Homework for Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Day #128

 

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

·         Things to do every day.

a.       Read for 20 minutes.

b.       Practice writing your name.

c.       Calendar work

d.       Enjoy a Bible story.

·         Let’s Get Ready: Tools you will need to do your work.

a.       Pencil

b.       Crayons and/or Colored Pencils

c.       Scissors

d.       Glue Stick

e.       Manipulatives (These are items that your child can count, sort, make patterns with, and so on.  For example: color crayons, Easter eggs, erasers, paper clips, clothes pins, legos – be creative.

REMINDERS:

·         Remember to write your name on all of your papers.

·         Check the weather.  Draw a simple picture if you like.  (For example: a sun for sunny, a cloud for cloudy, a cloud with some curly lines for windy and a rain drop for rainy.  OR you could decide to just draw a lion for a wild weather day and a lamb for a calm and sunny (gentle) weather day.

·         Figure out the day of the week and read the number – “Today is Wednesday,

 April 1^st ,2020 and we have been in school 128 days.

·         Do cross-over exercises.  Touch your left hand to your right ear.  Touch your right hand to your left ear so your arms are across your body.  Uncross arms and shake them out.  Now touch your left hand to your right shoulder and your right hand to your left shoulder.  You’ve made an X.  Uncross and shake out your arms.  Continue repeating the pattern touching your elbows, hips, knees, and feet.

·         Balance on one foot for 12 seconds, then switch feet and balance on your other foot.  (It’s a new month so we added one more second from 11 seconds to 12 seconds.)

·         Practice opposites.  Try to name at least 5 every day.  Add more as you think of them.

·         Help your child to continue to hear initial sounds of words.  Ask him/her to tell you what sound he/she hears when you say a word.

·         Make a list of 5 words that begin with the “Ee” sound.  Be sure to tell your child that the letter E sometimes says its name like in the words Easter, eat, enormous, and so on.  And sometimes makes the sound you hear at the beginning of the word egg, everywhere, energy, elephant and so on.

Scholastic:  My Big World with Clifford paper

A.)  Stop Those Germs

Find the paper in your folder titled, “Stop Those Germs”.  Read to directions to your child.  Follow the directions.  Color the rest of the paper if you like.  Talk about continuing to practice healthy habits.

B.) Online with Clifford: Computer Instructions

·         Go to www.scholastic.com/mybigworld

·         Click on the Log In button, select I am a student, and enter the classroom password.

·         Password: foxtent2

·         Explore the Flower Power Issue

·         Watch the video about plants

·         Have fun with the Dance Break

·         Build a plant – How many different plants did you create?

If you have a printer and you want to, print the online resources.

·         The Plant Parts Puzzle provides fine motor work with coloring and using scissors.

·         Measure the Flowers paper ties in well with what we are currently doing in math.

*Click on All Issues and review some of the work we’ve already done this year.

·         Math:  More Seriation

1).  Review:

·         Have your child order a set of three different objects from shortest to tallest or shortest to longest.

·         Encourage your child to describe the order of his/her objects.

·         Add a fourth object for your child to position and order inside the arrangement.

2).   Play: 

·         Have a fitness competition or Olympics.

·         Get your family involved.

·         Mark the floor or ground with tape or a rope to show a starting line.

·         Have the participants perform exercises from the starting line, such as: jump forward 10 jumps, bounce a ball high against a wall, toss 3 bean bags one at a time, etc.  Mark the place where the participants’ feet land, or ball reaches, or the bean bags land (use a paper, toy, chalk, stick, whatever seems best to mark these places).  Review the markings and have your child compare the longest jump, the shortest toss, or the tallest bounce.  Help your child describe the results of the competition using the math vocabulary for the week: short, shorter, shortest, long, longer, longest, tall, taller, tallest

·         Bible Story:   Easter (Luke 24:1-12)

Try singing the Bible story today or simply read it.

Sing “Jesus Died upon the Cross” to the tune “This Little Gospel Light of Mine.”

Jesus died upon the cross; thank You, thank You, God!

(Make a cross with your index fingers; clap on “thank You.”)

Jesus died upon the cross; thank You, thank You, God!

Jesus died upon the cross; thank You, thank You, God!

For Your love, for Your love, thank You, God.

        (Hug yourself.)

Jesus came alive for us; thank You, thank You, God!  (Repeat two more times.)

        (Put your hands together like a cave, and then have them “explode” in an outward motion; clap on “thank You.”)

For Your love, for Your love, thank You, God!

        (Hug yourself.)

I will live with You in heaven; thank You, thank You, God.  (Repeat two more times.)

        (Cross your hands on your heart, then move them outward; clap on “thank You.”)

For Your love, for Your love, thank You, God.

        (Hug yourself.)

Prayer:  Dear Jesus, thank You for dying on the cross for us.  Thank You for becoming alive again.  Thank You for loving me.  Amen.

PLEASE REMEMBER:

·         You can save some ideas for later.

·         You don’t have to do it ALL.

·         Pace yourself!