May 13

Wednesday May 13, 2020

Parents:

Good morning families! Many of you have been successful in finding the email I sent you to create your child’s account for Epic! There are still several who show up as “pending” on my account. This means you have not found the email and set up an account yet. I resent email invitations this morning to the email addresses still showing as “pending”. If you did not receive the email, or cannot find it, please text me on Remind with the email address you would like me to send the invite to.

Remember to log your kids in to both Epic and Happy Numbers today. I am expecting everyone to spend about 5 to 10 mins on these daily. Some of your children might want to do the online activities for longer, and that is also ok. However, please make sure it’s at least 5-10 minutes at a minimum.

If you need the directions for setting up Epic, please see my post from yesterday.

Kids:

Language, Literacy & Communication:

You are all doing AMAZING with writing your first and last names! Today, I want you to try to write the names of the people in your family. It’s ok for your grown up to tell you how to spell the names or to tell you which letters to try to write. Some of you are getting really good at listening for the sounds that you can hear when you say a word/name. So for those of you who are doing that… I want you to try to say the name of each person REALLY SLOWLY and see what letter sounds you can hear in their name. Guess the letter and write it. Have your grown up send me a picture of the names you tried to write today.

For a story, I want you to choose one on the Epic app/website that you think looks interesting. You can have someone else in your house read it to you… or you can listen to it in the app.

Math:

Today we are going to work more on counting, as well as on writing numbers. I made you a video to watch so you can see how to do this:

You can ask your grown up to take a picture of you playing this number counting game and send it to me on Remind.

Science:

You all really seemed to like “growing a rainbow” when we did it last week. I found another way for you to experiment with making a rainbow… and since it’s supposed to be sunny today, today is a great time to try it. (Note to parents: you will need to do this either earlier in the morning, or later in the afternoon when the sun is kind of blinding your eyes for this to work.)