Friday, May 8^th!

Updates

·      The second Learn at Home Packet is still available for pick up at the school from 9am-1pm every day this week. Teachers are currently working on a new Learning packet that may be used for the remainder of the school year.

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

·      Please complete the Remote Learning Survey located HERE!

Instructional Theme:

Plants

Question for the Week:

What are some different kinds of plants?

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud: 

An Orange in January by Dianna Hutts Aston

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

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

·      How did Julie Maren illustrate the sun? Why do you think she did that?

·       How would you show the sun in a picture?

Learn at Home activity for today:

Ramps

If available, use a cardboard tube (e.g. paper towel tube) or a flat surface such as a book, to create a ramp. Invite your child to tilt the ramp to various angles and roll a small toy car, ball, or other round object through the tube/down the ramp. Talk with your child about how quickly/slowly the objects roll depending on how they angle it.

Open ended questions:

·      What did you observe here/when ____? 

·      I notice that you ____. How did you do that? 

·      What will you try next? 

·      I wonder what would happen if ___?

·      How do you know?

·      How could we find out?

  Continued Weekly Activity

Watch the video, Parts of a Plant and have your child draw a picture with the different parts of a plant.  They can also practice the plant movements mentioned in the song! Please email or text your drawing to: msserbonescovid19@gmail.com  

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

 Movement Activity:

Cosmic Kids Yoga - Fernando the Silver Fox

Baby Shark

Body Boogie

Parts of a Plant

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!