Day: May 3, 2020

Hello Division 14 Families,

 

We had some more really great Think Outside the Boxes this week! Thank you for sharing these.

I noticed that some of you have really been enjoying math activities, so I had made a one-page math challenge. I will try to do one every week if it is something that students are enjoying. It is optional!

 

Optional: Math Challenge week 5

 

Monday, May 4

Journal: Draw a picture and write one sentence (or more if you like) about something you did this weekend. Don’t forget to include detail in your photo and add lots of colour. Share it with me.

Letter Hunt: Find 5 items that start with the letter ‘B’ and label them.

Read: Fill out another square of your bingo!

Math: Math: Making 10-sum-Memory card game

Materials:

• Create a deck from four of each: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (Ace).

Directions:

• Deal out the cards face down.
• Players take turns turning two cards face up.
  If a player turns a pair upward and that pair sums to 10, the player puts that pair of cards in their stash and plays again.
• If the upward pair does not sum to 10, the player turns the cards back face down, and the next player moves.
• The game ends when the cards are all claimed. Whoever has the most cards wins.

 

Tuesday, May 5

Inquiry: Now that we have explored who works and lives in our community. What does our community look like?

Materials:

• Paper (the bigger the better for this one)
• Drawing materials (pencil and a fine liner if you have one)

Directions:

• Brainstorm a list of things in your community.
• Using a birds eye view (imagine looking down on the streets like a bird) start by drawing something in the centre of our community (i.e. our school).
• You can go for a walk to gather ideas and draw while you are walking or draw when you get home.
• Next you will need to draw the main roads and the roads surrounding the border of your community.
• Add smaller streets, parks, some houses, and anything else in our community you would like to add.
• Final step if you would like it to outline your drawing with a fine liner. These will make all of your beautiful lines stand out and bring your drawing to life. Feel free to add colour or leave it as is.

Letter Hunt: Find 5 items that start with the letter ‘J’ draw and label them.

Read: Fill out another square of your bingo!

Math: What is money for?

Materials:

• Paper
• Pencil

Directions:

• Discuss the question: What is the purpose of money and what it is for?
• Record your answers.

 

Wednesday, May 6

Inquiry: Time to build your community using your map.

Materials:

• Blocks/Lego/sticks
• Cars
• Loose parts (collect some objects around the house that you could use to create roads, houses, people)

Directions:

• Using your map from Tuesday create our community using materials inside or outside! You can use a combination of materials too if you don’t have enough of one thing.
• Don’t forget to clean it up or talk to your parents about finding a safe space to store it if you want to place with it again later.

Letter Hunt: Find 5 items that start with the letter ‘X’ draw and label them. If this one is a challenge, students can think of words that have ‘X’ in it.

Read: Fill out another square of your bingo!

Math:

Choose an amount: 15¢ or 25¢ or 50¢ or 100¢

What different ways can you make this amount with coins? (you can choose to use pennies or not!)

 

Thursday, May 7

Think Outside the Box Thursday

Mothers day Activity: Choose one of three activities to complete with your dad or another family member (could be an older sibling). (Link to activity here- No peeking Moms!) MOM’s DO NOT OPEN- Mother’s Day Activity.

Letter Hunt: Find 5 items that start with the letter ‘U’ draw and label them. If this one is a challenge, students can think of words that have ‘U’ in it.

Read: Fill out another square of your bingo!

 

Friday, May 8

Video Conference: Friday at 11:00 AM we will do our class video call. Same password and everything as last.

Letter Hunt: Find 5 items that start with the letter ‘F’ draw and label them.

Read: Fill out another square of your bingo!

Inquiry: How do living things (plants and animals) change in spring? ** PLEASE complete this so that I can use this information to plan activities for the following week. 😊

Directions:

• In the Inquiry tab on this website enter the password. If you have forgotten the password, ask your child about our class pet or you can send me an email and I would be happy to tell you.
• Scroll down to our new Inquiry exploration and then click on the new Padlet. Ask your child what they know and wonder about living things and how they change in spring and record their answers in the Padlet.

With kindness,

Ms. Raymond