Suggestions for Week of April 27th - May 1st
Reading - aim to read for 20-30 minutes each day. You can read to your parents, your siblings, your grandparents on the phone, your friends on Facetime, etc. Your parents can read to you too. You can read books that you have at home or go on GetEpic or Kids A-Z.
Writing - April is Poetry month so I thought we would write some poems this week! Each day we will write a different type of poem.
1) Acrostic poems: these poems use the topic as a title written down the page, the first letter in each line spells out a word or phrase about the topic.
Ex: "Spring"
Sunny days
Puddles to jump in
Rain waters the flowers
Ice melts away
New baby animals are born
Green grass starts to grow
2) Simile poems: a simile compares two things using "like" or "as". Choose a topic and think of as many different ways as you can to compare it to something else. *Here is a song that uses similes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vN_j4HymmY
Ex. "Ice cream"
Ice cream is...
as cold as an igloo
as soft as a cloud
as smooth as silk
as colourful as a rainbow
3) Sensory poem: also compares two things but makes use of your five senses. Start with a feeling and then describe it using your five senses. Ex:
"Happiness"
It looks like the sun shining in the sky
It smells like cookies baking in the oven
It tastes like sweet pink lemonade
It sounds like children laughing
It feels like a cozy blanket
4) Cinquain - a five line poem as follows:
Line A: one-word subject or topic
Line B: Two adjectives that describe the topic
Line C: Three -ing action verbs that fit the topic
Line D: Four-word phrase about the topic
Line E: one or two words that are a synonym for the topic (explains Line A)
Ex.
Tiger
orange, striped
hiding, crouching, pouncing
lounging in the sun
big kitty
5) Haiku - a Japanese poem made up of three lines; usually about nature
Line a) 5 syllables
Line b) 7 syllables
Line c) 5 syllables*
*Use your chin drops! :-)
Ex. "Rainbow"
Comes after the rain
seven colours in the sky
it brings us a smile
Math -
Number talk: 20 - 8 =
Counting collection: count a collection and then discuss the following...how many would I have if I added two more/took two away, added ten more/took ten away, how many more/fewer would I need to have 20/50/100?
Game of the Week: War
Materials: A deck of cards with face cards removed
Play the card game War! Split the deck evenly between two players. The two players flip their top card at the same time. Players quickly determine the difference (who has more…how many more?) The person who has more has to identify the difference (ex. I have 7. It is 3 more than your 4). If they are correct, they get to keep the two cards. If they are incorrect, solve together and then place the cards back in your own separate decks. If both players lay the same card, there is a war! Each player then lays 2 more cards face down and a third card face up. The person with the higher third card who can correctly identify the difference wins ALL the cards. The game is finished when one player has ALL the cards.
*If this is difficult for your child, please use counters to physically count out and see the difference. It sometimes helps to line up the two groups side by side.
*If this is easy for your child, try flipping two cards each, add your own sums and then find the difference between the two sums. The player who has the higher sum and correctly identifies the difference collects all 4 cards.
Reading - aim to read for 20-30 minutes each day. You can read to your parents, your siblings, your grandparents on the phone, your friends on Facetime, etc. Your parents can read to you too. You can read books that you have at home or go on GetEpic or Kids A-Z.
Writing - April is Poetry month so I thought we would write some poems this week! Each day we will write a different type of poem.
1) Acrostic poems: these poems use the topic as a title written down the page, the first letter in each line spells out a word or phrase about the topic.
Ex: "Spring"
Sunny days
Puddles to jump in
Rain waters the flowers
Ice melts away
New baby animals are born
Green grass starts to grow
2) Simile poems: a simile compares two things using "like" or "as". Choose a topic and think of as many different ways as you can to compare it to something else. *Here is a song that uses similes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vN_j4HymmY
Ex. "Ice cream"
Ice cream is...
as cold as an igloo
as soft as a cloud
as smooth as silk
as colourful as a rainbow
3) Sensory poem: also compares two things but makes use of your five senses. Start with a feeling and then describe it using your five senses. Ex:
"Happiness"
It looks like the sun shining in the sky
It smells like cookies baking in the oven
It tastes like sweet pink lemonade
It sounds like children laughing
It feels like a cozy blanket
4) Cinquain - a five line poem as follows:
Line A: one-word subject or topic
Line B: Two adjectives that describe the topic
Line C: Three -ing action verbs that fit the topic
Line D: Four-word phrase about the topic
Line E: one or two words that are a synonym for the topic (explains Line A)
Ex.
Tiger
orange, striped
hiding, crouching, pouncing
lounging in the sun
big kitty
5) Haiku - a Japanese poem made up of three lines; usually about nature
Line a) 5 syllables
Line b) 7 syllables
Line c) 5 syllables*
*Use your chin drops! :-)
Ex. "Rainbow"
Comes after the rain
seven colours in the sky
it brings us a smile
Math -
Number talk: 20 - 8 =
Counting collection: count a collection and then discuss the following...how many would I have if I added two more/took two away, added ten more/took ten away, how many more/fewer would I need to have 20/50/100?
Game of the Week: War
Materials: A deck of cards with face cards removed
Play the card game War! Split the deck evenly between two players. The two players flip their top card at the same time. Players quickly determine the difference (who has more…how many more?) The person who has more has to identify the difference (ex. I have 7. It is 3 more than your 4). If they are correct, they get to keep the two cards. If they are incorrect, solve together and then place the cards back in your own separate decks. If both players lay the same card, there is a war! Each player then lays 2 more cards face down and a third card face up. The person with the higher third card who can correctly identify the difference wins ALL the cards. The game is finished when one player has ALL the cards.
*If this is difficult for your child, please use counters to physically count out and see the difference. It sometimes helps to line up the two groups side by side.
*If this is easy for your child, try flipping two cards each, add your own sums and then find the difference between the two sums. The player who has the higher sum and correctly identifies the difference collects all 4 cards.