Homework for Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Day #151

                   

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

1.       Things to do every day.

a.       Read for 20 minutes.

b.       Practice writing your name.

c.       Calendar work

d.       Enjoy a Bible story.

2.       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, May 13, 2020 and we have been in school 151 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.

·         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.

3.       Make a list of 5 words that begin with the “Qq” sound.   As you make your list, be sure to point out to your child that each word beginning with q has the letter u as its second letter.

Scholastic:  My Big World with Clifford (www.scholastic.com/mybigworld)

        Splish Splash Summer

Go to the website. Log on as a student.  Type in our password-foxtent2.  We are going to look at water safety in the current May/June 2020 issue.  Watch the video, take the dance break, play the pattern game and do the hands-on activity.  Have your child complete page 4 of his/her paper magazine by writing his/her name at the top of the page and following the directions at the top of the page.   The hands-on activity would be a great rainy day activity as well.  The skills sheets shown on the web site are a part of future review work.

4.       Math:  Problem-Solving Strategy

Make a Model

·         Materials:  Paper from this week’s packet that has pictures of animals and the words Soccer Players printed in the top left corner, scissors, and a two-column graph.

·         Explanation:  Making a model to solve a problem can help students by using manipulatives as a representation.  The model can provide hands-on counting to ensure that students are counting accurately to solve the problem.  A model can also assist when students are comparing and sorting objects by providing moveable objects that can physically be grouped together instead of shown randomly and stationary on a page.

·         Identify the Problem :  Show the sheet of animals to your child.  Tell your child that the animals want to play a game and they need to make two teams.  Ask: “How should the animals be grouped so that the two teams have the same amount?”  Help your child to understand that he/she will need to decide which animals will go on each team.

·         Plan:  Discuss with your child the strategy he/she could use to solve the problem.   Talk about how making a model will help solve the problem.

·         Solve:  Guide your child to make a model to solve the problem.  Have your child cut out the images of each animal from the paper with the words Soccer Players in the top left corner.   Watch for proper scissor grip and careful cutting. Help your child tape each picture onto the graph to show which animals will belong on each team and to make sure that there is an even number of animals on each team.

·         Check:  Have your child look back at the problem to be sure that the answers fit what he/she already knew about the problem.  Does his/her answer make sense?

5.        Dorcas Pillow Project:

·         Find the flat piece of fabric in the large Ziploc bag.  Lay the fabric out flat, single layer on the table.  Place a piece of plastic, freezer paper, etc. underneath the fabric to protect the table surface.  Have your child decorate the fabric with sharpies or dry erase markers, both are permanent on fabric.  Be sure to instruct your child to leave a ½ inch border around the edges of the fabric.  Make sure your child writes his/her name on the fabric.

·         After your child finishes decorating the fabric, place it in a Ziploc bag and write your child’s name on the outside of the bag.  On Friday, May 15, I will be at school from 10-Noon for you to drop off the decorated fabric.  Mrs. Sistrunk and I will then sew and stuff the decorated fabric, turning it into a pillow.  We will coordinate the picking up of the completed pillow with your child’s end of the year certificate and hopefully his/her yearbook as well.

6.       Bible Story:   It’s CHAPEL DAY!!

Watch the video from Pastor Mark and Pastor Andy.