Down Under with Mem Fox

Down Under with Mem Fox

May 11 - May 15, 2020

Please check RenWeb for Specials assignments each week.

Things to Turn in/Complete Checklist:

• Spelling Choices
• Math 10.1, 10.2, and Check My Progress
• Writing: What You Do Well, Opinion Choice, Mem Fox
• Science Photo Collage
• Complete Your IXL.
• Read at least two RAZ Kids books and take the quizzes on your Level Up assignment.
• Keep working on your mailbox assignments in Epic.
• Keep practicing your math facts.

Reading:

Please listen to these stories.  There is a writing assignment to go with the Mem Fox books.  The Journeys videos will give you practice with your sight words.  There is also a writing assignment to go with the Journeys story What Can You Do?

Journeys Story 27:  

What Can You Do? 

The Wind and The Sun: an Aesop's Fable

Mem Fox's books:

Possum Magic

Koala Lou

Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!

Tough Boris

Time for Bed

Hello, Baby!

Sight Words:

• always
• different
• enough
• happy
• high
• near
• once 
• stories

Spelling Words:

• hard
• harder
• hardest
• fast
• faster
• fastest
• slow
• slower
• slowest
• sooner
• shorter
• shortest

Please complete 3 Spelling choices from the May Spelling Menu to practice your spelling words.  Please turn these in by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

Grammar:

Please watch this read aloud by Steve Jenkins that uses a lot of -est words.

Please complete the -er -est worksheet in the Grammar folder on One Drive.  Please turn in by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

For the syllable 'le there is a Bingo game in the One Drive folder.

Here are some games to practice suffixes that we used this past week in Table Talks.  The children really liked them and asked me to post them this week.

http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/demo/suffix.htm

https://www.fun4thebrain.com/English/basewordBaseball.html

Writing:  

Please write 5 sentences about something you do well.  Please add illustrations to your writing and turn it in by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

Please choose one of the two opinion writing activities in the Writing folder on One Drive.  Please turn it in by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

Please write an opinion piece about which Mem Fox book you like the best and why. Four to five sentences listing at least four details from your favorite book will be perfect.  Please turn in your writing by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

Math:

Please continue to practice your math facts.  Our Math Minute practice papers are in our One Drive folder.  We will be working with 3D shapes.  Please watch the following videos about 3D shapes.

Please complete 10.1, 10.2,  and Check My Progress in Our One Drive folder.  Please turn these in by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

Science and Math:

For fun find some recyclable 3D shapes around your house and create something out of them.  In the past we've done this to make robots or the Kingdom of Didd from the Bartholomew Cubbins books by Dr. Seuss.  I recorded the Bartholomew Cubbins books.  They are long so each book has 3 parts.  Here are the videos.

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

If you would like to make Oobleck at home all you need is cornstarch, green food coloring, water, and a container to mix it in.  This is a fun but messy thing to make so you will want to make it outside.  The cornstarch washes away with water when you are done.

Social Studies:

Please watch these videos on wants and needs and goods and services.

Wants and Needs

Producers and Consumers

Goods and Services

Goods and Services

We will be talking about wants and needs, producers and consumers, and goods and services during Table Talks this week.  Please complete one activity from the Wants and Needs and Goods and Services folders in the Economics Folder on One Drive.  You do not have to turn in these worksheets.

Our continents this week are Australia and Antarctica.  We will explore both in Table Talks.  Here are some articles on Pebble Go as well.

https://site.pebblego.com/modules/5/categories/9712/articles/9743

https://site.pebblego.com/modules/5/categories/9712/articles/9749

Here is a link to some activities on Australia.

https://www.ducksters.com/geography/oceania.php

IXL:

Language Arts:

Please complete these language arts objectives.  

F 3, LL 5, MM 1 - MM 2, NN 1 - NN 2

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-1

Math:

Please complete these math objectives.

W 1- W 10, X Bonus (New ways to make halves, thirds, fourths)

https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-1

Science:

Go on a photo scavenger hunt.  Take pictures of plants, animals, bugs, rocks, stars, magnets, things you can push and pull, the moon.  Try to find pictures of all the things we've talked about in science this year and make a photo collage.

Please turn in your photo collage by Sunday, May 17, 2020.

Mrs. Heiser, Mrs. Woeste, and I cannot thank you enough for being so incredibly kind and generous to us for Teacher Appreciation Week!  We are so blessed to know each and every one of you and miss you all very much!

Miss Deem