Category Archives: HomeFun

February Kindness Calendar

Click HERE for a copy to print off and complete at home! If you don’t have a printer, just write down activities you do on a separate piece of paper.

A reminder and re-introduction to our classroom THINK MATH poster. The answer to a word problem is posted every week both in our classroom and on this website. You your imagination and creativity to create a word problem that has the answer posted. After writing your word problem, don’t forget to add the question as well.
Below are 2 answers to word problems that are waiting for your creative word problem. You can either write them in your planner or submit them by clicking on the Leave a Comment / * Comments on the top or bottom of this post.
Remember there are as many different correct answers as there are students in our class! I can’t wait to share your word problems next Tuesday!
     
examples: 11 children were on the playground trying to catch snowflakes on their tongues. Each kid caught 2 snowflakes. How many snowflakes were caught in all?
There are 25 elves working in Santa’s workshop. 5 elves snuck out to play in the snow, 3 elves got tired and fell asleep and 10 elves had to go prepare Santa’s sleigh. How many elves left working in Santa’s woirkshop?

A reminder and re-introduction to our classroom Boggle Board! New letters have been posted to the RIGHT of this post. Boggle encourages you to make as many words as you can from a random assortment of letters. This Boggle Board is updated weekly both in our classroom and on this website with a new set of 16 letters. Here is a copy of our classroom Boggle sheet. Print one off for you and a family member. Compete against a sibling or parent and see how many words you can make! Bring your sheet back to class next week to enter it into a draw for a prize! Have fun!!

January Kindness Calendar

November Kindness Calendar

This week we’ll be learning more about the cedar tree ~ the “tree of life”! Indigenous people used each part of this incredible tree – roots, bark, wood, and branches – to make canoes, Bighouses, totem poles, storage and cooking boxes, baskets, mats, clothing and cedar bark regalia…making life much easier for their communities.

TUESDAY
Read through the 4 sections of the Cedar Tree of Life for West Coast Peoples.
Complete the Tree of Life Questions and email the answers to Mr. Ewert.
You can also visit SFU’s Archaeology and Ethnology site to learn more about the cedar tree and its importance in the lives of many indigenous people HERE.

THURSDAY
Watch two wonderful videos on the cedar tree.
~ Totem poles and the great cedar trees they are made from HERE
~ The Importance of Cedar to Coastal First Nations HERE
Create an Expand-A-Word piece of poetry about Cedar Trees and email it to Mr. Ewert.

In Expand-A-Word poetry the poet writes about a particular item in a five-line, free-verse poem.

DESCRIPTION
First Line: Name the item
Second Line: Describe and rename the item
Third Line: Where item can be found
Fourth Line: What can be done with the item
Fifth Line: How the poet feels about the item
EXAMPLES
Click HERE and HERE for a couple examples of Expand-A-Word poetry on trees.
ROUGH COPY
Write your rough copy using this Expand-A-Word Rough Draft.
GOOD COPY
Write your good copy using this Cedar Poem Good Copy.