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What is Earth Day?

Here are some resources to help your child learn about Earth day and how they might help to take care of the earth by understanding and using concepts such as reduce, reuse, recycle:

Earth Day Sight Word Books.pdf

Earth Day Papers 2.pdf

EarthDayFREE.pdf

Here are some additional resources from Mystery Science:

How Old is the Earth?

https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/old-earth#slide-id-6074

How is Plastic Made?

https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/plastic#slide-id-5817

This week the children will be learning to count up and count down by adding one MORE or one LESS. These are important vocabulary words. The children will also be focusing on organizing objects to 20.

Remember, you can have your child practice many of these skills using a snack of grapes or pretzels, something small they can arrange, organize, and count. When the children use hands-on activities, it helps them to solidify concepts in their minds. Give them beads, food, blocks, or crayons to use to help them count up and down from 20!

If any of you need extra copies or had previously misplaced your workbook, you can use scrap pieces of paper and copy these pages or you can print them out for practice or even extra work.

Here is a link to the math student workbook module 5:

Student Workbook – Module 5

Remember: this week you should be working on Module 5: Lessons 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 

You can access the youtube videos for Module 5 by clicking this link: Module 5 

***Once you click on the link, you have to look to the right and scroll to select the correct lesson.

If you would like even more practice, please click on the following link to access an additional workbook with sprint and fluency resources: 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6wssxzci5wb8ujy/AADGwcHgoxgL5wWwVkH_VKBwa/Grade%20K/Module%205%20-%20Numbers%2010-20%20and%20Counting%20to%20100/03%20Sprint%20and%20Fluency%2C%20Exit%20Ticket%2C%20and%20Assessment%20Materials?dl=0&preview=gk_m5_addtnl_matrls_v1_3_1.pdf&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

Don’t forget to spend 20 minutes or complete one lesson on Math Seeds 

I will be taking a leave for the birth of my daughter beginning tomorrow Tuesday, April 21st. Depending on how everything goes with labor and delivery and with my daughter afterwards, I am hoping to only take a few weeks off. I will not know exactly how many weeks I will take off until after she arrives. When I return, I will post on the blog letting you all know how we are doing and that I am back to provide learning and answer questions for the remainder of the year.

In my absence, Mrs. Bolger will be posting to the blog and available to answer questions. If you need to reach Mrs. Bolger, her email is bolgerm@dearbornschools.org

Thank you for working with your children at home and for all of the samples, feedback, and emails I have gotten from all of you!

Stay safe and stay healthy!

The reading eggs maps and lessons go all the way to Map 12; Lesson 120.

We have one friend in class who has completed all maps and lessons and I see a couple other friends who are getting close to the end of reading eggs.

If your child completes all of the maps and lessons (all the way to map 12, lesson 120) then please move them onto Reading Eggspress. This will provide them with more learning opportunities and challenge their learning in new and advanced ways!

Some of the children may not be ready to move to eggspress until next year or may not move to this level until summertime. THAT IS OK!!! Whatever your child’s individual learning level is, is where we want them working. Children will become frustrated if they are working at a level which is too difficult for them.

Please continue moving through the levels and if you child completes all the maps and lessons, then have them begin working in reading eggspress.

Thank you!

Here are the DSHINES lessons from Wayne State for nutrition and exercise:

https://dl.orangedox.com/DSHINESESLessonsEnglish/1MM3ZwSXSsk506cUdlDSWkvC5GNIh3iOg

Here are the plans for this week. It follows the same format as last week but has been updated with the new spelling words and math lessons for the week. All links in blue you can click on and view the website or activity we have attached. There are new blend worksheets for you to print for the week and work on. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QOec3el9J1ZQNzFe-a7NPjFRsNlrFS8ZBKLEuPbPxwg/edit?usp=sharing

** Please note:

Starting this week we will be tracking and reporting to both the District and State of Michigan which students are participating in the remote learning. Students who are on all 3 programs will be considered “high participation”, students who are on 2 programs for the week will be considered “medium participation”, students who are on one program for the week will be “low participation” and students who do not log into the online programing will be “zero participation”. Per district requirements, students who are low and zero participation will be contacted by the teacher each week.The programs we are tracking are: 

1. Raz Kids
2. Reading Eggs
3. Math Seeds

Greater than means BIGGER! Less than means SMALLER! Equal to means the SAME!

This is how I explain the concept in class to the children. I also tell them that the greater than symbol looks like an alligator and that the alligator always wants to eat the bigger number so he can grow big and strong!

Watch this youtube video:

Here are some resources to help the children understand greater than, less than, and equal to concepts of comparing numbers:

Hope these resources help to enrich your math learning at home!

Below is the link to all of the resources which were posted on Monday for our Social studies unit:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6e8MKOyP5VJT0hIdzM3T1AwNHFBbU5QSG52R0J0V0Q1eE93/view

Here are some additional resources:

Hope these short videos helped the children understand these concepts better!

Here are some additional resources to help with this weeks math lessons:

** You could print one page and put this in a ziplock bag and use a dry erase marker on it over and over to use it several times!

** This resource only goes up to 10 using tens frame and number bonds, but it has a life-size model you can stick to the wall, if you are interested, which I thought would be fun for the kids! You could use the life-size model and print it twice to make a double tens frame which would be numbers up to 20 and then the children could work with composing (adding) and decomposing (subtracting) numbers up to 20 with this hands on tool!

** This resource is a little bit more difficult, however, some of the children really excel at math and you may want to try this with them!

I added a variety of resources for you to choose what works best for you and your family!

I hope these additional resources help you to enrich learning at home!

This week we are focusing on informational writing. You do not have to write about frogs, but I thought I would include resources about frogs to help get you started.

Below you will find an informational book about frogs, which will help the children identify important facts, you will find a cut and glue activity on the lifecycle of a frog, you will find several links to a youtube video on frogs, and you will find a template for

Book about frogs:

Cut and glue activity about the life cycle of frogs:

**Mini Unit on frogs (includes writing resources, books, and math games):

**Youtube video resources for more facts about frogs:

I also thought this video on the difference between a frog and toad would be interesting and provide more background knowledge for the children:

Writing resources for informational writing:

**Graphic Organizer:

** Can, Have, Are graphic organizer:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d0BmOGz_r-POQYcxxIPn1IXmNZm03TYvrVgNQoS-azs/edit

** Can, Have, Are writing response sheets:

The above worksheets can be used to write three facts about frogs or any animal you choose by identifying facts using can, have, and are. For example: What CAN frogs do? What do frogs HAVE? What ARE frogs?

**Blueprint:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13me7h0J_T1CkF4JxxhAFV8xypOC9agkxW0VbhQOjHe4/edit

*** You may also choose to staple pieces of paper together into a book or to use any varying number of resources above based upon your child’s individual writing level. Some of the children are writing several sentences and using lots of detail, while others are still working on a single sentences structure. Wherever your child is learning, is right where we want to meet them! This is why I have provided several different resources, if you would like to use them!

You do not have to learn about frogs, you can choose any animal.

If you would like to email me your child’s informational writing when they complete it, I will be happy to provide feedback on their writing!

Send writing sample to dimitrm@dearbornschools.org

Happy Writing!