Leading & Learning in Kinder W2
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March 30-April 3 Pick List
Language Arts
Idea 1: Handwriting:
Use one of the resources listed below to practice letter writing for 15 minutes.
- Practice handwriting in the Handwriting Without Tears Booklet.
- Use playdough, sidewalk chalk, or dry erase markers to form letters and spell high-frequency words.
- Rainbow write your high frequency words from your March homework calendar.
- Write and illustrate a card to your family to show how much you love and appreciate them.
- Practice writing your first and last name 5 times. Start your name with a capital letter and make the other letters lowercase. Use your Handwriting Without Tears letter formations to assist you.
Idea 2: Reading:
Choose one of the links below or use a book you have at home.
- Find a story about spring.
- Retell the story to a person in your house describing the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
- Draw a picture about the story. Label the picture in your best “kid-writing” with the sounds you hear for each item.
Links to Stories:
Idea 3: Reading:
- Visit: Scholastic Online (Seasons-Spring)
- Read the Books
- Watch the Video
- Listen to the Song
- Explore the Puzzlers section to search for words in the Word Match section
- Dive Deeper Section:
- Explore extension activities on Seasons and Spring
- Meet the Creators of the texts
Idea 4: Retelling a story
- Have your child use the retelling star.
- To retell a familiar story, your child refers to in the center of the star and names the story's title and its author.
- Next, move to the "Characters" point and then names and describes the important characters.
- Then, rotates the star counterclockwise to each point and retells each story part referenced.
- Continue until each point has been read and the retelling is complete.
Idea 5: Writing:
- View the virtual field trip about Jelly Belly candies. Afterwards, using your journal paper to draw what your favorite bag of jelly belly candy would look like with your favorite flavors candy flavors. Write 1-3 sentences on the journal paper to describe your picture in your best writing. Remember our writing goals. Start a sentence with a capital letter. Use spaces between the words. Use high-frequency word list to write them correctly in the sentence. Stretch out the sounds of unknown words and write beginning, middle, and ending sounds. End the sentence with a period.
- Using the journal writing paper to draw and color a picture of something fun you did this week or what you like to do when you play outside. Write 1-3 sentences about your picture. Follow the same writing goals above.
- Using plastic eggs, on one piece write multiple beginning sounds around the piece (example: p, t, h, k)
- On the other piece of the egg write the base (example: en)
- Have your student turn the egg piece to change the beginning sound and read to you the created words (example: pen, ten, hen, ken)
As an alternative, you can create word families using construction paper or hand-drawn flowers.
- In the middle of the flower write the base( example: en)
- On each petal write a beginning sound or the full word that would be created (example: p, t, h, k or pen, ten, hen, ken)
- Have your student glue down the flowers, or color if drawn
- Listen to your student read the words from each word family
Additional Ideas
- Practice reading from the decodable reader book that was sent home.
- See the Clinton-Macomb Library website.
- The librarians have an at-home story time.
- View the CVS Growth Mindset Book List
Math Resources
MATH
Focus: Measurement
Idea 1: Non-Standard Measurement
Materials:
- 5 toys from home
- A non-standard measurement tool such as pennies, blocks, checkers, etc. to measure how long the toys are from the left side to the right side.
- Record the toy and amount of items it took to measure the length of each toy on a piece of paper.
Idea 2: Standard Measurement
Materials:
- The same 5 toys as above
- 1 standard ruler
- Record the number of inches long each toy is on the above paper.
Idea 3: Standard Measurement Family Picture
Materials:
- Measuring tape/ruler
- Paper
- Pencil
- Family Members
Measure in inches the height of each family member. Record names and heights in inches on a piece of paper. Bonus: Draw a picture of all that are measured.
Idea 4:
- Visit Khan Academy
- Work online or download the app
- Practice Kindergarten Math
Idea 5: Fact families
- Brighten your house with skill-boosting butterflies! Happy Spring!
- Have your child make construction paper butterflies.
- Then instruct your child to write the numbers from a fact family on the body and the corresponding facts on the wings. (For example, different equations to make 5, make 8, or make 10, etc.)
1) Work with your student to create rain clouds with paint, markers, or crayons.
2) As seen in the picture, your student can create rain drops with paint or they can draw them on. They could use two colors to show each addend for the equation.
3) On the cloud write the full equation to match the number of raindrops (example: 2 + 3 = 5)
* You can also switch it to do step 3 first and then step 2
Additional Ideas:
- Complete a Bridges math home connections activity.
- Complete a math worksheet from your packet.
- Go to Education.com and explore measurement activities on weight, length, and temperature.
Kindergarten Teachers
Mrs. Curcuru: ecurcuru@cvs.k12.mi.us
Mrs. Krajewski: akrajewski@cvs.k12.mi.us
Mr. Roberts: eroberts@cvs.k12.mi.us