Remember the story “Same Same” by Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter – We will be using this book again to do more activities!

Listen to Ms.Yaz read the story again – if you need some reminders of ideas from the book!

Activity #2:

• Think about 3 things that “have four legs”.
• Draw a picture of the 3 things and label them.
  Hint: Think about things in your house or animals!

• Think about 3 things that “go” or “move”
  Hint: Be creative! There are lots of things around us that move!
  Think about things in nature and human made things!
• Draw a picture of the 3 things that that “go” or “move”.
• Write a sentence to tell Ms. Yaz about something that moves.
  Example: I drive a blue car, it helps me get to many places.
  OR: I like to ride on the skytrain and look out the window at the city.

• Think about 3 things in water.
• Draw a picture of the 3 things “in water” and label them.
• Write a sentence about something “in water”.
  Example: A shark like to swim in ocean.
  OR: A ship travels in the water.

I hope you enjoy the book “Same Same” by Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter.

We will use this book to do several activities in the next few weeks.

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Activity #1:

• Find 3 things in your house that are round.
• Draw a picture of the 3 round things and label them.
• Optional: Take a picture of the 3 things you found and show Ms. Yaz!

• Think about 3 things that make music or an interesting sound.
  Hint: Be creative! Lots of things make music and sounds!
  Example: Think about things in nature, things around your house, things on our bodies!
• Draw a picture of the 3 things that make music and label them.
• Write a sentence to tell Ms. Yaz about your favourite instrument and why it is your favourite instrument.
  Example: My favourite instrument is the  violin because I love the sound it makes.
  OR: My favourite instrument is guitar, and I want to learn how to play it one day.

• Think about 3 things that fly.
  Hint: Be creative! Think about things in nature and things that people created to fly!
• Draw a picture of the 3 things that fly and label them.
• Write a sentence about something that flies.
  Example: I love to fly my kite.
  OR: Airplanes fly high in the sky.

“3 – Part Fiction Story”

** Please read the instructions carefully – Students will be sharing their “Fiction stories” at the next class Zoom meeting! ***

At school we were beginning to study the beginning, middle, and end parts of a story. In term 3 we were going to practice writing stories with a beginning, middle and end.

We had also briefly began learning about the difference between “fiction” and “non-fiction” stories, and we were planning to expand on this in term 3. We were going to begin working more on our “fiction” writing, by learning to use our creativity skills to write stories that are about fictional characters, fictional places and fictional story lines.

Unfortunately, we did not get a chance to delve into this further, however, I have put up some resources and an activity, to have students begin some “fiction” writing at home!

Please click to enlarge the picture to learn about the difference between “Fiction and Non-Fiction stories. Please look over the document with your child and discuss what you see.

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I hope you enjoyed the book “Ant Can’t” by Maryann Dobeck, that Ms. Dudley shared with us!

In the story, the aunt could not do many things like “fly, buzz, hop, moo, swim, oink, bark. However, the aunt was able to “crawl” like spider.

Activity:

1. Write 2 sentences telling Ms. Yaz about 2 things you do not know how to do, or you can’t do.

Please read Ms. Yaz’s examples about what I can’t do

Example: I do not know how to ski, but I would love to learn.

OR: I do not know how to fly, and I don’t think it is something I will be able to learn.

2. Write 2 sentences telling Ms. Yaz about 2 things you can do.

Please read Ms. Yaz’s examples about 2 things I can do.

Example: I know how to swim, because I have been practicing for a long time.

OR: I know how to bake a yummy chocolate cake, because my mom taught me.