Mr. Belliveau's Class

April 26, 2020
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Math & Literacy and Outdoor Learning Activities Week 4

Math Activities

The answer is 12. What might the question be? Can you think of 5 different possible questions?
Cover a book. Find a group of the same item (e.g., Pokemon cards, Lego blocks, Shreddies cereal) and use them to completely cover the surface of a book without any gaps or overlaps. How many did you use? Now choose a different group of items and do the same thing. What do you notice?
Complete the design! Place a piece of yarn on the floor. Have someone use items in your house (e.g., Lego blocks, pasta noodles, buttons etc.) to create a pattern on one half. Create the other half for a symmetrical design!
Describe this pattern and write the next three numbers: 45, 42, 39
Conduct a survey to plan a family event – e.g., “What kind of activity would you like to do most?”, “What type of food do you enjoy most?”, “Would you prefer the weekend or a weekday?”

Literacy Activities

Read or listen to a story. Write a different ending to the story and share it with someone.
Using the letters from the name of your favourite character (e.g. JUNIE BEATRICE JONES) make as many words as you can. How could you sort your words? (e.g. word endings, beginning sounds).
Choose 3 objects in your home. Write down 3 clues for each, that describe the object. Hide the objects and read your clues one at a time to someone else. See if they can guess your objects by using the clues that you give them.
Using a topic of your choice, research (online, in books, by asking an adult or someone who knows about the topic). Write out five facts you learned and tell them to a friend or family member.
Create a 6 to 8 frame comic strip based on a topic of choice. Draw pictures and use speech and thought bubbles to show what the characters are saying and thinking.
DPA/ Outdoor Learning
Stand Up: Sit on the ground back to back with a partner with your knees bent and elbows linked. Now stand up together! Try it in threes and fours, too.
Make Salt Dough: You will need: 1 cup salt, 2 cups of flour, ¾ cup of water Instructions: 1. In a large bowl mix salt and flour together. 2. Gradually stir in water. Mix well until it forms a doughy consistency. 3. Turn the dough onto the bench and kneed with your hands until smooth and combined. 4. Make your creations using the salt dough. 5. Place the salt dough creations into the oven at 180C. The amount of time needed to bake depends on the size and thickness of the salt dough creations.
Listen: Sit still back to back with someone and listen quietly with your eyes closed. List all the things you can hear over three minutes. Do you hear the same things?
Chair Aerobics: Position a chair so you have enough room to stretch out your legs. Make sure you are sitting on the edge of the chair with a straight back. Play music with a strong beat and follow these actions: Hiking: Swing your arms and reach left and right while tapping your toes and lifting your knees. Swimming: Move your arms as if doing the front or back crawl and kick your legs in a flutter kick. Cycling: Hold on to the seat of your chair and pedal your legs as if riding a bike. Paddling: Use an imaginary paddle to paddle a canoe.
Making Mud Pies: Collect dirt and outdoor materials from nature. In a bake dish or metal pie plate, create a mud pie by adding some water to the dirt. Use other objects found in nature to decorate your mud pie. You’ll need: water, soil/dirt, sticks, an old mixing spoon, a towel/ rag, and natural items such as rocks, shells, leaves, grass, and flowers.
Spring Collections: Choose an item from nature that you can see in your yard. From your window, guess how many you might find. Check your guess by collecting the items and counting your total. Now use your collection and imagination to create something new!
Reading: Place a blanket under a tree and enjoy reading a book.

April 24, 2020
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Updates and Reminders

Updates:

  • The class website has been updated and a Covid Resources for Parents and Caregivers page has been added.  It is one of the tabs near the top right hand side of the page.  The page has helpful resources to support your family in dealing with questions and anxieties they may have surrounding Covid-19.

Reminders:

  • Monday April 27th is a Professional Development Day, so I will be in online meetings during the day.
  • Tuesday April 28 at 11:00 Weekly Class Meeting.  I will email you a reminder with the Zoom link on Monday.  The link will also be posted on the class Teams website under Class Meetings.

Have a good weekend!

 

April 21, 2020
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Week 3 Learning Plan

Families: Some of you have requested a weekly learning plan that can help you organize and schedule your child’s learning.  This is just meant to be an outline to help support you as you support your child.  Please don’t feel like you need to strictly follow this plan.  It simply provides another level of structure to assist you in deciding what activities you might want to attempt each day.

Week 3 Learning Plan April 21-24

Tuesday

Literacy  

Writing: Choose a word that has a common spelling pattern (e.g. -est, -ike, -eat, -ight, -ow). Write as many rhyming words as you can with the same spelling pattern. Choose one more and do the same thing.

Reading: Begin Reading through the instructions for your Animal Research Project.

Math – Fill it Up! Find different sized measuring cups and a large plastic jug. One at a time, estimate how many of each it will take to fill the jug. Test out your prediction. What do you notice?

DPA Alphabet Body: Call out a letter and work together to form that letter by using your bodies. Letters that work well are: A, X, S, C, F, J, I, L, U, V, K, Z. Don’t forget to stretch and hold your position to the count of 10. Try counting in a different language.
Wedenesday

Literacy / Earth Day

Writing: Find a book online from Raz-Kids or Epic Books about the earth.  Write about what we can do to make the earth a better place.

Reading: Go to the Raz-Kids or Epic Books free websites and read a book about Earth Day.

Math: What is in the kitchen cupboard? Think of a sorting pattern for the food containers to organize them. Will you sort them by size and shape? Shape and colour? Or something else? Sort them and see if someone can figure out your sorting rule.

 DPA: Testing Your Taste Buds: Close your eyes and hold your nose. Your partner will choose a few mystery items from the fridge/pantry. Once your partner gives you a little taste, describe the taste and see if you can properly identify the food item.
Thursday

Literacy:

Reading: Go to Raz-Kids, Epic Books or one of the other websites suggested in your Animal Research project and begin reading about your animal.

 Writing: Begin taking some notes about the animal you chose to research on your animal facts sheet.

Music: Go to Mr. TDs’s Website lucastds.com and check out his weekly music activity.
Friday

Literacy

Reading: Continue reading and researching your animal.  Visit Ms. Su’s website and listen to this week’s read aloud. https://elainesu.com/books2020.html.

 Writing: Continue to work on taking notes about your research animal or Create a scavenger hunt, with verbal or written clues, for another family member to complete. (e.g. In the room where I sleep find a big blue stuffie).

DPA:  Nature Wands. Collect a variety of nature items (i.e. leaves, petals, cones, etc.) to create a ‘nature wand’ by securing these items to a sturdy stick with masking tape.

 

 

April 21, 2020
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Daily Physical Activity & Outdoor Learning Week 3

Alphabet Body: Call out a letter and work together to form that letter by using your bodies. Letters that work well are: A, X, S, C, F, J, I, L, U, V, K, Z. Don’t forget to stretch and hold your position to the count of 10. Try counting in a different language.
Testing Your Taste Buds: Close your eyes and hold your nose. Your partner will choose a few mystery items from the fridge/pantry. Once your partner gives you a little taste, describe the taste and see if you can properly identify the food item.  
Exploring Your Recycling Bin: What do you have in your recycling bin(s)? Design and create a futuristic machine using what you choose.
Hanging Sight Words: Write out common words (i.e. ‘said,’ ‘little,’ ‘that,’ etc.) on index cards. Then tape streamers/string at varying lengths from a doorway. Tape the index cards to the end of the streamers/strings. Jump up, grab the word, and yell it out while pulling the word off! Source: simpleplayideas.com/hanging-sight-words.
Spy on a Squirrel: Spot the squirrels in your yard and spend time watching what they do during their day. Where do they go? How do they move? Create a map of your yard and track their travel throughout the day.
Mystery Items in a Bag: One person puts a household item into a bag. While holding the bag, your partner should close their eyes and reach in. Can you feel the item to guess what it is?
 Nature Wands. Collect a variety of nature items (i.e. leaves, petals, cones, etc.) to create a ‘nature wand’ by securing these items to a sturdy stick with masking tape.

April 20, 2020
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Math & Literacy Activities Week 3

Hello All,

Below is a list of literacy activities that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory activities that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their math and literacy learning at home.  

Math Activities Week 3
Look at a grocery store flyer. If you had $10.00 to spend, what two items could you buy? What change would you get back?
Fill it Up! Find different sized measuring cups and a large plastic jug. One at a time, estimate how many of each it will take to fill the jug. Test out your prediction. What do you notice?
Simon Says! Find someone to play the game “Simon Says”. Use words like forward, backward, left and right when Simon gives their instructions (e.g., take two hops backwards, take three small side steps left).
What is in the kitchen cupboard? Think of a sorting pattern for the food containers to organize them. Will you sort them by size and shape? Shape and colour? Or something else? Sort them and see if someone can figure out your sorting rule.
Baking in the kitchen (with help)! Choose a favourite family recipe (or learn a new one) to make with the help of an adult. Gather and measure out the ingredients! Follow the recipe directions! Share and enjoy!
Getting active with math! Create a BINGO card with your family and in each square put a simple exercise (e.g., jumping jacks, jog on the spot, dance around etc.). If you complete 20 minutes of physical activity, how much time will you have to spend on each activity if you complete one line in any direction? If you complete two lines? If you complete 20 random exercises? Pick a game and try it out!
 
LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Read or listen to a story and discuss what happened in the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Choose a word that has a common spelling pattern (e.g. -est, -ike, -eat, -ight, -ow). Write as many rhyming words as you can with the same spelling pattern. Choose one more and do the same thing.
Create a scavenger hunt, with verbal or written clues, for another family member to complete. (e.g. In the room where I sleep find a big blue stuffie).
Create a mini poster to remind everyone in your family to wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
Read a book, poem, or article with your child. Have them tell you what five key words in the reading mean (e.g. feeling words like “embarrassed”, descriptive words like “unpleasant”, action words like “glaring”).
Stay- In Restaurant – have child(ren) create menus for tonight’s meal. Menus can be used that night for “customers” to choose from and children can record the orders on a note pad and then read out the order to the “cook”.
Call, Facetime, message a friend or family member and tell them a joke (or maybe a few). (E.g. Why did the orange stop? Because it ran out of juice. What goes tick, tock, bow, wow, tick, tock? A watch dog.)

April 16, 2020
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Important Update for Class Meetings

Hello All, 

I just thought I would provide an update to everyone as to how to join future weekly class meetings.  You will have to find the class meetings button.  Click on it and it will be there.  Today, I think there may have been some confusion as to where to access the meeting.  Please email me if you have any questions.   

April 15, 2020
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DAILY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY/ OUTDOOR LEARNING

Fitness Stations. Create fitness stations around your space (living room, backyard, garage, driveway). Lay out the equipment you’ll need at each station. Rotate through the stations and spend 2 minutes at each. (Station Ideas: skipping, running on the spot, jumping jacks, sit ups, side-to-side jumping, sidekicks, ball toss against a wall).
A Field Trip at Home. Travel to the garage. Discover 3-5 new things you haven’t seen before. What are they? How do they work? Use your imagination.
Search and Find. Head outside… Find, draw and describe the following: 2 structures that are man-made, 2 structures that are found in nature. What types of loads (i.e. a solid or liquid that has weight) do these structures carry or hold? Compare and contrast how these items are similar and different.
Be Anything. March on the spot and when a command is given, jump into a frozen position representing an action, or statue. Leader calls out the frozen action. Telephone pole Baseball pitcher, Quarterback throwing a football, Mountain climber, Race car driver, Grow like a flower, Lightning bolt.
Outfit Combinations. Choose two drawers from your dresser. Sort the clothing items so common items are grouped together (i.e. shirts, pants, etc.). How many of each item do you have? What items do you need to make one complete outfit? How can you pair the items you have to make as many different outfits as possible? Grade 3 DPA/Outdoor Learning Date Activity Saturday, April 18 Water Exploration.
Water Exploration. Choose 1 soft surface (i.e. grass, dirt, etc.) and 1 hard surface (i.e. sidewalk, deck, etc.). Pour 1 cup of water on the soft surface and 2 cups of water on the hard surface. What happens to the water on each surface? How does each surface change in different ways? How long do you think it will take for the water to dry?
Simon Says Movement Game. One person calls out a movement for the others to follow. (i.e. spin 3 times, 5 jumping jacks, 10 knee high kicks etc.) Take turns as the leader to call out “Simon Says…”

April 13, 2020
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Math & Literacy Activities Week 2

MATH ACTIVITIES WEEK TWO

Grades 2&3: Week Two Big Idea: Computational fluency develops from a strong sense of number.
Curricular Content: developing fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 20 and application of these facts when adding and subtracting larger numbers
Curricular Competencies: develop mental math strategies and abilities to make sense of quantities, communicate mathematical thinking in many ways, represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms
Core Competencies focus: Communication Teachers and Families:
The following are five problems/tasks to choose from for this week, based on the above curricular areas of focus.
Choose a number: 12, 20, 50, 100 What different ways can you make this number? Consider using words, symbols, tallies, dots, equations, etc as you think about composing the quantity (4 and 4 and 2 make 10) or using addition or subtraction.
Choose a question: 9+6, 29+6, 49+16, 349+26 How does thinking about 10 help you think about ways to add these two numbers? Draw ten frames to think about ways to make tens. For example, 8+5 can be added by decomposing 5 into 2 and 3 so you can add the 2 to the 8 to make a 10. And then add the 3 to make 13. How will you show your thinking?
Choose a question: 8+7, 9+8, 28+17, 259+18, 488+357 What different strategies can you use to add these numbers together? How can you show or record how you figured out the answer? Choose a question: 12-3, 16-7, 22-3, 91-13, 471-83 What different strategies can you use to subtract or find the difference between these numbers? How can you show or record how you figured out the answer? Numeracy Task: When might you need to add two numbers or amounts together when you are doing things at home? Draw or write a story about this.

LITERACY ACTIVITIES WEEK TWO

Using as many of these words as you can, create a poem: Spring, buds, mud, tulips, eggs, green, mild, puddles.
Design a new package for their favourite toy or food – include pictures and words.
Write instructions that can be used to tell someone how to do something like brush their teeth, directions to school from home, or a sports skill.
Story starter to finish. Could make it so one child starts and then another child adds to it and so on. Each person should write at least (5) sentences. When the last person adds to the story. The story is read out loud, each person reading the part they wrote.
Make a list of 10 things that make you happy. Choose 3 to explain why they make you happy.
Create a news story that answers all these questions: who, what, where, when, why and how.
Read a poem and illustrate a picture that describes what the poem is about.