If they are still sorted from yesterday, mix them all back together! It's important to practice quickly finding coins in a group.
The dime is silver and has bumpy edges. It is the smallest coin in size. How many dimes do you have? Sort them into their own pile.
How much did the song say a dime is worth? (10) Yes, a dime is worth 10! But we will always use the unit of cents or dollars to describe money, so we will say that a dime is worth ten cents. Notice that although the dime is the smallest in size, it is not worth the smallest amount of money! Which coin is worth the smallest amount of money?? (1 cent.... the penny!)
Who is on the heads side of the dime? That is a former President, Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was actually the 32nd President of the USA in the year 1933! You can see a picture of Mr. Roosevelt to the left. The tails side shows a few symbols: a torch that stands for liberty, an olive branch that stands for peace, and an oak branch that stands for strength and independence.
Now, I want you to find a gray crayon if you can. Create a crayon rubbing of both sides of the dime like we did with the penny and the nickel.
Now get a new piece of paper, and I want you to look very closely at the dime and draw what you see on the tails side and on the heads side. What are the words that you see? The dime does not actually say "10 cents," but it does say "One Dime." Label your paper with the word Dime and 10 ¢. The cents symbol is drawn like a c with a line through it.
Let's think about how many dimes we would need to equal 1 dollar. How many groups of ten do we need to make 100? (10). The same is true for coins! We need 10 dimes to equal 100 cents. That makes 1 dollar. An easy way to count dimes is to skip-count by 10 because each nickel is equal to 5 pennies, or 5 cents.
For fun: Listen to this catchy song about the dime.
Practice: Use the slideshow deck below to practice counting combinations of pennies and dimes. You can use real coins to match what you see and then count, or count straight from the screen!
Challenge (not required): Which is more? Game
Phonemic 430.m4aPhonics 430.m4aPhonics - Important
Phonics - Important
Estimate: 15 minutes
ABC Warm-Up: Sing the vowels song we learned at school... "There are some kids who know their vowels and this is what they sing-oh, AEIOU, AEIOU, AEIOU, and this is what they sing, oh!" (to the tune of BINGO)
Phonemic Awareness: Listen along with Mrs. Bradley to continue manipulating medial vowel sounds!
Phonics: Today you will show what you know about using silent e to turn short vowels into long vowels! Get a piece of paper and number it 1-6. When you're ready, listen along with Mrs. Bradley! Be sure to pause it in-between each word. Turn it into your Digital portfolio when you're finished.
Literacy Centers - Important
Literacy Centers - Important
Read-to-Self: Read books that are "just right" for you... not too hard and not too easy. You may use the books Mrs. Bradley sent home with you, other books at your house, or Kids A-Z (Raz Kids) books by logging in on the iPad or computer. Read for at least 15 minutes.
Estimate: At least 15 minutes
Skills: Complete an episode of Headsprout on Kids A-Z.
Estimate: At least 15 minutes
Writing - Important
Writing - Important
Estimate: 10 minutes
Get out your story element paper from yesterday. Today you are going to use your setting to inspire the main characters in your story. Remember, an important element of fairy tales is that there are "good" and "evil" characters. Will your fairy tale star humans? Or animals? Or objects? Get creative!
Spend some time thinking about your good and evil characters, and when you're ready, start drawing a picture of each in the right boxes on your story element paper. When you're finished, take a picture of it and upload it to your digital portfolio.
Science - Important
Science - Important
Estimate: 15 minutes
We're going to read another book about butterflies, but today we're reading a nonfiction book. Nonfiction books contain facts and true stories. Although parts of the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar are true, that book is fiction.
While you're listening, pay attention to the stages of the butterfly's life cycle.
A butterfly is a type of insect. We will learn more about the characteristics of insects on another day, but today I want to point out the insect life cycle.
The insect life cycle starts with the EGG.
The second stage in the insect life cycle is the LARVA. For a butterfly, we call the larva a caterpillar.
The third stage in the insect life cycle is the PUPA. For a butterfly, we know this stage as the chrysalis.
The fourth and final stage in the insect life cycle is called the ADULT. (Or in this case, an adult butterfly!)
Now, click here to put the stages of the butterfly life cycle in order.
Mindful Moment - Supplemental
Mindful Moment - Supplemental
Estimate: 6 minutes
"In this guided meditation for young children, Susan Kaiser Greenland sequences together three mindful games to make a single, somewhat longer, mindfulness practice. First, we zip-ourselves up to find a comfortable upright posture. Next, we sway side-to-side while chanting a rhyme to feel what it's like to sit centered on the cushion, and last we listen to the sound of a tone fade raising our hand when the sound has stopped." Zip-Up, Tick-Tock, Fading Tone
Specials Classes - Important
Specials Classes - Important
Supplemental Activities for this Week:
Supplemental Activities for this Week:
Add to your Weather Chart each day.
Writer's Contest Opportunity (through Ozarks Public Television) - deadline to enter is May 15 (Be sure to check the rules and entry form)
Character Education: Treasure Jar (Remember to think of 3 new gratitudes each day!)
STEM
Kodable.com (Class code: summitk)
Free App: LightBot
Sight Words
Author Study: Doreen Cronin, Click, Clack, Peep (Read Aloud), Activity Set (Printables)
Share a Picture - Supplemental
Share a Picture - Supplemental
See what others are up to! Click on our class Padlet and add a picture of you or comment on your friends' pictures!
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