Tuesday, May 12^th!

Updates

Mrs. Serbones is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Prek 5 Zoom Meeting 

Time: May 12, 2020 12:00 pm

Meeting details were texted to parents. If you have any questions, please email or text.

·       A new Learning packet that may be used for the remainder of the school year is available for pick-up this week from 9am - 1pm.

·      Online learning will continue for the rest of this school year.

Instructional Theme:

Plants

Question for the Week:

Why are plants important? 

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud: 

The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons

The YouTube Link to the weekly Read-Aloud is located: HERE

Questions to ask your child in response to the read-aloud:

·      How do vegetables get to grocery stores?

·      What are some different ways that you eat vegetables?

Learn at Home activity for today:

Make a Menu 

Share with your child a list of the foods you are serving for a meal. Invite your child to draw these items to create a menu. Add the words that match the pictures below each picture. If your child is ready, they can do their own writing. Celebrate any mark your child makes. Marks, scribbles, and creative spelling are all essential steps in learning to write.

Open ended questions:

·      I notice that you ____. 

·      Tell me about ____.

·      How did you do that?

·      Tell me why.

·      How could we find out?

  Continued Weekly Activity

3-D Plants

Invite your child to use recycled materials such as cardboard boxes or tubes and empty, clean food containers, to create three-dimensional plants. If no recyclable materials are available, children can use play-doh.  Children can reference live plants, plastic or silk plants, or pictures of plants as they build their own plants. Encourage your child to name the plants and make their own labels for them. Please email or text a picture of any completed work to Please to: msserbonescovid19@gmail.com  

Thank you to all the students and parents that have sent me pictures of the children's work!

          

                Kaylee                                             Henziel  

 Movement Activity:

Penguin Dance

We Are the Dinosaurs

For additional Music and Movement Activities, please look at Ms. Alma's Blog, located HERE!

I will be calling parents twice a week to check in.  If you would like to share any resources with other families, please let me know and I will add it to the blog!

Some resources that have been shared by parents:

     Apps:
                  MarcoPolo
                  Khan Academy Kids

                  ABC Mouse

                  TinyBots (one time $2.99 fee)

Websites:

 Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
Miss Megan's Camp Kindergarten (facebook)
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (facebook)

FunBrain
StarFall
Time For Kids

Other Useful Resources / Tips / Ideas

Earth Day Slime Activity

  

Animated Story About Social Distancing

Brain Pop Jr. - Math Games

Scholastic Learn at Home - The website offers multiple days of content including read-alouds, movement activities, STEM activities, drawing activities, building activities, etc.  

One of the parents suggested to set up a free Zoom account and have one family member or friend teach their child something new each day via a Zoom call!

If you have any questions or concerns that are not addressed during our weekly phone calls, please feel free to email me at

 msserbonescovid19@gmail.com

As always, please make sure to read the OLQM school blog for additional updates and information located, HERE!