Learning From Home Grade One and Two - April 6-10

Learning From Home – Grade 1-2 

April 6-10 

Welcome to our first week of learning from home.  Each week we will post a set of activities for you to complete.  Please feel free to complete them in any order that you want and in a way that works best for you.    If you need any help or have any questions please feel free to email us. - Mrs. Hamby and Ms. Boyer

* You will receive an email through school messenger for the attachments that these may require.  Please print them off if you have a printer.

Reading: Please choose a book of your choice and at your reading level,  from Raz-Kids. After you have finished the reading and the quiz you can choose 1 of the worksheets to complete if you are able to print it out.  (30 minutes)

Please also make sure you are doing at least 15-20 minutes of reading every day. If you need some new books, please check out the Calgary Public Library for some great e-books or you can find books in the Raz-kids reading room or Level up! room.  

Journals: Each week I will give you a writing prompt for your journal.  You can continue to write and draw in your black journal, just like we did at school.  (1 hour)

Here is this week’s journal prompt:  

Tell me how your family is adjusting to our new staying safe measures. Are mom and dad working from home? What are you doing to stay busy and entertained? How are you feeling about all these changes?  

Journal expectations target: 
We are trying to be in the middle of the target!

Word Work: 

Choose a room in your house.  Create word labels for everything in that room and do your best to sound out and spell the words.  Remember that each word has at least one vowel and sound through the beginning, middle and ending of the word. Get an adult to check your words to see how close you were to the correct spelling. (45 minutes)

Science/literacy: 

This week, please try to finish your animal diagram. Remember to include the animal name, and detailed labels. If your diagram is finished, you can begin looking for books, videos, or webpages that you will be able to use for your animal research next week.  Remember this should be in your blue science folder. (45 minutes)

Math:  

We are going to start our new study of numbers and number patterns. The first assignment for this study is attached. It is called 100’s Chart Snakes and Ladders.   

If you don’t have a printer at home, you can get a grown up to help you make a 10 by 10 grid for your game.  (1 hour plus playing the game)

Gym: 

This week we were supposed to start our dance residency with DANCEPL3Y. Since we aren’t able to work with them in-person they very kindly sent along a Youtube link so you can dance along at home! Enjoy! DANCEPL3Y HERE! 

Learning Update: 

When you have completed your work, please send me an email with the following things:  

1.     Brief message letting me know how things went.  

2.     Photo of your labelled room.  

3.     Photo of your math game. 

4.     Photo of your animal diagram. 

5.     Photo of your journal entry. 

Optional Learning Activity:

Mr. O'Reilly has added some cool things for you to do!  Check it out!

https://drewcoffinmusic.blogspot.com/

Parents:  

As you know we have been given guidelines from Alberta Education that suggest we provide ~5 hours of schoolwork per week focused mainly on literacy and math. We will work to follow these guidelines but also hope to continue integrating some of our science and social studies work that students have already started. Each week we also hope that you will be able to determine a schedule that works best for your family.  

If you have time, we would love to hear from you. We are all figuring this out together and we want to make sure the work we are doing is working for you. How was the workload? Do you need more things to keep your child going or was it difficult to work through the activities provided? What activities were tough? What areas need more practice? Where is your child ready for more of a challenge?  We will do our best to adjust things for the weeks to come based on your feedback. 

Remember that next week is a four day work week as Friday is Good Friday and Monday is a non-instructional day, Easter Monday.  Please make sure that you take the time off to spend together and enjoy as a family.